Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-03
MAINE GOSSIP
Mother

] ...----:
Pure as the dew and bright. as the
And sweet as the loveliest rose:
No artist has painted an angel so falr
AS Mother, my Mother, God knows!
The queen of our home, and greater
by far
Than rulers of millions untold;
The haloes of love that circle her brow
Are better than circlet of gold.
When earth and its glories have van
And Time sings his final Amen.
Somewhere In the skies the Lord VIII
And crown all good mothers Of men.
Rev. William Wood. Kennebunk, Me-,
in Biddeford Journal.
The new snow-plow, which Is to be
used to keep the State highway be-
tween Biddeford and Kittery open for
the remainder of the winter, made the
first trip over the road Monday morn
ing. The plow was attached to
heavy duty Pierce-Arrow truck and
had little difficulty cutting through
the snow.
Walter Harrington, well known
travelling salesman for a Portland firm
dealing in druggists supplies. was
among the injured in the train wreck
on the Washington county division OF
the Maine Central near Machias last
Friday. Mr.. Harrington suffered from
head, face and body bruises and gen.
era1 shaking up.
Early entries for the various events
on the program for the winter
carnival to be held at the Kendus-
keag rink at Bangor next Saturday
show an unusual interest in the
various sports. Thus far skating
leads as the favorite but it Is expect
ed that skiing and snowshoeing will
| attract numerous entrants.
Blackbirds and several other
varieties of birds including many
robins have been seen recently in
Portland and vicinity. Another sign
| that spring is surely on it's way was
| the appearance of beautiful yellow
| butterfly which fioated in through an
open window in the western part of
| Portland last week. And yet the
ground hog could see his shadow
yesterday, Candlemas Day!
To Miss Adeline Tarbox off West
port goes the palm for shooting the
| first fox on the island this winter,
! having brought down a good sized fell
low while home on her Christmas vaca-
ton. Miss Tarbox, teacher in physi-
cal culture in the public schools of
| Rochester, N. Y, has always been
| keen on sports. When she came home
for Christmas she shouldered her rifle
| to go rabbit hunting as usual and
scared up fox instead 1t was her
first attempt but she was equal to the
occasion and Mr.. Reynard fell prey to
her good aim.
The Bangor Seminary Is observing
it's 18th annual Convocation Week
with a series of noteworthy lectures.
The opening lecture of this years
Convocation was the first of the three
to be given in the course on Applied
Christianity. The lecturer this year
is DR.. Manley o. Hudson. professor of
international law in the law school in
Harvard University. DIR. Hudson's
general subject for the week. is, The
Instrumentalities of World Peace
4 He spoke Monday evening on the
subject. Organized Political Co.
operation.
Opposing viewpoints held in the
United States regarding the World
Court and the League of Nations will
be presented at the meeting of the
Economic Club of Portland next Sat
urday evening by Alden G. Alley, one
-
of the staff speakers of the League OF
Nations Association, and Roland d
Sawyer of Boston, Democrat member
of the Massachusetts, Legislature and
an outspoken opponent of the World
Court. The third speaker will be Sill
George E. Foster of ottawa, Canada
president of the Canadian League OF
Nations Association, who will give the
/, Canadian view of the World Court and
the League.
Among the interesting Maine items
carried by the Biddeford Journal or
Monday in it's Quarter Century Ago
column are the following from
February ], 1901:
Sportsmen petition legislature fol
open season on woodcock from Sep
TENDER l instead of September Is.
Saco people ask for extension OF
Portland trolley road to Saco.
The city debt at the close of the
municipal year is $357,800, as com
pared with 100000 five years ago.
Bangor professional polo team Is
transferred to Biddeford as interes,
in the game in the Queen city wanes
Ice as clear as crystal and II
!, inches thick is being harvested.
John Wight is preserving as
worthy Of note piece of bark from q
. tree which was cut by his son-in.
; law, Lester p. Twitchell. on the farm
near Hooper's Ledge, and brought
into South Paris for firewood. The
piece of bark is two inches in thick
ness. and only an expert can certify
1t as having come from very oll
yellow birch tree. The stand where
/ this tree grew has not before beer
cut over within the memory of those
now living. Mr.. Wight says thai
Lester Twitchell is of the fifth gener-
alton of the family on that farm. anl
that doubtless that tree was CROWNS
, when he first Twitchell settled there
!. South Paris news in Oxford Demo.
crat.
, On Monday afternoon, the day be.
fore Candlemas day, 1t was reported
that ground hog had appeared al
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