Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-02-19
MAINE GOSSIP

through,
If a doctor were needed, what would
The men turn out and shovel the snow
To open the roads so the mail can go,
For several days we have to wait
For letters and papers which come so
late.
The farmer tries to get his wood
Would haul it home If he only could,
But the drifts are so hard and very
He looks at them and heaves sigh.
And says well it's no use to fret
Next summer will give this snow a
sweat;
So he stays at home and does his
chores
And when it SHOWS he stays in DOORS
He sits by the fire and reads the news,
Feels thankful that he has fuel to use,
With a comfortable home and pleis~y
He boasts that he Just feels COM
plete."
And when the sun comes shining out
And things look beautiful all about,
And he wonders why We need complain
When this is only the spice of Maine.
Carrie Lewis Donnell.
Windsor, Me.
A circus with wild animals and
everything featured the meeting of
the Houlton Rotary Club held Mon
day evening.
The board of directors of the Ban
gor Y. M. C. A. are pleased with the
developments of financial campaign
plans and the response met with so
far.
Horse races and dog races We're
among the interesting events holding
the attention at the fourth annual
Northern Aroostook winter carnival
recently held at Ashland.
Many interesting features are in
cluded in the program for the third
| annual young peoples conference
which will be held next Tuesday and
Wednesday at the UniversaliSt
Church at Bethel.
The Kennebec Bridge Commission
| hopes to have its plans and specitica-
tions ready to send contractors with
| in short time so that bids can be
made and opened and contract
awarded in the early Spring thereby
| getting work started as early as
practicable.
| Returning to Maine cooking. the
members of the Maine to Southland
pilgrimage will be the guests at a
Maine products banquet Saturday
| - 1,
| Square hotel at Portland. Practically
the entire party will attend, except a
few who were obliged to remain in
| Washington on business.
A pool game at the rooms of the
Colonial Club at Bath between
Percy Marks and Vincent Whaler
was interrupted Wednesday. when q
sparrow hawk, carrying a sparrow
in its beak, flew in through the open
| third story window. The sparrow
was badly injured. but the hawk
after being held up to the window
for time. recovered from the blow
1t received when 1t landed in the
room and flew away.
The smelling industry on the SAGE
river seems to be on it's last legs
there being no large catches report.
ed so far this week. One of the rea-
sons for it's downfall is the scarcity
Of bait. The smelt fishing this veal
has been on much larger scale thar
for a number of years. Many large
catches have been reported during
the season and there has also beer
a much larger number of shanties or
hn vi hAf4
1t is feared that there may be re.
turn Of the browntail moth plague II
this section Of Maine the coming sea.
son unless people take pains to see
that the pests are taken off the tree:
and burned. There are said to bt
many of these nests in this vicinity
particularly in the suburbs. These
nests should be removed and burned
this month. If their removal is pu
off until tool ate the Matching season
/ will be on and it will be too late t
stop their spreading.-Bath Times.
John H. Merrilrs expected offer fol
the Auburn American Legion prop.
erty. announced to be higher than The
$4,000 of William p. Gray. Lewis.
ton theatre magnate, who proposes tt
erect a movie theatre ON that site
had not been filed at the City Clerk:
office up to the closing time las
night. The report that Merrilrs. offel
was Just a joke" and that the Ma.
the property, becomes more concrete
every day. In the meantime the Au'
burn Planning Board is investigating
4 Mr.. Gray's offer and will submit {
recommendation to the City Father.
within a few days.-Lewiston Sun.
There is at least one living sur,
vivor of the crew Of the U. S.
Monitor. although obituary notice.
concerning Willis Sanford Drake
aged 80, of Elizabeth, N. j., referred
to him as the last of the crew of the
| Merrimacs nemesis. Charles II
Holt, aged 76. of Portland. hale ant
hearty, declared that he served or
the "cheesebox on a raft from 1856:
to 1855, and took part in the fighI
with the Merrimac. After this rivel
battle Holt served abroad the frigate
kearsarge and was wounded in al
engagement with privateer off the
French coast in 1865. He will MOI
state that he is the last of the
Monitors complement. but he is Ger
tain that the deceased Drake was
not.
After cruising at the westward 70,
the past ten days, the Coast GuarG
Cutter Ossipee arrived at Portland
Tuesday evening, and Wednesday
filled her coal bunkers at the Poca
hontas wharf, preparatory to soor
starting out on another cruise. Durinl