Daily Kennebec journal., 1878-11-26
Xxx. [For the Journa'
Its Golden Birthday.

10 celebrate its golden birthday by don
ming new dress. Well. ! am glad of
that, for it gives evidence of prosperity
but II is ever welcome visitor, even in
i.s old clothes. One becomes wonderfully
attached 10 his home journal, especially
when It's comes to his firesiGe each week
With clean columns and a carefHl collec-
y tion of local gossip and general news of
the day: and such the journal always
comes. have read the old paper from
my earliest boyhood days, but | have
q never yet found in its columns line which
could in the least degree offend good taste.
And this clean-cut policy on the part OF
/ the successive management has won for
1 the paper q lasting good name. 1t may
present a, brighter and more attractive ap-
pearance In it's new dress but it is hard to
see how !ts columns could possibly be more
judiciously filled. In striking contrast is the
old kennebec Journal to the metropolitan
press, which caters more to the depraved
2 tastes than TO the elevation and improve.
= ment Of the mind. The Journal has been
in my family almost since its first issue,
and have become so attached to it that
never feel that my week is fully complet-
ed until | have perused its columns. To-
night, I remember sitting by my fathers
aide. when a little boy, and listening to
him - he read the details of the Coolidge
trial, the Waterville murderer, which was
held, Think, in the Congregational church
In your city, a great many years ago.
The testimony was given in full in the col.
suluns of the Journals full as the
i Scribner trial, published last week-and
and every one read it with strange delight.
In those days the machine-poet came to
the front and flooded the country with an
d .ssfusi0n,' In circular form, on that re-
'rnarkable tragedy, one verse of which
now call to mind go
siae 80, V. P. Coolidge, how could you.
Is .a.- So black deed of murder do
! : You on your honor did pretend
sss.I x To be bis dearest earthly friend!"
r. II was at that time that first began TO
read the current literature of the day. and
/ from that day to this have ever cherished
. str0ng and enduring attachment for the
good old kennebec Journal. As read its
pages each week, il seems like perusing a
letter from an old friend in the land of nv
birth. 1t tells me of the material change,
which transpire around and about me from
week 10 week-of what the living are do
ing, and about those who have completed
life's journey. 1t also tells me of the ma.
terial growth and prosperity of the capital
city OF Maine, and OF the varied scenes
and changes which occur there from day to
day. What joy the old paper has brought
10 the hearts OF thousands, and, alas, what
sorrow it has also brought! How many
hearts have been gladdened by the glad
tidings of good joy it has brought, and
how many good hearts have wept and bed
as the mortuary news has been conned
from week to week. have in my pocket
book to-day slip cut from the good old
paper. written on the death of nv
honored iather. which occurred on the
24th of June 1868. "He was a good far
. mer. and lived in quietness and peace with
all his neighbors and towns-people, by
whom he was much esteemed" was the
lifting notice which appeared in their col
nmns SO many years ago. And that one
plain. truthful sentence is more to me this
day than columns OF matter on any other
subject.
eis g need not again wish the Journal a
: prosperous commencement on its new
bali century. 1t will live on, while other
newspapers are born into the world. FIJI
their allotted sphere and then quietly sink
j into oblivion. The tradesman. the me.
? chanic and the farmer, who have IN, se
many years read its columns, will unite
! In celebrating the eventful occasion. and
bad The puSlishers.a the editors and its
"a printers God-speed in their labors. And
10 these hearty good wishes none more
cordially join than Fl. 'aai
AN OLp PATRON.
III Vassalboro'. Nov. 22d. 1873.