Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-04-02
Old-time Recollections.

Mr.. Thomas Little. one Of the old resi-
dents Of Augusta, called 81 our Office yes
terisy and IN the course Of half hour,
pleasant chat about old-time affairs. rels,et
many interesting "Reminiscences Of earlier
days.
We are having quite winter to day, :
said the Journal man.
Yes replied the gentlemsnly veteran of
eishty-four winters, who walks As firm ana
looks as happy as many of the be,, preserved
men Of siHiy-hNe. but nothing like
what have seen. remember
AS distinctly As though i, were only
yesterday that on the second Tuesday Of
May, ISIS, lot of US boys went up from
Bremen to Wsldoboro. to the sanual train.
ing. and snow fell on that day to the depth
OF foot or over oh, what q day that was
and what crowds of folks were there, There
were two companies of string besners" and
one of artillery. II was the year of peace. 3"
or the year in which peace was declared be.
tween our country aud Grea; Britain after
the war of lSle.lt There were two orators
present, one Federal, Gorham Parks; and
the other Democratic. DR. Manning, and
wha, big lot of people were on the training
ground in the snow aud slush'
You didn't train then, did your"
mo. not with the string besners. out |
guess We boys did our part of the training
was eleven wears old then
Nv hat year dii you come to Augusta"
Il ceme here in 1921. For ten ora dozen
years | worked at carpentering | then went
into trade, keeping a genuine country store,
of all kinds of goods, shelf goods, hardware.
tobacco molssses, and every thing"
Mr. Little didn't include old IN, f" or
"Medford, and We didn't ask II he kept them
on tsp but W. don't believe he did Even If
so, it was just wha, the best of them kept
then, and Ms for using it. why dcacons and
ministers thought they couldn't get along
without j.
How long lid YOU r, main ia trader"
II was in trade thirty years and then sold |
out TO Chissm Il Robinson. Great changes
since then, and believe not man keeping
store now who was in trade when was"
"Yes, there have been good many |
changes since then-a good many in fact in
the past twenty years or the past five"
Changes for the better" said MIR. Little, |
as he s.'oke of the improv, mcnis which have
made Augusta n new town, almost. ~ithin |
the past two years, and which will make it |
still more of new town in the few years of |
the near future.
Mr., Little was for twelve years the
exec ptlon of one year when the Democrats
were in power city treasurer and collector,
performing the duties of this important office
with great exactness and fidelity. One of
Mr.. Litt!e's daughters is Mrs. W. A.
liigin, wife of the business mana
ger of the Lewiston Journal another
is the popular librarian of the Lewiston
Public Library viii III position she has
hlled for many years, aud another resides IN
GAINESVILLE, Wis. to whom Mr.. Little has sent
the Weekly journal for many years Ills
call at our office yesterday was for the pnr-
pose of paying his annual subscription for
Daily and Weekly, and after doing so he |
departed with the graceful bow and genial
styled gentleman of which Mr.. Little is so
true representative. Many, many years
yet, old friend, of these same bows and |