Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-07-06
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The Road Meath the Hill.

The Road Meath the Hill.
I'y the little glen road meath the ancient
I must hurry along to childhood land
Where the waysides listen and under
stand
Fly the little glen road that is changeless
still.
have gone that way. as a dreamer will.
Oh. thousand times, and have sat me
Where there came no sound from the
distant town,
BY the little glen road meath the ancient
hill.
In the r,i song and the plash of the roadside
In the choruses there by the orchard
Hear the homeland voices that call and
call
Ey the little glen road meath the ancient
Boston Transcript.
The haying season begins, this
morning.
The rush for the seashore is now
fairly on
The casualty column is painfully
prominent in today's papers.
The new grandstand on Bowdoins
Whittier field will be worthy the place
and the donor.
The rest of the month is a good time
not to visit your country relatives.
unless they urge you particularly hard.
it is a good many years since the
Fourth was so generally celebrated
throughout Maine as it was, this year.
There is no warning of the spirit of
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1t is not the deer which Cambridge
farmers are complaining of, but a big
moose which insists on wandering over
the planted fields
1t seems pretty well understood that
the larger part of the Colby boys both
those who were suspended and those
who "struck" in sympathy, will re-
turn to WatervilIe in September,
though some will go to other colleges.
A pOrcupine was killed in a Bangor
cellar, last week. AS the time of the
hunting season approaches this story
will grow to the size of n herd of mann
moth moose parading the main
streets
Old Orchard is worried over the ru-
NOR, which is persistent though sew
eral times denied, that a crusade is in
prospect to make it's Sundays this
summer. akin to those of Puritan
times. Old Orchard is willing to be
good for 10 months out of the -. but for
July and August 1t does not believe in
Sundays and various other conven-
tionalties.
The Bath Times figures that in the
past few years about $4,000 has been
given by Bath people to Portland hos
pitfalls. This would have gone a long
way toward providing Bath with an
institution Of its own.
Mr.. and Mrs. Avian 3. Fernald Of
Franklin had a gre nd family reunion,
last week. They had their eight sons
and five daughters, nearly all of whom
are married and away, at the old
home with them. That is a family of
the good old-fashiioned kind, and it is Il
lucky 13.
The longevity of the Tapleys of
West Brooksville. is well known. For
35 yea rs there haas not been n death in
the Family of Thomas Tap1ey. but on
June 26. this remarkable record was
brosen by the death of Il grandson.
Loomis w. Smith, the sixteen year-old
son of F. II. Smith of Sedgwick.
Thomas Tapley and wife have had
nine children. seven boys and two
girls. Thirty-five years ago, Il baby
10y, only a few weeks old. and another
boy, four and a half years old, died at
the same time of diphtheria> Since
then there has not been a death in Mr.
Tapley's family, nor in that of any of
his children, five of whom are married,
and four of whom have children
Many Maine people remember most
kindly Col. 2. A. Smith who died re-
Gently in Kansas Colonel Smith was
born in Maine. 65 years ago and edu-,
Gated in the schools of the State, and
at Colby of which he was most loyal
son. He served his country with honor
in the war of the Rebellion, and at its
close entered upon his life work. He