Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-07-14
Ny8g00yB Gossip
Over the Hills.

t'Where Is the valley OF perfect rest!
Oevr the hills, my dear.
The dew falls bright on the daisy's
The dawn is,eloadless. the dark is blest,
Therein the valley of perfect rest,
Over the hills. my dear.
The summer Is long and the winter is
Over the hills my dear;
The grain climbs swift to the golden
sheaf;
There are laurels and crowns for the
brows of grief.
Where the tears Of years find sweet
relief
Over the hills, my dear.
But long the journey. and dim the way
over the hills, my dear;
And hold your hand, and bid you stay
For one dream more in LIES sad Today;
Thcn-drift from my life like a dream,
Over the hills, my dear.
Frank l.. Stanton.
The fields are ripe and over ripe for
cutting and the farmers pray for a week
or two of blue Skies
There were Jag commitments to Ken
nebec Jail for the first half of 1903,
against 439 for the corresponding
months of 1902. And that is a pretty
| eloquent story in itself
1t Is great year for raspberr1es.
| The bushes that line the wayside fences
never hung more heavily with this lus-
ctous berry And the blackberry crop
| promises to be as good.
sOny month to Qld Home week, and
| tie invitations are In every mail that
! leaves the State.
| Elm speaking of Madison's grand cele-
bfation Of the Fourth, the. Bulletin
points with pride, as 1t has q right to- to
| the fact that in a crowd of over 10000
people there was not q case of drunk
enneSs for the day.
| Lobstermen down Mt. Desert way are
laughing at the stories that are being
published regarding the scarcity of lob
sters They say that instead of de-
creasing in numbers and shrinking in
size, they are growing both ways Any
, way they are plenty and cheap now on
| that section of the coast.
| TpSilOn Beta Is the name of new So
ciety of the Greek letter class at Colby
| The society is formed by members Oh
the freshman class and is to be peculiar
| to that class. 1t was organized on the
quiet several months ago and It's exist
ence was unknown at Colby until the
90 handed
over to the editor of the Oracle. There
= was much gnashing of teeth among the
upper classmen over the advent of the
society but its founders claim 1t has
come to stay.
Passengers on the electrics between
Gardiner and Hallowell have noticed a
miniature electric line in yard just
below Loudon hill. 1t has wooden rails
| and q home made car with trolley. and
wire. 1t was built by Contractor
Bradstreets boys. and is called the r.
E. r." that is. they push the car up the
grade and it runs back. 1t is a pretty
good imitation. and must have afforded
the boys lots of pleasure.
There Is conspicuous absence or
horse bonnets this season. year ago
nearly every horse used on the delivery
wagons about the Maine cities could be
seen wearing a gayly adorned bonnet
some of which were very tastlly
trimmed by the owners of the animals.
The bonnets proved so it is said. to be
very comfortable for the equlnes IN
.h.sa cities on account of the fact that
sponge containing cold water was
placed in the interior of the bonnet at
the top of the animals head every day.
Just why the bonnets are not used this
year is not known.
The total mileage of the Eastern
Steamship Company is something that
many Maine people would like to know
and to~satisfy their curiousity We give
few items regarding the line. There
is total of S87 miles covered by the
boats of this company divided as fol-