Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-07-12
Maine Gossip
The Old Times.

The Old Times.
Old times were the best times-best We
ever knew,
Roses then seemed sweeter-rimmed with
light and dew;
Course we had our sorrows-felt the pain
of signs,
But light was in the rainy days that
twinkled round our eyes!
Can't forget the old times-hallelua days.
Violets in. banks of blue all along the
ways.
And if we felt a wounding thorn the rose
bloomed bright above.
And all the lilies whispered sweet mes
saGes of Love!
Atlanta Constitution.
The hot weather is great for Names
crops. and especially for the crop of
tourists.
Portland knows how to welcome and
entertain the famous educators now
gathered there.
August Is and IL are the dates of Di-
rector Chapman's midsummer music fes-
tival at Old Orchard.
The baseball fever is even hotter down
in York county than 1t is here in Ken
nebec.
Theodore Stone Mcclellan, Brunswick s
oldest citizen who died. Sunday at the
age of 90. had been Mason 81 years
and was Names oldest printer
Here's hoping the Maine soldier boys
never feel the loss of the ambulance
corps which has been disbanded
The loss of the big sawmll was bad
enough. but evidently the whole village
of Passadumkeag had the narrowest kind
of an escape.
Jere Grady and his wife. frankie Car
penter, have sailed for Europe. where
they will spend year. A host of Maine
people will regret that this forces them
to cancel all theatrical engagements for
the coming season.
Lisbon Falls is trying hard to decide
what to call its new High school build
ing. Some are in favor of naming the
school after Frank Munsey. the publisher,
who formerly lived in town while others
believe that it would be appropriate to
name 1t after Prof. Leander Moulton,
who for so many years was principal of
the school.
David r. Porter. Names first Rhodes
scholar at Oxford, is back in this country
for the summer vacation and is now at
his old home in Bangor. He will be one
Of the speakers at the assembly at the
Good Will Pines.
A bright young Bangor woman, who
acts as stenographer for a certain Ban
gor concern, conceived a great scheme
last week. She thought it would be too
bad to work Monday. SO she drew up a
petition asking that the plant be shut
down on Monday as well as on the
Fourth. This would give a VACATION
from Saturday night to Wednesday
morning. The men didn't care much one
way or the other about it. but as the
all signed the petition. When It was
presented to the office the request was
at once granted to the men. but the
office. 1t was announced would work on
Monday. SO the young lady got but ono
day vacation.
The Lewiston Sun suggests that IL the
supreme court finds that Shiloh is not
a suitable place for Erlon Dunlap to
be brought up in. 1t must follow as a
matter of course that It is not fit place
for other boys and that something ought
to be done to wrest the control of ali
the children at Shiloh out of the hands
of Sanford and his followers. There is
no doubt that it would be a good thing
for the children II something of this sort
could be done, but the matter will have
to be gotten at by individual cases. as
with the Dunlap boy. The decision of
the court is source of great satisfac-
ton to those who feel that there lies
open one way of escape for at least the
younger members of that band of I'M
fortunates on Shiloh hill.
1t is generally known that Portland.
Oregon. was named for Portland. Maine.
but the story of the circumstances under
which the name was given is not very
familiar. Frank w. Pettygrove of Seat
tie has the penny that named the city
of Portland. Oregon. and he is showing
it at the exposition city. On the toss
of this coin depended the question wheth-
err the Willamette metropolis should be
known as Portland or BOSTON. Twice the
coin turned tails" and the town was
named after Portland, Maine. the form