Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-08-14


make this the most successful meeting
of the association. Two Of the former
teachers in the school l.. II. McLain OF
Rockland, who for so many years,
labored faithfully to instruct the youth
CT the place. and Hon. A. D. Russell
OF Augusta, also a former teacher here,
will form pleasing part OF the program
Of the day. There will be speciai
music. short addresses. and poems
written especially for the occasion. A
picnic dinner will be served. Good for
New Sharon!
The action Of the county commits
sioncrs of Aroostook county a few days
ago in issuing an order TO the jailer not
to permit any food to be brought to
prisoners confined in the Jail has
caused considerable comment. 1t was
matter which was much discussed at
the meeting of the county commission
ers' association at Houlton and doubt
less the action of the commissioners
was result. The commissioners felt
that of course there might be cases
where refusal to allow food to be
brought inside would become a hard
ship and would not be right, but in a
large majority of cases this would not
apply. According to the general senti-
ment of the meeting at Houlton the
jails We're not made to give the prison.
ers the luXuries of home, and the
plain fare is as much part of the pun
ishIhent as the confinement Now will
| the new rule be applied to all our jails?
Twelve years ago the young Old-peO-
pie who once attended school in the
old school house in "sugartown." Mos
| cow that was burned in 1861, decided
to hold a reunion on the site of the old
house on the Albert Burke farm now
| owned by Harry ID. Baker. The matter
was ably and enthusiastically worked
| up by Lewis q. Baker and others and
was glorious success ma it was there
decided tn continue these gatherings.
| AS a result this annual reunion has be-
come the most notable gathering of the
year in this section, tn. "Old Home"
time for many. some Of whom come
from distant states to greet their form
of school mates who's. number de-
creases. This year it will be held
study, aug uSt litn, ana All the
widely scattered members and Il few
| remaining teachers are earnestly in
vited to assemble once more ere the
| ranks are thinned again. There will be
plenty Of good Moscow food, good
music, and speaking that will touch
the heart, ana teach the mind.
bright picture of 4 June morning
in northern Maine is given in late
number Of The Lend-A-Ha Record.
that optimistic little magazine edited
by Rev. Edward Everett Hale. The
writer says: My first glimpse Of
northern Maine happened to be at Nor
cross station. where Il party of gentle
men left car to join their guides for a
| fishing trip. Their joyous exclamations
inspired me with {; desire to view the
landscape at the unusual, though
| charming hour of six o'clock A. M. In
spite of this drawback was repaid FOR
my effort. Imagine a sunshine morn
| ing. the grass glisten;ng with dew and
dotted with dandelons, water renectinp
| the sky, while from the waters edge to
| the hill tops there spread Il very SYM
phony of greens. The delicate coloring
| of the low growth i'll striking contrast
with the dense lIxur.ance of the frs.
now at their very best. and IL pale bud
on every tip, the naples and Gins
proudly casting actual shadows of their
own lovelincs&, and all this during nv
ten days absence. Around us here ",
have cherries. apples and lilacs in
bloom with tulips and larcissus on the
decline, and we'll may they do so since
our white frost. June :. from which
cheerful fact YOU will infer that the air
is still bracinG." Pretty picture, isn't
it?