Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-30
Maine Gossip
The Old Road.

The Old Road.
The old road, the old road-llke n rlpDoh
That stretched away in the misty haze to
the rim of the far off world.
In my dreams it comes: Again ! truose
with books and precious slate
Der distant hills to the old white school,
-thro' the weather-beaten gate.
And again 1 hear, as the twilight steais'
the Angelus evening bell
Echoing sweet across the fields and ring
ing its mystic spell; A..
And again there comes the cnck vi TIC
laIch-hcr footsteps drawing near
And again l hear the songs she crooned
anu that banished my childish fear.
The old road. the old road-the ROAD Vi
the UsedTo-Re: ,-. ,,,,a
That wound it's way over meadow lahu
ana IN u ilnWet from Su out of the Long Ago
to NoW's great thrObbing llle,
wird;np ,ts way to a weary heart-Weary
of worlds grim strife: lands
YOUR Songs and bells that Gimme,
And rho blossoms that grew along the
way in an olden summer time. ,,,s
NV childish feet have pressed !o"i "'
' and they were sweet to me r.
road of the CSed-Io-Be!
Riddeford's chief of police is in high
disfayor with that city's small poys'
as he has issued an order forolddlhs
tho exnlosion of fire works of any KIND
before 4 o'clock the morning OF July
4 or after midnight of that date.
proeressiye Sangerville has appro-
priated $4,000 for the erection OF steel
bridge.
| Onerations on the South Thomaston
and Owls Head electric road are peihs
nnsbed night and day now. and it Is
hoped to have the line open Tor DUST
ness July A.
A Saco real estate man, VINO Is
| in a position to know says that there
are more vacant rents in that city anu
Biddeford than there has been at any
time before for the past ten years.
| Rear Admiral Henry w. Lyon,
| former resident of Paris in this State,
for the past two years stationed at
IIonolulu. II. T., has been relieved
from that station and ordered TO the
command Of the naval station al Mare
Island, San Francisco. This is one Oh
the most important of the Uhited
States naval stations and is located on
San Francisco bay about 80 miles from
the city.
new tower house is In process OF
construction at the Maine Central
junction in Portland which when COM
Melted will be one Of the most up-to-
date structures of that nature on the
entire system. 1t will contain over loo
levers. all of which will be operated by
electricity.
The Boston & Maine Railroad has
practically used up the gravel pit near
Kittery Junction. For nearly 80 years
the company has been digging out the
earth at this place for filling and other
work and the pit was one of the best
Investments Of the kind the company
ever made. A few days ago the road
department needed some gravel al
Scarboro and was compelled to haul
it from Hampton, distance of 81
miles.
Mr.. White. the victim in New York's
recent tragedy, was well known in Bal
Harbor. where he passed some time
several years ago. experimenting the
erection of the Gardiner Sherman cot
: tage.
One of the prettiest sights in Rock
land. Just now, is a large pink-blos'
: somed shrub in the garden of Mrs. 5
T. Mugridge. The tree is hawthorn
probably the only one in that vicinity
and was brought from Massachusetts!
l by Mrs. Mugridge. Every spring it Il
covered with a multitude of blossoms
which are white on their appearance
gradually changing to a beautiful pink
A newspaper correspondent in dis
cussing the expression often heard II
North Aroostook, "the three towns.
gives the information that 1t means tn
three. ix-by-twelve-mile towns Carl
bou. Pressure Isle and Fort Fairfield
= which are also sometimes referred To
G "the AroostoOk triplets."
In the mammoth storage house, nov
under process OF construction
a Stockton Springs. % tons Of nails vii
e be used, which fact will give one a.
4 idea of the size Of the building.
a Two old Boston & Maine engines wi
go into the scrap heap a. Lewisto