Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-07-20
Maine Gossip

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In Some Lone Lane in England.
In some lone lane in England we should
have met my dear.
When the hawthorne was in blossom
such as now is blooming there!
Where we read Lcve's sweeter story to
the listening stars above,
And dream of Life is glory, and Life
sweeter dream is love!
In some lone lane in England!-how the
memory recalls
The scenes that now make music lr
LIES deSolated halls!
The seas roll deep between us, but theil
bill0wy unrest
Bring back the lanes of England; and q
blossom on your breast!
In some lone lane of England-oh, how
that memory seems
Like a river that forever ripples music
through my dreams!
Nor sea. ror tide nor mountain side o
broken land may be
Like one lone lane in England where yoi
gave your kiss to ne:
Frank l.. Stanton.
Who wouldn't be a yachtsman a
Five Islands these days?
The Kennebec showers are Of TIN
cloud-burst nature this summer.
That faint musical hum which you
hear at noon is the growing of tn
crops.
1t will be a long time before Water
vile gets over the disappointment o
the loss of the evening performance o
| the big circus.
Fourteen of the 81 clerks in the Port
| land postoftice have been made happ
nv an addition Of 500 to their yearl
| salaries.
| The Mystic Shriners of Kora tempt
at Lewiston will entertain Palestin
Temple of Providence August "a an
%.
The annual Day family reunion wi
he held at Wesley. August %. All be
longing to that name are cordially In
vited.
The location of Auburn's new post
office, for which Congress has apprc
priated $4,000, is a topic much dis
cussed by the citizens. who have man
opinions as to availability.
The presence of State Detective Hart
nett in Deer Isle last week has revive
rumors Of "somthing doing" in tt
Robbins murder case. The Deer Is
Messenger says: "Mr. Hartnetts pre-:
ence here at this time encourages or
to believe that this case is not yet
dead issue, and it would surprise b'
few hereabouts if there was an indie
ment and arrest when the next gran
jury sits"
WelI-kno,yn Bangor barber shop
catering to men with hair which is THU
, ming on top. by two of its BARRIERS mai
ing themselves living examples of no
a man looks with the top of his hea
shaved. Probably the style of ha
cutting will never become the rage a
| though many tflIIlh IL tSliuo ~ eiiiSh>
the growth of hair.
There is a shortage of aluminium
Yet it is abundant in every clayban
ard there is in certain Maine tow
large ledge of almost pure sulpha
Of aluminium The world needs
cheap method Of smelling this usef
metal.
Here IS an echo of the Glorio'
, Fourth from Bath. 1t seems that
l patriotic small boy of that city had Il
vested all his available capital in lar'
{ sized paper caps and when the -Four
: was over he found a quantity lie
e which he carefully placed in his h
I rockets. A day or so later ne n;
D done something naughty for which I
n mother promised him spanking
: the good old method of laying hi
across her knee. but when she broug
the slipper down on him with oil
x fashioned vigor something happen
q which gave her the surprise of her III
The explosion blew the slipper thrcu
the window and there was not enou
| left Of that small Doy trousers " y
Y i'm the rag-bag. The small boy hims'
I is eating his meals off the mantel.
Down at the East Lamoine coaii
station last week the crew tackled t
VI hardest proposition it has yet been
against in the way of a coal cargo.
= steamer arrived recently with neal
# :. 600 tons of coal. 1t was not one
a the regular government golfers wi
wide matches and open hold, but
" freighter. with coal slowed between I
II three or four decks where it had to
g. handled over two or three times bef6
p reaching the buckets. Three hundr
:, to 800 tons a day was the best tf
could be done in discharging her.
20 The people Of Auburn are TAXI
% sides on the question Of prohibit
s. the erection of cottages along
h. shore of the lake from which the W
n ter supply Of the city is procured,
Of boating on it's waters. One pal