Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-07-06
Maine Gossip

The Ola Farm BY the Sea.
Keep cool? Too hot.
| I'd rather not.
| But I'll tell We where Id like to be;
Down ON the old farm by the sea.
| Lying flat
Shading my eyes, and staring at
The snoWdrift clouds on the fields o. blue
| And the CLEAN o sunlight shimmerinG
| through
The maple leaves, as it used to do.
The sparrows whistling under the hedge
And the cowbells Changing over the ledge.
And that woodsy bird-when he played
The hottest days were cool at noon.
| tell We. Joe.
I'd like to 60.
Yes. Joe.
| | know.
We grew. No toddting tots say "Papa"'
Under the porch in the twilight's grace
Calls Supper!
But the mcmries live there just the
same;
| And ! reckon
I've only to shut my eyes to see her
beckOn.
Charles Poole Cleaves.
The poem at the head of this column
this morning was contributed to the
New York Sun by Rev. c. =. Cleaves.
pastor of the Congregational church at
Winthrop. Mr.. Clcaves, who
graduated from Bowdoin in 1905. has
written much in excellent prose and
| verse for the newspapers and
magazines and has published one novel
of which the scene was laid on the
| sardine packers.
A grim list of Fourth casualties.
The next holiday will be Labor day,
September 3.
SacO is much pleased that its hopes
| Of free delivery is to be realized at last.
Stonington is having Il struggle to
collect poll tax from its 800 unnat-
uralizcd Italians.
No fewer than 81 happy couples reg
| istered their intention of marriage in
Portland in June.
Register of Deeds Campbell of Han
cock county, who died just after lie was
renomnated had filled his office over
| so years.
The Anvil tells of Bath girl who
rowed out to Scguin to ask for a job
at light housekeeping.
A Bangor firm has mounted 116 moose
| heads since the close of the 1905 hunt
| ing season.
| If the bugs and the rust can be re-
| sisted lots of potatoes will be shipped
| from the little station at Riverside next
| fall and winter. In Vassalboro. near
| the station, Edward Brown has planted
% acres, o. J. Hussey, 20. w. p. Bail
ey & Son, Is. and Andrews & Phnney,
IL. In Sidney. just accrOss the river.
| Il. Il. Clifford has planted 40 acres:
| Frank HewcS. Is: J. n. Field. Is: +. f.
| Blake. IS; Geo. r. Smith, Is, and Sew
| all Clark, 8.
in Bethel so near the Androscoggin that
| its roots draw moisture directly from
| the river. It's circumference one foot
above the ground is 26 feet and five
feet from the ground 2Ol2 feet. Six
| feet above the ground it divides into
two nearly equal trunks. about % feet
| high. These trunks then divide and
| 4
of symmetry and beauty 100 feet high.
! Old Town Enterprise: Men have var
ious ways of carrying money. Groc-
ers. butchers and millers carry it in n
wad. Bankers in clean bills. laid full
| length in pocketboOk. Brokers only
| fold the bill once, doubling the money
carries it in his vest pocket. Farmers
| and drovcrs in their inside pockets,
whether it be $50 or Is cents. News
paper men usually carry their money
in other peoples pockets.
| One of the fishermen who still holds
out against the Establishments of the
motor boat and depends on sail and oar
for motive power for his 15-foot dory
is Samuel Tobey of Kittery Point. He
Is claimed by the people of the point
to be the oldest fisherman in New Eng
land, and is still actively engaged in
the business. he being now 81 years
and 9 months old. And his going fish
| ing is no make believe" kept up just
for the name of it-gOing down on the
wharf once in a while to catch cum
ner at high tide-but the real article.
| He makes trips in his dory as far out
as the Isles of Shoals or beyond when
| the weather is suitable, and brings in
| fares that do not average badly with
| those taken by much younger men.
| The first annual State convention OF
the grocers and general merchants Of
Maine will be held in Portland, We'd
nesday, Thursday and Friday, August
8. and 10. The convention is under
| the auspices of the National AssOcia-
| ton of Retail Grocers of the United
States and the first day of the cOnven-
ton will be observed as a field day at
Long Island. On this day the Portland