Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-05-29
Maine Gossip
When | Have Time.

Nltl care.
I'll help to lift them from their low
despair.
" hcn | have time.
When l have time. the friend l love 50
Shall know no more the weary, toiiins
I'll leu ler feet in pleasant paths
Ana cheer Ter heart with words Of
sweetest praise.
Wnen | lave time
When YOU have time the friend you hold
May be beyond the reach of all your
MAY never krow that you 50 kindly
IlCant
10 i'll her life with sweet content,
When you had time.
Now II tie iimc. All, friend, no longer
10 scatter loving SMILES and words. OF
checr.
TO those around whose lives are now 50
Fiat may not meet YOU in the coming
Now * the time.
Providence News Democrat.
Before their appearance at Brown
vile that gang of burglars had not
| been
The sweet girl graduates are holding
frequent rchcarsals under the dircc-
tons Of their drcssmakcrs.
During last week Il total Of 462,OOo
bushels Of grain were shipped from
Portland to European ports which
breaks the record.
When next month rolls around
BENJAMIN y. LittlcIrld. the South
Thuma:tun stage driver, Will have
completed 81 year.; on that route, and
he declares that he seldom fails I" find
some new object of interest along the
route
Hcu!ton is to have its trottinG park,
after all. An expert engineer will be
secured at once to lay out the ground,
30 that grading may begin soon. There
will be something doing in the trottlng
line by August.
Tho Boston Yacht club will start out
July Is on its annual cruise to Booth
bay Harbor, Monhcgan. Five Islands
and Bath.
Cant. Charles A. Curtis who died
Sunday at Madison, Wisconsin. where
he was for many years military in
strlctor at tn" state university was
born in HalloWcll, Maine, in 1888 and
graduated at BoWd"in il 1861. lie
prepared for college in what was then
known as the old Lewiston Fails
Academy and there figured as class
pnct ana as the Wit of the under
graduate body. He WAS warm
hearted. noble and brave man and did
valiant service in tho war. where he
was lieutenant on General Hancock'S
staff. He remained in active service
until 1871 and figured i'll many Indian
conflicts. In later years h" has
written several books of adventure and
many magazine articles on Indian
warfare and western life.
West sullivan * still enjoying the
benefits of the boom caused by the re-
organization Of the granite industry.
Land there has gone up to high price
and the owners of desirable locations
are hanging Oh to them. or selling
them for fancy prices: The Bcnvcnuc
| company of New York, which also ol-
crates uuarrirs at StOninghain. is &C
lively at work clearing the stone yards,
working building, sheds, and the like
The company has in running order
big steam drill outfit, and big der
rick 4 second one of the same SIH" Is
all ready to be set up whenever needed.
The railroad bed is being laid. and ,
new derrick is being put up on tn"
| wharf for shipping by vessel. which
will facilitate til" work Of loading.
Rents in Bangor have been scarce
| for the past four years. but til" mat
| tor has uow become serious, according
| to the News. which says: 'Pc"pl" who
! have studied the problem say that for
one thing Bangor is years behind the
| times i'm the matter Of building apart
mont houses. In this city with a
| population If from $4,000 to 1000 4
large proportion of the families occupy
| separate. houses. AMI each house
usually has 4 lot Of land around it.
| This spreads out tho city's area to an
unreasonable extent
\ Lewiston man who has bought the
| Prttingil farm on the west shore Of
| Taylor pond III Auburn has plan for
| developing a summer resort at that
| point IL will reserve" hc says "a
| considerable piece Of the shore 'front.'
age to go with the farm. ON TINS
| piece. a bath house and floats Will y"
| built The person buying the farm
| will have the boat and the bath-houSc
| privileges We have no public BATH
| house in Lewiston or Auburn-a com
| munity of 10000 people. Any man can
| clear up several hundred dollars sea-
| son. | believe. with these accessories
| ana will still have neat little farm ot
| 80 to 80 acres left besidc-and within
| thrpc-quartcrS Of mile Of the
| Mechanic Falls clcctriC5. | am gong
/ to spend $1,000 in improvements before
| % another thing. Roads will be
| built into this property. To the iake
| he good