Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-20

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The Prime of Life.
Just as / thought I was growing old,
| Ready To SIT IN my eaSy-chair,
To watch the world with a heart grown
And smile at IA folly | would not share.
Rose came by with a smile for me-
And l am thinking that forty year
Isn't the age that it seems to be,
| When two pretty brown eyes are near.
Bless me. of life it is Just the primc.-
| fact that | hope she will understand; =
And forty years is Il perfect rhym
TO dark brown eyes and pretty hand,
These gray hairs are by chance, you see,
Boys are sometimes gray. | am told =
Rose came by with smile for me,
| Just as | thought | was getting Old.
Walter Learned.
Congratulations to State Master
Stctson and to the Maine State
Grange.
is Il rare club or society which has
not had a Whittier night this week.
Good shipbuilding prospects for 1908
along the Maine coast, but nothing to
be built for the foreign trade.
| A 2ha pound baby, healthy and live
ly. is one of the holiday arrivals in a
Lewiston family.
Bangor is unhappy over recent orders
from Washington which have serious
ly crippled the mail collection service
OF the city.
The Commercial announces that one
of Bangor's bright young lawyers of
distinguished ancestry, Lewis A. Bar
ker, is to make his home in Nevada for
the future.
ColcbrooN, n. H.. boasts of a master
of the Grange who is only II years
old. Who is the youngest Grange
master IN Maine?
The editor of the Portland Express
pathctically remarks that the martyrs
of Old never had to go Christmas shop
ping with the women of the family.
Bates College gets a Christmas gift
of five new scholarships For the bcne-
fit of deserving young women students.
They are given by Miss Corning of
East Hartford, Conn.
| A holiday visitor to Maine is Albert
III. Haynes of Alaska who is in Saco
visiting his sister whom he has not
seen before for 81 years. His old home
was in Passadun keag.
paper to give the exact vote on the
second and deciding ballot for master
Of the State Grange. It tells us that
the total vote was $50. c. S. Stetson of
Greene received 21S votes and o. Card
ner of Rockland received 271. while
six were scattering. Two or moro
| ballots were also necessary for most
in most cases the old officers were mere
successful than Mr.. Gardner in re-
tanning their grip on their places.
The East Deerng stock yards now
contain more live stock than at any
time for years. over 1000 cattle and
1000 sheep being there awaiting ship
IN 10
Englishman which sailed Thursday af-
ternoon took TAG head of cattle and 1000
head of sheep and the other Dominion
liner now in port, the Welshman. will
take 40 head of cattle and 1000 head of
sheep, when she sails Saturday after
noon. The Allan liner Unitarian which
sails Saturday afternoon for Glasgow
will take over coo head of cattle and
the remainder will probably be shipped
next week.
There are 5000 cords of wood at n
modest estimate going to rot in
York county. According to John
Marserve. the agent for the Bidde-
ford Record. who knows every cross
road and about every farm in the
BILE mills in the shape of tops. 1t is
not cut UP because it would cost more
than it is worth to haul it to market so
it lies there rotting on lots stripped by
the portable mills. Mr.. Mesorve says
that he was offered as much as he
wanted of oak. maple and beech tops
for 80 cents a cord. In some cases,
where the stripped nts are near
enough to make it worth while, farm
ers are saving their own wood and
cutting up this refuse for fuel, paying
% cents a cord. In one lot over in
Lyman he estimates that there are
800 cords of good wood going to waste.
About the most desolate sight in York
county, he says, is section of 700 or
800 acres in Lebanon. The portable
mills stripped off everything but some
poplars. Then came a fire and now
these half burned poplars stand like so
many ghosts of what was until rn-
Gently one Of the finest timber lots in
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