Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-09-05
Maine Gossip
A Song.
each other.

| Dong.
| No more in Lies December
| Weave lcSc or violet.
| 'I'iS grief, dear To- remember,
| It's gladneSS 10 forget
| Why weep DER withered flowers
| That nloomcd in Maytime bowers;
| Can they W:irni hearts like ours
! When SprinStime suns are set,
| Life like a Pickering cmber.
| May ShGW the red glow yet
| Rut wherefore, dear remember,
| When wisdom signs: Forget"
Yet still. for all Fatc's scornin2--
For weeping Visions warning,
Your eyes will make nv morning.
| When suns in darkness set.
Atlanta Constitution
The wells are filled, the pastures re-
joicc and the downpour brought pleas
| urc everywhere except at unhappy
| Lewiston.
Lisbon is one of the Maine towns
| that passes the century mark in 1908
| and it is already talking up a fitting
celebration
The saddcst thing we have seen in
contemporary journalism is that ac
i
closing games in the Maine League
series. Biddeford's hopes had been 50
high.
Bath will feel like having another
grand celebration if the contracts for
those TWO gunboatS are landed as now
seems probable. 1t means over q mil
lion dollars worth of business.
There are no official figures of the
number of people who passed through
Union Station. Portland, on Labor Day,
but Superintendent Sprague estimated
the number to he between 1000 and
10000 and others who We're on the plat
form say that there were many more
than that.
New rules are being enforced on the
Maine Central passenger trains and the
trainmen have been given orders to see
that they are obcycd. Two Cf these
rules are that more than one seat may
not be occupied by turning over one.
and this will hold good whether there
are plenty Of seats to be had or the car
is crowded. The other rule is that 10
ono shall place his or her feet on the
cushions Of the seat in front
The highlinerS of the mackurpl fleet,
il big schooncrs, have been lying in
Portland harbor. Il sight that has not
been seen there for many months
This fleet came in late Monday after
noon TO escape the storm and will
remain until the weather clears.
\ curiously shaped stone which has
every appearance of having been used
by the Indians as Il pestle for grinding
corn, may be seen at the Rockland
touricr-Gazette Office whittier it was
brought last Friday by Charles Wey-
mouth Mr.. Weymouth found it on the
Fred Jhorndike farm on the Pond
road, where more than 100 years ago Il
man named Thorndke found the NOR
tar, or hollow portion of the corn mill
This man searched diligently for the
r"St!", hut was unable to find that por-
ton. The spot where Mr.. Weymouth
picked il up was within a few rods of
where Thorndike found the other por-
ton century ago
John PIERCE. Names well-known
granite contractor, was the lowest bid
der for the construction of the Ashokan
reservoir in the Catsllill mountains, the
amount of his bid being 81, $50. The
New York Board of Water Supply
awarded the contract to Macarthur
BROTHERS Company and Winston & Co.
whose Joint bid was s12,66o 10 The
New York Tribune says: "Despite the
fact that the Peircc Company is thor
oughly responsible, that it had dcp"s-
tied certified check for 1851. 900 with
it's bid, and that John PIERCE. the head
of the company. was the builder of the
masonry Of the new Hall of Records,
the Peirc" Company bid was thrown
out because. as stated by Commits
sioncr Chadwick. It would have entailod
great loss on the Pierce Company
Hath independent: The independent
IS pleased to note the interest which is
helng taken in providing a suitable
athletic field for the use of the young
men or this city. 1t is something which
fath has ever needed but never had.
what boy has ever passed through our
city schools but what has wished that
there was some suitable place where
ne could so and enjoy baseball or
some ether athletic sport and then
mournod because there was none with
in the city limits. 1t is as much the
duty of those charged with the educa-
ton of the children to help develop the
body properly as the mind and up to
| this time this very important duty has
been greatly neglected. At last suit
able field has heen secured ana it looks
! now as if with little money, time and
labor We should have a field upon
which the boys, old and young. can go
! to get little healthful pleasure and
help develop their brain and Drawn.
j. w. Penney of Mechanic Falls. a
, gentleman who is deeply Interested
in historical matters pertaining to