Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-10-15

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The Roads.
| 50 many. many roads lie traced
| Where wanderers may stray
| Roads tWlning. weaving, intcrlaced,
| Roads SOrrowful and say.
| Running through country side and town
| They climb the mountain steep,
| Through Storied realms of far renown
| Increasingly they creep.
When silver moonlight floods the nights
| Eaik' across the sea
| These roads, the wanderers delights,
ArA calling YOU and me,
Singing their challenge sweet and clear.
| FO: wanderers to roam.
| But, all at once. | only hear
The road that leads nc home
October Every body'S.
The fair homogeneous are already
planning on the 1908 exhibitions.
There are all shades OF yellow. but the
reds are scarce in the autumn foliage.
THIS week Augusta welcomes the
Maine Federation and Portland the odd
Fellows for the ir annual meetings.
The new hall of Somerset lodge. NO
81, F. &. y. NJ, of Skowhegan will be
dedicated next Thursday
About this time the wise bull moose
will transfer his habitat to the depths
of the tall timber
The Topshan fair people, III spite of
one days rOstponement. took in $500
more than in any earlier wear.
1t is Names credit that the first state
monument to be erected at Valley Forge.
is that TO be the memory of the 400
Maine men who wintered there under
Washington
F'ry"hurS is putting in a bid for fame,
this hunting season with reports of
plenty of deer in the vicinity and a big
bull moose seen on the railroad track in
town within few DAYS
West Bristol district claims a counlo
OF the amartest young people for their
wears to be found in Maine Mr.. Albert
Goudy is 80 years old Mrs Cloudy is 50.
Mr. Goudy is spry as a squirrel. and
Mrs. Cloudy is active as a girl of Is.
Mt long ago she walked half mile 20
n"ighbor's to quilting. and worked
on quilt half day without using
glasses at all. and her stitches were all
set straight as a die. Any one who ever
bent over quilting frame will allow
that it is no light work.
Biddeford has secured a new indus
try The Dorman- Huxford Co, with
headquarters at Boston has taken the
Dccring building on Main street. and
have opened i; to engage extensively in
the canning of apples. The building is
ready for the companys occupancy. and
already carload OF apples has arrived
in the city with which to start opera
TORS. The company is buying up all
the apples it can throughout York
N'tiiiN anu III tII1eT SECTIONS OF
the State. During three months expects
to can and ship 1000 cases of apples,
and to employ Is hands.
In making some repairs at Lubec at
the Old Harmon wharf the remains of
The first herring weir ever built in
Maine were brought to light. This
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the town was only a footpath along the
water front and the inhabitants were
few. 1t was not a success as a herring
catcher, never making n catch, except
one Of large sea pollock. which COM
plctely nlled the pound and supplied
the country for miles around with fresh
fish. The weir was named THE Drunk
en- Irishman." from the fact that Just
after it was built. son of Erin, who
had been over indulging in liquor rowed
into it one night and kept rowing
around inside the circular Enclosure I'M
Ill the tide rose high enough to float
him over the top of the stakes.
One of the finest old colonial houses
in Maine is the Col. Robert Parker place
IT loIptilii II 10 Ilo~clN luenllIieO Will
the history of the town. says the Els
worth American. In this house Joseph
Wood and his wife died. both 80 years of
age. after having lived together d little
more than three score years and ten
He was the first white man ESQ far as
is known who had ever set foOe on the
soil Of this town. and this he did April
I. 1852. His daughter. Ruth. married
Col. Parker in November. 177o In 1872
he built what is now known as the Par
ker house. 1t was the talk of the town
at that time. as he had carpenters come
from Boston to Superintend the building
of it. He was one Of the richest men
in the town. and AS he spared no ex-
pense. it stands today a fine. well-built
house and one of the purest of all
the colonial houses in this part of the
country. Several Of the rooms have the
vainsr"tin". the old old-fashioncd cha r
rails, the cornices. the beams running