Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-08-07
Maine Gossip
An Old Home.

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An Old Home.
Dooryard full of daisies,
Trees knee deep in grass,
I Bowling. bending. swaying
| AS the breeZcs pass.
Struggling tiger lilies,
I Near the old rail fence.
Kcdolent with meaning,
| OF the years gone hence
Close beside the door rock.
! Bush Of lilac stands.
, Tapping at the window
| With its purple wands.
Robin on the welI-sweep
Sings the sweet, old song,
WhippOorwils at even
| Voice their sense OF wrong.
Empty barn and woodshed
| Seen through the open door
| Mind one of the plenty
Ever there of yore
Over all IL woOdbine
| Chambers with wild grace.
Giving a new beauty
| TO the lear old place.
| Old Home full Of mem'ries.
Fragrant az the rose,
Growing ever Swecter
To iifes very close.
boston transcript
The Simpson meetings have begun
at Old Orchard Leave your jewelry
and watches at home
Only three weeks to the first of the
big fairs, that at Bangor which opens
August u for four days.
A real automobile on Bar Harbors
case and the result will be watched
with wide interest.
There is lot of black hay being
pitched off in Maine barns this sum-
mer and by no means all of it has yet
been stored away.
Only two Maine men in the party 60
ing North with Peary this time, and
those are Engineer Wardwell and Ross
G. Marvin, both of Bucksport where |
Pcarys ship was built.
There are now four young Indians |
from Oldtown in the famous school at |
Carlisle, and an agent of the school |
who is now in this State says that |
several more are going there this |
fall.
Portland needs more hotels. One
landlord tells an Express reporter
that the hotels will be confronted with |
comInOdations for the members of the |
American and International Bar AS
sociations who will be in the city the
latter part of the month. He said that
those of the associations who have not
already engaged rooms will find it al
most impossible to secure them now.
Imagine the bushes Of the young
people most directly interested in the
following item which appears in the
Greenwood correspondence of one of
our weekly exchanges: ERNEST Brooks
is at work at his old job in Yarmouth
again this summer, and the other day
he visited his parents, taking along a
lady, supposed to be his best girl, with
hirn. Well, Ernest is a man of good
habits, now getting along towards 30.
and old enough to know what the mar
riage contract means"
There were about 800 on the special
Old Home train which passed across
Maine Tuesday bearing Massachusetts
people to the scenes of their youth in
Washington county. The following
towns in Eastern Maine are planning
to entertain the visitors: Cherryfield,
Harrington. Columbia Falls, JonesbOro,
Whitncyville, Machias, East Machias.
Marion, Dennysville, Pembroke. Perry,
F,a stport, Charlotte, Midtown and
Calais.
Aside from rubbing salt into the raw
sores Of Names Democratic leaders.
Dr. Crocketts much heralded book
"The Plunderer" does not seem to
have made the expected hit. Speaking
of it from a literary standpoint the
editor of the Oxford
Democrat says, "No one would be
guilty of calling the book novel, and
dramatically and typh-
it is an incOherent night
mare"
JanitOr Robert BoWker of the Ia
comet clubhouse in Winslow started
the year with an attempt to raise 1000
roses on the big bush which has been
his care for several years. The last rose
was plucked Sunday. A careful count
has been kept Of the roses which have
been taken from the bush with the
knowledge and consent of the janitor
and they figure up to 1921 and it is be-
lieved that enough roses have been
taken by people passing in the night to
J,n al ut act !,