Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-07-31
Maine: Gossip

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Happiness Hard to Beat.
Shady tree where the furrow ends
And Il melon cool and sweet;
And wEet yer knife!
And be. YER life
It's happiness hard to beat!
| Fine rmh, ella Is shady tree
Where the lights and shadows fit
And a hooking bird
With Slngin'- word
In the very top of it!
And tie troubles Of life seem far away,
An the toll is sweet to me,
With a mOrsel meet
For 4 king to eat,
And song, and n shady tree!
-Atlanta Constitution.
Standing room only, and sometimes
barely that. on the Maine-bound
trains. :.
One of the big events of the summer
at Rockland will be the launching OF
siy-master August "a.
That Philadelphia tallyho which
drove no to the Samoset last week was
as much of a curiosity as an automo-
bile would have been half century
ago.
IT was an interesting coincidence that
the new Bangor station was opened for
business on the ed anniversary of the
day when the first railroad train pulieo
out of Bangor for the west.
The old Portland Transcript for many
wears one of the best known papers IN
New England has been revived, this
time as q monthly. There was time
when the paper then published once
week was very influential, and it's edl-
tor. Edward f. Elwell, was spoken Oh
as the Horace Greeley of Maine.
DIR. William d. Long of Stamford
Conn, whose name has been much III
the newspapers and magazines be-
cause of his controversy with President
lSODSeNell over Tic SuSstioli vi
taking" passed through kineo last
week with his family on his way 10
.ohster Lake, where he will spend the
balance of the summer.
A young Bath couple presented the"-
selves before minister last week
and asked to be married. After the
knot was securely tied, the HAPPY
groom coolly informed the preacher
that he expected to get a job during
the next week and he would then pay
him for performing the ceremony.
It has finally been decided to locate
the Reed monument on the Western
promenade in Portland, on site just
easterly of the band stand. Sufficient
money has been pledged and design
will soon be selected.
1t is said that after long search
Hon. Joseph w. Symonds. president
of the Thomas Bracket Reed Me-
mortal Association has found a photo
graph of Mr.. Reed, showing the states
man in overcoat and hat, and wearing
the slight moustache recalled by all
who met him then. 1t is regarded as
the best photograph of Mr.. Reed at the
best time in his career, and may be
used as model for his statue to be
erected in Portland.
Kennebunk's Old Home Week,
which is expected to be the. biggest
h. hnc IN r.
ing the 266 years of existence, began
Sunday. The opening of the notable
event was quiet as it was intended to
be. Attendance of the visitors at the
local churches was the principal fea-
ture. Kennebunk homes have been
thrown open to the visitors and there
is hardly n family which does not
have some company or will nave
some before the week is over. Some
Of them will be almost overlooking.
1t is Kennebunk's first observance
of Old Home Week on a big scale.
1t will be in part a demonstration in
celebration of the opening of the
new trolley line. The new road
brings this town into close connection
with the outlying villages whose resi-
urntS Will. IL Is DtlcNtu, SOtIC III
to do their trading. The opening of
this line means n lot to the business
men Of Kennebunk. The program for
the rest Of the week is, Tuesday. pic
mic in Lords grove, sports. band con-
certs; Wednesday, street parade, horse
races. band concerts fireworks; Thurs
day, athletic sports: Friday, dedica-
| ton of the Parsons Memorial library.
A meadow hen on exhibition in a
store window in Dexter is attracting
considerable attention. The bird was
| captured by Ed. Hayden at West Gar
land, while at work in his moving
field. Mr. Hayden had quite a strug-
gle in trying to capture the bird. as
it put up hard fight when discovered.
1t is long legged bird of yellowish
color and has an ugly looking bill.