Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-12-31
Maine Gossip
The Old Year,

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The Old Year.
Along Times thoroughfare our eyes
| have seen
The wondrous pageant of a passing
Between us now the dust clouds inter.
| Vene
Riding abreast. in trappings all of gold
Valor and power have passed along the
Folly and Vice their banner have un-
| rolled;
Wealth. vigor. fame made each theil
proud display.
Marching as have marched such count
| less hosts before,
Singing. as sang those hopeful ones of
Song Of mans life. his glory and his
Now stretch thy vision toward the set
| Naught but dull echoes linger in thine
Sadly; at last, the Old Years march is
Sadly and SLOW the pageant disappears.
Metropolitan Magazine.
| The last day of 1905.
Planning to watch it out tonight?
Last leap year opportunity for three
long years.
These arc anxious days for the thou
sands OF Italians in Maine
Just dust those 1905 resolutions and
Great skating now. and happily the
thin ice accidents have thus far been
very few.
Lucky the man who is not worried
about an avalanche CT bills in tomor~
rows mail.
Inc Red Cross Christmas stamp has
been on sale in Al Maine towns and
cities
Eapresenta.Ise IJa"irS of Yarmouth
very cheerfully makes it unanimous
for Representative Weeks of Fairfield
as Speaker of the next House.
Lincoln Colcord, the former Searsport
boy has a very intere sting story of
the sea. Carrying Sail.' in the Janu-
ary number of the American Magazine.
W. Herbert Dunton of New York.
formerly of Augusta, has two excellent
full page illustrations in the January
issue of Everybody's Magazine, in con-
nection with the story 1.-THE Branded
Mans Gift
Some people worry about travelling
on ;he steaIn cars. but it is worthy of
note that of the 80 fatal accidents in
Maine this year not one has been to a
passenger upon a railroad train.
Saco is just now having an attack
Of the shoe factory fever, and is talk
ing the thing over with representatives.
OF Massachusetts, concerns which are
open to inducements to move to
Maine. ..
President Hyde of Bowdoin College
announces that the college has recent
ly received securities of the par value
of S300G00, and an actual value of con-
siderable more. from q donor who
wishes for the present TO remain un-
known. A very substantial and well
come holiday gift which causes much
rejoicing among all friends of the col
lege.
On the heels of the necessity for Il
new CITY hall comes the demand for a
new High school building in Portland.
The present building is overcrowded
and the school is growing at the rate of
100 per year.
The possible development of tide
power at Winncgance' is attracting
the attention of at least two corpora
tions and there may yet come from
thea interest which has been dcvel-
oped something of great value to Bath.
Not only is there plenty OF power
there, which eXr Us say can be
harnessed at reasonable expense but
in addition there is the matter Of
transportation to be taken into con-
S0eratlOn.
The little town of Van Buren has a
lot of hustling business men who are
putting forth every possible energy
looking toward the development. COM
and otherwise, Of their town.
They have recently organized board
of trade with the following officers:
President. II. X. Bradbury; vice-presi
dent, James Crawford; secretary,
George " Hammond: treasurer, Fred
S. Cyr There is also a board of
composed of the leading
business and professional men OF the
place.
The Somerset Reporter says: THE
first hay shipped out of Skowhegan this
season left lere this week. three car
loa,ls in all. The light yield of last
summer was really not sufficient to
winter the stock usually kept in this
section and there has been none Mt all
offered for shipment until the present
week. 1t is probable that fewer car