Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-10
Maine Gossip

J Maine Gossip I
In the Old Days.
The day is Just as fair as yesterday,
Rose dawn and sunset gold
Hope in the heart and Soulful song all
gay,
Heave' 'verhead and sunshine on the
And yel-,nere is no day like yesterday,
The yesterday of old.
There is no rosn like +hat of yestereven,
In beauty and in grace.
None ny SUCH ueai nends Gathercd'
blessed and given,
None that so holds for us the dreams of
Heaven
Oh, Just because it was that yestercven
None other can dlSplace!
Oh, Time that steals from us our yester-
day,
And brings Deaths white rose, cold,
With touch that fingers not, nor brooks
Lead us where dwell forever and for aye
The friends, the flowers. the dreams of
Fled with the days Of old.
Brunswick and Wells are the first to
suffer from bad forest fires this sum-
mer.
The Boston yachtsmcn are having a
great time in their cruise along the
coast of Maine.
Commander Peary is pausing a day
or two ut his island home in Casco
bay before starting for the Pole.
The nature of "the night before" at
BowdoinEam is indicated by the fines
of $40 each imposed upon Is young
men of that usually peaceful town.
When the York selectmen satisfy
Uncle Sam by opening the draw in
that bridge they make the town people
mad by the resulting obstruction to
the highway. They are simply bound
to get disliked, whatever they do.
Bucksport is interested in Peary's
dash to the pole. 1t hasn't forgotten
that the Roosevelt was built near
there. Many persons have the idea
that the Arctic ship was really built
in that town. such is not the case.
The Roosevelt was built in the yard
of Mckay & Dix in Verona, which is
located on the island of that name in
the Penobscot river opposite Bucks
port. Then Engineer Wardwell of the
Roosevelt halls from Bucksport.
The citizens of Old orchard have
now taken the most active steps since
| the great fire of last August to bring
about better fire protection and
greater water supply. At special
| meeting last week they appointed
special committee to look into the
matter and report. $500 being appro-
priatud for the necessary expenses of
| employing experts to aid them. The
| insurance rates have been raised %
per cent and this has aroused much
| feeling Many will not rebuild in the
burned district or elsewhere until the
present prohibitive rates are re-
moved. The Biddeford & Saco Water
| Company has offered a new contract
to the town. and it is promised that
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| copied.
| J. +. Murphy, proprietor of Lewis
ton Monumental Works, Lewiston, is
building the ex-Gov. Banks monument
which is to be set in front of the State
| House. Boston, and will be placed in
| position sometime in July. 1t is of
Hallowell granite. it's total weight be-
ing about 60 tons. the upper block
Weighing % tons. before being
dressed 321h tons, and the base of
the monument being 20 by 80 feet
The bronze statue is by Henry H.
Kitson of Quincy, Mass, and will cost
about $780, the total cost of this
monument being from twelve to fif
| teen thousand dollars. The monument
complete will stand about 20 feet
high.
The most serious Fourth of July ac-
cidert down Knox county way hap
pened at Lake Megunticook, when
Prof. Charles zimmerman Of Camden,
musician and music teacher, was ter
ribly injured by the explosion of a
cannon and may lose the sight of one
and possibly both eyes. Prof. Am
norman was at his summer home at
the lake and with others was celebrat-
ing the day by firing cannon of con-
siderable size. They had fired it sew
eral times and had just put in charge
of powder. Prof. zimmerman was
driving in a wooden plug, with an axe.
The piece exploded SCATTERING the plug
| A ne Coz f,,Jl
of splinters and powder. One splinter
entered the eye which, it is believed,
will be destroyed and the other is
badly injured. His face was terribly
cut and one ear nearly severed while
the upper part of his body was badly
burned.
Ever since the settlement of Milli-
nocket there has been quite a little
! gathering of dweliers on what Is