Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-19
Maine Gossip
Spring Song.

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Spring Song.
There is song a-singing-a vagrant,
Wanton tune
That laughs across the silence of the
mid-afternoon:
We do not fully hear it, we only sense
it SO,
And feel it's subtle measures as echoes
come and go.
1T dances in the sunshine where mead
ows bare and brown
Are rousing from their slumber; from
hillSideS sweeping down
1t leaps and laughs and fingers until
the grasses wake
And naked boughs of willows begin to
sway and shake.
1t runs throughout the forest in murmurs
fair and fine
And calls its my stic summons to twig and
root and vine
And o. the scent of Sprngtime comes
drifting from the mold
AS in the primal morning in Eden's grace
untold.
Elusive, evanescent; a song we may not
hear,
But only as a shadow of sound comes to
the ear
1t mocks us from the holIows and it
mocks us from the hills
With all its lifting gladness blent of a
thousand thrills.
There is song a-singing-and all the
world is glad;
The newer life is stirring in places sere
and sad
a pean and prayer, a chanting and
Groom
Sweep onward through the sunshine of
the mid-afternoon.
Chicago Evening Post
1t is a pity that there is small pros
pect of catching the miscreant who
deliberately wrecked that train at
Lewiston late Tuesday night,
Bar Harbor is practically certain Of
a visit next summer from the New
York yacht club fleet on it's annual
cruise. and is hoping for visit from
some of the warships.
Members of CaStine and neighborry
oranges in a meeting last week after a
lively discussion, decided that
woman was of more value on a farm
than wheelbarrow. This is certainly
encouraging. The woman is fast COM
ing into her own. Before very long
we may expect to find some grange
seriously debating the question
whether the woman on the farm is
necessity or a luxury.
Benjamin Frank Wright Of Park
Rapids. Mimi, who has been elected
judge of the fifteen judicial court of
Minnesota. is former Maine mon.
he spent his boyhood in Lewiston,
was graduated from the high school
in the class of 1879, and from Colby
College in SO. He studied law in the
offices of Savage & Cakes. and later
with Hon. William T. Haines of
Waterville Twenty zone years ago
Mr.. Wright went West. where he has
had most successful career.
Do athletics seriously interfere with
regular college work? Just look over
the list of the provisional commences
ment parts at Bowdon. Out of the SO
young men in 1909, Is have been
selected on the basis of rank for three
and half years to write graduation
parts and of these Is parts six will be
selected for delivery upon the COM
mencement stage. Of the 1S young
men honored by these provisional APP
pointments all but five have taken part
in some branch of athletics during
their college course and the more
prominent athletes in the number are
Harrison Atwood. twice captain Of the
varsity track team: T.. Ralph Bridge,
t1..i, Tot, 40
team; Ralph O. Brewster, manager Of
last years track team and prominent
in class athletics: Claude o. Bower
and William M. Harris, the we'll
known varsity baseball players
Harold II. Burton. well known as a
track man and as the varsity quarter
back for two years: and Thomas r.
Shehan, Jr.. the Portland boy who
was the football fullback until an in-
jury put him out of athletics.
The longest deed ever recorded at
the Hancock county registry of deeds
is now in the hands of Register Of
Deeds w. 0. Emery. 1t is deed in
trust and mortgage from the American
lee co. to the knickerbocker Trust
Co, of New York city. 1t is estimated
that the deed contains 31.141 words
and will make about 1875 pages in the
records. This deed must be recorded
in every county in which the ice
company owns property. and in the
clerks Office of every town or city in
which the property is located. When
it is stated that the fee for recording
the deed in the Hancock county
registry alone is $46.50. it will be seen
that the cost of recording it in all the
counties and towns will be enormous
something like $4,000. it is estimated.
The Pepperell company of Biddeford
is getting ready to eXpend half
million dollars in enlarging and i'm
proving its plant. The additions will
consist of a new weave mill and new
storehouse. and the work is to be
started right away. The addition of
the new weave mill will give employ
ment to a largely increased number
of employees and with enlargement of
the plant in other directions, Will