Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-19
Maine Gossip
"Some O. These Days."

Will pass like shadow an melt in a
smile,
An the horse that you bet on will make
Some o. these bright, sweet days!
Some O. these days in the bleak O. the
You'll fiid the fair roses you lost long
A rose for each thorn that is woundin'
Some O. these bright, sweet days!
Some O. these days"'-Let us sing it
The rainbow will ripple it's gold DER the
An the Happiness-music the quickstepll
play
Some O. these bright, sweet days!
| Frank l.. Stanton.
1t is a safe bet that the winter will
give us no rougher day to be out than
was Sunday, Jan. II.
Fortunately no operation was in pro-
| gress when the Trull hospital was
| burned this time as there was when it
| was burned in 1906
The Portland High seniors have
l
those of Deering High which is also in
Portland, will make the trip.
John Kilgore a liveryman Of South
| Windham, has a bride made entirely
of horse hair woven by an Indian years
ago in the California gold fields.
| ieh oin Il cIoI 1,o
new temple of the Shrine at Lewiston
| and there is every prospect that it will
| be finished so that it can be dedicated
| in March. Plans are being made to
have this dedicatory event the biggest
| thing of the kind ever seen in Maine
| No time or expense will be spared To
| have everything connected with it of
| first order.
Portland veterans are pleased that
| General Henry NJ. Nevius Of Red Bank
N. j., commander in chief of the
national organization of the Grand
Army of the Republic will be the guest
| of Bosworth Post, No. 2 on the after
| noon and evening of February Is.
| While at Thomaston last week
| Ebert Hubbard visited the State
| prison. He was especially interested
| in the mission furniture, a new branch
of manufacture recently taken on at
| this institution, praising highly the
| quality of workmanship. He said to
| Warden Norton: "Mr. Warden, we do
this sort OF thing at the Roycroft shop,
but no better. If you are here when
| any of these men who make this furni-
ture are discharged, I wish you would
| send them to me at East Aurora II
give them work. They will need no
other recommendations than that they
come from the Maine State Prison."
| Mrs. We're Goldthwaite-perhaps bet
ter known to our readers as Madame
Yaw-spent few days in Portland at
| the close Of her concert tour of Maine
and then went to her summer home at
New Boston, n. H. Her husband is a
young Boston lawyer and was with her
| during her tour of Maine.
A birthday package was recently re-
ceived by Mrs. Mary Fenlason Allen OF
Columbia Falls from relatives and
| friends in Fort Kent. On opening it
nothing was at first to be seen but a
circular miniature hill surmounted 10y
diminutive trees from which many
| little ribbon streamers were floating
On investigating, 20 pretty birthday
presents were found attached to the
ribbons and hidden in secret cavities in
the interior. Among the presents from
| her parents was a beautiful little finger
ring set with tourmaline, Names
most precious gem. Mrs. Alien is the
fortunate possessor of a necklace with
| exquisite tourmaline pendants. The
discoverer OF tourmalines in Maine was
Hon. Elijah Hamlin, who was a resi-
dent of Columbia Falls for some years
Mr.. Allen has the desk once owned by
| Mr.. Hamlin, at which young Hannibal
Hamlin studied Blackstone while living
| with his brother in this little village
| At the request Of the librarian
| President Roosevelt has sent to the
Maine Historical society's library a
| signed document. being an extract
| from one of his addresses. This is
for preservation with the autograph
| letters of the other Presidents. The
document is as follows:
This great Republic of ours shall never
become the government of plutOcracy,
and it shall never become the govern
| ment of mob God willing it shall re-
main what our fathers who founded it
meant it should: To be a government in
which each man stands on his worth as
a man, where each is given the largest
personal liberty consistent with secur-
| ing the well-being of the whole, and
where, so far as in us lies, we strive
continually to secure for each man such
equality of opportunity that in the strife
| of life he may have fair chance to show
| the stuff that is in him.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
Another late gift to the Maine
Historical society is some leaves and
| flowers picked from the grave of
Sergeant S. Prentiss, framed He was
buried in the family burying ground of
Hon. Winthrop Sergeant, "Longwood "
| two miles below the city of NatcheZ
| Miss These flowers were picked by
| the giver, DR.. Seth c. Gordon, while he
was the surgeon of the First Louisiana
Volunteer infantry. He was stationed
near. but was obliged to go inside the