Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-23
Maine Gossip

I Maine Gossip )
Wall From an Old Fosy.
Backward. turn backward. Q Time. in
your flight,
Take ali the fitting lights. filling the
Take ali the chaffeurs. with wind-rum-
pied hair.
Take all the honks that make raucous
Take ali the dust that hangs over the
Where touring cars dashed. with its
goggle-eyed load;
Grant us one glimpse of the old. peace
Give us, V give us. the bicycle days.
Backward, turn backward. Q Time. 7
repeat,
Take all the rubbernecks out of the
street,
Watching the progress of sky-faring
carts,
Flying like swallows or mad-driven darts;
Things are too rapid for old-fashioned
Life is too speedy to seem like joke:
Travels become but speed-testing
Give us, o give us. the bicycle days!
Denver Republican.
The Hyde Windlass Co., of Bath, has
distributed their eighth annual profit
sharing dividend, 100 employees par
ticipating in the distribution.
The latest note in Lewiston's song OF
prosperity is one giving out the In
formation that the Bates Street Shirt
~. ~ h,,i1 1urv
factory which will contain room for
1000 employees.
Adiutant General Elliott c. Dill of
Augusta will be rendered a compli-
mentary banquet at the Augusta House
next Saturday evening by the legisla-
tive correspondents past and present.
IT is expected that covers will be laid
for 10.
Old Orchard is getting ready to take
advantage of the right given her by
the last Legislature. that Of borrowing
$50, 900 to be expended in providing the
town with park system. The fire
which wiped the busiest half Of Old
orchard off the map. may yet prove it's
greatest blessing.
The Bangor & AroostOOk does a
graceful thing when it relinquishes all
claim on Pressure Isle for the $4,000 the
town recently voted to raise for the
Mapleton extension. The extension is
to be built just the same and Pressure
Isle will have that $4,000 to use in re-
cuperating from the fire loss.
The king pin collector of names for
the referendum petition on the Port
land Bridge bill is James H. Dennis
He has obtained the greatest number
of signatures up to date of any Of the
local canvassers. Mr.. Dennis has
gathered LOGO names and his nearest
is William P. Osborne who
had about $50.
:, Joel Howard, who is now Sc years
of age, is with a party that started
recently to the Pacific coast. Mr.. How
ard spends his time with his daughter,
Mrs. A. M. Smith, of Preslue Isle, and
other relatives in Bangor and Lewiston,
and is very smart for a man of his
age This is his second trip to the
coast, he having been there in the year
about 1S49 digging gold. He has a son
living there and desired to visit him.
J. 3. Philbrick of Andover can lay
claim to having been born under an
star, for last Saturday his
barn was destroyed and his house es-
capped by a narrow margin. Feb. 4th
Mr.. Philbrick's house which he then
occupied was burned and he moved in
to the buildings on the Henry Slower
Philbrick place which he and his sis
ter own together. March that house
caught fire and was with difficulty
saved from destruction.
Saco is again denying that the Cath
Ollie church SO long needed. is to -"
built at once.
1t is reported in the Portland papers
that the Union station of that city is
with pickpockets. They come
down to Maine every spring. operate
until the officers catch them and then
seek new fields. It's been going on
that way for years.
Monday morning about o'clock two
deer were seen on Stevens avenue at
Deerng Center walking along slowly
A few minutes later a Miss Goddard
living on Walton street saw them take
to the woods on that street This is
the second time within week that
deer have been seen on the streets in
the Dering district.
Portland is fast loosing an old land
mark, losing it just as fast is wreckers
can tear it down, and in it's place is to
raise the tallest business block in
Maine.
beautiful brass memorial tablet in
of the late Isaac Wood, for AZ
years an active member of Trinity
church choir. Lewiston, was unveiled
in the church edifice Sunday.