Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-11
Maine Gossip
Lincoln.

Their madness Joined its harShest tone 10
strife.
| A minor note swelled in the song of life
| Till, stirring with the love that filled his
breast.
But still, unfinching at the Rights be-
hest.
| Grave Lincoln came strong-handed from
affair
| The mighty Homer of the Tyre of War!
Twas he who babe the raging tempest
Wrenched from his strings the harmony
of peace,
| Muted the strings that made the discord,
wrong.
| And gave his spirit up in thun drous
song.
| Oh, mighty Master of the mighty lyre
| Earth heard and trembled at thy strains
Earth learned of thee what Heaven al
ready knew.
And wrote thee down among her treas
Paul Laurence Dunbar.
Lincoln celebrations and exercises
everywhere today and tomorrow.
Messers Hale, Webb and Reynolds
have announced their candidates. in
the First district
| York county will come en- masse 10
| the Capital today to discuss the coun-
| ty seat question.
A Clinton man makes the prediction
| that 1909 is going to be a great year
for grasshoppers, basing his predic-
ton upon the assertion that eight
grasshOppers have Matched out Of
pan Of dirt which was brought from
the garden last fall and placed in the
! cellar.
Sembrich, whom Maine people heard
as one of the stars of the Maine music
festival, is starting on tour Of fare
wen performances in opera. She has
sung as an operate star for the last
| time in New York and this week she
sails for Germany. where she will sing
| her operate adieus once more and will
| then repeat them in st. Petersburg
and Lemberg, in Poland, the town in
which she was born.
| State Superintendent of Schools Pay
son Smith calls attention to the fact
| that the recent enactment of the Maine
| legislature declaring February II to be
a state and bank holiday makes a dis
tinct provision regarding it's obser-
vance in schools. While the day is in
Il sense Il school holiday. provision is
made that it shall be observed by the
schools of the state in a manner ap
propriate to the occasion. 1t is strong
| ly urged that all teachers and pupils
enter into the idea with enthusiasts
nd n no inin in
| exercises commemorative of the life of
Lincoln.
| Tho Maine Central has ordered three
| large new locomotives of the latest
| type and it is said that they will be as
fine as any in the country. These en-
2ines will be used on their fast express
trains and it is said that they will be
capable of making IS miles an hour.
| the Maine Central is constantly forg
| ing ahead and giving it's patrons every
year ar improved service and the sum-
| nier travel which is increasing so rap
! idly IS finding that it can travel az rap
| idly and as comfortably in Maine as
| in any ether part of the country In
| these Gays when people want TO move
| fast much of the development of the
summer resort business depends up
| on the transportation facilities and the
progressive management of our big
gest Maine railroad realizes It.
Bill Townsend of Hollis is without
doubt one of the oldest and best trap
pers in Maine. Just now ne Is in the
mountains of Virginia teaching the
| son Of Il wealthy planter the art of
trapping and hunting. Usually he
| spends the winter in Maine and fol-
| lows trapping during the entire season.
| He is about SO years old. tall and well
| built 3nd with a knowledge Of the
woods possessed by few men. Once
| Mr.. Townsend departed from home
and determined to learn some trade
which would keep him nearer to civil
| iZatiOn. He went to sea for n little
time and then took trip to the Grand
| Banks on fishing trip. Deep water.
however, had no attractions for him
and he learned to be a brick mason,
acquiring his knowledge of the trade
| in Boston where he worked for a while.
But the call of the wild was upon him.
He can't stand city life long and so
he has always followed his business of
| trapping year after year
Fishermen have brought into Boston
box that is believed to have been
| part of the freight of the Inflated
steamer Portland which went down
with all on board. Nov. q. 1895 1t
was pulled up on trawl hook in 200
feet of water near Race Point, Prov
| incetown. The box is badly eaten and
| rotted but contains practically intact
ITS contents of silver leaf. The address
appears to he ioring. Short & Co,
Portland, Me, Portland investigation
would indicate that the box of silver
leaf undoubtedly belonged to Loring.
Short & Harmon. the book publishers
and stationers of Portland Since their
books We're burned in the big fire last
summer, no trace of the 1855 shipments
can be found, but at times the firm
uses silver leaf in special editions of
works which it publishes 1t Is also
coincidence that firm in Dayton. O.,
which sold them this leaf used ALWAYS
to make a mistake in the address.