Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-23
Maine Gossip
One BY One.

One BY One.
One by one the petals fall
OF the dropping summer rose;
One by one, without a call,
Come the wrinkles round the nose.
One by one the forest trees
Drop their leaves to earth beneath;
One by one, with gleesome ease.
Dentists yank out aching teeth.
One by one big dinners flow
Down the Sulch with cream and cake;
One by one the doctors go
After vermiformS that ache.
One by one the flakes come down,
In old winters whirlwind glee;
One by one locks round the crown
Blossom like the almond tree.
One by one life's cup we drain:
Some are nectar, some are Slop;
One by one maids fair and fan,
On some manly bosom drop.
One by one as years depart
High hopes tumble into wreck;
One by one deaths poisoned dart
Gives it to us in the neck.
The loss of it's $4,000 High school
building is bad blow for Caribou.
At the close of their third week s
work the law makers have left very
few matters untouched upon in the
bills and resolves presented.
The 46th annual meeting of the
Maine Press Association will be held
at Augusta Feb. 8 and 4, instead of Jan.
% as earlier announced.
The man who got three months in
Jail in the supreme court in Saco
Wednesday for stealing harness
must be wondering how it was that
another man who stole a horse got
off with no sentence at all.
Miss Alma Sturtevant, who went
from Dover to Boulder, Col, several
years ago, has been appointed clerk
Of courts in Boulder County. Miss
Sturtevant was formerly employed as
stenographer for Hon. r. e. Guernsey.
Last Thursday II schooners and four
ships brought $4,000 pounds Of fresh
fish to the Portland wharves. 1t has
been many months since so many fares
have arrived on the same day.
Dexter Gazette: Another summer
will see an electric railroad completed
between Shawmut and Skowhegan
which will 'complete the last link be-
tween the latter place and Portland
and Boston. 1t is not too much to ex-
pect that in the course of the next few
years that the lines of electric COM
munication between Bangor and Bos-
ton will be complete and with the rails
already laid and travel established to
Dexter on one hand and to Skowhegan
| on the other that the remaining link in
the chain, that from Skowhegan
through Canaan, Hartland and st.
Adams to Dexter, will be a reality.
Portland Press: A Portland man
who has been in Denmark recently
says that peace has not by any means
been restored in the little oxford
county town. Rev. A. c. Boyd con-
tinues to hold the position of superin-
tendent of schools and as he claims
pastor of the Congregational church,
Soon after the trial and acquttal of
School Committeeman Pingree for as
sault on several of the pupils of the
primary school, the church served a
| notice on Mr.. Boyd that it would de-
cline to pay him his salary as pastor
after the first of January. The doors
| of the church had been previously
| locked against him and have not since
| been opened. Rev. Mr.. Boyd, however,
| has a peculiar contract with the church
| which apparently permits him to re-
main pastor as long as he pleases.
He declines to resign and it is under
stood will institute legal proceedings
| to compel the payment of his salary so
| long as he remains in Denmark. Since
| the doors of the church We're locked
| the preacher has not attempted to hold
services there, but on Sundays when
the weather would permit he has
preached from the door steps of the
building. his congregations consisting
of those in the village who take sides
with him. The Portland man said that
the pastor had been putting in his
spare time this winter cutting cord
wood and that he has proved himself
as vigorous a wielder of the axe as he
has been preacher and school superin-
| tendent.
| The papers have recently been writ
ing up Miss Fanny Bixby of Long