Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-16
Maine Gossip

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Old times were good times-they were
sweet to know.
Old friends who loved us-friends Whom
we loved so; ~
Dreamin' Of 'em always. here where
Memory dwells,
THEY'RE like a sweet songs echo-a far
off chime of bells!
Old times were good times-sweet to see
smilin7 in the sunshine. tangled in the
rain:
The old, the pleasant places. of meadows
bright with dew,
The kind, the gentle faces alight with
love for you.
Old times-we love 'em-here, in Mem
ory's book,
Lookin' at his fellow like his sweetheart
used to look!
stav With us forever, dear times, so ten
der-bright,
Till the Evening bells are ringin' and
Memory signs Goodnight"
Frank l.. Stanton.
Tonight Augusta, and good part
of the rest of Maine, dances in honor
of the Governor and the law makers.
Word comes from Old Orchard of the
breaks in many cottages by gang OF
amateur burglars.
The York County Pomona Grange.
with it's 80 subordinate oranges. has
voted against the proposition for di-
vision into two bodies.
Five years ago the floor of the San
ford Town hall gave way, when the
hall was crowded, injuring many peo-
ple but not killing anybody. Last week
one of those injured, Joseph Brearey.
died after five years of suffering.
A former Augusta boy, Prof. Freder-
ick l.. Thompson, now of the depart
ment of history at Amherst, was the
chief speaker at the Lincoln celebra-
tiun at that college.
Bangor has new theater, the era
pho. OF course it is for the moving
picture business. That goes without
saving these days but it will accOmmo-
date almost 1000 people and is attrac-
tive and modern in all it's arrange
ments
The 1909 football season is some dis
lance off. but they are arranging the
schedules. Evidently there will be
some peculiar arrangements for next
fall or else a correspondent is doing
some laundering. 1t seems very I'M
proba BILE that the Rowdoin-Col game
will be played Sept 80, as sent out to
the newspapers. That is about week
after the colleges open and falls on
Thursday More likely Saturday, Oc-
tober 80, is the date meant.
The Maine Insurance Company row
only little over a year old, did the
largest health and accident business in
Maine in 1908 that any company ever
did III year in this State. 1t had
2SO5 policy holders at the end of its
first year. State Treasurer Gilmore
has been reelected President and the
old board Of officers with him. Among
thedirectors are Governor Fernald, eX-
Governor Hill and many other leading
men of the State.
A Portland young man, Edward Spen-
Ger Rogers, II years old, the son of Ed
ward f. Rogers, made a startling dis
coVery at his amateur wireless tele-
graph station last week and demon
strated to many people that what he
claimed had been done could easily
be accomplished. In making this dis
covery young Rogers was assisted by
Prof. Joseph La Roux who is now en-
gagged in building an airship in that
city with which he will soon expert
mcnt. The discovery is that by using
an ordinary spark coil vibrator, of the
type generally used on automobiles and
motor boats that messages may be sent
to the receiving station and easily
translated without grounding the Vi
orator.
In his report Of the landing of the
balloon Pommern in Standish, Friday,
the reporter of the Portland Press says
that Mr.. Kimball, one of the occupants
of the airship sis the inventor of de-
vice called the helicoptre, and in his
anxiety to he ar the story of the trip
the reporter forgot to ask what the
thing is for" This leads the Biddeford
Journal to observe that such a frank
admission of ignorance on any sub
ject is not common among reporters.
indeed. 50 very uncommon is it. that
the Inference naturally follows that
the man who wrote the story for our
Portland contemporary was either a
new man on his first assignment Or an
expert with years of experience be
hind him.
Bangor Commercial: The CONNER
cial feels perfectly safe in saying that
at no city in Maine We're the exercises
in commemoration of the centennial
of the birth of our great
est American of recent time, so re
mlrkable in character, so vivid in in