Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-01
Maine Gossip

I Maine GOSSIP )
The Sunrise Never Fails.
Upon the sadness of the sea
The sunset broods regretfully;
From the far, lonely spaces, slow
Withdraws the wistful afterglow
So out of life the splendor dies:
So darken all the happy skies;
So gathers twilight, cold and stern.
But overhead the planets burn.
And up the east another day
Shall chase the bitter dark away.
What though your eyes with tears pc
wet?
The sunrise never failed us yet
The blush of dawn may yet restore
Our Our light and hope and joy once more
Sad soul, take comfort, nor forget
That sunrise never failed US yet:
Celia Thaxter
A Portland business man in the
foyer of the new Augusta House
Thursday evening remarked after wit
Messing the splendid enthusiasm shown
by the members of the Augusta Board
of Trade at their annual banquet:
I'VE can't do this in Portland, big as
we are; and the spirit shown by your
business men and your young business
men in particular is contagious and
affords an example for other Maine
cities to profit by
Mrs. Cordelia Blair is one of Rich
mOnd's smart old ladies' Mrs. Blair,
WHO is in her S0th year, a few days
ago took trip to Brunswick and up
on her arrival there in preference to
taking carriage drive walked four
miles to the cemetery where her
grandparents and other relatives We're
buried. She returned home by train
the same night and when her daughter
aWoke the next morning she looked
out in the yard and saw Mrs Blair
raking hay. The younger woman
made inquiries as to how her mother
felt after the trip and was surprised
to hear Mrs. Blair say: Il have been
up for two hours and feel none the
worse for my 4-mile walk"
Harrison B. Stahl of Waldoboro had
close call a few days ago while dig
ging ditch to carry water to his barn.
The sides of the ditch caved in and {,
large rock and mass of earth fell upon
him, leaving only his head exposed.
Mrs. Stahl fortunately was witness
of the accident and called several of
the neighbors to aid the unfortunate
man. A plank was secured and the
rock eaSed away, after which Mr.
Stahl was pulled out with his collar
bone broken, but apparently with no
internal injuries
The Boothbay Register reports that
George F. Davis of Monhegan recent
ly made a haul of So barrels of mack
erel at one time, which he sold in BosA
ton for $175S.
Fred N. Goodnough of North Jay is
exhibiting an ear of corn that is a real
curiosity. The freak consists of one
ear of corn eight inches long, while
all around it are smaller ears of corn,
all well formed, 10 in number, making
II ears Of corn on one stalk and under
one musk.
George S. Dearborn Of New York.
president of the American Hawaiian
Steamship Co.. whose family spent the
past summer at Small Point beach,
has just closed contract for a large
bungalow at Small Point to be ready
for occupancy June /, 1911. The fire
places and chimneys will be built of
rubble stone. A commodious bath
house with shower baths of fresh and
salt water will be built near the bunga-
low
One of the paradoxes in Names re-
cent Democratic landslide was the Re-
publican gain of representative to tn.
Legislature in the Democratic strong
hold of Knox county. says the Rock
land Courier-GaZette. Two years ago
the county failed to send a Republi-
can to either branch of the State
Legislature and when it was found
on Sept. ~ that Rockland had gone
Democratic it was supposed that his
tory had repeated itself this year.
This belief was justified by the early
returns from Appleton and Hope. but
when the representative vote from,
Camden had been tabulated it was
found that George T. Hodgman, the
Republican candidate. had run so far
ahead of his ticket as to defeat his
Democratic opponent. Hon. Job II
Montgomery. who was one of the floor
leaders in the lower branch of the
74th Legislature
This week and next will mark the
passing of the Agricultural fairs with
the exception of Topsham. which oc-