Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-06
Maine Gossip
Golden Wedding.

know,
Or through what changing weather.
If could choose, no cloud should aim tfe
She smiled, What matter where the road
may lie,
So we two walk together"
Dear heart" he said when they had
journeyed far.
And the calm radiance of the evening
star
Above the hills was shining,
1.-The road was rough, and life, the mas
ter taught
Lessons with bitter wisdom sometimes
Beyond our hearts divining.
Yet good has sometimes come from
seeming i'll,
And love unchanging led us safely stu
Through storms and sunny weather..
She smiled, What matter though the
road was rough,
The lessons bitter. This was Joy enough,
That we have walked together.
Emily Huntington Miller.
Mark Gray of Strong is undoubtedly
the largest producer of honey in that
section of the State. He has thus Tar
this year from 25 swarms of bees OBJ
tanned about 5000 pounds of honey for
which he has secured 25 cents pound,
all OF which goes to show that there
is money in bee keeping.
The historic Longfellow house IN
Portland closed it's doors Saturday for
this season. The number of visitors
the past season far exceeds that OF
last year and the same thing remains
true of this year as of former years,
there has been no injury to the houses
not a thing has been taken, and ons
is surprised when told that in the 10
years in which it has been open to the
public there has been no damage done
to any part of the house and furnish
ings.
A huge horse mackerel was taken
last week from the Rice weir, Out Is
land. Eastport, the first of the week.
The big fish is said to have weighed
between 500 and 800 pounds, the largest
ever captured in that vicinity.
Canton corn shop this year made
the largest pack in years. The factory
has put up about 100000 cans and the
corn is of exceptionally good quality.
The yield per acre in most cases has
beer good. Albert H. Adams of Cam
ton Point received $686.S4 from 61a
acres. Fred Trip, also of the Point.
| received $3.50 from 17s acres. Several
others have also received large
amount per acre.
Work at the Bridgton tannery is
temporarily slack owing to the unset
but the Bridgton correspondent of the
Express Advertiser says that the re-
port that the plant is to shut down
seems without foundation. though for
the next three or four weeks fewer men
may be given employment until bust
ness readiusts itself.
The clock on the Unitarian church
in Bangor has for some time, without
provocation. had spells of disregarding
the other clocks of the city, says the
Bangor Commercial, and furnishing a
time of it's own much to the discomfort
of those. who have depended upon the
timepiece for the hour of the day.
Some talk had been made of repairing
it. but it was found that the price of
such work makes it impractical, so it
will continue to wend it's irregular way
until a new clock takes it's place.
Bates mill stock has advanced to
265 and 27O since the recent annual
meeting of the stockholders in Lewis
ton, with none for sale, says the Lew
istor Journal.
Smashing a bed to pieces without
iniuring a 3-months-old babe, which
was lying on it and tearing tie shoe
from a woman's foot were among tho
doings of the lightning during the
storm of last Saturday at Cape Eliza
beth. The bolt which struck the home
Of J. Scott Jordan at the mouth of
Spurwink river, after passing through
the house struck Mrs. Jordan's foot,
tearing the sole of the shoe complete
ly off and ripping it up the sides. The
foot was blackened and bled quite .
little. At the home of John Buchan-
ar, short distance from the Jordan
residence the lightning after knocking
the chimney eff and travelling along the
rafters demolished a bed in the sleep
ing room on which the 3-months-Old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Buchanan
was lying, but strange to say did not
injure the child in the least
Trinity Episcopal church of Lewis
ton has organized a newsboys' club,
the name of which is the Paleonea So
ciety. The boys of the Portland club
assisted in the installation and it is
expected that great good will come of
the organization. Robert Beaumont is
the president of the new club.
An act of theft, which brought it's
own punishment on the intruder, oc-
CURED a few nights ago when the yard
of T. S. Topsham at Fort Fairfield was
entered and a bee hive taken. The
hive was carried as far as the road
when the bees made things lively for
the one who was disturbing their peace
and the hive was dropped there, the
thieves getting off with quite a few
stings from the bees and little if any
honey.
500 Reward. 500