Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-11-12
Maine Gossip
Endeavor.

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Endeavor.
| What hast thou for thy scattered Seeu'
| q SoWer OF the plain?
| Where are the many gathered Shc"Nco
| Thy hope should bring again
The only record of my work
| Lies in The. buried grain.
| 20 Conqaeror of Il thousand hci"s.
In 1intcd armor iiSht,
! What growths of purple anna ranth
| Shall crown thy brow of might
| only the blossoms of my me
Flung widely i'll the light.
What is the harvest of thy saints,
o God. who doSt abide?
| Where grow the garands of thy chiefs
| In blood and sorrow dyed: A.
| What have thy servants for thcH pans
This only-to have tried.
| Julia Ward Howe.
| The fcrulc factory of the Brunswick
Manufacturing 60. is entering upon
what promises t. be the bushes winter
lin its history. Twcnty-"nr men are
now on the pay roll, a larger number
than ever before, and with orders re-
! ccived and in sight the factory will
run To its capacity all winter. 1t Will
be- necessary in order To fill all of the
orders to install some new machinery,
which will be put in as soon as possi-
bic.
| The beautiful chestnut pair, once
Iowned by the late ex-Prcsident,
Grover Cleveland, are now owned by
| Trueman NJ Lothrupc of Stockton
Springs, who will use them on the
stage route between Belfast and
Stockton. The horses, which drew Mr.
| Clevcland's coach when he was
| President. were presented after his
death to his sister, Miss Rose r..
| Clcvland, who has a summer home on
700Acr island, Ilcsboro. She sold
them to Ralph Pendlcton Of Dark
Harbor who in turn sold them, the
other day, to Mr.. Lothropc. The
horses are handsome and attract a
great deal of attention.
Mrs. Susan NJ. Colley. a West
Harpswell lady. who will be 92 years
Old Dec. %. went to Portland Tuesday
from that town to take the boat for
| Boston. She will also visit in Law
renee, Chelsea and Portland before
| she returns. Her MaSSach usetts
| friends offered to come and make the
| journey with her, but she decided that
she could get along all right without
| their assistance.
! Ahram Waldron, who conducts the
l "a fn1 ~, 10
| House at Scarboro Beach, raised this
season 37o bushels of yellow corn and
| other farm products in proportion.
| The yellow corn is considered as
handsome a lot as has been raised in
| town for recent years, some specimen
| ears averaging IS inches in length.
| An East Sullivan correspondent Of
1.-THE Ellsworth American, who seems
70 be of a deeply pcssinistic tempera-
ment. is responsible for the following
paragraph. Men are in town gath
ering trees for the Christmas trade.
| We can live a few years longer on
| scrub growth. In time, however,
knees, pulpWood and hoop poles will
have cleaned the land. Scincrs are
evading the law by making their nets
into pounds: mackerel have disap-
pcared: Holsters are disappearing;
| factories are cxhausting the clans.
and dogfsh are swallowing the deep
sea fish. Talk about conservation Of
our natural resources"
1hc dates have been fixed for the
/ al CT
next year The East Maine confer
| encc is to be held at Old Town for
the week beginning April 10 and the
| Maine Conference at Biddeford at the
1 same time.
| Michael Ward of Scarsport has had
in his garden the past season somc-
thlhG unusual in the way Of sweet
peas. says the EaStport Sentinel
Early last spring Mr.. Ward prepared
an unusually large bed of sweet peas
and when they were measured by a
committee it was found that all the
vines measured Just 10 feet aud nine
inches in height. Mr.. Ward states
that ne procured the very best seed
| mat he could find and planted the
peas in the most sunny and fertile
spot in the garden. He kept them
very wet and polcd them as fast as
they grew 50 that they were given
plenty OF wire to run upon
me PcnobScot county commissions
ers one day this week met with a
committee Of representative Bangor
people to discuss the present crowded
condition Of the Bangor Jail to which
reference was made in a sermon a
short time ago by Rev. c. II. Cutler.
pastor of the First Parish church Of
that city. Mr. Buzzell, chairman of
the board of county commissioners
admitted that conditions in the Jail
were not as he and his colleagues
would like to see. but stated that any
enlargement or improvement in the
JAN, which would involve the expendi-
ture Of large sum Of money by the
county would first have to be APP
| proved by the Legislature.