Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-18
Maine Gossip
The Way.

The Way.
A path with jagged stones or jewels set
| A longing for the things we cannot GET
So pass the years with joys and sor-
| rows rife,
With doubling hopes and fears
And this is life.
A sudden fall while marching on the
| way,
A little rest and time perchance TO pray.
| darkness as of night. and laboreo
breath,
| A drifting toward the light
| And this is death.
| Irene Elliott Benson
Milo Spear of Rockland at IL. is pos
sibly the youngest automobile driver
in the State who carries a license, but
more remarkable is the fact that he
| has held the license since he was IL
at which time he was probably the
| youngest licensed chauffeur in New
| England If not in the whole country.
| He is employed at one Of that city S
| leading garages. and is often sent
away on long trips with perfect conf
| dence.
| w vi 10 ~" way VIZ Wv eN
dition TO the Dingley, Foss Shoe Co.
| factory in Auburn. The addition will
be 100 by SO feet wide, two stories and
a basement high. The construction
will be of wood, the same as the pres
ent building. This enlargement will
! give employment from $50 to 200 hands.
A. F. Warren has the contract for the
/ npiy no hE
| Union street lots recently bought.
| Work will be rushed So the factory
| will be ready for occupation by early
| fall.
| With the State of Maine and the
| Maine Changers both working FOR
| good roads, good roads will soon form
that trunk line through the State.
Miss Lean Parks of Russell has pet
maltese cat that is caring for three
baby red squirrels. The squirrels were
found in a tree which was chopped
| down and as "Malty" had recently
| lost a family of kittens it vas proposed
| that she should have the squirrels to
| bring up, and she gladly took charge
| of them. She has cared for them since
| Sunday and they are now getting their
| eyes open and will doubtless keep her
! busy. If one of them gets out of the
! nest she takes it gently by the neck
! as she would a kitten and places 1T
| back again. She is perfectly happy:
| her only trouble being that she has
| rather too many visitors.
| David Brown of Auburn states that
| cows are ranging very high in price
| at the present time from $35 to $75
| each. He is a dealer in these animals
| and buys for both dairy and beef. In
| this business he travels all over CEN
| Iral and Eastern Maine and of late
| has found good cows scarce.
| Friends and acquaintance of Prof,
| Raymond Mcfarland, formerly OF
Lamoine, now of Middlebury college,
| VT, are interested in the outcome of a
| scientific expedition which is being or
| ganized bv him to the west-central
| part of Labrador, and which is soon
to start. The purpose of the expedi-
| ton is to obtain better knowledge
i
dor The work of Prof Mcfarland in
| the field will be directed largely in
| securing specimens of fauna in the
| regions visited. AS associates in the
| expedition he will have Dr. Thomas
| c. Brown and Prof. Phelps n. SWEET,
| both professors in Middlebury college.
| DIR. Brown will act as geolOgist Of the
| expedition. Prof. SWEET will be mag
| netic observer and topogra pher. While
the expedition is primarily a private
| venture, it will receive the co-opera-
| ton of a well-known scientific nstitu-
| ton Of Washington, d, c.. which VIII
| furnish part Of the scientific equipment
| of the party. About 700 miles of the
| trip will be covered by canoe and
1 portage.
A flock of a dozen cardinals was
| seen on the ninth inst by Mrs Lucina
| Haynes Lombard. Harsh cries of
| some orioles who have nests nearby
| attracted attention and the cardinals
| were seemingly engaged in the con-
| troversy The sun slanting adown the
| hillside shone on their rich coloring.
| a particularly fine view was had OF the
| brilliant high crested male, as he
| perched on a bush of white birch.
| This is the fifth consecutive season
| that Mrs. Lombard has seen this ex-
| ceadingly rare visitor to Maine. In
| previous years he has come in May.
| the earliest date being the tenth. Al
ways these birds have been seen in
| the same locality. Mrs. Edward w.
| Guptills orchard on Narragansett
| street. -(Gorham News. Portland Elk
| press).
| Here's another example of the pros
perity of Maine: The growth of the
| town of Corinth with respect to new
| buildings during the last 10 years is
as follows East Corinth Academy
was built nearly 10 years ago, at a
cost of $4,000 to $4,000 1t stands on an
| elevation commanding fine view.