Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-07-21
Maine Gossip
The Return.

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The Return.
He sought the - scenes with eager
The scenes he had known as bow
"Oh. for draft of those fountains sweet
And for taste of that vanished 1oy.'
He roamed the fields. he unused by the
streams.
He threaded the paths and lanes:
On the hills he sought his youthful
dreams,
In the woods to foreet his pains.
Oh, sad. sad hills. oh. cold. cold hearth!
In sorrow he learned the truth
| One may go back to the place of his
He cannot go back to his youth.
| John Burroughs.
| Today is the States payday.
! Names wasted water power in riv-
ers and streams could run every mill
in New England.
| Maine peaches, those on the trees
and under them, are the most delici-
Gus in the world
| The closing of the Woods dry goods
store in Calias recalls that it was es-
taplished in 1913
| Mrs. Eva Bean, Sacos lady lawyer.
has been admitted to practice in the
Maine U. S. Circuit court.
Smoke stacks on the new torpedo
boat destroyers will be increased to 20
| feet to save coal by lettering draught
Winslow Homer. one of the worlds
greatest marine painters. has arrived
| Prout's Neck to spend the summer as
usual.
| Cuban gunboat Hatuey will visit
Portland the last of July to have her
hull scraped and painted on the rail-
way there.
| James Perry. aged ID, hunting with a
small rifle raped his gun butt on a
stump on Bailey's Island to drive out
| field mice. He will recover
| The daughter of H. K Morrell of
Gardiner plans to publish a magazine
devoted to higher thought 1t runs in
the Morrell blood to write well.
| Back to the farm" has been ex-
emplified by President Roosevelt
! pitching hay and Gov. Fernald acting
as spare hand and helper on his West
| Poland farm.
Hon. l.. T. Carleton has signed q
contract with a sportsman's magazine
to write for it Il page articles at 800 a
page, the coming year. says the Win
| tllrop Banner.
| The consolidated field day and picnic
will be held at the town of Princeton
on July 2S.
| Today a steel bark with coal for the
| Washington County Railway reached
Calais from the ledge where she has
been waiting higher tides.
| Eugene A. Bowditch. one of the old
est conductors in active service on the
Boston e Maine Railroad. who resides
at Old Orchard celebrated his 72nd
birthday anniversary Monday.
| In Waterville as in most Maine cit
les the larger part of liquor sales are
| by pocket peddlers. In Waterville
Judge Shaw threatens to impose Jail
| sentences even for first offences
BddefOrd SprinkleS it's streets with
! salt water with better results than
with fresh water in keeping down the
dust. Biddeford uses solution of
fresh water and Liverpool salt,
Baths handsome city marshal, Fred
| McFadden, bought some seed to make
a lawn. 1t came up a splendid crop
! of lettuce. Now all his friends are
| saying Lettuce have some Fred"
| Pressure Isle farmers report prospects
Of an excellent potato crop. They say
also that one pound of Paris Green on
bugs of the plant now is better than
two pounds later on. Other crops are
| thriving.
| Poland Spring Hotel is crowded this
summer and senators. governors.
multi millionaires. authors. editors
and other famous folk are as numer-
Gus on the piazzas as are the gray
squirrels on the green lawns.
| Now that the new banking rooms of
the Bath Savings Institution are open
for business it is permissible to let
fall secret. One chief reason for the
banks change of quarters and new
| Office was because it was feared the
| old vault was not sufficiently up-to-
| date and new vault was advisable
hence the new office and new and
|Gibraltar like vault in which now re-
pose the hundreds Of thousands of
cash and securities of the institution.
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