Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-12
Maine Gossip
A Voice in the Night.

voice IN the Night.
The babe awoke in the night last night.
And said she'd had bad dream, she
So they pushed the button that made
light.
And father and mother. both mighty
Sat down on the side of the babys bed
And soothed her fearing. and soothed
And laid their hands on the tousled head.
And told her things to make her for
get
And that is the foolishest way to do.
To humor baby the way they did:
They might have sent their rough voices
through
The dark where shapes of the night are
And might .have seolded the little heap
So weak and trembling and fun of
They might have snarled at her: Go to
sleep!
Your dreams won't hurt you. you'll be
all right"'
But they were foolish old-fashioned
folks.
Who, even when they awake at night
At a baby's cry can indulge in Jokes
That a baby likes. and can bring the
To crowd the terror from baby's eyes.
And are glad to spend just the longest
In answering all of the babys "Whys?s
And coaxing the lips of a babe to smile
So the baby snuggled and went to sleep
| With little arm meath its little head
And they stood watching the pink-white
heap,
And their loving hands smoothed the
little bed,
This life is such a short way to go.
| Its ending-when?-the are none can
1t is good to know there are those who
| know
| Folks ought to be loving and kind
/ today.
! A new factory has been built at
Skowhegan. This factory is the fin
ishing house of the novelties manu-
featured in the old r. L. Mitchell
mill. The building is of wood, so
| feet long and 30 feet wide and three
| stories high. 1t employs 50 new
hands and adds much to Skowhegan
as the entire force is of Skowhegan
! people. In the new building the arti-
| cles that are manufactured by the
| company such as step-ladders, clothes
| dryers ironing boards and other use
| full household furniture are set up
| and assembled ready fer use.
That Isaac Keene and his better
half, Sobrina, of Clinton. know a
good COW when they see it and that
| they have now COW that is a cham
| pion butter-maker of the State is
| proved by her record as kept by Mrs
| Keene. This COW is full blooded
| Jersey. She weighs about 800 pounds
and is nine years old. and her great
| est number of pounds of butter III
one week is q pounds and II ounces,
Now in finding out this record, Mrs
Keene set the milk in the month OF
June in old-fashioned pans and it is
tc he supposed that if the milk had
beer cared for through the separator
process the cows record for that week
wonld have been greater.
Frederic Danforth of Gardiner. for
mer member of the Maine board OF
railroad commissioners. and chief en-
gineer of the projected Eastern Maine
railway, commenced work, Nov. list, or
q working survey and profiles of thu
proposed route of the Eastern Maine
Railway from Bancroft to Houlton. j
is expected to take three weeks to 81
over this part of the territory and tina
the work of mapping out the fout'
from Bancroft to Brewer Will then d.
commenced. The distance from Houl
ton to Brewer over the proposed rout'
will be about 10S miles. Geo. w. Max
field is President of the Company ant
| T.. o. Beal Treasurer Mr., Beal, witt
: was one of the prime movers OF tn
proposed Eastern Maine railroad ant
who is actively interested in seeing i
go through, believes that there is nov
| practically no question but that worl
of construction will begin next surnne
and that it will be pushed rapidly for
ward to completion. He says, MI
j Danforth is finding that a good route
as to grade, is possible. We alread
know that a profitable route is as
sured. There is practically no doub
in our minds but that the money TO
d financing the new road will be read
just the moment the final survey /
completed. This road will open up
" new, rich, and practically undevelope
= country. ] am satisfied that the sec
e ton through which the road will pas
2, is the best piece of undeveloped coun
i try in Maine.