Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-21
Maine Gossip
The House by Tia Side of the Road.

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There are pioneer souls that blaze their
paths
Where highways never ran:
But let me live by the side of the road,
And be a friend to man
Let me live in a house by the side of the
road,
Where the race of men go by,
The men who are good and the men who
are bad
As good and as bad as l.
| would not sit in the sCorner's seat
Or hurl the cynic's ban:
Let me live in a house by the side of the
road
And be a friend to man
l see from my house by the side of the
road,
BY the side of the highway of life
The men who press with the ardor OF
hope,
The men who are faint with the strife:
But ! turn not away from their smiles
nor their tears,
Both parts of an Infinite plan:
Let me live in house by the side OF the
road
And be a friend to man
know there are brook gladdened mead
ows ahead, and mountains of wearl-
some height:
That the road passes on through the
long afternoon
And stretches away to the night:
But still rejoice when the travellers re-
joice,
And weep with the strangers that moan,
Nor live in my house by the side of the
Like the man who dwels alone.
Let me live in house by the side of the
road,
They are good. they are bad. they are
weak. they are strong,
Wise, foolish.-so am /:
Then why should 1 sit in the scorner's
Or hurl the cynic's ban?
Let me live in house by the side of the
road
And be friend to man.
Written by Sam Walter Fossil
JOHN O'Hara, who died few days
ago at the home of his son. Thomas
0'Hara in Calais. was remarkable
man in more ways than one. He had
wonderfully strong constitution ana
in his long career as foundry man
received many burns and accidents
In 1889 by an accident his skull was
cracked from the base of his brain to
his eyes but he recovered. He broke
his collar bone in 1905. but that was
only an incident to the hardy old
man. He underwent a difficult sur
gical operation at SO and fully re-
covered Mr.. O'Hara was 9S years of
age and had an experience of 30 years
at the foundry business. during which
he has handled tons of molten metal
and castings.
The Centennial of the town of Car
mel occurs Wednesday but it will not
be celebrated until July 4. The pro-
gram will include athletic sports. a
historical address and dinner in the
town hall. The proceeds of the din
ner will be used to purchase fire ap-
paratus for the town.
Charles FL. Bartlett prominent
Bangor attorney. has written Mayor
Mullen of that city. stating that II
the city would accept the deed of gift
he would raise by private subscription
the money to purchase the site of the
Norumbega hall and present it to the
city for use as street or parkway.
Little children were baptized sun
dav at the Congress Street Methodist
church by the pastor. Rev j. NJ. Ar
ters in water that came from the riy-
er Jordan of Biblical fame.
What is supposed to be the largest
land -loc&ed salmon ever taken with
hook and line from a Maine lake or
pond was caught Saturday morning
at Greene Lake by Luther Moore, an
employee of the United states govern
ment fish hatchery, and weighed l6E
pounds. Nothing to equal this for
salmon has ever been heard of IN
Eastern Maine and so far as known
now it is the biggest on record. One
Bangor man said Sunday that he
heard of one weighing is pounds be-
| ing caught with hook and line at
Greene lake, but that was in the dim
and misty past
Aroostook county seems to have an
abundance of the legal profession
within it's borders. There are 81 at
torneys in Houlton. Caribou comes
next with 10, Presque Isle has nine,
Fort Fairfield and Fort Kent, five
| each, Van Buren,, four; Island Falls
| and Mars Hill, two each; Sherman and
Ashland one each
The Women's clubs of Damariscotta
and Newcastle have combined IN
plans for safe and sane Fourth of
July celebration. The idea was con-
ceived by Mrs. Robert l.. Shear OF
Newcastle, wife of the congregational
| pastor. The program will include a
| big parade. sports and an evening en-
| tertainment.
The Gardiner Reporter Journal says
| that many places in that city need
new sidewalks and points out that the
| appropriation made by the city for
permanent walks. $500, is not enough
to do the work that ought to be done
| the present year.
| The late Walter F. Sihley, who died
| recently at Stockton. Cal. was ma
| tive of Maine. He was born in Ed
dington in 1853 and 90 years later
| went to Stockton, Cal, where he has
since resided. Mr.. Sibley has been
prominent in political life in the