Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-27
Maine Gossip
"undar the Daisies"

I We just Deeil ieafnlnS tIit ltSSoi u siihV'
The sad, sad lesson of loving.
And all of its powers, its pleasures and
| pain,
Been slowly and sadly proving
Now, all that is left of the bright bright
| dream,
With its thousand brilliant phases,
Is handful of dust in a coffln ND
| A coffin under the daisies
The beautiful, beautiful daisies
The snowy, snowy daisies
And thus forever throughout this wide
Is love a sorrow proving go =.
There are still many sorro~fui 'h'nss III
But the saddest of all is loving;
| The life of some is worse than death
For fate a high wall it raises! a,,ar,
And better than loving ana HNlhS ap'''
! Is a grave. deep under the uaiSieS-
The beautiful, beautiful daisies
| The snowy, snowy daisies
| And so. it's better we lived as we did
The summer of love together' ,,,.,, :,
And that one of us tired ana iaS u'"' -
Ere the coming of wintry weather.
| For the saddest of love is love grown
And 90 IT'S one of its surest phases,
Ear hetter Than life with two hearts es-
Is a low grave starred with daisies
| The beautiful. beautiful uaiSieS
/ The snowy, snowy dalSles. ,,,,.,,,,,,,s
A Gunner. measuring trihe over
two feet in length, was caught one day
RECENTLY by Miss Dorothy Whitney OF
Thomaston. The fish in adoitloh 10
being unusually large put up too
strenuous a fight for the llttie MISS
and she found il necessary TO can i"i
aid in landing it. But, neNertheleSs'
she caught the record Gunner OF me
season.
A fire, started last sunday by the
carelessness of BURBERRY pickers IN
one of the outlying districts OF Scar
boro. spread through about % acres
of land most of il covered with second
growth, before il could be surrounded.
| People from all of the upper section
| of Scarboro, as we'll as from South
Gorham and vicinity, rallied to the
scene and the determined hght put up
| by them resulted in killing the hre
down, so that there was no great
danger that it would spread farthef.
Contractor F. ". Carlton of Bath
has purchased the steamer Damarin of
the Eastern Steamship Co, and will
use her for towing in connection with
his many contracts. The DamaIin
was built in 1873 in Bath by the late
| William Pattee for the Eastern Steam
| boat Co, for tire Bath and Boothhay
route. She was originally called the
Samoset and was the third boat on the
line The Damarin had been on duty
| for number of years at Boothbay
| Harbor, as an annex boat.
A. E. Libby of the Ferry road, Saeo.
has been missing young chickens from
time to time and laid their disap-
pearanee To a neighborhood cat that
| had entered the premises. A few
mornings ago he learned his mistake
| and secured the eulprit. He heard a
great commotion in the poultry yard
and arrived there just in the nick of
| time to discover a large gray owl
| struggling with a mother hen. Mr..
Libby shot the owl with bullet from
the revolver which he had loaded for
the cat. and the big bird came 10 the
earth with a satisfactory thud. The
bird, fine specimen of the great
| horned owl. measured about so inches
| from tip to tip Of the wings and had
an unusually large head and eyes.
Two friends who had not met for 76
years came together, Friday, in Lewis
ton, by appointment. One was Mrs.
E. A. Stevens of Oak street. Lewiston,
| 81 years of age, and the other was Al
4 bert Pettengill of Louisiana, "a years
old. They were formerly schoolmates
lat Livermore Falls and passed a
HAPPY hour talking over their old
school days. They have not met since
Mrs. Stevens was Is years old.
| St. AIMS day was celebrated in a
lifting manner by the large congrega-
ton of ST AIMS Catholic church of
Dexter. The exercises began at IFS
A. NJ, with the marching from the
town hall TO the church of rs boys and
girls, who on that day received their
first Holy Communion. The parish
procession was feature of the after
| noon exercises. About 700 commune
cants of the church and all Catholic
organizations were in the parade.
The county commissioners of Cum
berland county have completed ar
rangements for a two years lease of
the Cumberland county Jail workshop
to the New England Chair Co. and the
contract will be signed in few DAYS.
i The cOmn1nN will hligh branch
of their chair making industry at the