Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-19
Maine Gossip
Good Niqht and Good Morning."

| signal to me-
Good Night TOR thou knowest endrenched
| in regret
That my souls wings trailed in the dew.
| laden air
And the crests of the hills toward which
| they were set
| Had been lost in the mist while they
| beckoned me there
| And Good Morning" since happy some
| day | might be
| Sailing heart of the Vast like a Gagged
| bird set free.
Like the voice of sunrise the signal to
Good Night" for behold | had broken
From the rapture of singing TO riot of
pain
And the blind of my tears had outblotted
| the day
| And my scorn for the years was but
| scorn for the plain;
| And Good Morning" since haply some
day | might be
| Sailing heart of the Vast like a wild
bird set free.
| Like reed blown melody waited to me
Good Night and Good Morning still
Good Night and Good Morning." thou
Singer of Lays
| Good Night to the tears, Good Night to
despair.
| And as part of the tune that the universe
plays
| Good Morning" since happy some day |
may be
bird set free.
c. K. Whiton-Sto
Frederick Z. Rogers of Portland mas
| in his possession copy of the Chris
tan Mirror issued Aug. 70, 1926. 1t
is remarkably we'll preserved with tho
printing almost as clear as on the day
that it WAS issued 1t is a four page
| Six-column issue. filed not only with
religious news but with advertisements
and news of the shipping as well.
| Charles Boyce of Lakeville has Il
numbering operation not a great dis
| tancc from his home employing about
Is men and eight horses He expects
| this season to cut over million. most
OF which is large timber. Part of this
| is hemlock and part spruce.
Miss Frances Matthews who has re-
Gently been unanimously elected super
| intendent Of Weber Hospital of Bid
| deford after a service of some years is
| a Westbrook girl. She is graduate
nurse of the Maine General Hospital
at Portland and has taken a course in
clinic work at the Mayo Hospital at
Rochester, y. Y.
The old Anderson house at Windham
Center on the old Portland and Bridg-
ton road near the bank of Pleasant
river is said to be the Oldest house now
standing in the town of Windham.
Excavations were made for the foun
dation of the house by Col. Edward
Anderson in 1774 but the house was
several years in building and it was
not completed until after the close OF
the revolutionary war.
A new feature was introduced last
Sunday morning in the worship at the
Second Parish Congregational church
at Portland. a vested choir of girls
has been organized and the fresh
young voices proved especially pleas
| ing and appropriate.
| Portland clergymen are very much
| interested in the bill introduced We'd
nesday in the Legislature for the es-
Enlistment of a refornatory for wo-
men. Rev. Henry W. Hubert of the
High Street Congregational church be-
lieves the proposed reformatory would
be a saving financially. Rev. Frank L.
Wilkins of the Free Street Baptist
church says that such an institution
would be in the interests of self
respect and would be in touch with the
best influences
BY singular coincidence three
members of the class of 1910 of Thorn
ton Academy. Saco. have been named
to appointments for cadetship either
at West Point or Annapolis. Two of
the appointments were made by Con-
gresham Amos l.. Allen and one by
Senator Frye of Lewiston. Winthrop
Winslow. son of Mr.. and Mrs. B. H.
Winslow. who goes to West Point next
June to take the examination. was a
member of the class but did not gradu-
ate. John Francis Beatty of Saco,
who has been appointed a cadet at
West Point, received a diploma at
Thornton last June, Sumner Harper.
son of Mr.. and Mrs. James T. Harper,
who has been appointed to Annapolis
by Congressman Allen was prominent
in athletics at Thornton as was Beatty
who was appointed to West Point
Efforts on the part of George 3.
Chapman to prevent employees of the
Beechwood Ice Co. from working on
the Stroudwater river nearly precipi-
tated row among the rival crews
| Monday. Mr.. Chapman insists that
the Beechwood Co. has no right to
operate on the ice fields on one half
| of the river and SO he erected fence
on the ice and had 10 met at work
when the crew of the Beechwood Co.
appeared. Capt. Brown of the police