Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-01
Maine Gossip

/ Maine Gossip
The Call.
| | hear the wild-sweet notes at play
Where summers dreamful muse:
throng,
| 1t vibrates in the ericket's chant.
| And in the storm kings trumpet-song.
Down by the sea l heard the call
| Above the bell buoy's solemn clang,
And high above the whitened eliffs
The lifting music rang and rang.
Last night when every star was hushed
The holy voice of Silence said,
Go law your ear close TO the ground.
Where in the dumbness sleep the dead
"And thou shalt hear the quickenine
f,owar-lfke spirit horn to rove
From mound to mound froma heart 10
Te5rt''
"FternaI Love. Eternal Love"
Herbert Randall in Boston Transcript.
A new feature was introduced
Monday in the schools Of South Paris
when several of them We're visited by
the civil w ar Ntlei dis q '4NiiA'Ni -
whom spoke to the scholars.
A very unusual circumstance is re-
corded in the case of two Roekland
ladies one of whom lately died in her
10th year. The surviving lady, who
is 81, made the baby clothes for the
other and in due time also her we'd
OF he To- ma the
funeral shroud and with her own
hands dressed the younger woman in
it. . fEss.
one Of the last of the Maine wooden
sailing ships, the Alexander Gibson of
Thomaston, is to share the fate of
others and be converted into a coal
barge. Thus passes the glory of the
sea.
Portland back yards in which coal
ashes. old tin cans cast off shoes and
similar matter have been reposing for
ever so long must be cleaned up right
away, saws the Portland board of
health. No leniency will be shown
notifications have been sent out.
In one of the country schools of
South Paris in a section which until
within very few years everyone
would regard as one of the strong
holds of the old New England stock.
but 10 scholars can now be found.
six Firms and four of native Ameri-
can stock and another farm in that
district has just been sold to a Finn.
Mrs. Eliza A. Benner. the oldest
woman in Waldoboro. recently cele-
brated her 95th birthday at her home
on Depot street by holding reception
which was attended by her many
friends. They gave her a post card
shower in addition to many presents.
Mrs. Benner is remarkable woman
and even at her advanced years she
takes the sole care of a large vegeta-
BILE garden and during the most of her
life has been the manager of 100
acre farm.
Thomaston is To have lodge of the
Loyal Order of the Moose. Joseph
NJ. Porter of Waldoboro, formerly of
is promoting the forma-
ton of lodge in that town which al
ready has 20 charter members.
A Calais man, who possessed
steed in which he took but scant
pride, engaged a few days ago in
trading operations with a gypsy and
Ike many another innocent got stung.
The horse given him by the gypsy
was fine looking animal and the
Calais man was easily persuaded to
part with his own fine steed and SIS
% boot for the strangers property.
The gypsy horse on it's way to its new
owners barn fell down and it re-
Iuired some skill on the part of the
irlVer to get the animal on his feet
again. Ii required the assistance of
4 local attorney for the Calais man to
get his horse and the SIS boot from
he stranger.
Work has begun upon the eonstruc-
ion of a big dam across Wilson
erected by the Shaws of GreenvilIe
Tor the purpose of furnishing power
-or the slate quarries and other indus
-fies IN Monsoon. The dam is being
erected near the falls on Big Wilson
near the large opening and will be 10
rect in width and 80 feet high. II
VIII make pond about a mile long
and win greatly alter conditions in
that locality Owing to the erection
of the dam it will be necessary to re-
move so bodies from an old burving
ground at Elliottsville not far from
the stream. Permission to change
ms burying ground was granted at
the last session of the Legislature.
Clarence w. Reynolds. bookkeeper
Tor a Bangor coal company, has been
presented with handsome gold watch
by that concern in appreciation of his
Efforts during the fire of April 30. The
fba Inn