Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-24
Maine Gossip
The Wood at Night.

The Wood at Night.
Shadows of sound.
So light they drift upon the ground;
Within the hedge.
Whispering wings at the nests edge;
lAmong the trees,
The last faint indecision of the breeze.
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A dry leaf falling,
Somewhere a voice calling,
| A twig all brittle
Breaking little.
A stream running across
An uplifting of the moss
A petal curling,
A frond unfurling.
| Creeping life in the ground
| Singing with a sweet sound,
on bough a white spark
A star-peering into the dark
| Pail Mall Gazette
| The Bangor Motor Co.'S Garage at
1.-The corner of Union and Short streets
is to be purchased by the city for the
purposes of a central fire station. This
structure was built in the spring of
Il910 and completed for occupancy in
May of that year. 1t is especially
well built having been constructed by
day labor and should make very
| good fire station.
Newport people are interested at the
present time in the recent orders of the
selectmen against the keeping of stores
| open on Sunday. The order was is
sued last week and went into effect
last Sunday with the result that
Everything in town was closed tight
and ii was impossible to purchase even
a toothpick from midnight Saturday
until Monday morning. II is claimed
that the orders of the selectmen were
due to disturbance which occurred on
a recent Sunday on the streets. due to
free use of liquors. Complaints were
made and the selectmen decided that
the proper thing to do was to close up
all places of business on Sunday.
The Belfast Republican Journal says
that the practice generally followed
this spring in that city of seraping the
mud and decayed vegetation from the
cutters into the streets has resulted
on account of the frequent rains with
in the last few days, in conditions
worse than those On country roads
when the frost is coming out The
mud has been so deep on Upper High
street, just over Primrose hill, that
teams have been obliged to drive on
the sides close to the walks to get
along Like conditions exist on
Church and other streets.
Frank S. Morton. for the past %
years business manager of the Port
land Daily Press, has rendered his
resignation to take effect about July l.
Mr.. Morton has been an employee of the
Press for 81 years in all, having come
to Portland from his former home in
Winthrop to go to work at the trade of
a printer in the composing room of the
Press office. He succeeded Joseph c.
Nutter as business manager in 1889.
Mr.. Morton will be sadly missed in
Portland's newspaper row, where he
has been located for so many years.
Benjamin Franklin Day, the Oldest
member of Laeonia Lodge, l. o. o. f.,
of Biddeford and one of the three sur
viving members of the Boys Club of
1885," celebrated his Seth birthday
Wednesday night by entertaining
members of the club as well as large
number of odd Fellows and friends
and neighbors. The affair was entirely
informal. The other members of the
Boys Club of 1925" now living are
Capt Abiathar w. Leavitt, and Sam
uel p. II. White. When the club was
organized it had half a dozen MEM
bers. Mr.. Day has been an odd Eel
low for AZ years, being initiated the
day Laconia Lodge was instituted and
for many years holding the offices of
trustee and financial secretary.
Henry T. Hodgkins. the oldest resi-
dent of Pennington, Wednesday OBJ
served his Goth birthday and received
congratulations from numerous friends
and relatives. Although he retired
from active work ten years ago he still
retains his faculties and takes personal
care of the family vegetable garden.
Mr.. Hodgkins was born in Vienna,
Me-, June q, 1921, and was the
eleventh child in the family of twelve.
He has one sister living, Mrs. Selden
Knowiton of Pennington.
Good Roads" was the subject of
| discussion at recent meeting of the
Lisbon Board of Trade. Samuel
| Sylvester spoke at some length on
roads. giving the early history of road
building and relating how the first
roads were constructed to the church
and then to the court house all under
the direction of the minister. He fol-
lowed the history down from the toll
roads and federal roads to the roads of
today and spoke of cement eonstrue-
| ton roads and the various experiments
| the government is now making along
this line.
| Mrs. Joseph Roberge of Franklin
street, Biddeford, is suffering with a
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