Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-21
Maine Gossip
INSPIRATION.

! show men things they do not see,
So oft they pass them by;
And some have found new things TO love,
New splendors in the sky.
I pull the veil from Mystery,
And show her cynie's smile;
Men look a foolish look and feel
They knew her all the while.
1 give a youth the power to tell
Old lore that is like new;
The wise men wag their heads and
And know his words are true.
A beggar played his violin
Where wind folk sob and sing;
| whispered to his heart, and now
He plays before the King.
The crowd saw but the parts of steel
Piled high before their eyes.
Long to the builders heart l came
He saw his tower rise.
am a guest that comes and goes,
Not lured by throne or mart
/ give to Man the love of Life
Or else ! break his heart.
-Ainsees Magazine.
The largest egg of the season, says
the oxford Democrat has been laid on
the editorial table. 1t measures 1-2x7
SIS inches, and almost but not quite
turns the scales at four ounces. it
came from G. o. Chase, and is the
product of a Rhode Island Red hen
detailed pedigree of the bird not given.
brt probably known.
Capt. Thomas j. Laithwaite of Port
land, who returned on Monday from
Fishers Island n. Y, where he went
to examine the condition of the Port
land three masted schooner Maggie
Ellen, which stranded there during a
gale on Nov. IA. received a dispatch,
Tuesday stating that the vessel had
been floated by the Scott Wrecking Co.
and towed into New London. She had
been partially stripped by the wreck
ers before she was floated and although
considerably damaged as a result of
the misnap it is supposed she is worth
repairing.
An addition to the mill of the Ameri-
can Shoe Finding Co. at Bingham is
being, built, which viii increase the
daily output of product one-half mil
lion giving the capacity OF the mill a
daily output of a million and a half
This VIII require employment of sew
eral new hands. Other building activi-
ties in Bingham will increase the val
uetion of the town and cause an in
crease IN the population. The Bing-
ham Lumber Co, recently incorporat-
ed has nearly completed its mill and
machinery will be installed soon. Tie
company will manufacture piano
sounding boards and box shocks.
Biddeford Journal: Just to show the
boys" that it isn't necessary TO carry
a rifle that will shoot halfway into
Canada and kill man at two miles
in order to get big game. DR.. John 5
Fogg of this city, who owns sum
mer home on the top of Ossipee noun
tain in WATERFORD, got out last week
not far from that locality, and killed
a fine eight-pronged buck. weighing
close to 200 pounds. using nothing more
| formidable for the purpose than 81
Colt army revolver. But one shot wa;
required, despite the fact that the ami
NAL was ON the spring: the one missile
pierced the heart and it was the doe
| tors meat"
| lnuef construction at East Iettiiit
at the present time, says the Portland
| Press. is the largest concrete whar
| ever started on the Maine coast. TIL.
/ false work is now being built by tn
| Bennett Contracting corporation. A
| soon as this stage of the work is fin
| ished the concrete mixture will b
| poured in and the wharf will be finish
ed. The structure will not, of course
| he huge solid block OF concrete. !
| win be a concrete top supported b.
/ concrete pillars. The false work nov
| being placed in position is for the pill
lars. There win be 50 of these in all
some of which will be four feet squar
and others six feet square. They vii
support the wharf and a big concret
banding to be erected upon it. No 9th
er concrete pier in the State can eve
approach this structure in size. 1t wi
be &C feet wide and 225 feet long. TIL
building to be erected upon 1t will b
q good sized one of concrete and wi
he used by the Burnham- Morrill, Co
the owners OF the property in the ifs