Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-12
Maine Gossip
"The Piper"

coming from the stars.
| will take my pipes and go now, for the
little mountain rill
Is pleading with the bagpipes ins ten
der, grooming bars.
l will go Ger thea hills and valleys, ana
through fields of ripening rye.
And the linnet and the throstle and the
bitters in the Sedge
win hush their threats and listen as the
piper passes by,
On the great long road of silver that
ends al the worlds edge.
| will take my pipes and go now. for the
sand-flower on the dunes
Is a-weary of the sobbing of the great
white sea,
And is asking for the piper, with his
baSketful of tunes,
To play the merry lifting that sets all
hearts free.
will take my pipes and so now, and
God go with you all,
And keep all sorroy from YOU and the
dark hearts load,
/ will take my pipes and 20 now, for /
hear the summer call
And you'll hear the pipes a-singing as
pass along the road
Dom Byrne in Harpers.
The American Enamel Company will
saw about 5000 cords Of birch into
squares At their mill in Perkins Plan
tation this winter. besides 11o0 cords
at their Intervale mill in Wilton and
loe0 cords or - at their mill in
Rangcley. Considerable of the birch
timber is furnished by the farmers of
the region, but the greater part is cut
by the company from stumpage pur-
chased and hauled by the eompany.s
teams. The sawed squares from the
Perkins and Intervale mills are haul
ed to Wilton station Ter shipment TO
the eompanN's works in Providence, L.
l. f L. Wilder of Wilton is the man
ager Of the three Franklin county
mills.
our Farmingdale correspondent
SENDS the following report of coast
/ ing party: The young people of
Farmingdaie, while coasting recently.
met Thurston Tarr, gentleman some
what advanced in years, but popular
with the Young people tor his genial
disposition and they invited him to
slide ON the double runner. After he
had enjoyed a ride, someone suggested
that perhaps Mrs. Tair would like to
join them. SO MIR Tarf went to his
home. nearby. and soon returned with
his wife. She thoroughly enjoyed the
ride down hill and remarked that il
was quite an event for one of her age.
a years old. But the young people de-
clarcd that she was only Il years
young.
The Lewiston school boarI mas voted
to abolish secret fraternities in the
I av-fc-rn lI;1l, .ol,oal -, aaaar,9a nt..,
with the wishes expressed in a recent
letter issued by State Supt. Smith.
These societies are termed harmful. a
menace TO good discipline and letri-
mental to the best interests of the
school"
Harper's Weekly has the following
TO say of Bowdoin College "Bowdoin
is unique among the colleges. Its
alumni association had its annual din
ner here last week and the I.ipers said
that President Hyde aroused great
enthusiasm among the alumni by stat
ing that on this occasion he need ask
them for nothing. since Bowdoin had
now perfect plan We wouldn't
have believed. except on the authority
AmeH bllege could be complete
equa. work both in plant and
equipADA That is the case with
Bowdofn. DR. Hyde says. II is en-
eouraging to hear it, There may come
a day when others OF our older coll
leges will nave enough. That seems
to have happened in Europe. where.
centuries ago. kings, princes. rich mer-
chants. and other opulent persons used
to endow institutions Of learning some
what as our millionaires do now"
j. c. Fuller who has been connected
with the Central Maine Fair for the
past seven years-who has worked
early and late to make it a success.
and retires. Feb. H. has, this week,
brought TO a successful issue one of
the many ideas which he had con-
templated for the coming Fair. For
the first time in the history of d Maine
far MIR. Fuller has succeeded in Sc
curing scholarship from the Univer-
SHY of Maine.
The university offers a $50 scholar
ship in the College of Agriculture four
years course TO the young man. res
ident of Maine, who shall grow and
exhibit the best display of market
vegeta bles- at the Central Maine Fair
to be held at Wateryille September
90, "A and .. 1872
The conditions are.
1st-Aii contestants shall be resi-
dents of the State of Maine.
2nd-The display Of vegetab le5 shall
be of market type and shall contain
not less than five, nor more than ten
varieties
3rd-All vegetables exhibited must
be grown exclusively by the exhibitor.
4th-Each contestant for the above
prize shall make Il statement relative
to each variety of vegetables exhibited,
said statement to include name of va
riety, style of plot or field expressed in
rods, method used in preparation Of
ground, time and amount of fertilizer
used date of planting, date of har
vesting, yield of crop in pounds (blank
forms for making this report will be
forwarded by the College of Agricul-
ture. Orona. Maine, On requesto
5th-The winer of this prize must en-