Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-20
Maine Gossip
Provision.

Provision.
1 cannot tell what way the years will
lead,
How hands may falter and how feet may
bleed.
What deep contentment l shall have or
need
l cannot tell
| do not know why the fleet early years
Should shake me with surmise of future
tears,
Why golden suns should set in gloom of
fears
/ do not know.
must not ask of winter winds that
Across the ground where men sleep cold
and dumb.
If 1 shall rest there well-of my last
home
l must not ask.
shall not shrink, maybe l shall not
When time has slowed my step and
bowed my head
To go away; TO Join the clustered dead
| shall not shrink.
shall have hope in spite of heavy
Among Gods pensioners to find my
In Him who for the strayed and lost
ones came
j Stlhll nave nope.
Charles l.. ODonnell, in Ave Maria
Sunday morning, the mortgage on
Pine Street Methodist Episcopal
church. Portland, will be burned by
Bishop J. w Hamilton, resident bishop
of Boston. In the little more than
year and half the pastor. Rev. a. T..
Tlrich, and members of the church
with the assistance of friends outside
have heroically gone about the task of
raising $500, the amount represent
ed by the mortgages. and they have
exceeded this by raising s1200 more,
for repairs to the heating appara-
tus and other bills outstanding at
the time. A total of $4,000 has been
raised since May, 1910.
He didn't accept Greeley's advice,
and go West; neither did he run away
to be ii millionaire or president. but,
instead. John A. Guilford the Old Or
chard poet. historian and farmer. has
celebrated his 62nd birthday in the
same farmhouse where he was born.
Mr.. Guilford has seen Old Orchard
grow from hamlet of 100 population
to summer resort with population at
the height of the season, of 10000. The
first visitors drove to the beach by
stage he says from the old Eastern
Railroad stations in Saco. Mr.. Guild
ford has never married.
''rhe story of dollar bill has some
times been made the theme of an i'm
aginative story" says the Farming
ton Chronicle, and doubtless if these
little familiar articles could tell of
their wanderings they would have
some interesting tales to relate. But
few If any have ever seen the eXper-
fence of two which have lately come
into the hands of bank officials in this
place One day dollar bill was
passed at the First National bank
which later was found to be in two
parasitic bills having been torn
laterally. Though pasted so we'll that
the parts came together quite nicely,
the numbers did not correspond and
the bill as it was, was worthless for
circulation. Judge Thompson, the
cashier, showed the bill to j. p. Flint,
cashier of the Peoples bank, and sim
dollar bill came into the hands of Mr..
Flint. An examination proved thar
the two parts correspondent to the
two mismated parts of the mended
bill received by Judge Thompson.
There was a reimbursement and two
good bills were the result"
AT last" is the relieved sigh of
Biddefordites who have been involved
in the Hill Block controversy. Unless
something Unforeseen shows up, the
long discussed Hill block controversy
is at an end, and the badly needed i'm
provements at the corner of Main and
Alfred streets widened. The offer of
s., 900 recommended in the resolve
passed by the city government has
been accepted blythe John Berry heirs,
as we'll as the other owners of the end
of the Hill block next to Alfred street.
This was the last hitch.
The statistics recently made public
by the census department give the
value of all domestic animals, poultry
and bees in the New England and
Middle Atlantic states, Feb. Is, 1910,
as sii6, 669, 000 as compared with $780,
43S, 900 in 1900 the amount of increase
being S9.4 per cent. Maine with an
increase of AL per cent. and New
York with 45.6 per cent. increase have
greater percentage increases than is
shown for the entire group.