Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-04-19
Maine Gossip
The Mist of Infinity.

The Mist of infnity.
1nIinity. the heavy mist
That slowly, imperceptiby.
Recedes before our cropping hands,
As step by step most WarilV
we tread the only haif-Seen ground.
We turn for guidance whence we came:
The fog drifts gainst the straining face.
Our own paths? Look. The gulf that
yawns,
OF our last footsteps, not trace.
The eloud-hung chasm breathes no
sound
Only, the records in our hands,
Only a fitful memory,
Are left of all the world that was.
False prophets of the world to be-
To which our stumbling steps now
Some urged by dread. some led by hone.
onward we move into the gray,
Darkness and silence all around
Voices and light Just for today;
Thought knows no certainty nor speed.
sun. moon or stars Hume the hour.
Yet shed no light there. just before
AS lamps a tiny circle show
Upon bleak black, silent moor,
Where darkness presses back the eyes
rom DUSK TO dusk. one step ahead.
Our glance behind, and that is ALL
a working with the seen until
The unseen sounds its voiceless call:
TheS ending one long surmise.
script.
After 50 Years of continuous service.
and two years of retirement, Horace S.
Hall. former superintendent of the
York Manufacturing co. died, last
week. at Saco.
Bath launches two torpedo boat de-
stroyers, this month. the Jouett. and
the Jenkins. These are sister ships and
as soon as they can be put overheard
two more craft Of similar design will
go up in their places in the yard. 1t
is expected that the work this summer
at this plant will occupy 1900 men,
Scott f. Kittredge has been appoint
ed private secretary for Obadiah Gard
ner.
Residents of Rockland are looking
forward to a proposed important step
In the improvement of the city's prin-
cipal thoroughfare. The paving will
be extended at the North End and at
the same time $4,000 will he expended
IN the construction of granite retain
ing wall on the seward side. This will
also give an opportunity to widen the
street, which is much too narrow in
some parts.
An optimistic view of Maine agricul-
tural prospects is expressed by C. f.
Embree of Riverhead, n. Y, sales man
ager for the Long Island Potato Elk
change, who has been awakening in
terest. in this State in cooperative
marketing Of potatoes and apples A
meeting of the executive boards OF the
various organizations will be held in
the near future for the purpose of ar
ranging for cooperation on the SELL
ing end. Selling headquarters will be
located in New York and after the
matter of potato shipments have been
worked out more attention will be Civ
er to apple shipments. 1t is expected
that the apple dealers will be organized
upon the Oregon plan. Mr. Embree
expects to remain in Maine during the
month of April assisting in perfecting
the various organizations of co-opera
tive exchanges that have been started
in this State and in the formation of a
successful combination on the selling
end.
Belfast believes it has established a
record without precedent in a religious
service with the congregations of five
churches, Baptist, Methodist. Univer-
salist, Unitarian and Congregational
meeting in union service and partak-
ing Of communion together. The SER
vice took place in the Unitarian
church, the pastor the Rev Charles r..
Ames. presiding. The Rev David L.
Wilson, pastor OF the Congregational
church, preached and administered the
communion.
E Washington county will dedicate its
new State Normal school at Machias
June II. The building was completed
last year and has been in use some
months, but dedicatory services have
not been held. 1t is planned to have
the dedication combined with the first
commencement exercises at this new
institution The dedicatory exercises
will be in charge of a committee of the
trustees of State normal schools. The
main building of the normal school is
OF brick with granite trimming. 1t was
planned by the architect as a centra
building which should later be enlarg
ed by additions to the right and thu
lett. As the school takes the trainins
OF large number of the Machas
school children, who are taught in tn,
model school work by the students o.
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