Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-08-14
Maine Gossip
Going Home.

: Leaving the cloud and the tempest,
Reaching the balm and the cheer,
!, Ending the end of our sorrow,
| Finding the end of our fear
Seeing the face of the Master
YearninS for in distance and dream,
OH FOR sthat rapture of gladnesS,
1 on, for Shat vision supreme!
Meeting the dear ones departed,
I knowing them, clasping their hands.
All the beloved and true-hearted,
l There in the fairest of lands!
Sin evermore left behind us,
! Pain nevermore to distress;
4 Changing the moan for the music,
Living the Saviour TO bless.
/, Why should we fear at the dying
That is but springing TO life
1 Why should we shrink from the struggle,
Pale at the swift closing strife,
Since it is only beyond us,
Scarcely a step and a breath
All that dear home of the living
Guarded by what we call death!
There we shall learn the sweet mean
Hidden today from our eyes,
There we shall waken like children
Joyous at gift and surprise.
Come, then, dear Lord. in the cleaning,
Take us to dwell in Thy presence
Only Thyself lead the way.
Out of the chill and the shadow,
+ Into the thrill and the shine:
Out of the dearth and the famine.
Into the fun divine
Out of the sigh and the silence
Into the deep-swelling song;
Out of the exile and bondage
into the home-sathered throng.
Margaret Sangster.
Mrs. j. r. Walker at her beautiful
old Colonial home in Thomaston, re-
Gently, sent out 90 invitations for an
afternoon tea, exclusively for the old
est ladies in that town Fifteen old
ladies were present and greatly enjoyed
the party. The total of the guests
ages was 1880 years.
In it's forty years ago" column, Mon
day the Bath Times had this item:
President Grant accompanied by his
daughter two sons and General Bah
cock, will arrive in Augusta tomorrow
afternoon, (Aug. 18th. 1879 at p. NJ,
on visit to Speaker Blaine and family.
Many of our citizens accompanied by
Berry's Brass band will tender the
President a complimentary serenade on
Tuesday evening at nine O'Clock.
Bernard A. Bove of Portland is the
first Italian IN Maine>to he admitted
to the Maine bar as a praeticins attor-
ney Bove is % years of age and was
born in Tursi, Italy, but came TO this
country when small boy. He was
assisted through college by his two
brothers, graduating from st. Marys
at Van Buren,. where he vas handi-
capped by a lack of knowledge of
French and English, but these he mas
tered readily. He also attended the
Grand seminary in Montreal and later
went to the University of Maine Law
school where he graduated in June.
The cabinet of the Maine Historian
Society was recently increased by a
large and valuable donation from the
late Mrs. Jane Earl Hicks Pierce.
whose husband, DIR. Charles n. Pierce,
now deceased, was for many years
leading dentist of Portland. Mrs.
Pierce was the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Oh
I,emuel Hicks. who came to THIS nelgn-
borhood from Kittery in 17S9 ana euiit
n house at Bishops Corner, no@ ealleu
Morrilrs Corner, on the road to RIVER
ton. In 174S, July 81. the heuse was
struck by lightning and MIS-. hiohs
and three of her four children were
killed. The child who escaped was
Joseph. only one year of age. he went
70 North Yarmouth, and when young
won he took up a farm. He built
ho,sa +, 1775. and married Miss Eunlce
ora Of Kittery. The articles doEat :
ed by Mrs. Pierce-who was sra'io-
daughter of Joseph j. Hicks-Were once
the property of the latter. Mrs Pierce
nassed away in December. l9l2. All the
articles donated by Mrs. Pierce nave
heon i'm the Hicks family about i4o
wears. or since ITS.
Addresses in the forenoon by prom
nent Grange officials, a picnic dinner
and sightseeing in the afternoon Will
constitute the program for the Fleid
Day of Penobseot Pomona, Thursday,
August 81, at Orono. Visitors to the
University of Maine find irresistible
charms in the grounds and buildings
which provide accommodations for over
1000 students. There are so acres of
closely mown lawns. Two score and
more buildings are partially hidden
from each other by the many trees and
varied shrubbery and vines. The quick
saltwater river on the west terminates
| the foreground ard is rivaled in attrao-
| tiveness only by the mixed hard and
soft wood trees tibet flank the rifle
range on the east. All parts of the
campus will be visited from the athlet-
ic field on the north. by the mems dor
| mitories the buildings sheltering the
.sx.<.l
laboratories, by Alumni Hall with its
chapel, its administrative offices and
gymnasium, by Coburn Hall with the
museum. by the Presidents House to
the ground and buildings devoted to the
Experiment Station and the College of
Agriculture. The Experiment Station
occupies Holmes Hall. Here are locat-
| ed the research workrooms of the hi
| plnpict ma tholopiSt pnfpmOlOpict and