Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-10-02
Maine GOSSIP
God Bless You, Dear.
Powers Merrill.)

| Q dearest memory of life to me,
! When ! a growing child of tender year
| In drowsy quiet lie beneath low roof,
Where wind and many footed rain L
| hear;
At Whispered words-"God bless you,
dear, goodnight.
Though many winds and rains have beat
| The comfort of that presence still re-
mains.
The loving heart that soothed me gone
for aye;
Yet sometimes can feel through life's
long pains
The love that overshadowed childish
fright
Hear through my fears,-"God biess you,
dear, goodnight
o that today within LIES pulsing mart,
Within the throbbing hurried ways of
life,
Where competition, rivalry. and greed
abound,
Where peace dwells not but ever cease
O could 1 hear Dust for one moment
bright
goodnight"
Some day will fall deaths many footed
rain,
The winds will blow from out an I'M
summed space.
Deep drowsiness will Ger my chilled
Above me smile a well beloved face.
AS deaths white blankets cover me from
sight
o let me hear.-"God bless you. dear,
goodnight
Comes the following from the East
New Sharon correspondent of the
Pennington Chronicles: In cleaning
f., low
found a pocket knife we lost in 1869
forty-fve years ago. But 1t will need
a new blade and a new handle. 1t
was open just as we dropped it. We
haven't worked out and we haven't
rusted out like the old knife in the
forty-fve years that are gone. What
changes since the old knife disap-
peared forty-five years ago."
The following spasms are extracted
from the Lincoln, (Me) Chronicle:
NOV that the European war has
frightened home a good many. able
missionaries, we wish some of them
real live ones-speakers and singers,
might come into this part of rum
soaked Maine and get in their work
of the communicated up the dead
ones. The apathy manifest in the
churches of Eastern Maine is some
thing appalling. and augurs i'll for the
rising generation. The re-
port (unofficiaD that the Distillers and
Brewers Association OF Massachusetts,
contemplated the construction of a
pipe line into Maine similar to those
used by the Standard OIL Co. is not
confirmed to date"
A fruit peddler doing business in
Bath was having an unusual amount
of liquor arrive and on being asked |
what he did with such an amount
replied that he had 1t to give to his
horse. Well. that answer got by for
while. Then the horse was upkind
enough to die. The Bath Times now
wonders If the liquor killed him.
Mrs. C. A. L. Sampson of Bath, who
for more than three years has as
siduously devoted her services to our
sick and wounded soldiers, has been
presented with handsome gold watch
Washington. Mrs. Sampson returns
to Maine to recuperate her lost health.
Portland Advertiser, Sept. 80, 1864. |
E. F. Robinson, ST., jeweler. has
rounded out 80 years of business on
Main street, Ellsworth. Only one other
man now in business in Ellsworth |
was in business the first of October,
1864, when Mr.. Robinson opened his
store That man is F. B. Aiken, who
has been in business nearly "a years.
Mr.. Robinson learned the jewelers.
trade with the late Zebulon Smith in
Ellsworth, with whom he remained
five years. Then, after year at his
trade in Washington. D. c., he re-
turned to Ellsworth and started in
business for himself. This was in
late war times, and Mr.. Robinson re-
calls with interest the fact that gold
was then at a premium of $2.15, when
he bought his stock. For fifty years
Mr.. Robinson has not only conducted
the store, but has himself worked con-
stantly at the jewelers. bench. Few
IL any jewellers in the state have a
longer record.
e. c. Plummer Is lineal descend
ant of Tubal Cain, that man of might
in the days when the earth was
young" and who made all sorts of
things out Of metal, is a recent decis-
ion by Bath Times man. Lawyer
Plummer can do the same things. Re-
Gently his Office chair had a fractured
arm and Mr.. Plummer fashioned an
iron brace which he bored for rivets
and fitted on so nicely that it looks
like the work of an expert.
The Normal School Dormitory at
Pennington was Used Sept. Il for the
first time and at noon the first meal
was served In the dining room. 1t is
a beautiful building, we'll arranged
and fitted, and will make a fine
home for the so or more students
who are fortunate enough to secure
quarters within It's light and airy
walls, says the Franklin Journal. The
attendance at the schooi this time will
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