Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-06-05
Name Gossip
l-ilacs.
Geological.
(Jamss tBuckham.)

can see JneT purple tluSieiS hohSh5
yonder by the well;
1 can almost catch the incense that we
Youngsters used to smell
When we stood with dripping pitcher IN
the early morning light
Bending down to plungs our faces Where
the dewdrops sparkied bright.
o, the fragrance of the lilacs IN the
shifting lengthening days,
Ere the Trailer flowers have opened all
along the garden ways;
What heart-cheering, hope and prom
Use to our longing souls asr they orl me-
Making every breeze a bearer Oh tue
message of the spring.
How the summer farmhouse chambers
used to swim with doors rare
As we set great bowls OF HAYS Oii siie
mantels everywhere, ,.,,, a.
smelled of far Cathay, ,
pouring all their hearts away.
precious gift of Gods dear country are
the sturdy lilac trees, .-,.is+aa
Growing old and gnaried anu 49,.
like a grand-sire's wrists ana hless,
Growing old but growing sweeter every
season that God gives, :. -,
Like a heart so set TO loViHs 'na' - nv
lows while 1t lives.
Three new memorial windows are
being placed in Court street Baptlst
church, Auburn, making all but one
window in the church in memory oi
sonoa former member. The windows
800 given by the following: Judge
George C. Wing, who placed WIN
do,y in memory. of his brother. Charles
r Wing; Mrs. Minnie Dingley Jen-
l,ins in memory of Mr.. and Mrs Jere-
rniab Dingley, and Deacon and MIS-.
w. P Brenneman who gave peau-
tiful memorial to DR.. ana MIS- !. w.
Beede.
wallace Broad, formerly of ST. Ste
nhen a newspaper man of wide ex-
nerience in various lands and one Well
qualified for the work, says the cal
ais Times. will enter the JOURNALISTIC
field and will edit and manage the ol'
Andrews Beacon, which recently went
out of business, Editor Armstrong
having accepted the position of secre-
tary-treasurer of the st. John boaro
of Trade. The paper is to De prihteu
in eight page form as soon as the
new owner secures the necessary
equipment.
The Memorial day parade at Farm
ington had in it's ranks veteran OF
So years, T. A. Stanley, who was one
of the halest in the band.
Howard P. Berry of East Livermore'
who was so severely wounded in at
tempting to arrest Lincoln Wyman,
who shot him and then committed sui
eide. is doing finely at the Central
Maine hospital in Lewiston ana ms
recovery is expected. His brother, e.
r. Berry of Demopolis, Ala, VINO
came North when he was INFORMED
of the affair, will now return home,
where he is conducting successful
real estate business.
PASSPORT is still lamenting the lack
of suitable houses for the many who
have signified their desire TO locate
in that city. The population would
be much larger. if persons whose
business demands their constant pres
ence there could find rents or even
rooms. And all this is in view of the
fact that the last few years has seen
a
President Wilson was Monday tend
cred by Senator Johnson formal in
vitation to attend the annual meeting
of the Maine Teachers Association to
be held Oct. % in Portland. The Pres
ident expressed his wish to attend,
always having been greatly interest
ed in educational matters, but could
not now give an answer. If able Ia
ter to accept he said he would be
pleased to do so.
Captain Croker, who carries many
sand to Bath and other places on the
river, has installed scoop shovel
running 1t by the same gasoline en-
CINE that runs his craft. 1t is not
only a doing away with the back
breaking work of hand shoveling and
wheeling the sand aboard but 1t is
also great time saver.
A propeller, shipped the other day
by the Hyde Windlass Works of Bath,
shows that that plant is ready for any
job, no matter how big. 1t was of
manganese bronze, measured from tip
to tip of the fianges HIP feet and
weighed 1880 pounds. 1t was sent
to the steamer Craster Hall, being
repaired In Brooklyn.
Work in the several Eastport sardine
factories was limited during the past
herring and the pack since the latter
part Of April when the season opened.