Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-08-10
Maine Gossip
From a Valley Home.

arthur Wallace Peach in Boston Tran
script)
The Day looks eastward from the SUM-
sets height
With long, and tender farewell ere she
speeds
Before the eager yearning of the Night;
The dark beneath her golden feet re-
And meets again; the village steeple
flames
With wonder Of her robes: the tree
tops wear
A crimson crown; then sudden dusk pro-
claims
Her flight down times eternal thor
oughfare.
Mrs. Miles A. Barnes of Fort Fair
field made quart of ice cream Tues
day afternoon, for ice using the hail
stones that had just fallen. Hail
storms have their uses after ALL
Review. If this Is not enterprise,
new definition to the word should be
given. 1t is just such taking advan-
tage of circumstances, tact and push.
that has caused this country to forge
to the fore, commercially as well as
in other ways.-Aroostook Republican.
Fifty years ago the Civil war news
of those dangerously injured at Peters
burg. It is rumored that the
President has offered the command OF
the Army of the Potomac to Gen. Nc
Lellan on condition that he will raise
100000 troops At Louisville,
Ky, 400 men are engaged in fortifying
the city. It is reported that
there is more trouble in the cabinet
and Montgomery Blair will soon retire.
While determining the correct line
for the road leading by Norman Tap
leys at Mars Hill, where a piece of
State road is being built, Road Com
missioner BEEN dug up the original
cedar stake placed there some 40
years ago by Harrison Robinson. and
in the top of the stake imbedded was a
copper cent. Mr.. BEEN has the cent
as a souvenir. The stake was as
sound apparently as when driven down
40 years ago.
The good old lighthouse tender Lilac.
which for many years was stationed at
Portland, will soon be in service there
years ago shortly after the arrival of
the tender Hibiscus, going to New
York, where she received extensive re-
pairs to hull and machinery, she be-
ing practically rebuilt. From there
she went south, having been in ser
vice at several Southern ports includ-
! ing Savannah, Mobile and New Or
leans, the latter being her last station
She was ordered from there to Port
land week ago, and on account OF
the bubonic plague conditions prevail
! ing at New Orleans she put into Key
West for fumigation. Every part OF
her was thoroughly smoked out with
sulphur and she left Key West last
Monday being due in about week
1t is probable she will remain perma-
nently on this stations, as the work
of the lighthouse department on the
Maine and New Hampshire coasts,
which are included in the Portland
district. has increased to such an ex-
tent that constant employment can be
found for a third boat.
In an old history of Union dated
1851 by John Langdon Sibley is the
story of he first wedding in the plan
tation. 1t seems at the time appointed
for the wedding the justice who had
agreed to perform the ceremony did
not put in appearance so they were
disappointed. However, it was later
performed in loghouse which was oc-
cupied by THE Royal Mess as the
three bachelors who lived in it called
themselves One of these bachelors was
the bridegroom. AFTER the ceremony
the mother of the bride observed;
Mr.. Justice. you have but half done
YOUR work" why not?" he asked,
surprised Why? You have not pro-
nounced them man and wife" she re-
turned. The confused justice, who had
never performed a marriage ceremony
before babe them stand up again, ana
this time he brought the service to
successful conclusion.