Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-08-24
Maine Gossip
He Will Never Grow Old.
elizabeth Powers Merrill.l


He will never grow old. this Boy OF
Never grow old and gray
Chilled and disheartened by cares OF the
world,
Heaven so far away!
He will never see his treasures lie dead,
AS l see mine today,
He will never know the heartaches that
Nor burdens that press life's way!
He will never grow old, this Boy Of mine.
His eyes of steadfast blue
Will look at me over the years that come
Tender and deep and true!
His smile will ever come back to me
The smile of love and truth:
When l am old and feeble and worn
He will hold the charm OF youth!
He will never grow old. this Boy of mine.
DAYS will be lost in years!
He will walk and talk with me as he used
Untouched by earth born tears.
One by one we will bring back the
hours
He will always be mine-though years fly
I shall feel the touch of his hand!
" whose hos feet the earth once trod.
Will never grow old though centuries
fall
1 have given him to God!
"A
That gray will not touch his hair
He will never grow old. this Boy of mine
He will always be young and fair
Some weeks ago an article appeared
in this paper recounting efforts Of
Aroostook officials to find witness in
murder trial soon to be held over
there 1t Is reported that the man. after
Ill N~A h
in the person of one Bramley. son OF
W. H. Bramley Of Bath IN. b. It
is said he claims to be an eye witness
to the murder and that he will give
testimony.-The Victoria Observer.
A party Of government pathologists
are in Aroostook county, looking over
the potato situation as to powdery
scab, rust. etc. They found rust in
considerable many cases and urged
the positive necessity Of spraying to
cripple the progress Of the disease.
These gentlemen report similar con-
ditions in New York state and the
West. The New York crop is likely
to be reduced one-half. In Aroostook
there have been no bugs this season
and farmers have been withholding
much Of the usual spraying thinking
it unnecessary on account Of no bugs.
The rust got its start in the recent
muggy weather. Where the usual
spraying has been kept up there Is no
rust. The party includes. Prof. w. A.
orion, Washington. D. c.; T. M. Cook.
New Brunswick, N. j.: A. T. Raven,
Copenhagen, Denmark; J. H. Bait,
Washington. D. c.: Ernest A. Bessey.
East Lansing, Mich: L. r. Jones,
Madison, Wis; Oswell Schreinco. c.
w. Carpenter. J. NJ. Shull and Mr..
Stewart, Washington, D. c.
Bar Harbor has decided by q vote
of So to at a special town meeting
on Saturday to accept the charter
granted by the last Legislature au-
thorizing a municipal electric lighting
plant. The town will also hire $4,000
for road maintenance; voted $500 to
furnish the new municipal Offices: and
will turn in its appropriation and let
the State Highway Commission build
the Hulls Cove road.
One OF the next Maine boys at West
Point will be Newell Hemenway, a son
Of Charles p. Hemenway Of Portland.
who has been recommended by Senator
c. r. Johnson for the position. He will
report in June, 1916 for special work
and enter the academy the following
September.
| It is now reported that q contest will
| be made over the will Of the late David
W. Mackle Of Philadelphia, who be-
queathed his fortune, estimated from
s1500o0 to s500.000. to Mrs. Evelyn i.
Porter of S. Brown street, Portland,
on account Of her having befriended
! him when she Dupposed he mas Door