Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-05-23
Maine Gossip
The Home Path.

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The Home Path.
The dusk is falling,
The evening lamps Of heaven burn 9oa1:,.n,
Into the home-path then my Iootsteps
Toward where the soft love-note is call
ing.
The load is lighter,
Supported; yonder in the hre-glow
There burn the love-lshts. clearer
brighter. ~
And nights soft curtain
Drops down to shut the world of sin
Out. and to seal all peace and faitn
within.
For love there reigns, and love is certain.
My heart is singing
The notes no other hearts may hear
Save one, and words known only unto
Her
Along the home-path joy is ringing.
ID. 6. Bickers, in Macon Telegraph.
Mrs. Mary H. " Cleaves of Steuben.
who looks after the destitute children of
Washington county, was in PASSPORT
Wednesday and made an investigation of
the five Tucker children to see if they
were being properly cared for by their
father Mrs. Cleaves visited the Indian
village of the Passamaquoddy tribe late
in the afternoon to look up the abandoned
white child left there five years ago OH
April TO- The circumstances and the
name of the parents. the date of their
marriage and date of birth of the bright
young girl baby are known
Every spring some careless persons
starts fire on Mars Hill mountain which
finally burns itself out, says the Mars
Hill correspondent of the pioneer. The
mountain has been burned over so many
times in the past it is getting very barren
and unattractive. A fire that lasted we'll
into summer burned over the north half
of it last year, and another fire started
on the west side near the south end last
week, and famed by the high winds is
gradually working it's way to the top.
The fire makes a pretty spectacle in the
evening. At assistance it resembles a city
with thousands Of tiny lights.
The site for the new Shead Memorial
High school, for which the late Jesse G.
Shead Of Eastport willed that city $4,000.
has been selected and is situated on part
of former Fort Sullivan on the 2lo-foot
lot owned by the E. A. Holmes estate
and measures H.100 square fee. which Is
considered ample room for the brick
building. The lot is between the GO-foot
high standpipe Of the Eastport Water Co..
and the residence OF Mrs. Daniel C..
Murphy.
Small Point fishermen are reported to
be getting most of the "Keanebec" shad
so far this season. the high and roiliy
water in the river preventing that fussy
fish from coming to their accustomed
haunts.
An unusual record may be boosted of
by Lawyer Charles D. Newell of Rich
mond. former county attorney Of Saga
| dahoc county and member of Gov. VIM.
T. Cobb's Executive Council. He APP
| peared Friday as counsel in a seized
liquor case which occurred in Richmond
and was tried in Bath, and remarked
while in the court room This is the
| first liquor case in which I ever appeared
for the respondent" He also won his
| case
| Charles H. sprague. aged 81, of Fox
boro, Mass. who on Sunday celebrated
| the 43rd anniversary Of his entering the
government as a special agent for Sec. of
War Stanton, is a native of Bath, Me-,
his grandfather having been a we'll
known shipbuilder there and his father
also engaged in the same business His
duties in Washington often brought him
into the presence of Pres. Lincoln and he
| remembers well walking with him at mid
night from the quartermaster generals
department after a conference. He mar
| ried Miss Wealthy Lines of East Boston
also a native OF Maine He retired eigh,
| years ago.
| Aunt Charlotte" Thomas Of Portland
on Saturday last celebrated the 94th ami
versary Of her birth at her home, the
historic Thomas house in Portland
Bright and active as a much younger
person, she received scores of friends
during the hour in the afternoon and
from to Q in the evening" beside a vast
| AiNHAoSh III hoi al ISHiclIlDIdHC6S. MISS
Thomas was active in the anti-slavery
movement and her brother the late
George A. Thomas. was the last of the
Maine conductors of the underground
railway Miss Thomas helped several
slaves to reach Canada. She was later
associated with Susan B. Anthony in the
opening fight for Woman Suffrage and is
a strong believer in the movement
Both the people and the paving stone
cutters at Vinalhaven are pleased over
the settlement of the strike, through
which about 400 employees had been idle
for three weeks. The new agreemen,
gives from four to is per cent. increases
in wages and is for 5-year term.
Wheat exports from Portland in the
| last Is months have reached the enor-
nous total of 100000 bushels and it is
reported that at least 4,OOo OC0 bushels will
be received at once for shipment to
Europe.
Boothbay Harbor reports that the ba.
rometer went Gown to 2e1 during last
weeks terrific storm.
The town Of Eden's school canvass finds