Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-03-14
Maine Gossip


Nothing to Live For.
Nothing to live for I murmured when
l was yet sixteen,
When the love of my youth lay shattered
| bereft Of its golden sheen;
But now when think of the blessings
| and the Joys and hopes come true,
| And the years Of my life. with their sun
1 shine are brought before my view,
As their memories sweet pass neIore me-
they seem like golden dream.
| For I've had the world to live for since
| was yet sixteen.
Nothing to live for" ! murmured when
was twenty-one,
! When I'd lost my first great battle and l
thought that my race was run;
But now when l gaze on the victories l
have won and the laurels gained
| And the glory had in the winning, and
| the goals that still remained,
To my soul comes a satisfaction, Joy for
the distance run,
For I've had the world to live for since
was twenty-one.
Nothing to live for, 1 murmured on my
fftieth natal day,
| When the love of my life was buried
| meath mound of frozen clay;
| But now l know twas the memories that
lit up my twilight gray,
That flooded my soul with their beauty
and banished my cares away
And feeling of peace ana glory steais
over my soul today,
ForN I've had the world to live for since
| my fiftieth natal day.
Now the light of earth is dlmming at
three score years and ten,
And the joys of my life are singing a
beautiful, glad Amen;
And I realize too late in my journey the
worth of a life begun.
The JOYS of an earthly living, ana the
deeds that might have done;
But this I have before me, its achieve
ment Yet in my power ,
I have Heaven now to live for, ana IL
live for it every hour.
Katherine c. McGuarre.
That cotton mill machinery contract
being filed by the Biddeford concern
for a Japanese firm is said to total
over 81, 900, 900 Three members of the
Japanese firm We're in that city last
week to inspect the order.
The presence of a large delegation
of women at the recent annual town
meeting In Brunswick is thought to
have been the cause of it's being the
ouietest and shortest for year5-the
men folks attending strictly to business
and cutting out the usual oratorical
efforts to be found in Maine town
meeting.
Now begins the announcements of
the winners Of the graduating parts in
our high and grammar schools.
With green cordwood at $3.50
cord, 1t Is no wonder that Houlton
people are looking over the prospects
Of using the soft coal that is mined
within Is miles of Houlton and can
be landed there cheaper than cord
| wood.
William Farrow Of Rockland was
made a Mason on Jan. 16, 1882 in Au-
rora Lodge at Rockland and usually
smiles to himself when 50-year old
Masons are mentioned.
Cupid seems to have a fondness for
the Lewiston telephone exchange, five
of the operators since New Years hav-
ing taken unto themselves husbands
and six more planning to do likewise
before June.
A Bath newspaper correspondent
tells his paper that the Kennebec
river "ice has been weakening this
week." but is willing to admit that
the ice will not leave the river much
before the end Of March"
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nual, semi annual and almost monthly
yarn Of the bridging of the Kennebec
by the Maine Central. This dope"
calls for bridge at Winslows lodges
above Bath, with a draw between the
lodges and the Bath shore and another
between the lodges and the Woolwich
shore. It Is not improbable that people
acquainted with the situation would
select another place for a'bridge.
The indoor circus, which has so sue
cessfully been given in Augusta and
other Maine places will next appear In
Rockland, under the auspices Of the
Y M. C. A.
The new ar1nory project for the Ma
tional Guard at Bangor has brought
out the fact that Bangor once had
gun house. the first having been built
over 100 years ago. 1t was standing
when in 1915 the British expedition
assembled the Penobscot. The next
gun house was erected on what is now
called Thomas hill, on a way called
Gun house lane. long since discon-
tinued. Bangor's present armory was
the old City hall, built Of wood and
also long since condemned.
1t is reported that the boys of the
Eastey Head section of Calais are