Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-15

Tell me not CQdI lie Is waning,
That the glad day all is past.
Where. oh, where the joyous promise,
Soothing me when life was sad?
Give, oh, give me back my day dreams!
Only thus can be glad.
For thought not of the morrow
Bearing youth and love away.
For I rocked not OF the sorrow
Waiting me at the close of day.
Life has met. has passed, and left me
While fingered on the way,
l have gathered naCght but day dreams,
Take, oh, take these not away.
The last prisoner was discharged
last Saturday from the Knox county
Jail at Rockland and the doors were
allowed to remain unlocked for the
first time since the Jail has been in
use. some 80 years.
Riverton park. closed last year
owing to the war, will be opened in
part on May II and by Memorial day
will be running for the summer. 1t
will be managed by a new corpora
ton, headed by Col. H. NJ. Bigelow.
1t. Col. L. u. Moulton and Capt. j.
w. Greeley, leasing it from the own
ers. Cape Cottage theatre and casino
also closed by the war for amusement
purposes, are again in the owners
hands and will be reopened.
Some $4,000 will be spent this
simmer in improving the Buxton
road between the Eastern Railroad
crossing in Saco and the Buxton line.
pervision of the State Highway Com
mission. An appropriation Of $4,000
was made by Saco for this purpose
May s. and the State appropriated
$4,000 at the last session of the Leg
islature.
Mrs. Helen L. Bradbury, mother
of Kate Douglas Wiggin Riggs, will
come to Quillcote on the Saco this
week, where she will remain during
the summer. She will be accompanied
by her daughter. Miss Nora Smith.
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but will go to her country home, a
few miles from Saco. later in the year.
The water was drawn out of Bat
ley pond, Sanford last week for the
purpose of installing posts for the
wires which are used to bring power
from Old Falls. This is the first time
in years that the pond has been
emptied. Under normal conditions
the water in this pond is Is feet deep.
Frederick Dickey. surviving men,
Der of the firm Of W. p Dickey & Co.
hardware. established so years ago, at
Bangor. says that he has been in
business long enough and will spend
the rest of his days in having good
time. especially hunting and fishing.
A firm owning an adjoining store on
Broad street. and wanting the Dickey
store has bought store. stock and all.
and will close it out. William p.
Dickey, founder of the firm. died a
few years ago.
Brewer will have a big school gar
den army, more than $50 boys and
girls having enlisted. The city is not
congested, and the great majority Of
homes already have garden spots.
The West Sullivan granite opera
tors declare that they will have to
shut down their works unless there is
a readjustment of the wage scale. The
demand for curling is dull and price
low, while the increase in wages and
conditions of output it has brought
about has taken off all the margin of
profit, they claim. Three cargoes
have been shipped this season. and
three more will be got out, which may
be the last for some time, the quarry
owners say.
All resort business men near Port
land report prospects for a record
breaking tourist season this summer
and all the hotels that have been
closed during the war will be opened.
Demand for cottages is more brisk
than for several years. and it begins
to look like an old time season, the
sort which brings material prosper
ity to all business interests of the
community.
Emerson Kilgore. the oldest male resi-
Gent of Norway, celebrated his Goth
birthday Saturday, and in honor Of the
occasion was given a party at the home
of his son, Webster Kilgore. at Norway
Lake. where he makes his home. Re-
freshments were served. He is a mos.
man, and is as active as 4
ran Is years his junior. He works
every day and assists his son with the
farm work, besides helping on the road
work, reads the daily papers, and keeps
in touch with all the affairs of the day.
Ex-Congressman Frank E. Guernsey
has returned to his home in Dover after
several months in California and other
western states. Mr.. Guernsey spent
the greater part of the time in Califo--
mia and returned home over the south
ern route, visiting parts of Mexico en-
route.
Former Judge OF Probate. Charles
Donanue of Cumberland county will
have an opportunity in about 10 days Of
appearing in the Portland municipal
court and EXPLAINING To the indne that