Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-10-10
Name Gossip
Winds Of Memory.
elizabeth Powers Merr


Memories Of Long Ago
Blow from hills used to know,
Blow across the shattered years
Bringing back youths hopes and fears.
" ithered am l, old and gray.
Journeying onward day by day,
Pelted by the storms of life
Tired and weary of the strife;
Yet Today within my brain
Live my boyhood days in Maine:
can feel the autumn air
Creeping through my dark brown hair
As l hurry upward still
To the school house on the hill.
NerYily the road l tread
Strong Of limb and clear of head:
Brave, adventurous and bold
Like belted knight Of old.
How they all come back again
Boy hood days on hills of Maine!
Friends l knew in other days
Walk with me along these ways.
All. we are SO young and gay
Gown 10 W. the S Years there there comes the truth
Nothing is SO gay as Youth.
You who sleep beneath the frost
To the cares of manhood lost.
Come! cal to you again
To the old home brown and low
Quickly do my footsteps go.
Up rough fashioned granite, steps
" III my ivy OIL oCS tAAd iSopS'
Through the door to open fire
Where birch sticks blaze high and
higher.
See the pantry where are laid
The good things that mother made
O! live it all again!
Happy hours in happy Maine.
Life has brought me bitterness
And the things that wound and bless.
] have fought as men must fight
II they would uphold the right.
have known both love and hate
Mixtures given by hand of fate.
Stood beside the bed of lie.
And of death that ends all strife.
l forget it all! again
Sing youths song on hills of Maine!
The Maine organization of the Ma
tional Roosevelt Memorial Association
has been completed and the work is be-
ing planned, so that every admirer of
the great American may have oppor-
tunity to contribute to the erection Of
a suitable monumental memorial in
Washington and establishing park a.
Oyster Bay. Halbert p. Gardner Of
Portland has been appointed chairman.
Horace c. Day Of Auburn is treasurer
and the executive committee includes:
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Portland; DR.. e. D. Merrill. Foxcroft;
F. H. Parkhurst. Bangor: William
Sewall, Island Falls: Joseps W. S.mp-
son. York Harbor: Blaine S. viles, Au-
gusta; and Alton c. Wheeler. South
Paris. Local associations will be
formed in every town and city in the
State. The county chairmen are:
Androscoggin, Charles z. Westervelt,
c. Of c.. Auburn; Aroostook. Atwood
w. spaulding Of Caribou for northern
and william S. ,Sewall Of Island Falls
Forest n. Perkins. c. Of c., Portland:
Franklin. Daniel F. Field. Phillips;
Hancock. Charles B. Pineo. Bar Har-
Dor: Kennebec. Charles s. Hichborn :
Lincoln Bradford c. Redonnett, Wis
casset; Oxford, Alton c. Wheeler.
South Paris; Penobscot. Charles r.
Curtis. Bangor: Piscataquis. walter j.
Mayo. Foxcroft: .SsEadahoc, Harold N.
Sewall. Bath: Somerset. Roy L. Mars
ton. saevhegaa: Washington. c. H.
Clark. Lubec: York. Cecil F. Clark,
Biddaford.y Roscoe +. Holt has been
made special chairman for Portland.
President Kenneth c. NJ. Stills Of Bow
deinf College left Tuesday on q two
weeks Western trip. He will first at
tend the general convention Of the
Episcopal church. being held at Detroit.
as . State deputy from Maine. He will
then 60 to Ann Arbor, Mich, where
he will represent New England at the
National Educational Council. He will
attend Bowdoin alumni gatherings in
both those cities and also in Chicago,
Minneapolis and Buffalo. This will be
the first time that the college has been
ohctally represented at the meetings OF
the Rowdoin College alumni in those
Western cities.
Mrs. Myra Dix is dead at her homs
in Mckinley at the age Of 81 years. She
was the widow Of Capt. Chas. B. Dix of
the New York firm Of Mckay & Dix.
ship owners and shipbuilders. Tho
death of Capt. Dix occurred in 1906.
shortly after he had supervised the
building of the steamer Roosevelt at
Verona. which took admiral Peary to
the North Pole.
Mrs. Dix made many voyages with