Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-01-07
Maine GOSSIP
The Old Ways

AN~SsS0 ~ W.
The Old Ways
Give me the old ways, the undying
hope
That makes old ways new. The early
shone not more fair on that familiar
In spring. on trees where jessamine
had run,
Than ours Of autumn, when tress are
bare
And stark again, and all the flowers
The flashing cardinal still fingers
there;
The wind still blows, still the memories
VI spring. and summer with autumn
share
Our hearts; make the silent ways of
these
A mystic forest, full of stored trees.
NO. No; old ways are dearest and are
best
# they have room for sun ard rain.
Friends to walk beside US. For the
Heaven is high enough-our hearts,
Filled with JOY. need seek for love no
more,
higher contamination. Where be-
We trod the soil is sacred those ways.
Those old familiar ways we walked of
Z.
Dim With autumn's long memorial
haze
Keep Yet the hopes that lit thou
sand days.
Mary Leslie Newton.
The youngest member of the Maine
State Grange to attend the conven-
ton recently held in Boston is Harold
Colby of West Bath, who is Is years
of age He is the newly elected stew
ard of the West Bath Grange, having
belonged to the Grange but three
months. He was the. Youngest Maine
member to be given the seventh de-
gree at Boston.
The Gays have heightened about IS
minutes since they We're at their
shortest but this additional daylight
comes at night. The sun commenced
rising at 7.l3 in the morning on Dec.
2S and will continue rising at that
time until Sunday after which there
will DC a gain in daylight on both ends
of the day
Caleb Patchen is the name of the
trotter which Bath man, Leon
Belanger, recently received $500 for
and had shipped to England. This
horse is one among a number of
American trotters to be bought for
harness racing in England. Russia
and Austria for years have had these
harness races but they have recently
become popular III England
The inauguration ball, which sig
nalized. on Monday evening, the ac-
cession of Gov. Nicholas Solomon to
the executive chair Of the penobscot
tribe. vas very enjoyable affair and
the dusky men and maidens, the more
sedate braves and squaws of the
tribal home in the middle of the swift
fenobScot, danced to their hearts
content while the well known island
orchestra furnished music with Jo-
seph Francis, director. Mr.. Francis
was also the manager of the fine dis
play CT fireworks which preceded the
evening festivities. when red lights.
Roman candles and sky-rcckets filled
the atmosphere with their stirring
first display of tribal and modern
danceY by skilled dancers, Steve
Sockabesin presenting the ancient
dances of his tribe and Miss Mary
Alice Nelson doing the more intricate
and eAacting toe dances. Music for
the concert outside the hall and for
the dancing within. was furnished by
the seven piece orchestra composed
of the Francis boys. with Joseph as
leader. Gov. Solomon made stirring
speech. in which he outlined several
important matters. among them the
responsibilities of the newly elected
officers. the need of improvements on
the island reservation of the tribe and
the movement looking to protection
of the basket making industry upon
which these red men and their fam
lilies now mainly depend for a living,
since most of the other means Of live
lihood hitherto open to them have
shrunk 70 very small proportions, if
not gone altogether. 1t was suggested
that representative Nelson would seek
sslief at the hands of the coming
Legislature, from the situation, lest
the State have to make a much greater
ton for their support than
has hitherto been necessary.-Old
Town letter in Bangor Commercial.
Down in Bath the automobile deal
ers have unique manners in which
they display their wares. Six times
around the soldiers monument in
Court House square with five passen-
gers in the car, at rate of more than
10 miles an hour is the test one agent
of a light six car made in demon
stratins the capabilities of the ma
chine.
Mrs. Jean Ouelette of Chisholm is