Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-06-12
Maine Gossip
BY Albert T. Reid
The Old Home

The Old Home
An old lane, an old gate, an old house
by tree:
A wild wood. a wild brook-they will
not let me be.
In boyhood l knew them, and still they
call to me.
Down deep in my hearts core I hear
them. and my eyes
Through tear-mists behold them be-
meath the old-time skies.
Mid bee boom and rosebloom and or
chard lands arise.
l hear them; and heartsick with long
ing is my soul.
To walk thereto dream there. be-
meath the sky's blue bowl;
Around me. within me, the weary
world made whole.
To talk with the wild brook of all the
Icing ago;
To whisper the wood-wind of things
we used to know
When We were old companions before
my heart knew woe.
To walk with the morning and watch
its rose unfold,
To browse with the noontide lulled in
its heart of gold;
To lie with the nighttime and dream
the dreams of old.
To tell to the trees. and to each listen
ing leaf
The longing the yearning. as in my
boyhocd brief.
The old hope, the old love, would ease
ne Of my grief.
The old lane. the old gate, the old
house by the tree.
The wild wood, the wild brook-they
will not let me be:
In boyhood / knew them, and still they
call to me-
Madison Cawcin in Oxford Demo-
crat.
Four Maine girls are among the
members of the graduating class at
Mount Holyoke college. They are
Miss Dorcas Weston of Portland,
Miss Florence SHELTON of Lewiston.
and the Misses Mary and Sarah Hop
kins of Fort Fairfield.
Mineral baths in Maine IS the latest
tourist requirement. Publicity Sec
rotary Harrie b. Coe Of the Chamber
Of Commerce received a query, re-
Gently from a would-be summer resi-
dent, but was obliged to direct them
that the nearest approach to mineral
baths in Maine was found In the
pathS az SAS L OloAo OPP lHS IIOuSCs
Plans are being made for the annu-
al "Old Home Day" at Durham, Au-
gust IL. For several years the event
has been one of much interest to
many former citizens OF the town,
who journey back home to greet old
friends and meet new ones. George
E. Warren, chairman of the commit
tee, states that DR.. E. S. Stackpole
will be among the speakers.
The farmers are too busy planting
potatoes nowadays to haul any stock
to market says the Fort Fairfield Re-
view, even If they have any yet for
sale, as only few Of them have. Very
little in the way of buying is being
done, some of the dealers not taking
any at all. The price of Mountains is
Or would be-about $1.75 or mater
tally less. Planting is going in very
rapidly indeed the past few cool dry
days though a great many potatoes
are yet to be put under the ground.
Quite good many of our large acre
ages will be all planted by the end
of this week, weather permitting.
Literary organizations have come
and gone in the past half century.
Where are the clubs before whom the
shining lights lectured in the days of
Henry Ward Beecher? Those whose
recollections reach BACK that far. note
the change, and some will say that it
has not been for the better. Somehow
this change has passed by the Fra
ternity Club of Portland, which will
arrive at its fiftieth anniversary next
December. No charter member Of this
club is now alive. The oldest in point
OF membership is Augustus II. Moul-
ton, the president and next in length
of membership is George 8. Rowell.
The club has numbered among its
membership many Of the noted men
OF Portland. among whom have been
General Chamberlain and Judges
Putnam, Webb, Bonney and Haskell
and the late DR.. Seth c. Gordon; in
deed, the list is long one. The club
is limited to SO meetings each year,