Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-18
Maine Gossip
The Folks Back Home
BY Albert T. Reid

The Folks Back Home
How fine 1t is to wander back
Sometimes from far away,
To walk the streets of our home town
And hear the people say
A word of welcome and perhaps
A generous word of praise,
For humble work that we have done
Among life's varied ways.
There's never lack OF friendly smiles
Or dearth of greetings true.
The folks back home don't ever fail
Their welcome to renew:
The years may span relentlessly
The time when last we met
Those dear home folks, and yet 1t
They never can forget.
They seem to think the things we've
done,
However small they be.
Are worthy of good report.
They welcome you and me
AS though We well deserved their trust;
We all have won rerown
If we can make the world agree
With folks in our home town.
1t doesn't hurt us. not a bit.
That welcome that we get.
We know their rating is too high.
Their praise too strong, and yet,
We 20 our way with high resolve
That, as through life we roam,
Well be bit more worthy of
i. The faith Of folks hack home.
E. NJ Brainerd.
Winston, the five-year- son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Florian Yeaton of
Mercer, is worthy of mention, writes
the Norridgewock correspondent. He
has assisted his father in haying by
leading the horse when the hay fork
was used to pitch the hay from the
| rack into the barn.
The steel passenger steamship Is
lander, building by the Bath Iron
! Works, Ltd, for the New Bedford,
Martha's Vineyard & Nantucket
Steamboat Co, will launch Thursday
afternoon about AIS. This steamer
i is 30 feet long, So feet beam and
will maintain a speed of IA knots. 1t
is probable the Islander will be ready
! for delivery by the end of the month.
!! Four summer camps on the New
Meadows river are located within a
mile of each other. At DR.. Jane G.
, Bunker's Ashawaug camp at Fosters
Point are 60 girls, while at Egge-
moggin camp on Long Island con-
i Quoted by Mr.. and Mrs. Z. l.. Mont
| gomery. formerly of Bath, are So
girls. Twenty-Five boys are expect
ed to open Kineo camp at Oakledge
| this week and a half dozen girls are
! at the new camp on Bombazinc Is
land opened by A. E. DeMerritt of
Reading, Mass. kineo camp is one
of a series conducted by the owners
who send the boys from one camp
to another in groups of 20 or %.
| Penobscot Pomona grange is max
ing plans for field day on the I'm
iversity of Maine campus, August
IS. For several years a field day at
| OrOno has been an annual event with
this organization and each time there
has been q large attendance and an
interesting program has been pre-
! scented. The committee of arrange
ments is not ready to announce de-
tails, other than that President Lit
tie of the university will give an ad-
dress. and that there will be an at
tractive program of field sports and
the usual picnic dinner in the gym
nasium. Invitations have been ex-
tended to North Penobscot. West
Penobscot, Hancock and w, lido Po-
mona oranges.
The annual outing for Maine Music
Festival patrons and friends will be
at the country home Of Director
William f. Chapman and Mrs. Chap
man in Shelburne. N. H.. Saturday,
Aug. 4. There will be a picnic lunch
at noon. Hot and cold drinks and
also ice cream will be furnished by
| the host and hostess. Those who
plan to go by automobile will find
! splendid roads by the way of Poland
! Spring. South Paris, Bryant's Pond
and Bethel. Those who take the
, trip by train can make connections
! over the Grand Trunk at Yarmouth
Junction and returning on the train
! that leaves Shelburne at 4.3O and ar
rives in Portland at 100 P. M. (stand-
: ard time).
t Governor Baxter, United States
Senators Fcrnald and Hale, Frank p.
Washburn, commissioner Of agricul-
ture, and DIR. w. J. Morse of Orono,
! director of the Agricultural Expert
ment Station, will be among the
| speakers at the field day and cele-
! bration of the 50th anniversary of
! the Maine Pathological society, which
! will be held at Highmoor Farm
Monmouth, on Tuesday, Aug. 81,
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