Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-08-18
Maine Gossip
When I Was Young

When I Was Young
When I was young gathered all
The shining words that Love would
So lavishly about my feet
And strung them on a silver string
I hid them in a secret place
Against the day when 1 grew old,
Thinking to weep young tears again
Over the precious things Love told.
I did not know. when I was young
How t smoothly love slips off the
-Mollie Cullen, in New York Herald.
Owing to the late opening Of the
summer season this year, a num-
Der of summer hotels in the State are
to keep open later in September than
customary, the State Publicity Bur-
eau has been advised
Round trip excursion tickets will
be sold by the Maine Central Rail-
road at Augusta, Skowhegan, Bel
fast, Harmony, Dover FoXcroft, Oak
land. Norridgewock. Vancehoro,
Bucksport, Manset, Machias and in
termediate stations to Bangor and
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the Eastern Maine State Fair.
Messrs. William Turgeon and
Palmer King, Lewiston aviators are
negotiating with Maine fairs for
exhibitions which include a para
chute jumper. A jump from plane
would he a novelty in this section.
Turgeon's plane, is now located on
Carnage avenue, Auburn. He is
carrying passengers, nights and
Sundays.
Announcement was made recently
that five oranges have asked for
space at the agricultural department
at the Maine State fair, Lewiston.
This will give a little competition
and that is what the visitors want to
see. They like to see A good show
ing by the oranges. Extensive re-
pairs have been made all over the
grounds.
An interesting visitor at the Maine
Publicity Bureau at Portland re-
Gently was Allen T. Aub of New
York City, who has been to Europe,
Cuba, and across the continent from
California to Maine by cumming"
his way either as a stowaway on
some oceanic steamer or by jump
ing freights. He passed through
Portland en- route to Montreal, where
he will remain for short time be-
fore returning to New York, where
he plans to settle down for a while,
although as he admits. it is quite a
temptation not to get on some
steamer headed for Europe and more
adventure.
The Lewiston Fairgrounds closed
the season last Friday with an
elaborate program, which was held
in the new armory building. The
exercises consisted of musical and
literary numbers, with exhibitions of
the splendid things that the play
grounds have developed in the chill
dren during the eight weeks they
have been active. The exercises
were attended by about 1900 chill
dren and between 400 and 500 adults.
The playground work. which has
covered an extensive program dur
ing the summer, has been under the
direction of the Women's Literary
Union of Lewiston.
Horatio G. Eaton has resigned his
position as postmaster at Little Deer
Isle after 80 years of continuous SER
vice. with a splendid record. At first
Mr. Eaton started a small store in his
brothers house, but later built store
for himself, where he also had his
postoffice. He had at the time Of his
retirement very large general store,
grown from the small one he first
built and established. Mr.. Eaton
married Miss Lizzie Hutchinson, who
has assisted him in his work all their
married life. For the past four years
she has conducted the whole bust
ness, practically. as Mr.. Eaton has
not been in good health.
The highway over Haystack Noun
tain has been fixed" But instead
of using a coat of gravel, the only
sensible way of repairing a road, in
view of the experience of years of
road building, dirt was used, just
simply dirt of earth which quickly
changes to mud when rain comes.
And this was the condition Sunday
night. when about two dozen cars
slowed into the ditch. BY the COM
bined efforts of the chauffeurs the
cars were pushed back into the road
and assisted up the hill. Dozens of
cars, rather than make the venture
turned around and returned by the
old road, then cutting across to
Mapleton.-The Aroostook Republic
can.
This is excellent growing weather
in Aroostook county and the potato
fields are at their best at the present
time. Many of the farmers have al
ready sprayed four times and the