Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-06
MAINE GOSSIP
The Journals Centennial" Number

Here tbs spread out before me, so
Jch and complete,
The Journals "Centennial' number.
Full three thousand miles, over noun
tainS wild
And rolling plains. it has come to the
Pacific of gold and lumber
And it speaks to me loudly, in every
line,
Of the days full of sweet happy
Till I scent the aroma Of spruce and
Of pine
That bedecked with Gods grandeur
those hills
Oh. no joy could this world ever give
me again.
Like / felt. as boy. back in Old State
of Maine.
Many years since I saw you. dear old
:kennebec.'
But time seems to add to your
rigor;
And your gun. as of yore, is all loaded
and primed
For political gamesters of every kind.
And your finger Is still on the trigger;
But the faces you bring me-ah. some
take me back.
Like a dream, Ger the long flight
To the cot by the stream. and the we'll
beaten track
Where we followed the cows and
the steers
Many joys since I've known. but no
thrill comes again.
Like I felt. as boy. back in Old
State of Maine!
by David Rand Pierce, Candy, Ore
Eon.
The first hatch of chickens is re-
ported by w F. Cam of Old Or
chard. They are Rhode Island Reds
and five eggs out of six Matched.
The leading poem in this column.
concerning the Kennebec Journals
Centennial edition, was written by
Rev. d. Rand Pierce of Candy, Ore
gon, formerly of this State.
Charles +. Flint, the 75-year- old
banker is engaged in his 23rd large
industrial merger, a $100,O00,O0O con-
solidation of West Virginia Coal COM
panies, is a native of Maine, formerly
living in Thomaston where he began
his business career.
That some of the students of Ken-
nebunk High school are music lovers,
is shown by. the fact that they have
been the first to send in a request
for reservation of seats for the grand
opera, given by the San Carlo Co. at
portland the latter part of the month.
The roof Of the big auto I display
building on the Oxford County Fair
ground collapsed Tuesday night be-
cause of the great weight of snow on
it, wrecking % automobiles stored
there by the Norway Buick Company.
The cars were all new ones but three.
Even the strong scent of over old
fish could not turn aside Inspector
Scannell in his attempt to locate
opium at the laundry Of Chin Lee In
Portland, Tuesday, and upon opening
q fish received through the mails at
the laundry during the search, out
rolled tiny can holding about an
ounce of raw opium.
Public Spirit and Cooperation walk
hand in hand down to Ellsworth.
Public subscriptions aid one third to-
ward the recent purchase of a big
tractor and snow pillow, and when the
city isn't using it other towns in the
vicinity are allowed to hire it for
their own use. We see where the
equipment has a busy winter.
Bret Hart Dingley, who for several
years has been advertising manager
of the Lewiston Journal, has severed
his connection with that paper and
with c. II. Tobey Of Boston has or
ganiZed a corporation to be known as
the Consolidated NewSpa pers of New
England. This concern controls nine
Massachusetts papers, four Of which
are dailies and fave are weeklies
The leaving of baby on the door,
step by some unfortunate mother has
been known to happen. but the latest
doorstep arrival was Il stray dog with
a litter of II pups which were found
by lady in Berwick. She at once
notified the selectmen and the unfor-
tunate family We're taken to the police
station, where later they became the
property of one f,the residents Of the
town.
They have gotten so far along to-
wards Springtime over at Livermore
Falls as to have begun digging the
wriggly angleworm. 1t doesn't end
with a fish story though, because
wade II. Mari. who dug Mr.. Worm
up in bunch of dirt. while shovel
ing out his clothesline a few days ago,
put the humble squirmer back in his
native soil. Perhaps MIR. Mari had