Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-02-28
MAINE GOSSIP
Hills In Heaven

God grant there be hills in Heaven
For those who have fought their
best,
For those who have struggled and
Striven
And look to the heights for rest,
God grant there be quiet places
And heaths where the hill-winds
pass.
Where we bury our hot. shamed faces
In the cool, wet mountain grass.
The sea with her magic portals.
The vale with her plough-turned
These whisper, while to mortals,
But the peaks talk on with God.
To the woman their fields be given:
And the captains-give them their
sea.
Rut I pray there be hills in Heaven
To stand through Eternity.
BY Will II. Ogilyie, Chambers Jour
nal.
II the backbone of Winter hasn't
been broken it has at least been ter
ribly bent.
An inheritance tax of s64,292 was
assessed Tuesday in the Penobscot
probate court against the estate of
E. H. Blake. wealthy Bangor man,
who died year ago.
Drift Lodge, the handsome home
Of the late Gov. Frederick II. Park
hurst, has been purchased by Allan
V. MacNeill, Superintendent of the
Great Northern Paper Co, and he
Will make it his home.
Records that have been kept for
more than 100 years show that the
earliest date on which the ice in the
kennebec river has gone down was
on March .. Will we beat it this
year?
Albert Z. Brooks of Sabattus, who
retired Feb. 4, as rural mail carrier
of r. F. d. 2, after 20 years and
months of service, has Travelled 1884,
ZIG miles on his course of only
miles.
Ray Buker, a former Bates student,
now student of theology at Boston
University. is planning to take on an
active training schedule in prepara-
ton for a vigorous outdoor CAM
paign during which he hopes to match
strides with Paavo Nurmi. Finnish
distance marvel over the mile route.
A 30-foot Cabin Cruiser boat is be-
ing constructed at the Wards Shop In
Greenville for the Squaw Mountain
Inn. The boat will carry 25 people
and will be one of the most attractive
boats on Moosehead Lake 1t is to be
used by the Inn for the Spring fish
ing parties.
A doe, apparently bewildered and
exhausted. appeared on Main street
in Lewiston, Wednesday morning,
and afterward disappeared on David's
Mountain. 1t is thought that it had
been chased by dogs into the city,
and become confused before finding
its way back to the woods.
Phinney estate. has recently pur-
chased Sylvan Park in Machias which
has been formerly used as a fair
, ground until recent years. and it is
Mr.. Mugnais intention to make this
IDEAL spot into free camping ground
for tourists.
A small locomotive and half a
dozen dump cars which have been in
use on government work on Great
Diamond Island, when the for;iflca-
lions were built several years ago.
were on string of freight cars on
the tracks at the State pier Wednes-
day. and are being shipped to VIII
| mington, Tenn.
one OF the outstanding figures in
the ranks of the G. A. r. is Andrew
j. Dain of Livermore Falls. He was
Civil War veteran of many battles,
ana served as Lincoln's bodyguard at
the second inaugural. He was on
duty on the night of Lincoln's assas-
slnatlon, and stood on guard the next
night over the last mortal remains of
the martyred president previous to
his removal and burial.
Mrs. Della Austin, postmaster at
Fort Kent Mills, has a pet deer which
she has had ever since it was a fawn.
A little clubhouse has been provided
Tor the deer which is supplied with
an electric light. The door is kept
hasped. but when the deer feels the
need of food or shelter it will nose up
the hasp, pull on the light and eat
the food provided for him. This may
sound a little bit like fish story,
but as it is youched for by Mrs. Dora
+. lfnkham Of Fort Kent. Il former