Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-05-09
MAINE GOSSIP
O Little mother Of Mine
Sometimes in the hush Of the evening

When the shadows creep from 'he
I think Of the twilight songs you
And the boy you lulled to rest. :,
The wee little boy with the tousled
That long. long ago was thine:
wonder il sometimes you long for
that boy
O little Mother of Mine.
And now he has come to mans estate
And you'd hardly know that he was
the lad
Whom you lulled with your slumber-
The years have altered the form and
the life,
But his heart is unchanged by time.
And still he is only boy as of old,
o little Mother of Mine.
Walter II. Brown in The Northern
Samuel Valentine Cole, president
Of Wheaton College in Massachu-
sets who died Wednesday. was born
in Machiasport and graduated from
Bowdoin College in the class OF 1874.
Those who remember the old steam
err Star of the East which 40 years ago,
piled between Bath and Boston will
be interested to know that Bath
man we'll posted on shipping matters
saws that the hull is now in use on
| the Hudson as a coal barge.
Those who are interested in As
tronomy should train their spy
glasses on the planet Saturn, which,
with it's three rings, is now visible
l 90, hi
I The planet rises at sunset, and is
| on the meridian, due south, at mid
night.
| That part of Biscay Pond which
lies between Bremen and Damaris-
Gotta is feeling the effects of the
Boom Maine project, as already lots
on the shore of the pond have trebled
Lin price. Buyers are building cot
tages as they are in great demand
| by summer visitors.
Philip Livernois, temporary ONCE
boy at the Bath Times Office in Bath,
| is an interested collector Of coins.
He has a good assortment of both
foreign and American, many OF
which are very valuable. His Oldest
coin is an American half dollar
coined in 1921.
A workman in Bath is repairing
very handsome table which was once
the property of Gov. William King,
our first Governor. He says 1t is
one of the best pieces of work he has
seen for a long time and that the
man who built the table. more than
100 years ago, was certainly a clever
workman.
A mortgage covering As pages In
book form was filed at the office OF
the Register of Deeds at Auburn
Tuesday. 1t was q first mortgage
indenture bearing $685. in revenue
stamps and is part of the re-
financing of the Hill Manufacturing
Company of Lewiston. running from
that corporation to the Merchants
National Bank of Boston, trustees.
A book recently added to the
library in Bath is a volume on stam-
mering. The facts related in the
book are based upon the writer's
contact with 10000 stammerers and
information gained through cores
pondence with approximately 10000
others who had sought his advice.
No excuse now for anyone in Bath
to stamner.
Mr.. and Mrs. Luther Clark OF
Houlton celebrated their golden
wedding anniversary May 10. This
was also Mr.. Clark's 10th birthday. A
beautiful birthday cake was given TO
Mr.. Clark while seated at dinner ana
both Mr.. and Mrs. Clark were pre-
scented with fifteen dollars in gold.
One pleasing event was the receipt
of a telegram from their daughter
who is in Cuba.
An observing granger, who attended
Knox Pomona last Saturday, at War
rem, noticed the following unusual in
cidents that to him seemed worthy
of mention;. Two active Grange
members were present, Mrs. Mary K.
Graves of West Rockport, aged 80
years and Miller Davis who is 81
years of age. There were also pres
ent, including Mr.. Davis, three G. A.
r. veterans whose combined ages
totaled 255 years. Mr.. Davis. 81,
| JdnleS L. w OOuSulll, 90 anu ~
Philbrick, 81 years.
Necessity Is the mother of inven-
tion," and this was recently proven
by a party of resourceful fishermen
from Skowhegan who were on a trip
to Moosehead Lake the first of the
week. One of the cars carried two
cupboard motors and on nearing the
town of Shirley some very bad trav-
cling was encountered. On the mar
gin of the most unfordable stretch of
mud and water a consultation was
held and it was decided to attach one
of the cupboard motors to the back
Of one of the cars, as auxiliary
power. This was done, and the en-
tire party got aboard and was car
ried across the bad stretch in good
style.
The following is sent in by one OF
our subscribers who vouches for the
truth of the little tale.
Ida May, a hen owned by Ella
|, Russell Jones of Jefferson, died April
9, aged years. She was purchased
from Mrs. =. w. Snow of Manchester
in 1916. During her first year she
laid one egg a day; later she laid two
eggs nearly every day during one
spring. She ran with another hen for
some time but the following winter
the other hen died. Ida May, be-
very lonesome, was given some eggs
to hatch. She left the chickens the
first Of July and laid every day for
three weeks. More eggs were given
her to hatch and these chickens she
left and laid every day through No
vember and December. After a very