Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-30
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Backward, turn backward" do we
wish to return
To age-old yesterdays? Are we signing
to burn
The candle of tallow. that furnished
the light
In ancestral kitchen, or parlors, at
night?
Or mayhap you may fancy the old
sperm-oil lamp,
Whose rays once lighted the homes of
Turn Backward" oh yes, we prefer
That used to fill up the end Of the
room.
We'd enjoy toiling there, weaving
cloth, DER and DER,
Preparing the clothing our families
were;
We'd not sigh for Georgette. nor
But would all prefer homespun. oh
how it would wear.
We'd not care to ride in an up-to-date
"Lizzy."
An ox-cart is safer, its pace not so
dizzy.
Danish telephone, telegraph, we deny
they have uses;
Oh. the good old time days, with no
modern abuses!
For twelve cents would purchase a
dozen Of eggs,
And shoes at one-fifty had veE good
pegs;
The farmer and merchant Just bar
Man ruled his household, while God
made the weather.
Even warfare was decent, no poison
gas, - sIL sT
Nor more modern horrors, that war
fare now has;
Womans sphere was her home, not
some club or other,
Instead of "old chicken" she was
known there as Mother"
For man was man, and not merely
a mutt"
And !. . a boy y was lad not a kid" nor
Stead Of a "flapper," or ''vamp," girl
Without lipsticks or other veneer, so
it's said.
All no! it is not that we wish to turn
back
Indeed and in truth. but we realize our
OF principles old for which ancestors
In simple faith, discerning evil from
good
Look forward, not back, for the past
never sigh,
Have hope in the future, let your mo-
Leave to God all your problems, His
way is the best,
With such safe partner, He'll attend
to the rest.
Move forward, not back. for today we
Our best of endeavor. in Today let us
live.
o Future, we greet you, with laureIs
on thy brow!
But achievements day Is here, the
golden age of Now.
Nellie M. Hartman, Augusta, Me.
with apologies to the Originally
The raising of strawberries on a
large scale for the market is sug-
gested to Aroostook county farmers
in a communication in the Houlton
Times written by man who has
use for strawberries in large guam
titles.
Workmen are still busy converting
the old Aliquippa hotel at Small
Point near Bath into modern hotel.
A considerable crew was employed
there last Summer and when it opens
another Summer visitors will not
recognize it as the old Aliquippa
which was one of the first resort ho-
tells in that section.
Civil Engineer Charles A. Corliss
Of Bath has been to Popham Beach
making surveys for a road which
the county commissioners have di-
rected the town Of Phippsburg to
build along the east and south
beaches at the rear Of the cottages.
1t Is probable that considerable
stretch along the east beach will be
built in the Spring commencing at
a point near where the present road
leads to the wharf.
At the meeting of West Bath
grange on Monday evening, when
there was large attendance, a
resolution was passed opposing the
so called Grade A Milk Bill which
will come before the voters of the
state at a referendum election in
December. The resolution was pass
ed without a dissenting voice as 1t
was brought out that not only many
of the producers but consumers who
were i-lembers of the grange are op-
posed to the meas
1t is expected that a fleet of scows
and barges of considerable numbers
will be used another Spring when the
construction of the Kennebec bridge
at Bath, actually begins. Great
caissons will have to be built and
lowered at points where the piers
Will be built and out Of these the
water and mud will have to be pump
ed 80 that the men can work there.
The scows will also have to be used
in carrying the sections to location
and big cranes will swing them into
place.
Edward Sewall, Jr., son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward Sewall of Bath. was the
only baby in Maine to receive either
prize or honora BILE mention in the