Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-04-12
MAINE GOSSIP

An Easter Thought
There were hearts in despair some
There were eyes that with weeping
Lips that once parted with laughter
Too SAD for a prayer or q hymn.
All earth seemed sea without pilot
or chart
To lonely disciples that day.;
Their Loved One and King had been
= nailed to the cross,
And from them had been carried
away.
It seemed to those hearts that their
gloom was so dense
There could enter no ray from the
Until, Iaoi There a form they were
grieving as lost,
A voice saying. Fear not, 1t Is l."
Dried were those tears Of . moment
Forgotten their heartache and woes;
Hearts full of joy-they had heard a
1t was aHss' E sss Their King, He
arose!
!! Years have sped by but time never
And once again Easter is here;
| Off'ring again that dear promise OF
Dispeliing all doubt and all fear.
The pathway is hard and the way is
obscured,
Till our eyes, like those others.
| grow DIM
The cross seems so heavy to carry
alone,
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Until in moment Of darkness and
Easter pours forth her light from
And we see a dear vision. we hear a
| "I am here, have no fear, It is t.
| Grace H. Parmenter.
Weeks Mills.
from $1,000. to $500. for the season"
said the Biddeford journal a quarter
century ago april Z. 1900. In this
connection the present rental prices
would be Of interest!
Real estate men of Florida have
organized to stabilize conditions. ac-
cording to the report of Daniel Mum
TO of Rockland, who has returned to
| his home from Lake Worth, Fla.
where he had been since January q.
Mr.. Munro says that the peak of
| prices has been reached In that
southern state and that there Is
great lessening Of realty activities.
w. r. whitcomb Of Belfast heard
a wild disturbance in his henhouse
the other day. The cause Of It all,
Mr.. whitcomb found, was a big rae
| coon, which, intent on making good
repast. had entered by the window and
| then had forgotten the way out. Mr..
Whitcomb despatched the intruder
| with an axe. and has the handsome
pelt as trophy.
An inter-local meeting of the Young
| Peoples societies of Loyal Workers
of Kennebunk, Biddeford, Goodwins
| Mills, Portland, Westbrook and South
Windham will be held at the Advent
| Christian church in Biddeford on
| Tuesday, April IS, at $50 p. NJ. The
| feature of the meeting will be SYM
postum by six members of the Young
| Peoples Society of Loyal Workers
| of kennebunk.
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Farmers throughout the country.
with natural envy of this seasons
striking prosperity among the Aroos-
took county growers, evince a purpose
greatly to Increase their potato acre
age this year. Speaking Of potatoes,
we never cease to wonder why, with
the price of the fruit 80 excessive,
restaurants and hotels employ 1t to
such an overmastering. degree in their
fish chowders.-RocR1and Courier
Gazette.
An old time auto in honorable ser
vice Is reported by w. G. Bruce of
Saco. It is light touring car manu-
featured in 1912 and 1t has been left
out of doors day and night and has
never been inside of garage. Mr.
Bruce Is the original owner Of the
machine. He has used the car for all
kinds of work around the farm. even
to the hauling of hay. The ancient
chariot has been duly registered and
will make it's initial 1925 appearance
on the highway shortly.
The newly constructed Lewiston
Thorne's corner stretch on the sabat-
tus road, bituminous macadam, has
been damaged heavily by winter
travel. Because of the ruts, travel on
the road was confined to one place.
The great number Of machines, prac-
ticaIly all equipped with chains. have
worn a rut into the surface. It appears
now as though big job Of resurfac-
ing would be necessary to preserve the
road from early complete destruction.
Snow and ice are disappearing rapid.
ly and motor travel on this highway
will increase materially in the next
few weeks.
| Amusements at Old Orchard must
start on daylight saving time in
order to draw from nearby cities. the
proprietors there contend. Business
men Of the town feel that daylight
time should be observed on account
of the changes in the train schedules
to the new time and the fact that
other places in that vicinity are to
make the change. There are said to
be quite a number Of people OF the
town who object to changing. the
clocks on account Of the new law.
main unchanged and start every
thing one hour earlier during the
summer, has not been decided.
Anthony F. Thomas, who has been
in the stewards department Of the
steamer Ripogenus. running between
Searsport and Norfolk, Is passing a
vacation at Bath. The Ripogenus re-
Gently went in to Newport News for
repairs and while there Mr.. Thomas
was visited by a sailor from a Ger
man ship who learned Mr.. Thomas
was from Bath. The German sailor