Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-08
MAINE GOSSIP
A Bouquet Of v.rs. Tor Mothers Day

kTeGu,
Blossomed and faded our faces be-
tween;
Yet with strong yearning and pas
sionate pain
Long tonight for your presence
Elizabeth Akers Allen.
Mothers are ministers that lay
Their gentle hands upon
The wounds that might have turned
us gray
And bring us back the sun;
And they are light for straying feet
And love for all things sad,
And ministers of Joy and mirth
To make the whole world glad.
-Folger McKinsey.
If were hanged on the highest hill
Mother o. Mine!
oh, Mother o. Mine! i.
I know whose love would follow me
still
Mother O. Mine!
Oh, Mother O Mine!
If were drowned in the deepest sea
Mother O. Mine!
Mother o Mine!
l know whose tears would flow down
Mother O. Mine,
Oh, Mother o Mine!
i
Mother o. Mine!
Mother o. Mine!
I know whose love would make me
whole,
Mother o. Minei
Oh, Mother O. Minei
-Rudyard Kipling.
Never a sigh for the cares that she
bore for me,
Never a thought for the joys. that
Her one regret that she couldn't do
smore for me,
Thoughtless, and selfish Der master
was /
Slave to her baby! Yes, that was the
way of her,
Counting the greatest Of services
small:
Words cannot tell what this old heart
would say to her.
Mother. the sweetest and dearest of
all.
Edgar A. Guest.
The proposed new power line of
$4,000 volts, from Machias to East
port, is we'll under way Poles are al
and preparations are nearly completed
to start work in the Eastport section.
Quite a number of the. farmers In
the town of Concord are losing their
sheep, which seem to lose the use of
their legs few days before they die.
1t seems to effect the best sheep as
well as some of the poorer ones.
i Through the efforts of the pupils,
| under the direction of the teacher,
Miss Peabody, the interior of the
school building at Matinicus Rock re-
Gently received a much needed coat of
paint. the work being of a quality
which deserves much credit.
E. E. Thorndike, superintendent
of the Rockport division of the Rock
| land-Rockport Lime Co.. rendered a
| banquet Thursday evening at the Ma
sonic hall to his employees. in appre-
! citation of the fact that for the past
| two years there has not been single
accident
Frank Braley and several of his
| men working for the Main Stream
| Lumber Company at Cyrs Siding, st.
Adams. saw several eagles somewhere
near Moose Pond recently They were
| flying high and they We're the largest
| birds they ever saw. These eagles
! have been seen on the South shore
near the Stanhope Camp. q
! A Bath man who has given consid-
cradle study to antiques says that a
| great many more of the old fashioned
slate tembs are found in cemeteries
| Ill he 1,o,N e., ia a, Il
| This, he says, is due to the fact that
years ago many American ships took
! cargoes aboard and not getting suffi-
cient cargoes to load them and needing
ballast they brought back the slate
tombs in slabs, ready for erection,
once they reached this side of the At
J lantic.
| A large ice jam in the Aroostooll
| river between Caribou and Presque
Isle caused the covering of some three
| quarters of a mile of the road bed of
the Canadian Pacific Railway track
there. for some time cutting off
| Pressure Isle from the rest of the
world by that railway.
Farm work in Aroostook promises
| to be about the latest for years. There
| is said TO be from one 1901 TO L. rect
| of snow in the woods in the Houlton
region, with much more up toward the
| head waters of the Aroostook Even
| with the most favorable weather. farm
! work can not begin before May Il or
| Is except in few of the highest and
| driest spots.
The bathing season is on in Belfast,
| the first to take dip at the city park
beach being Physical Director Francis
C. Warren of the Crosby High school,
who went overheard on May day. Mr..
Warren all last summer was engaged
by the city to direct the swimming
sports at the city park and had a most
successful season, teaching dozens of
boys and girls, many of whom be-
came quite expert. This work will be
continued this summer and already
many Of the fans are getting out their
bathing toys and praying for warmer
weather for not many have the cour-
age of their instructor. Water sports
are on the increase each year In Bel
fast and the coming summer with any
sort of weather will see an active
season both in swimming and boating.
Bangor Daily News.
A former Dexter boy. Harold N.
EIdridge. son of the late Samuel and