Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-10
MAINE GOSSIP
The Engineer

The Engineer
Listen to me, Just a moment, please.
You folks who drive a car,
Who think my life Is one Of ease
And moves without jar. 81,
! pull limited train, YOU know.
Swift as an arrow from the bow
Along my path / wheel.
Do you ever give me a single thought,
Do you think have no fear?
Don't you know my very nerves grow
When a speeding car draws near?
Time after time. I've held my breath,
My heart a-tremble with fear,
AS I've seen a driver fiirt with death
With those he holds most dear.
I've seen the look of despair on q
I've heard the means of pain
OF those who ran a losing race
with my swiftly speeding train;
I've felt the engine leave the rail
AS she struck passing car.
I've lain for weeks upon my back
I've glimpsed the gates ajar.
And as returned from the shadow Of
In anguish. and in pain.
muttered a prayer beneath my
For the fool who raced a train.
Please use the brain, the eye and ear,
The sense the good God gave,
And save yourself. and the engineer,
From grief or an early grave.
From Maine Central Magazine.
Norway people are staging a well
come home to Nellie and Ma Dun
ham at the B. F. Keith theater in
Portland the evening of May 20.
After a trip of great publicity every
where Nellie has played. they are
coming back home to meet their old
| friends.
John Denslow of Dexter planted
his early peas last Thursday. one
| month later than last year. In 1925
he served hts first green peas on the
| table July 4. None of us like to
| think that we shall have to wait un-
| til August 4 for our first taste this
year. Maybe the weather man, when
| he gets started will furnish suit
able weather for an unusually quick
harvest.
The ice in the various lakes In
Piscataquis county is melting slowly
but the fishermen will have some time
yet before they will be able to wet
their hooks. Ice in Sebec lake is still
| intact and this usually leaves about
a week before Moosehead. Many OF
the sports who are usually here by
this time and have had several large
catches of trout and salmon are
anXiously waiting in their city offices
for the word "the ice Is out"
The residents Of Kennebunkpori
! who are to file an appeal on or be-
fore May 10 on the decision Of the
Interstate Commerce Commission
giving the Boston & Maine railroad
permission to abandon the branch
line to town are greatly opposed tc
this decision, as they claim that by
abandonment of this line Kenne-
bunkport and adjacent shore resorts
will be greatly handicapped, and
that this line is a necessary public
utility.
Many who have visited the summer
studio of Miss Mary N. Richardson
of Canton will re interested to know
of the exhibition which Miss Rich
ardson is now giving of her work
at the Twentieth Century club ir
portraits of her father and mother
Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin Richardson
DIR. George w. Smallwood, astrologer
Rev. Horatio Oliver Laid, Louis
Higginson, Robert. little son of Mr.
and Mrs. Ralph Waldo Urine. Rev
Abraham Mutrie Ribbany, rector o.
the Church of the Disciples, an6
many others. Many Of these por'
traits are very familiar, to Cantor
people and are attracting much at
tention at the Boston exhibit.
Last week, Fred L. Russell en-
ployed in taking down a 5h-foo'
chimney in the home of the late
Mrs. Elizabeth Gray in New Vine
yard, found on one of the bricks
this inscription. which had been un-
doubtedly made at the yard before
firing: 1--WE had a buster, July
1880, A. Pease, J. r. Cony. George
-" the last name being illegi'
BILE, possibly Sewall or Sweet. The
day was undoubtedly a holiday. as
the 4th that year fell on Sunday
Some research has resulted in find
ing that A. Pease was Argalis
Pease and ]. r. Cony. John Ran
dolph Cony, both of whom lived ir
Pennington at that time and were
probably employed in the brickyard
of Abner Ramsdell. Jr., who sue
ceeded his father to the ownership
of the farm on the Falls road, where
he manufactured brick for many
years. An old resident says that or
the morning of August s. 1850. the
day following the disastrous fire In
the village, Daniel Beale drove to the
Ramsdell farm and bought the en-
tire kiln, just then ready for firing
with which to rebuild his building
called the Beale Block. which was
destroyed in the great fire of 1886
the site now being occupied by the