Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-23
} Maine Gossip.

5 Maine Qoss1p:s
Good Times Arc Catchin,' Pick Away.
Oh. Dixie lan'-she amt forgotten,
Seven cents en- eight fer cotton
Pick away,
Pick away,
Pick away down South in Dixie!
He sec wheat rise to a silver dollar,
En- cotton low dat he'll up and follow!
Pick away,
Pick away,
Pick away down South in Dixie!
Eff cotton rise en- rise fun seven.
Take dis worr in de place er heaven.
Pick away.
Pick away,
Pick away down South in Dixie!
Atlanta Constitution.
There's rejoicing on one Biddeford
street for Mahany's goat is to be
rallied off and there is good prospect
that his new owner will take him else
where.
There lives a man in BowdOinham
who likes to have his horses fed early
in the morning and also likes to take
his morning nap. Accordingly he has
rugged an arrangement whereby with
the assistance of an eight-day clock in
the stable those horses get their feed
and their owner can roll over for a
parting SnooZe without mind or con-
science being troubled.
The neighbors of a poor Biddeford
woman, who works in the factory and
washes childrens clothes on Sunday.
have complained to the police that her
washing machine disturbs their seren-
ity. Accordingly the machine has been
stopped on the Lords day and the
woman has concluded that cleanliness
isn't next to Goodness on that street,
anyway.
The man with the gold-bowed glasses
he found, the man who collects his pay
in advance for goods to be delivered
and various other individuals with
ways that are dark and tricks not al
ways vain are abroad in the land seek
ing WnOm they may ueNOuF.
That the patriotic speeches at the
State Board of Trade, this week, ought
to bear fruit, is the opinion of the Gar
diner Reporter Journal, that adds:
THE grand refrain was Maine, first.
last, and always; Maine money for
Maine enterprises; Maine men for
Maine positions of trust and response
bility; Maine, Maine. Maine. That is
right, too. A state that has sent its
energetic sons into almost every sec
ton of the country, who today are
first and foremost in the professional
and business circles of their adopted
homes, ought certainly be able to fur
nish brains and Drawn for her own en-
terprises. Give the Maine boy chance
in preference to outsiders, and coming
down nearer home, give the Gardiner
boy the preference for Gardiner
positions" That's the right spirit
cultivate the local pride and keep the
standard high.
Nearly all the wheel people are get
ting into a rut.
About time for chestnuts to appear
in the market; their appearance else
where is always timely.
How the fairs this fall have fitted
into the fair weather.
One hardly expects to find in tn.
Maine village instances of broker
health from too close attention tc
business, Notwithstanding it is ther,
the habit of taking annual vacations
| is seldom found fixed. We notice. how
ever, that a Cornish storekeeper has
just returned from the only vacation
he has taken in 80 years, somewhat i'm
proved in his broken health.
| A Bowdoinham woman, hearing d:
commotion in her orchard - some
| one had shaken the tree in which hel
hens were roosting ran out II
time to see the coat tails of three well
known young men disappear over tn,
fence The next morning she found {
pocket dictionary containing railroa;
tickets, coupons and other property
which the owner can have by simpl!
calling for same and paying charges.
Some miscreant broke a large hole il
the Terrill memorial window in tn
Methodist church at Old Town, few
days ago. It. has nearly ruined TIL
window and yet some still insist tina
corporal punishment is never deserved
The spring from which Peaks Is
landers have been wont toquaff has beer
corralled by syndicate. The air OF
the island remained free at last &C
count.
The thrifty housewife of the Sagada
Lame Side
Lame Stomach
aroo Shoulder