Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-02

they should not be allowed to make any
such a violent demonstration as that
without feeling the powerful arm of
the police or militia protection. Vio-
and crushed out.
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lMaime Goss1p.E
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About This Time O'Year.
When gentians roll their fringes tight,
To save them for the morning,
And chestnuts fall from satin burrs
Without Il sound of warning;
when on the ground red apples lie
In piles, like jewels shining
And redder still on old stone walls
Are leaves of Woodbine twining:
when comrades seek sweet country
haunts,
BY twos and twos together,
And count like misers, hour by hour
October's bright blue weather.
Oh, no, that wasn't the Indian sum-
mer Why hurry the blessings?
That Portlander who thought it pain
full to Waite the verdict should be fined
for contempt of court.
Golf has captured Portland.
The Biddeford city council and the
light company are still at odds over the
city's light bills. The city fathers
want more light on them before they
settle.
It's said the Lewiston and Auburn
women are rereading and burning their
love- letters, where it is possible to do
SO.
1t was fine weather for the great
game opening in the Maine woods.
Mr.. Wright has resumed that highly
entertaining rod and gun" column in
the Courier Gazette and the discussion
of the question docs a woodcock whis-
tie with his wings or his throat?" is
already begun again. y
Deer Isle wants a lookup. 1t is said
the sheriff had to take one aboard
steamer for the night and declares If
the like occurs again he will let the
prisoner go. No town can be certain
it won't need a lookup.
The Northport cranberry boys look
like huge mess of cranberry sauce.
The frost got there before the pickers.
Can't Lewiston have her big hotel
opened without Augusta having hers
closed?
Farmers may now lawfully seek re-
venge on the deer trespassers.
Winterport has her boom clothes on
and is equipping herself with an up-to-
date, up-to-snuff fire department.
Meanwhile she expects to acquire
more prominence as the winterport of
Bangor.
A Rockland man found that swallows
had built a nest in the top of a pulley
with which he hoisted his hay to the
loft. AS this occurred in haying tins
he left his hay out until the young
birds were able to leave the nest.
Wonder if that mans wife wears birds
on her bonnets?
lit =,
jectionable this fall as the sheep thief
Retiring September can say ANY
how had snow squall."
Bar Harbor knows the summer sea-
| son is at an end; the cutunder drivers
have disappeared from the streets.
The 81 pound squash that grew in an
old uncovered cellar in Surry may not
be some pumpkins but it is the big
gest in town.
Not all coons come down at approach
of the hunter and not all quotas of deer
will be filled.
The Belfast papers after investigat-
ing that sensational story about the
return Of the prodigal girl, only she
wasn't prodigal and got choicer cuts of
veal away than at home, declare it to
be without foundation; in other words
had the space writing imaginative cor
respondent called her Sally Smith in
stead of Nellie Brown he would have
been no farther out of the way. The
Inducements for Maine correspondents
OF out of the State papers to turn nov
| elists are too sreat it seems
Now the farmer is complaining of