Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-09-15

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The Golden Rod Decorators.
what hue from Autumn's wall should
What color be her signal gay?"
Staid Autumn's sober Parliament,
Discussed this question, day by day.
In Springs domain, are white and blue;
In tints of rose and go,den-green,
Sweet Summers realm is fair TO view!
"Alas! Our land is brown and bare!
Our time-stained wa,ls forbiddinS rise!
A purple haze broods Der our hills.
Our sober hues are sad as signs.
up rose a member brave. 4 move,
That yellow be our chosen hue:
And that the firm of Golden Rod
Provide our decorations, neW!'
For sombre vestures. 'broidered DER
With flashing gold. to me. appears,
To make a royal harmony
The motion passed, mid frantic cheers.
-Pereia v. White. Orono. in Portland
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The "wig-waggers" are coming home
The heroes of the Montauk are also
through with cruel war.
Those CT years rest lightly on the
popular Readfeld fair.
There is a big crop of luxurian.
foo. ball hair in prospect.
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The 1st Maine is breathlessly await
ing pay day and the furlough
Rumor says there will soon be more
than four speakership candidates in
the field.
Granite State is lots better than SELL
ing out at a lower figure.
Gossip is busy with schemes, big and
little, to come before the next Legis-
lature.
The batteries are wondering if they
will pass the winter in Camp Powers.
The flight of summer has not taken
away the Poland Spring crowd. The
house is still well filled.
Bangor News: If "a corn cob pipe
smoked for two consecutive years will
enable a candidate for Legislature to
run four votes ahead of his ticket in
an off year, wouldn't it be a good plan
for q II IN CT m hot
breed Of pipes? For further particu-
lars, see George H. Smith Of Presque
Isle. 'so4
The sympathy of the State goes out
to Livermore Falls, and there are
many Maine towns that are especially
fitted to sympathize by similar expert
ences. Portland has the saddest record
in this respect having been swept by
fire five times-in 1876, 1880, ITS, 1922
and 1866. The big Mirmichi fire tina.
devastated SO many towns in northern
Maine, occurred in 1926 Old Towns
big fire was on April 10. 1866; Monson's
on May %. 1860. Waldoboro has had
two big fires, on August %. 1854. and on
October 20, 1876. Bath suffered heavy
loss in 1887, Wiscasset in 1869. Auburn
in 1855. Rockland in 1858, North Arson
in 1868, Pemaquid in 1858. Brunswick
in 1922 and Bangor on January 1, 1869
Machiasport had big fires in 1873 and in
1888. Augusta on September II, 1865,
Houlton in 1879, and Vassalboro on
June 26, 1897. Eastport was burned on
October IA, 1866; Pennington on Octo-
Der % of the same year; Monmouth
village on April 10, 1888: North New
Portland. November 1. 1884, Camden
village. November 10. 1892; Wilton,
April g 1893; Norway. May 3, 1893; and
Bath has had two or three big fires
within a few years.
Certainly no father and mother in the
State have done or given more for the
honor Of the Stars and Stripes than Mr..
and Mrs. Daniel Heaphy of Washing
ton street, Portland, who have lost two
of their sons from typhoid fever con-
tracted in the swamps of Chicka-
manga. Their two sons Andrew and
James, both OF Co. L. died in the Port
land hospital, one August %, and the
other September II.
Boston Herald: Honest Sam" Lord
of Maine will contine to conduct his
apothecary shop in Saco. That is bet
ter business than running for Governor
on dishonest platform.
Boston Journal: The claim that Ed
dington Bend, settlement near Ban
gor, Me-, is built entirely of stolen
lumber, is again going the rounds. If
the claim is true, Eddington Bends
construction resembles that of numer-
GUS Democratic platforms within the
past three years. a
Remember the Maine" is the legend
that was written upon a squash in a
Lewiston farm garden early in the
summer. Nature remembered the
Maine. and that squash grew. and the
legend became more and more plain as
the squash increased in size Now it IS
seen in the window of Hibbert's cafe
in Lewiston. where it has been awarded
blue ribbon