Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-09-24

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these things involve to thousands of
the work people of the United States?
kI@E8lNlg9 Gossip
The Glorious Season.
Jest breath o winter; it amt 50 fur
| away,
Though Twill be a little while yit fore
! YOU hear the fddles play;
! vi; its good to dream about 1.-THE eyes
that brightly glance,
y An the room a-2oin roun' yoI in the
/ glory o the dance
Jest 4 breath o winter-a whisper in the
pines,
An fewer songs o mocking birds-a rustic
/ in the vines,
J An the gold leaves in the woodlands,
well, the summer had it's joys,
/ But ii : winter that makes music fer the
merry gals an boys.
Jest a breath o. winter; let it come, an
stay awhile.
The sweet spring and the summer made
all the gardens smile;
But winter has its pleasures, an the boys
IL take their chance
With the roSieSt q pardnCTS in the bright
round o the dance.
| Atlanta Constitution.
All Kennebcc roads leadto Readfield,
! this week
| This kind of air puts the ginger into
! the footballist.
I The complaint OF over-crowdcd
/ schools comes from several Maine
cities.
Just 20 years ago today, memorial
services in honor of the martyrcd Car
/ field We're everywhere held.
| Non union hair cuts for Is cents are
a source of no little discussion and
contention in Biddeford
Bath possesses evidently a man who
| could give David iIarum points on a
| horse that originally cost him SO. 81
and he charged the purchaser 81 for
| delivering the animal.
The Argus says that additional work
/ will prevent the Fort Prebe boys from
indulging in football. this fall. Yet We
note that all the Maine colleges have
games scheduled with the Fort Preble
team which for the past few seasons,
has been a team not easily beaten.
We spoke. the other day. of the
many Maine boys who so to college
outside the State. 1t evidently works
/ both ways. for about 30 boys from
outside of Maine, have entered our
Maine colleges. this fall
Maine progresses For the first time
in the history Of the world there is a
span Of horses on Monhegan Island
| Bath Times.
1t isn't the kind of progress which
viii, be appreciated by those who visit
this insulated and picturesque island
! each summer. one of its principal
| charms has been the primitive condi-
| ton and customs prevailing. Anything
| making it more like the rest of the
world is to be deplored
The independent tells of Il Bath man
who wears new $500 diamond ring. This
is all right enough in its way ana an
| interesting bit of local gossip. but
how much better it would be and how
| much more important the news il
some Bath bud We're wearing such a
new diamond ring on her left hand.
The hunting season is undeniably on.
The first day that the partridge season
opened a boy was shot. and yester-
days paper told Of a Bath boy serious
~ shot by gunnerS. a JOnesport man
mistaken for a bear and shot in the
arm. and in New Brunswick. just over
the line. a 13-ycar- old boy was mistak-
en- for a deer and killed After Octo-
Der ! the real slaughter will begin.
It is rather tough business sending a
49, year old boy to Thomastou for life.
but that is the fate Of the Brunswicl k
/ firebug. He has spent six years OF his
| life in the reform school and in
! spite of his illustrious name seems to
be 4 case Of total deprcvity.
A Presquc Isle man has raised IA
! barrels of potatoes, this year by
cultvating the strip Of roadside along
the front Of his farm. In theory. and
in this instance. in practice. it is all
/ very wei to make the waste places
| blossom. but the average traveller
! prefers trees and bushes ana flowers
and weeds and grass beside the high
way rather than ploughed strips plant
F, ed to potatoes.
To Anxious Inquirer:-No the cruis-
or to be launched at Bath, next Satur-
day. the largest government craft ever
built in a Maine yard, is not named in
honor Of our sole surviving ex-Presi-
dent.
| This week will be an interesting one
at the military posts around Portland.
notably 50 at Fort Preble. The expert
mental firing and test of the big NOR