Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-04-13
IYydlQ0u8 GOSSIP
The Final Choice.

Dark doubts between the promise an;
| vent. Young.
| / rather thought that Alexander
Would sound well at the font.
While mother much preferred Lcandcr
| For him who swan the IiellcSpont.
Grandfather clamorcd FOR triah.
While grandma mentioned Obcdiah.
Then mother spoke Of Clarence. Cyril,
And Reginald and Claude.
| But | thought none of them were virilc
| Like some such name as ichabod
| Grandfather spoke OF jeremiah.
| And grandma favored AZariah.
! Then Harold. Gerald, Donald, Luke.
| And Iordly Rodcrick
| Wagod wordy war with Marmaduke
And Bernard and Theodore.
! While grandpa minted Iachariah
| And grandma thought of iiczekiah.
| We spoke OF Gottlicb from the German.
! OF baiuS, IaiuS. Saul,
| OF Andrew. Francois. Ivan. Herman,
OF Casper. Jasper, Peter. Paul
Still grandpa stuck to Nehemiah,
And grandma Ntnturcd Jcdediah.
| From Aaron down to Zcph we went.
| But fate is so contrary,
! For after the august event
The name we r,atl' chose was Mary
| Though grandma much preferred Maria.
| And grandpa rooted for Sophia.
Edmund Vance Cook. IN April New
Lippcncott.
Hospitable Bangor was at its best,
last night.
L; would be Of interest to know the
precipitation of water during that two
weeks storm.
| The Maine rivers are long ones and
there are still bad ice jams up toward
| the headwaters.
The removal of al swinging signs
over the streets is being seriously con-
| siCicrcl by the Rockland city fathers.
| Hcn-roost robbers are creating havoc
among the PASSPORT poultry owners. Il
must be they come from over the line.
1t is something of a novelty for a
| boy to post his father. but that is what
a Bath young man has done through
a local paper.
| There is iull in the Colby auti-co-
education fight. but the contestants are
preparing for lively campaign in
June.
| Among the interesting runlo"s about
contemplated amusement attractions
for Portland the coming summer, is
| one to the effect that a roof garden
may be installed on the Portland
theatre block.
Ashland hears the interesting report
that Il new $4,000 hotel is about to be
built in that enterprising village.
Pennington is trying the experiment
| of a liquor agency. this year. and the
Chronicle announces that the purest
| and best liquors can be obtained for
medicinal and mechanical purposes.
Any unusual amount of sickness or
unusual interest in the mechanic arts
will be regarded with grave suspicion.
The publication of that poem by
Longfellow. found this week among the
papers in his Cambridge home, will be
awaited with much interest.
Editor Pillsbury of Belfast filed the
pulpit of a local church. the other Sun
day evening. and it is not the least to
the disparaEcinen of the regular
pastor to say that the congregation
heard an exceptionally able and inter
esting discourse.
There is pathos in Il recent item in I;
Maine exchange to the effect that q
''mustcr-in' is getting to be very I'M
usual occasion in Grand Army post
The ranks are getting sadly thinned
and they cannot be recruited as ir
the old days. Still! there are a large
number of old veterans. worthy OF
membership, who are not members OF
this great order.
A big Sheep ranch is the latest
scheme down Whiting way. The two
nlcn behind it have money and enthu-
siasn1 and claim to have found the
ideal SPOT where there are severa
thousand acres Astounding in all kind.
of grasses necessary to sustain sheer