Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-12-31

o hard sweet strife, o sting
OF buffeting salt!
Doubt and despair take wing,
Failure and fault.
l dread not wrath or wrong
Smile and am free;
Strong while the winds are strong,
The rocks the sea.
Heart OF my heart, though life
Front us with storm,
Love vii; outlast the strife,
More pure, more warm.
Charles G. d. Roberts.
Exit 1902, today.
OF course, you will watch the
year out? az
The plot thickens and the 29A
is dryer as 1903 approaches. I;
If lemon juice will kill typhoid gerHl
there ought to be a big boom in the
lemon trade in Maine cities.
1t is far cry to graduation days,
but Phillips High school leads off with
the announcement of it's graduation
parts.
Anyway, Lewiston was fortunate
that its smallpox scare held off till the.
holiday trade was over.
The "sand-peep" which won fame
in Portland under the Pearson regime
is now migrating to other Maine cities.
Among the weddings of the holiday
season is that of the Westbrook Ga
zette and the Westbrook Chronicle,
and the combined papers with the
name at the head of the
Is pages will greet the world and be
greeted thereby, this week.
The past week has given Kittery
quite a remarkable death record, four
of her Oldest residents having passed
away within the time. Mrs. E. Mara
bah Remick 50 years of age, Mrs.
Lydia Weeks Is years, Rev. Joel Will
son SO years months of age and Capt.
Thomas o. Hoyt, 81 years of age.
A Whiting lady recently had the
dentist extract her teeth preparatory
to having a new set, and a short time
since called on him to have the con-
tract finished. After a careful exam
ination of her mouth he informed her
that he could do nothing for her. Very
much surprised, she asked why and
was informed that she would soon be
in possession of both under and upper
growing rapidly. Some others would
like the same experience.
Maine paper that wants to be counted
with the list of those that set the ex-
ample for Frank A. Munsey of not al
lowing advertising on the first page.
The Advertiser has followed that rule
since changing from four to eight pages
eight years ago.
Robert Luce, the representative from
SomerviIle In the Massachusetts Legis-
lature, is chairman of the House COM
mittecs ON election laws and federal
relations. He was Lewiston boy, the
son of Judge Luce. and his primary
elections law was one of the features
of last winters session.
The children of York have another
pleasant surprise in store for them
from the same source which contribut-
ed so much to their happiness dur
ing the holidays last year. The an
nouncement comes in the form of a
telegram from Mr.. Thomas Nelson
Page, who is now in Chicago, asking
the York Transcript to arrange a
Christmas and New Years entertal-
ment for the children of York upon the
same lines as conducted last year. and
in behalf of both Mr.. Page and Mr..
Bryan Lathrop. The children of York
have reason to remember the happy
occasion last year due to the kind
of Mr.. Page, and the
success of the entertainment provided
for them was SO great and the appre-
citation shown so cordial that it's repe-
tition this year naturally suggested it.
self to the author of "A Captured
Santa Claus" ana Mr.. Lathrop as a
most fitting manner in which to show
their interest in the people of their
home. AS on the former occa-
sion the arrangement of details has
been left to the Transcript. and with
the assistance of committee of ladies'
which, has been chosen. it will faith
fully fulfll the commission.
There will be something doing on
the New Meadows next summer and
before she knows it, Bath is liable to
have a big summer resort on that side
of her. There is no lovelier place in
all Maine than the country immedi-
ately surrounding this long inlet of the
sea, and proper handling is all that is
needed for it's development. That Is
likely to be forthcoming now that such
hustlers as Baths genial mayor and
his associates have taken hold of the
matter and organized for business. The
mayors steamboat line will go a long
way toward introducing the people to