Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-10-06
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The Breakfast Food Family.

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The Breakfast Food Family.
John Spratt will eat no fat.
Nor will he touch the lean.
He scorns to eat of any meat;
He lives upon foodine.
But Mrs. Spratt will none Of that;
Foodine she cannot eat
Her special wish Is for dish
OF Expurgated Wheat.
To William Spratt that food is fiat
On which his mater dOtes.
His favorite feed-his special need
Is Eata Heapa Oats.
| But sister Lii can't see how VIII
Can touch such tasteless food
AS breakfast fare it can't compare,
She says with Shredded Wood
Now. none of these Leander please;
He feeds upon Bath Mitts.
While sister Jane improves her brain
with Cero-GrapO-Grits
Iycurgus votes for Fathers Oats;
Proggine appeals to May
The Junior John subsists upon
Uneeda Bayla Hay.
Corrected Wheat for little Pete:
Flaked Pine for Dot; while ''Bub.
The infant Spratt is waxing fat
On Battle Creek Near-Grub.
Chicago Tribune.
And now the music lovers throng to
Portland.
The Bangor Festival was an Al,
,, top-notch success.
The woman suffragists plainly mean
business. next winter.
Topsham, Freeport. Acton, Harrison
and Madawaska are yet to have their
fairs.
When it comes to town fairs, it Is
hard to beat the kind that good old
Sidney holds.
1t seems agreed that the triumph OF
Mary Howe has never been excelled at
a Maine Music festival.
The BOwdoin football eleven has two
games, this week, both being on the
nome grounds. The first is with Exc
ter, Wednesday, and the other with N.
II. State college, Saturday.
The game receipts at Bangor are
much larger than for the first week Of
last years open season.
Although four rural free delivery
routes now start from the Harrison
postoffice, the people are not yet sat-
isfied and it is stated that petitions are
being circulated for fifth to run
through the northerly part Of Bridgton
and portion of Waterford.
Gray squirrels are unusually abund-
ant this fall. The Damariscotta Herald
man remal KS that while it seems al
most too bad to shoot them they make
a toothsome DISH when properly pre-
pared.
WaldOborO is another of those lucky
towns which has coal dealer who not
only has some coal on hand, but also
has a kind heart and a good degree of
public spirit to go with it, He has
sold to his customers at the normal fig
are and refused high offers from OUT
side parties. The dealers in Brunswick.
Freeport, Bowdoinham and other
places have done the same.
Usually strikers are content to take
little less than they strike for, but at
Red Beach The granite workers actual
ly got more. They struck for nine
hour day and to be paid off every two
weeks. These requests were granted
and their pay was increased 10 cents
per day.
The Waterville Mail reports drink
ing cup famine in Waterville, caused
by the demand of the children for lit
taken to school. While the fad Of the
individual, cups lasts there will be lots
of thirsty youngsters in school.
H. A. Shorey, Jr., who has been with
his father on the Bridgton News since
his graduation from Bowdoin, two
years ago, is now on the local staff of
the Bangor Commercial. He is a
bright newspaper boy and is sure to
make his mark in the profession.
The ROckland Opinion has been de-
voting much spaC CT late to the non
voting Democrats Of the State and
their ears should be burned to a blister
by this time. 1t claims there are 20,-
900 of them, though this is an absurdly
high estimate, and tries to make them
mad by saying it would rather see
them vote the Republican ticket, INTEL
ligently and honestly. than stay in the
woods. We hope the Opinions CAM
paign will not be in vain and that they
will all come out and vote the Repub-
liccn ticket in 1904.
Bath Times: We predict that the
North Pole will be first reached by the
trolley and that the promoters of the
line will be the famous band of Bath
trolley builders whose latest venture is
an all-rail line to Norway.
Twelve-year old Harvey Bryant OF
Jonesport is one Of the coming ]. Pier
pont Morgans of Maine. for he is a
worker Of workers and can see a cent
farther with the naked eye than any