Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-10-01

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The Sweeter Life.
4 little cot
| In 2 little spot
A bright blue sky above you;
Bread and meat,
An kisses sweet
! Ar a faithful heart to love you.
An riches seem
Like an idle dream
Fer all their pride an station;
No wish to roam a
When the hearts at home
You're rich as the whole creation!
Frank l.. Stanton.
The last quarter of 1902.
The slaughter of the deer began, this
morning.
Bowdoin and Harvard play their an.
| nual football game. today.
Golden October is here, but the for.
ests are not yet very gorgeous.
The month begins with a new moor
up behind the clouds.
Now the farmers can have revenge
on those crOp-destroying deer.
Here's hoping that all the empty
Kennebec ice houses will be filled, next
winter.
Who will be the fortunate Maine boys
to get those Rhodes scholarships at Ok
ford University?
Carrie Nation blew into Portland, the
other day. but couldn't succeed il
making much trouble after all.
One brunswick book store sold over
$500 worth of text books on the morn
ing that the college term opened.
The champion rat story comes from
Rumford Falls where big rodent
dragged off the full dinner pail of d
workman in one of the mills.
What story York's skeleton mys-
terry would have made for Dickens!-
Old York Courant and Transcript.
Not only for Dickens, but also fol
Howells or Page or Mark Twain o.
some other of York literary residents.
State Master Gardner of the State
Grange, who has visited most of the
counties in the State, says that tn,
crop of winter apples will not be more
than 20 per cent. of last year.
Mrs. Martha Baker Dunn, the Water
vile authoress, was made happy, tn,
other day, by receiving from Presiden
Roosevelt an autograph letter in ap
probation of her article The Brown
ing Tonic" which appeared in tn,
August Atlantic. He said that Mrs
| Roosevelt called his attention to tn,
article and wrote an extended ac
acknowledgement of the pleasure tn,
article had given him.
What will Readfield and the towns t,
| the north of it say to the proposition
to remove the kennebec fair from
| Readfield, where it has been for half :
| century, to Winthrop? The proposed
location would doubtless draw large
| crowds, especially as the electric roa,
| to Augusta is now built.
| Councilman Hassett. of Portland
| who has been umpiring in the New
England league this season, has re
turned to his home. He has signed
contract to umpire in the American
| league next season ut a salary of 81, 10
| and expenses. Out of no less than 2
| men who We're tried by the New Eng
land league this season, Mr.. HaSset
was the only one to continue during tn,
| whole campaign. His promotion to tn,
| fast American league is one that il
heartily deserved. and his many Port
| land friends will be pleased to learn o
| his good fortune. MIR. Hassett will b,
| the only man from this State VINO hal
| ever served as umpire in one of the hi,
leagues.
Maine veterans and their wives an,
| friends who will attend the coming en-
| campment of the G. A. r. in Washing
! ton, will be interested in the announce
ment that the society of the Sons an,
Daughters of Maine will give them
| reception at their hall, 522 9th stree
| N. W., Tuesday evening, October I.
| Waterville Mail: The Kennebe,
Journal finds fault with the men VIII,
send their sons from Maine to atten,
| college in other states. 1t does seem :
pity that a State which has the de
| served reputation of maintaining som,
| of the best small colleges in the lane
| should be deprived of the advantage o
| educating its own sons and daughters
| But there are men whose pride il
] their offspring leads them to have TO
( them very ambitious designs. and t,
/ Sl1ch I.