Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-21

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| Men and the Stars.
Some men are like the stars up there
Those distant points of light;
| The habit they in common SNARE
OF being out at night.
Some stars are fixed some men are. too'
And very, very well;
| OF star and man alike we view
Naught but the outer SHE'LL
And many a star and many a man
That seems SO fine ana prlSht
To those who all untutored scan
But shows reflected hsht. ~ 1y;sar
The annual smallpox scare Is preak-
| ing out in spots.
The law plainly proposes to take
hand in these ken-for-a-deer
cases.
There are only four Maine college
elevens. but fully twice that number OF
"All-Maine" teams are being organized
on paper. -.,4
A f,ll month vet before the official
ending of fall and the beginning or
winter. when the days are the shortest.
The poultry dealers are prominent
among those who do not want to see
soft weather during the coming week.
The popularity of Thanksgiving we'd
dings is evidently not what it used to
he. for several city clerks have COM
mented upon the small number of mar
riage intentions filed at this time.
Winter Harbor is happy in the pos
session of citizen, E. ]. Hammond
who has given the town a lot and lum-
Der for town hall upon which work
will begin at once.
The bay at Surry has been alive with
small herring for a few weeks past,
and the little white mackerel gulls have
been seen IN large numbers. This is
something unusual, for it is very sell
dom that either the herring or TINS
species of gull are seen as far inland
as the head of Patterns bay.
Surry smelt fishermen are looking
forward to the freezing over of Union
river bay for the smelt industry to be-
gin. Indications point to a good sup
ply in the bay for the winter fishing, as
small schools are now appearing, ana
fishermen are encouraged to make
preparations for the winter work. The
winter of 19O1-O2 was one of the dull
seasons in the smelt business as the
fish were unusually scarce.
Over in Eastbrook, while they don't
allow hunting to interfere with bust
ness. they manage to get enough OF the
former to make things interesting.
Last week Moses Wilbur plowed till
three in the afternoon, and then went
into the woods for game. He wounded
deer. but failed to get him. But
before sunset he ran across bear
which he shot and killed. And IL
wasn't much of day for game either.
BOwdoin and Amherst are preparing
for their annual debate and Bates and
L. of NJ are planning on one this Win
ter. but it will be impossible to arouse
half the interest, either popular or I'M
dergraduate in these contests which
the football battles evoked.
The Rockland board of trade is
struggling with the problem of better
streets for the city, matter well worth
| the consideration of similar bodies in
all our cities.
Everybody has heard of the goose
that laid golden eggs. And now comes
! story from Bluehill of a chicken that
totes around-or did before he lost his
head-lumps of solid GOLD in mis- crop.
| \ brook runs through the property OF
the owner of this gold bearing chicken,
ahd it is argued by many of the towns
people that gold may have been
brought in it's waters from higher att
tudes, and that this gold is now lodged
| in the soil of the vicinity. Small humps
of the precious metal have been found
before now in the crops CT fowl killed
/! in Bluehill.
| Sigma Beta Pi is the name of the new
fraternity organized at the University
of Maine law school. The chapter in
cludes the leading young men of the
school among it's charter members and
new initiates, most of them being col
| lege graduates, and is certain to be
/ nrominent factor in The life and WOI