Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-13

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The End of Vacation.
The truant sun has left his trail
Across the Swallowing sea;
The slender moon is weirdly pale,
And all seems T1ockery.
This life is but a morbid murk,
For /. in sooth, must so TO work.
The coat Of tan. 80 dearly priced,
Must fade and ! must hear
The boss with anger undisguised,
Breathe censure in mine ear,
l. who was lazy as Turk,
Like common clay must go to work.
No more edown the beach Ill go
In festive garb arrayed,
Or, doing. watch the iteeting show
OF fashion on parade.
No more butterfly I'll shirk.
For |, in sooth. must go 10 work.
Farewell. celestial Angelina,
Goodbye. seraphic Sue.
The railway train must roll between
Myself. dear girls. and you.
Some other man may WOO and smirk,
But |, alas, am due for work.
Washington Star.
The plurality is well oyer the 27,0o0
mark.
Those lingering Aroostook towns
help swell the glorious margin.
Aroostook's 5000 plurality is not
equalled in any ether county.
Only in 1856 and in 1892 did the Pro-
hibitionists ever pole a larger vote for
Governor.
1t looks as though the Lewiston rep
resentative contest would go before the
Legislature. Sc
Il didn't do it anyway. and besides
I'm insane seems to be the defense Of
the Wilton man accused OF wife-mur-
der.
Now that Aroostook can Hello to
the rest of the world. it will be putting
on metropolitan airs.
One of the oldest voters to get out.
Monday. was Geo. Montgomery, age
%. of Warren, and he voted the Repub-
lican ticket.
over a week of summer yet left ana
the corn crop proposes to make the
most of it.
1t will be hard to throw stone for
the next three weeks without hitting n
| fair somewhere.
A week from today the first football
game will be held and a week or two
later the gridiron will begin to sizzle.
Waterville citizens are growing not
little over the fact that the vote in
that city was 337 greater than that OF
Augusta.
Mrs. John G. Crowley, who, up 10
| Monday night was Miss Mertie Blake
| of Rockport. Me-, will be the first wo-
| man in the world to spend her honey
| moon on a seven masted schooner, she
| sailing with her husband. the vessel :
| manag ing owner. for Philadelphia, on
| the maiden trip of the Thomas W
| Lawson. the first seven master ever
| built. The Lawson will go from Bos-
ton to Philadelphia for her first cargo
of nearly 5000 tons of coal.
Biddeford Journal: According TO an
| exchange, the tonsorial parlors of ]. A.
| p Soule at Morrill's Corner were
broken into Monday night and guam
| tity of razors. shears and straps taken.
| This illustrates one of the diSadvan-
tages of supporting tonsorial parlor5
| Probably if it had been a plain barber
+, shop the burglars would have passed
( it by on the other side.
| Carrie Nation is not coming to
| Merrymeeting Park as advertised the
| 21st. All arrangements had been made
! Cor her TO come that date but she evil
| IDENTIFY got Disguised with Maine. HeI
manager wrote to Superintendent
| Blackwell that Maine was too brutal
and that she was going to shake its
dust from her skirts forever--Happy
| Maine,
| The last of the old saw mills that
| used to make Orono ore of the busiest
noisiest places on the Penobscot. is
going. In the days when the gang
saws danced by day and by night to a
| tune of their own making. and my
Rad of saw mill lights fiickered all
| night in the cool river winds and an
| army of men. powdered with fresh
sawdust. hurried through the streets
| three times q day. the Adams saw mill
held its own with the rest. The old
Island Block il used to be called, and
| for twenty years was run by James
| Hamilton, Esq. of 0rono. noted in the
old days as a most successful lumber
| man. The mill was built by Edward
| r. Southland. famous Orono mill
wright and is considered one of the
I most remarkable specimens of saw
| min framing ever known. Great tim