Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-18

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The Old Time Feeling.
Weather feels like Christmas comm
Happy times in town;
Make the big hall red with holly,
Take the fiddle down;
Rosy cheeks-a bright eyes glance
Make the old boys want 10 dance!
Weather seems like Christmas COMM
Teller feels today
Like he just has kissed his sweetheart
Yonder-in LIES May! .
Rosy checks, trimmed round with curls-
Watch the old boys swing the girls!
Frank l.. Stanton.
Augusta may well mourn the loss of
such a citizen as Hon. p. o. Vickery.
The football season will not be over
till Bangor High and Portland High
meet again.
Liberty has a dream of an electric
railroad connecting that town with
Camden, and it does not seem an I'M
reasonable one.
CITY Clerk Murch of Belfast, reports
a modest little boom in the local mar
riage market. this fall.
The Congregational clergymen of
| Franklin county have united in their
opposition to the marriage of divorced
persons.
The PASSPORT sardine is appreciated
all around the world, as is indicated by
a recent large shipment to China.
Whatever the condition of the apple
crop there does not promise to be any
serious shortage of the cider crop and
some of the mills are working night
and day.
when we require diplomas of our
cooks will they belong to the diplomatic
CORPSE" asks the Portland Advertiser,
and the Biddeford Journal promptly
answers: Certainly not; they will
then. as now. be in the service of the
department of the Interior"
Clam shells are being used extensive
ly down Milbridge way for roads and
driveways and we are told that they
make excellent roads, in low lands es-
peciaily.
Frederic Mason, has sold the West
brook Chronicle, which he has been ed
stood. SO the Portland papers say, that
Mr. Mason will once more engage in the
daily field.
The managers of the Louisiana Pur-
chase exposition are trying to close ne
in which Henry Wadsworth LongfellOw
was born, located on the corner of
Fore and Hancock streets. Portland,
with the idea of removing the building
to St. Louis as worlds fair attrac-
ton. Is it possible that the fair man.
agement has not heard that Professor
Triggs CT Chicago announced not long
since that Longfellow was no poet?
1t was almost depressing to read in
the Advertiser last week this para
graph: "Llewellyn Barton has re-
received a letter from Bird S. Coler III
| which Coler accepted the invitation ex-
tended to him to speak at the annual
dinner of the Maine Democratic Club
| to be held sometime in January" That
| Sometime in January is too bad. For
what was the club organized if not to
| celebrate the anniversary of the battle
| of New Orleans, and to keep alive the
| memory of Gen. Jackson. and Of d. A.
Sweetsir? The late Mr.. Sweetsir cele-
brated the anniversary Of that battle
| for many years, at times with the as
sistance of other Democrats, and at
times alone. Generally he paid the
bills and the rest enjoyed the results OF
his labor.
Here is the true holiday spirit as
voiced by Editor Robbins in the Old
Town Enterprise: Thanksgiving and
then Christmas. Let's have a genuine
oldfashioned Santa Claus Christmas
this year. How'd you like to have a
Union Christmas tree at City hall with
something on the tree for every boy
and girl in the city. Not over two
presents to any one child and no jokes
but lively Christmas greeting all
round"
The annual harvest of Christmas
trees has commenced to be reaped here
in Maine and all the rest of this month
| and during December, until within a
few days of Christmas. sapling fir trees
all the way from six to Is or 20 feet In
height. will be shipped to the whole
| sale dealers in Boston, New York and
Philadelphia. Maine furnishes by faI
the greatest number of Christmas trees
used in the eastern portion of the coun-
try. This fall it is expected that near
~ 1000 900 will be sent. While many
| of the trees will be sent from towns
along the coast line in schooners and
on steamboats, fully 500 fiat cars will
be loaded with them and brought down
over the Bangor & Aroostook and