Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-12-26
Democratic nomination for the Presi-
lency. From this it is evident that the
Judge is a man of courage.
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December.
The year is dying! Chant the death
Like to Il requiem for a passing soul;
Let Natures diapason upward roll
| SOFT as the signing of the, stricken: snow
iently as winds which in the valleys blow
May every mountain, field and grass.
Be draped in white pure as unsulliet
| scroll
On which to write the epitaph of woe.
| Farewell forever to the going year
Its joys, its sorrows, save to Memory
lost;
| Oblivion shall CLEAN each smile and tear
| Shall cover trace OF all paths we have
crossed.
| AS meath the snow our footprints disap-
pear,
| AS Mornings sun dissolves the meadow
Dexter Smith in Every Where.
The exchange of the duplicate pres
ants is now in order.
With holiday behind and Sun
day ahead, this is a hard day to settle
Down to work.
From the horrible example stand
point, Ten Nights in a Bar Room" is
not so much needed on the Maine cir
cult as it used to be.
Next year Christmas falls on Sun
day, and various holiday problems
that have complicated things, this
year, will be avoided.
Pretty soon we shall be speaking of
1903 as last year." Are those reso-
buttons all framed?
The question Did you get scrinl
set?" gets a unanimous answer in the
affirmative from the young ladies, this
morning.
christmas comes but once a year
and when it comes it brings good
cheer" and also a sigh of relief in
many quarters that it's visits are not
more frequent.
Public opinion is pretty apt to over
rate a mans wealth. When a Rock
land citizen died not so very long ago
an estimate was placed upon his prop
erty as high as $4,000. The appraisal
has since shown the actual value to be
less than one-fifth of that sum.
The Bucksport Times makes this
suggestion: Would it not be well if
the pastors of the three churches took
a lesson from the school authorities and
arranged for storm signal to be rung
on tempestous Sabbaths? Members of
their parishes could then stay at home
without any twinges Of conscience. To
sit for an hour i'll wet garments is
neither sensible nor religious. If con-
dtions are favorable, pneumonia will
take up it's abode in q man as quickly
in q sanctuary as in a circus.
Bath submits to losing the Boothbay
steamer to Wiscasset during the winter
months with the less grace because it
is not entirely necessary. There is
reason to believe that if it We're not for
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construction that it is and in just the
place where it is the upper Sasanoa
would not become blocked with ice
every season.
About three months ago fisherman
caught large seed lobster marked II.
A K. which he put overheard in Seguin
Harbor. This WAS noted in the Jones'
port Enterprise with the request that
any one catching this lobster would in
turn report. On Dec. 8 George Mar
shall caught the same shellfish near
Mark Island, which as soon as punched
by the inspector will be placed i'll
Ratchet Harbor. This is interesting to
those who are studying the habits and
vagaries of the esculent crustacean.
and guesses are in order as to when
this specimen will next show up.
Cherryfield, and Washington county
as we'll, take pride in the fact that their
orchardsts are to have a part in the
fruit display at the st. Louis EXPOSE
tion-that to a Cherryhed fruit grower
is accorded the honor. AS the results
Oh MS IlDullOIi W lilc olIlo-
logical Societys exhibition lately held
in Auburn, Frank T.. Small has sold to
one of the Maine commissioners to the
Exposition eight bushels of Milding
apples, which he is now preparing for
transportation to st. Louis. The fruit
is being packed in waxed paper and
will be forwarded by the commissioner
with other fruit that Maine will con-
tribute to the great international show.
Upon it's arrival in st. Louis the fruit
will be Immediately placed i'll cold
storage.
Dora Morrill, relates the following in
stance in the Gardiner Reporter Jour
nal: II know an instance where three
ladies living in a country village did
kindness to n well-to-do woman and
she was really grateful to them, so she
wished to express the sentiment as
best she might, but she did not put
herself in their place even partly or
she would have found a more accept
able present than that which she sent
them. To each she sent large hand
some ostrich feather fan, the kind
where one plume goes to a stick of the
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