Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-18
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An Annual Event.
Now the poet writes his ballads on the
coming of the fall
And the parody he jinsles is familiar 10
us all,
But his panama is tlimSy and his over
| coats in hook
So the frost is on the pumpkin and the
folders in the shock
Oh, the is in September, and the oys
ter's in the pan.
4 And the 3 is i'll the bonnet of the office
| seeking man;
And the coal is in the cellar-and the
coal man he will mock
With THE frost is on the pumpkin and
| the foddcrs in the shock"
When the pen is in the inkwell and the
| poets at his best,
Then he gives the frosted pumpkin and
the fodder little rest
For Il staple. timely feature of his verse
producing stock
Is the frost is on the pumpkin and til,
folders in the shock"
Chicago Tribune
Drouth No. was broken in a most
pleasing and timely fashion.
There is no popular demand for the
enforcement of the law calling in straw
hats when mid September arrives.
| 1t is Il pity and a shame that Rum
ford Falls should have to experience
the unrleasantness of big strike.
That session of the State w. G. r. u.
at Dover has given the resubmission
club a good square meal of food for
thought.
1t has been a hard week for teachers
and pupils alike, and Friday finds
ttcm pretty well wilted.
The warm wave has brought from
many quarters the reports of Il second
crop of strawberries.
Everybody up in Maine" wishes
Holman f.. Day and his bride Il long
and happy life.
After Al years of continuous service
OF the good old Machias Union, Geo.
A. Parlin has sold the paper to the
Urion Publishing Company, Il new cor
| l.Oration, and proposes to take the va
cation he has earned.
| There are probably few members of
Of the annual reunions of the national
| body than Seth Il. Snipc of Bath who
Irecently returned from the encamp-
1Hcnt at San Francisco. He has at
| tended IA of these encampments since
| the association was organized 81 years
ago and states that they become more
and more enjoyable each year. He at
| tended the convention at San Fran
cisco II years ago, going and coming
Iby Il different route each time.
| y WoOlWiCh man who roWed across
the river il day or two ago was consd-
erybly surprised when he tied UP his
boat ut tic city landing to see a gray
isquirrel suddenly jump out of the boat
and disappear on the wharf. The little
fellow had evidently been about the
boat when the owner got aboard, and
was wise enough to lie low until across
the river.
| With the departure of the summer
tourists the attendance at the Long
fellow house, in Portland, is falling off,
| but not more 50 than last year. The
attendance the past week was more
than the corresponding week Il year
ago. Over $500 have paid admissions
this season 50 far, The house will be
| kept open until after the meeting of
the Federation of Women's Clubs in
October. The register is always of in
| forest. The past week people have
lrt gistcrcd from London and Liverpool,
| Germany, Roumania. Japan, Havana.
Cuba, Virginia, West Virginia. Alaba-
ma, Florida, Texas, Arkansas, Ken
lucky. South Dakota, New Mexico and
California;, the others coming from the
nearer states and Canada.
The recent birth of the fourteenth
CHILD in Il WatervIle family, recalls
a story about naming the thirteenth
child which arrived during the Span
ism American War Number IS was
''iiltt NlpHbiiSt AIll. n TREND OF the
family thought it rather strange that
L. French American citizen could be
naming his boy after the King of
Spain at that time, so asked the father
about it. The father Strengthened up,
Indignant like. and CURLY informed his
lih4uisitor that his boy had been named
latter himself and this being the thir-
Itcenth arrival, accounted for his name.
| They are trying to increase the pop-
uarity of the State prison by making
the grounds more attractive. The old
(quarry which for years was hardly any
}thing more than the receptacle for a
large amount of Stagnant water is now
looking as Slick as any piece of the
Igrounds. 1t is entirely free from wa
ter having a perfect drainage to the
Iriver, while the bottom of the quarry
has been filled in with earth. This
lchanSe and Improvement makes it
lcasily a chance to utilize an area of