Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-28

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|p8QQ6V9 Gossip
October Thoughts.
Summer is done-the day grows dim
The breeze Of evening is chill
The ruStling leaf-the nipping air
Remind me of the cOa-man'S bill.
Summer is done-the song of birds
The larks sweet voice-are silent mute
The fields grow gray and brown and say
[ have to buy winter suit.
The year is dying-all about
Is Nature-shruaken shrivelled sere,
Soon will her white shroud fall-and
Must hunt the fiannels / wore last year
Philadelphia Press.
That Kingsbury murder has man!
mysterious features, but it is hoped
they may be unraveled. Too man!
rural murders remain mysteries to the
end.
Nine new cottages will be built al
Bar Harbor before another summer
There are about $50 of them now at the
famous resort.
That was sort of bimetalic wedding
at Bar Harbor, Monday, when Hugh
Golden and Silvia Shadd were united
in marriage.
AT the October term of court If
Penobscot county a total of 50 divorces
were granted, and in no fewer than a.
cases the wife was the libellant. What
a pitiful story that tells Of domestic un-
happiness, and how it emphasizes the
growing Importance of the divorce
problem.
They are starting up the evening
schools. That at Rumford Falls is one
of the first to open and it's large at
tendance shows how much it is APP
the day schools.
Isleboro is proud that in the Pendle-
ton brothers it has the men and the
capital that have launched a $4,000
vessel, each year for the past four
years.
The Bangor News man has been
studying the situation and decides that
it takes a real nice girl to keep one
standing at the front gate for half ar
hour in this weather. But for that
matter. if you We're real nice fellow
she wouldn't allow you to stand out sc
long.
Now is the time to look to it that
the family dog has a rug to lie upon
nights and that the family horse has
its stall filled with nice clean straw. II
will never do to have our faithful
animals suffer for want of the COM
monest attentions. One can sleep bet
ter to know that all living things
which depend upon him are comforta-
BILE.
When the late William w. Cross OF
Bridgton, made what proved to be his
last earthly journey, he left his faith
full white horse at a livery stable in
Portland, to be kept there till his re-
turn. and took an electric to Bar Mills
His father on his way to Cape Eliza
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stable to get the horse. when, to his
surprise, he learned that the animal
was dead, she having been taken sud-
denly i'll and shortly followed her kind
master from the scenes of earth. II
was curious and pathetic coincident.
In two days last week, there were
five weddings in Rumford Falls and sc
it was altogether appropriate that a
popular pastor should preach Sunday
morning on "Blest Be the Tie that
Binds. "-Kennebec Journal.
But inasmuch as the number oil
weddings has fallen off perceptibly, we
understand that a sermon is being
prepared from the text Go Thou and
Do Likewise. "-Rumford Fall Times.
There is one Bath man who thinks
he has right to claim he is unlucky
although he does not take gloomy
view of the i'll fortune which has fol.
lowed him the past few months. The
trouble began when his pet pug doe
went out for an airing and lost his col.
lar. The dogs harness was next put
on and in a few days he lost this
Shortly after. the man was paid a sum
of money and upon writing a receipt
placed it in pigeon hole of his desk
That night he cleaned ont +ba 81,