Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-17
E4y8lQQVB Gossip
The Forest GREETING.

Good hunting!-aye, good hunting,
| Wherever the forests call;
| But ever a heart beats hot with fear
And what of the birds that fall!
| Good hunting!-aye, good hunting,
Wherever the north winds blow;
| But what of the stag that calls Tor HIS
And what of the wounded doe?
/ Good hunting.-aye. good hunting.
| But an. we are bold and strong;
But our triumph call through the forest
hall
Is a brothers funeral song
| For we are brothers ever,
| Panther ana bird and bear;
/ Man and the weakest that fear his face,
| Born to the nest or lair.
Yes brothers. and who shall judge us?
Hunters and game are We;
. But who gave the right for me to Sm!lc
| Who boasts when he Smiteth me?
Good huntng.-aye, good hunting,
| And din in the forest track;
But the sportsman Death comes stridine
| on:
| BROTHERS. the way is black
Paul Laurence Dunbar, September Con
| fury.
Two weeks to the opening of the
game season.
Not really ideal weather for football
practice.
Some of the corn packing factories
are actually doing quite a business, AZ
! ter all.
| 1t is do or die for Fairfield, today.
If Waterville wins the game the series
is also won.
| The problem of one session or two
for the high school is giving the Lew
is.on school board an excuse for some
red hot debates.
Having read the testimony in that
! Gardiner water hearing, what is your
estimate of the value of the plant?
Those Jail sentences in Kenncbec
county came just in time to fill the
state white Ribbon convention with
JOY.
Franklin countys big fair is Ga years
CID ana this weeks exhibition is said
to be fully GA times as good as the first
one was.
Friday night, September %, will be
"Rowdoin night" and the graduates,
young and otherwise, will be back on
the old campus in numbers only rx-
cccded by those of commencement
week.
Not only on the northern border are
smallpox cases reported, but Old Town,
Ercwer, and Rockland have cases of
this dreaded disease.
A poor Old woman living a few miles
cut of M2chias. had $50 stolen from
her home, the other day. She had saved
II by such work as washing and scrub
b,ng in Machias and ii was to sustain
her through the. winter while she would
not be able to get to the village to WGrk.
Some miscreant knowing her habits
ana plans. entered the house in her abb
sence. Such Il theft is beyond all words
OF contempt and makes the acts of most
bUI glars seem virtuous and commend
able in comparison.
An unusual sight in the staid city Of
Portland was that afforded by woman
at the Union station the other noon.
She was waiting for the train with her
two children. round checked, stocky
To- 20 10 time in
smoking a cigarette. She did not seem
to notice the notoriety that it brought
her. for she smoked with uncOncern
near the main entrance in the train
shed, not minding in the least the looks
~ passarSby. She handled the cigar
cite like an accustomed smoker. Now
and then she would hold it down to
the level of the little fellows mouth and
| he took Il puff with considerable en-
| joyment.
| Mrs. Lydia Wilson, of Augusta has
several times been spoken of in the pa
rera as 'tho only real daughter of the
Revolution in Maine" With all due
regard FOR the dear old lady of this city.
| the claim as to her being the only real
daughter of the Revolution in Maine is
! disputed ANA i'rceport proudly claims
| Il real daughter of the rcvolution--in
the person Of Mrs. Emery Jones. Mrs.
.TCneS was born Eunice Merrill and was
the youngest daughter of 20 children.
| She was born Nov. 3, 1927. at Falmouth.
| Maine. the daughter of Jacob and abb
Gail NoycS Merrill. of that place. Her
father and three mclcs all fought in
| the army under Washington. Mrs.
Jones is, so far as is known. the young
\cSt person living today whose father
fought under Washington: hence is the
l., cungcst real daughter of the Revolu-
| t:Gn, living. She is a member of Eliza
beth Wadsworth Chapter, Daughters
Cf the American Revolution, Portland.
| 1t is thusly that the Richmond Bee
breaches to the town for which it buzz
Zcs: Richmond has got into the habit
Of being lazy and it is a terrible habit
10 get into. That is what ails Rich
mond today. 1t is time for Richmond's
business men to shake themselves and
get on move. We believe they are
going to do it. too. We are told nv n