Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-11-24

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Happy All Round.
Happy in de summer time
Or winter rOarin' free
Any tree de possum climb
Amt too high for me.
| Happy in de night en- day
| Worr SO bright to see
| Any tune de fiddle play
Amt too faS' for me.
! Happy wild de cross or CROWN
Takin' of my chance
All l wants de worr eroun',
| Room enough ter dance.
| Atlanta Constitution.
Lots of people are hoping for
Thanksgiving sleigh ride.
Washington county regrets to repor
that the herring pack will be tn
smallest for years.
About this time the farmer wishes h
had nice flock of turkeys for the mar
ket.
The story of the disappearing lobste
| is told in the shipment of 10 tons O
Holsters from Rockland to Boston on
single day, last week.
The latest argument against the two
| session plan, in Bath, is that it does no
allow the members Of the graduating
class time to prepare their annual dra.
ma.
Biddeford is stirred up over the dis
covcry that the management of the
cemetery has been burying bodies ir
private lots without the knowledge OF
consent of the lot owners.
AS the winter draws near an occa-
sional hobo meanders along with the
request for a cold bite and lodging.
Lewiston may well be proud of its
beautiful new theatre, the Empire
which had its opening performance
last night.
1t appears that those distillng people
first proposed to locate their plant in
Biddeford, but concluded that Portland
was a more promising field.
l. Last week a Washburn woman was
brought before a trial justice and fined
for cruelty to animals, she having hit
q young calf with the blade of an ak
Most people who have tried to feed a
calf will understand how she felt when
Ashe welded that ak.
7 This is not Hobson's first visit to
Maine as he lectured in Bath, last year
Pm this trip he lectures at Rockland as
veil as in Augusta. appearing in the
turner city, last evening.
sOf the few football games that re-
min to be played, the rubber" game
beween the Bangor and Brewer elev-
ensr' Thanksgiving day, probably
arpwses the most interest.
The fortnightly club of Bath has
beal offering prizes to the school chill
drea of that city for the best articles on
thehistoric landmarks of the city, the
neeted local improvements, the most
beautiful public buildings and kindred
subjects. The winning articles are
publhhed in the Independent and re-
flectJnuch credit on the young people
who trote them.
Lrpber is now being hauled to many
poillh along the New Meadows river
for sumner cottages. One man has
sold about so lots on Long Island, and
1t is sad that most of the so who have
boushTntend to build in the spring.
LostjBtrayed or stolen, bantam her
belonging to John Temple of Bowdoin-
ham. Last seen the bird was passen-
ger on tle locomotive which hauls the
Yankee down through that town every
afternouLN To make a long story short
one afternoon recently this particular
hen with two others of the same strair
were feeling on the platform near the
freight she'd at the station on some
corn Which had been spilled there
bout that time along came the Yankee
at a go mile per hour clip. The trair
doesn't stopthere, but the hen evident
ly wanted a ride for it flew directly ir
the path pfathe locomotive and found
by some means a secure place on the
front of thed big iron horse and went
spinning Gown the line out of sight
People ara now wondering what has
become of she bantam. .
1t has been some time, since Maine
talent has produced a good comic opera
that babe well to be remarkably popu-
lar with theamusement loving public
and the advancement will be hailed
with interestthat this is now being ac-
complished by two well-known young
men of the city of Gardiner. For some
time it has been the desire of Mr.. Ed
ward P. Favor!' author of such popular
songs as With you again." Little
faces at the window" ..Days OF
Auld Lang 2Syne," "The Fathers
Prayer" the sacred song CITY Of
Heavenly Light and many othe,
hits. to produce an opera thai
should be out of the ordinary in style