Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-08-12
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The Happiness Brigade.
1 likin' all de weather--fum de summer to
de fall.
An ez fer frosty winter-well, 1 likn' of
'em all.
Den it's thank de Lawd fer sunshine, en-
thank him for de shade,
m listed in de army wild de Happiness
Brigade!
take de tho'ns en- roses in de maxim er
En- | swing on ter de rainbow wen it
rippeS out de red;
De thunder try ter skeer me-but never
gifts afraid
I'm listed in de army, wild de Happiness
Brigade.
De road is rough n rocky, but follows
it erlong:
De peace comes out de pain, en- de sorrar
makes de song;
De sunshine makes de shadder; Ell dey's
rest, dar in de shade
Fer de SOjerS III de army wild de HapDf-
ness Brigade.
Atlanta Constitution
Here and there a maple leaf is turn
ing.
Monmouth and Bluehill hold the CERT
ter of the stage, today
The National Guard companies at
least know where they will be located.
They say that all the ice in the Maine
houses will be shipped, this summer.
- I.
Maine has 81 other Old Home Weeks,
this year.
That worst of all sneaks and towards,
the anonymous letter writer, is furn-
ishing midsummer sensations for
Rockand.
That female baseball aggregation
seems to be having a regular triumphal
tour through Maine.
: The largest school of dogfish ever
known off Monhegan is proving a
great intolerance to the fishermen of
the island.
sus of Millinocket. There were SO
births during the first half of 1903.
The Winthrop Congregational Sun |
day-school which celebrated it's 95th |
birthday, last Sunday, claims to have |
had a longer continuous existence than |
any other Sunday-school in Maine.
Capt Ohio w. B. Farr, U. S. A.,
Maine boy and a Colby student be-
fore he went to West Point, is now in
command at Fort Warren, Boston
harbOr, during the absence of the reg
ular commanding officer there. Captain
Fairs rise has been rapid in the past
few years.
Maine people who have been waiting
for the report of the government
biologists before filling their coal bins
can now go ahead and put in q stock
of winter fuel. Maine produces many
things in abundance, but no coal.
Constable John l.. Berry of George
town, age rs, is probably the oldest and
certainly one of the smartest con-
stables in Maine. He took a patient
to the Insane Asylum at Augusta, last
week.
No city or town in Maine seems to
be better supplied with baseball en-
thusasm this season than is Augusta,
where five local teams of more or less
ability are playing the great national
game with much pleasure, if with no
great profit. The interest taken in the
game is purely local, each represent |
ing some section of the city or some
department of activity, most of the
games being played being with teams L
in surrounding towns. OF course
with such teams made up exclusively
of home players there will not be seen !
quite so excellent an article of base
ball as in leagues where professionals,
or Semi-profeSSionals are doing the
playing, but there is a lot of fun in
such baseball as these same Augusta =,
teams are playing this summer.
The foundations of the new Carnegie
library in Rumford Falls are being
DldSteu liohi plS ciHilt DouluerS on |
the very street where the library is to I
be located. Two huge boulders near
by will not be touched, as they will fit ~
in nicely with the park project of the T
own.
The North Arson Advocate pays a
compliment to Augustine
simmons, a public spirited local law
yer, because he had the forethought to
plant shade trees in front of the Uni ~
yersalist church in that village some IA
,ears ago. This church stood there A
lpon the hill for more than so years
'efore anyone thought of planting ..
shade trees around it. Now the grounds
ire adorned with young trees which "a
will soon form a beautiful avenue from
he street to the church. These trees
ooether with those on the Aooa.,.. cG