Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-27
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The Sorceress.
Her hands are small and white,
The things she says are simple;
| Her eyes glow with delight,
In either cheek dimple,
And vet this maid so fair,
Formed but for mems caresses,
| Has power such as ne'er
The strongest man possesses.
| Her laugh like music rings,
And beauty is her dover;
She dances and she sings.
| Half conscious of her power
With but a look she can
Make glad the darkest season
| Or leave the strongest man
| Bereft of all his reason.
Chicago Record Herald.
This is the great day of the year for
| the savings bank men.
The ice business is booming on the
fields of the Kennebec.
| Fridays dedication of Co. KS new
arnory will be the event of the week in
Brunswick.
Skowhegan isn't quite sure whether
| it wants to be city or not. 1t may
compromise on a council system and
do away with the general town, meet
| ing.
Here's sentiment for you! A Gardi-
ner woman still cherishes a little candy
heart given her over As years ago, by
her lover who soon after became and
has since remained her devoted hus-
band.
One legislative correspondent figures
out that if Maine is not made into two
states it will at least have two capital
cities in the near future. This is i'm
portant if true.
Bangor has been studying the signs
in the heavens and concludes that the
extention of the drouth to that city is
possibility if not a probability of the
near future.
lie Di NEWS ucCldltS lliell dll
up-to-date village corporation charter
is one of the urgent needs of that vii
lage municipality and predicts that it
will come ere many moons.
In Milbridge there formerly lived an
old sea captain. Serious and reflective,
mis- elaboration of character was ind-
Gated by certain methodical slowness
of movement. On the day of his death
a woman from another part of the
town called in at the drug store on an
GRAND. "They tell me Cap'n Blank is
dead she announced. Yes, Capt
Blank is dead said the clerk We'll
didn't he die rather sudden, for him."
asked the woman in all seriousness.
The mean man has been at it again.
Parkhurst correspondent tells of a
man who recently said to his children,
who will take a bright new ten cent
piece and go to bed without his sup
per-" The kids took the money, the
first they had ever seen and went to
bed. The next morning, ne said, who
will give ten cents for nice warm
breakfast" and they all gave up the
money and rushed for the table.
Hon. w. w. Stetson, Names super
intendent of schools, has been invited
to be one of the lecturers and instruc-
tors in the summer school for city
superintendents to be held in Omaha
some time during the coming sum-
mer. This is one of the famous educa..
tional institutions in the West, and
will be attended by superintendents
from every state in that section.
There is a little boy in Portland not
yet 10 years of age who is alive to every
opportunity for making money, though
the methods employed are not strictly
honorable. He attends school, of
course, and receives when punctual in
and proficient in his studies
a merit card, and gets from each of his
parents q five cent piece or 10 cents in
all on presentation to them of each
card. 1t was recently discovered that
the young man did not always get the
card, but he always got the nickels.
The cards are undated. They consist
OF printed forms and simply bear in
writing the name of the pupil and the
signature of the teacher. The omission
OF the date has enabled the little fellow
10 work his scheme. He made one card
answer for several weeks, and his fail
ure to get the award regularly in school
did not bother him in the least until
one of his parents one day asked him
now many cards he had, and then re-
quested him to produce them. A
severe whipping and note to the
teacher followed.
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Locke Grammer School, is the in
scription on the granite slab that was
placed in position on the front of the
Locke school building on Middle street.
Saeo, last week Hundreds of people
saw it and admired it before an eagle
syed schoolma'am detected the error
n spelling A new tablet is being
made