Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-11-26

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| VI. Thanksgiving.
I Lord, for the erring thought
Not into evil wrought;
| Lord, for the wicked will
Betrayed and baff1ed still, !
For the heart from itself Kept,
| Our thanksgiving accept.
For ignorant hopes that We're
Broken to our blind prayer;
For pain, death. sorrow, sent
| Unto our chastisement
| For all loss OF seeming gocd,
Quicken our gratitude.
o.. -. : William D. Howells. =
Thanksgiving day. - ~
| The sleigh ride will come little later
| Help others to have that thankful
feeling, today.
Happy the home where the Thanks
giving reunion is complete.
If Maine depended on native turkeys
most of us would eat pork, today.
AS shown elsewhere in this issue
Gardiner gratitude has most substan-
tial basis.
Portland should celebrate the day by
a resolution to give Mr.. Baxter rous-
ing majority.
A few football games, today, Bangor
vs. Brewer and Portland VS.. Auburn
being among them.
Keep in mind the philosophy of Mrs.
Wigs who felt that nothing really be-
longed to her until she had passed it
along to somebody else.
Bangor, among other causes for
Thanksgiving, rejoices that the small
pox scare is on the wane and that it
else.
Some practical joker gave Hermon
nervous prostration. the other night by
placing smallpox flags on a dozen
houses.
The Portland Argus labels a portrait
of Hon. Darius H. Ingraham as Our
Next Mayor" The Biddeford Journal
suggests that it may turn out when the
votes are counted that the Argus some
now got the babies mixed.
One of Names busiest and most sue
cesseul hunters, this fall is Melvin
Adams of East Stoneham. Thus far
this season he has got % foxes, 25 coons,
over 100 muskrats and 10 mink.
Geraldine Whitman of Buckfeld is
only IA years of age but she has tack
| led financial and agricultural propo-
stion of no small proportions. Hav-
| ing a capital of S175 she has bought a
farm for 5000 and has gone to work to
make the farm pay the remaining
S425. She has a flock of % sheep and
lnIcc uGdu VI Cdtllt anu 10
the whole thing herself. There's the
girl for you!
One of Baths most successful, pros
porous and jovial milkmen of old times
was the late Cyrus Peterson, for years
the leading milkman of that city. He
had route of from s. to IS customers
and the milk he brought in was milk
He said that the lowest price for which
| he sold milk was four cents a quart
and the highest, during the Civil War,
| 10 cents quart. He was once asked
| how he happened to select his farm on
| the New Meadows river and he replied:
We'll, you see it's a great temptation
| for a milkman to be located near a
| stream of fresh water. Therefore 1
chose the New Meadows. which is salt
to be out of temptation!"
The present season promises to be
one of the most promising for lumber
| interests that Franklin county has ever
| known. With its thousands upon thou
sands of acres of timber land being
constantly opened up from year to year
|
as one of Names great numbering sec
| tons. For a good many years back
| numbering has been no small industry
iii that county but as it grows from
year to year the industry is assuming
such proportions that it is calling the
attention OF the big operators to 1t, and
few figures regarding the anticipated
operations the coming winter will be of
interest. 1t is, of course, impossible to
determine the exact amount of timber
that will fall before the axe of the
sturdy woodsman. but an estimate has
been made and figures procured from
nearly all of the largest operators. and
these show that between 100000 and
Is, 100000 feet of timber will be cut in
| this county before the robins again seek
their homes in the Pine Tree State To
| the casual reader this may not mean as
\ much as to the one that realizes the
vast amount of business that this
means and the regiment of men that
will be employed ere this small part of
our forest has been transferred into