Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-11-19
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Terrorist Stricken,

Terror. Stricken.
He could thunder his opinions
When upon the stump he went;
To rebuke the ruthless minions
! OF a glorious government
| He'd face a crowd unruly
And he'd tell 'em what he thought
And he met all dangers coolly,
AS an honest person ought.
But his wife once gave party
At least he called it that.
His manners once so hearty
Straightway grew subdued and fiat.
For chatter in a small way
| His talents were so few
That he trembled in the hallway
And he just said, 'Howdy do"
The water is down to low water mark
in the rivers.
And now only a week to Thanksgiv-
ing and the reunions.
1t is limited the Bangor toll bridge
matter may now go to the United
States Supreme court.
There is a movement to have the
State fair the last week in September
instead of the first.
If ever there was a trace of "town
and gown" rivalry in Waterville, it has
now vanished.
The village of Damariscotta Mills may
not be so fortunate when it has it's
third fire.
The discovery of n moonshiners still
in Portland gives that city better claim
than ever to it's designation as the For
est City.
Jack the Hugger" is again in evil
dence in Portland after long absence.
1t is presumed he spent the summer at
some neighboring resort where his
services were more in demand.
The Maine editors would like very
much to accept unanimously that
cordial invitation to visit st. Louis,
next May but probably few will have
| to stay at home and do the chores.
The second trial of Alexander Terrio
will begin Nov. oath at Skowhegan.
This case is unique in Maine annals,
being the first in which a man convic-
ted of murder has been granted a
second trial.
The report of the treasurer of the
Bangor Festival shows that the
receipts. this fall, were s5,117.72 and the
expenses $5,391.22 leaving a deficiency
of s213.5O
That sound which visitors hear up at
Rumfcrd Falls is not the torrents of the
Androscoggin tumbling over the three
falls, but the sound Of the town as it
grows. This year $4,000 has been
spent in building operations there.
Much building is planned for the COM
ing year, including two new churches.
1t is easy to imagine the sensation
Which this little item in the Bath Times
has made in the Shipping City: ut is
reported that at recent church enter
tafnment where cards was one of the
features of the program, at one table
|
when the game ended and the score
was made up little bundle Of money
was used in squaring up the account
ana II did not go into the church fund.-
EVenthe Mystic Shrinersare catching
the football fever, this fall, and in the
circular announcing the meeting of
kora Temple at Lewiston to be held
this evening, it is said that "our team
has been coached to the minute, and
knows all the fine points OF the game.
Our line is impregnable and on the
offence, we have devised a new series
or tackle-back formations, end plays
and pile-ups that will make the novices
not only see the sun spots but several
new stars that are in unassigned con-
stellations."
Antiquarian John L. Donahue of
Rockland is exhibiting to his friends a
remarkably historical object in the
General Knox Of Thomaston by George
Washington, whose Secretary of War
he was. 1t is a commodious hand
| ocNeu lcdlHeT SdtCnel ABOUT IL lnCneS
long, u inches wide and six inches
deep, with lining of handsome linen and
fitted interiorly with double cover
which was fastened by a leather strap
running through half a dozen brass
staples, the outside cover fastening
with straps through buckles. In this
General Knox was wont to carry part
of the pay of the Continental army on
his journeys to headquarters. 1t was
made in ITS and was one of the most
highly priced treasures of famous
General Knox for the many associ-
ations connected with the gift and the
giver. The treasure was after the
death Of General Knox in the possession
of the family of Seth Gerry. close
friend of General Knox, who also lived
in historic Thomaston and who pur-
chased the Knox mansion, Montpelier
The Waterville Mail agrees with this
paper and the Lewiston Journal that
: the absurd and illogical rule defining
amateurism at Harvard and Yale all
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