Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-21
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School Time.
The house is kind O. restless now.
The old cat purrS bit
And then gets lonesome for chance
To arch her back and spit,
There are no footmarks on the floor,
The parlor's dark and cool,
And not a door slams anywhere,
Since Willie went to school
The old dog letters at the gate
And whimpers all in vain.
For some one who will bid him bark
And pull his ears again.
Great wisdom'S purchased at great cost,
1t is life's stubborn rule.
We feel we help to pay the price
Washington Star.
This is the day of falls official arriv-
al.
The class Of '07 is much in evidence
at present.
These times are as a dark night full
of Nightmares for the kennebec rum
seller.
We wonder if Anna Eva Fay will
again risk her reputation on football
prophecies.
This week gives Bowdoin and Colby
their turns at reporting the biggest en-
tering classes in their history.
There are 10 fair goods in the large
class of freshmen at the University Of
Maine.
Who is Names oldest woman now
that Mrs. Ruth Curtis of kennebunk-
port is dead at the age of 104?
The new Normal school at Pressure
Isle opened with % pupils in attendance
and more coming.
A Bangor man with a long memory
for dire calamities writes to the News
about a time in 1855 when the liquor
agency tried the present experiment Of
selling liquor only on a physicians
prescription. He says Bedlam was
loose at once.
The football schedule of the Maine
colleges as sent out from Portland. last
week. and published in all the dailies
of the State is in error in giving
a game between BoWdoin and Colby at
Waterville for November q. Noven-
Der is the date of that game.
The Rockland Star points out the
Journals mistake in saying that there
has never been collision between
trolley cars in Maine resulting in the
death of a person. There was such an
accident in Rockland, August II, 1902,
when Raymond Moran met his death.
The York county commissioners have
held up bills amounting to about $4,000
for EXPENSES incurred in the search for
the murderer of Olive Broad, and are
asking who authorized the expense.
The Androscoggin papers are calling
on Sheriff Cummings and County At
to1ney SHELTON to follow the example of
Messrs. Ham and Leigh in kennebec
county and land few of the Lewiston
rumsellers in Jail.
The Bath Times says peculiar COIN
cidenccs happen frequently in all lines
of business but the queerest in the
history of the Times for some time
occurred Tuesday. An application
was received for the position of fore
man in the mechanical department,
position held for several years by
Irving l.. Hopkins, who resigned last
month to go into the shoe dressing
business The coincidence was that
the name of the party writing the
letter of application was also Irving
T.. Hopkins. a printer of many wears
of experience living in Mt. Vernon,
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Rumford Falls citizens are far
sighted in reserving a considerable area
of land, in various parts of the village
for parks, or breathing spaces. where
the trees shall multiply and increase in
beauty from year to year, and where
the rocks shall not be disturbed from
the spot where they have rested for
centuries.
Miss Josephine Mitchell, a Lewiston
born and Lewiston educated woman,
has set the school circles of Boston all
agog by her invention of a telluran, an
apparatus which shows the motions of
the earth on it's axis and round the sun,
by which day, night and changes of the
seasons are brought about. BY the
use of reflector the gas light correctly
illustrates day and night and the clip
teal orbit BY the Simple turning of