Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-09-28
Wanna QlQas2ilg|
Gettin' Washed,

~ %NQHN w NYWA&AAgI
Gettin' Washed.
At breakfast, when I'm kinder late an
hurry TO m" place,
An wantcr eat. some person says, ION.
what a dirty tace.
Or, Leave the table right away, those
hands are a disgrace.
An when | come back nice an clean, my
mother says she fears
didn't take a lot OF pains to wash benin
my ears.
An lots O. times when I've been out an
haven'a touched a thin
That could have dIrtcd me bit, why
some ones called me in
An what they Went an said was art was
ShaddcrS on my skin.
But s'pose the cedar tree | climbed did
leave some tecny SmcarS.
| don't see how a bit could get way up
benin my ears.
Oh, when I'm big without a nurse or
growE-up folks that tease
Some weeks I'll wear my oldest clio es as
ragged as l please. .
An muSS my hair an have big hoieS III
both my Stockin knees.
OF course I'll wash each mornin, cept
when Ilay-time inttrftltS.
But YOU jest bet I'll lot alone that place
benin my ears.
-B,rgts Johnson, in Harper's Magazine
tor October.
That was a tragic opening for the
great fair at Lewiston.
1t has been many years since Maine
had 50 bad a railroad accident.
A nice warm wave is predicted for
about the first of October.
Bates vs.. Hebron Academy at Lew
iston is the only football game in the
State, today.
The Narraguagus Times starts its
career under its new management by a
strong plea for a hotel at Cherryfeld.
4 Bridgton correspondent says that
lust prior to the September election
1l9 new names We're added to the
I.ridgton voting list. OF this number
only - voted.
Last Friday was the coolest Sep
tolnber day ever recorded at the office
of the Portland weather bureau; the
thermometer went to the freezing mark
and stayed at 81 for Il few minutes
around O'Clock and then began to
climb up into the regions where people
had rather have it. Never before in
tn 80 Years that the bureau has been
in existence has the thermometer got
10 the freezing point in September.
Portland hears that 4 prominent mill
itary officer has said that if the four
infantry companies in that City canno,
keep up to the tWO-thirds standard of
..rill attendance. perhaps two conpa
MES could. Rumford Falls. Gorham
ana other thriving towns in that part
of the State would gladly accept the
vacated places iii the regimental line.
Here is the way the dramatic criti,
of thu Bangor News turned himself
loose. the other day: -Four handsome
Lands"cr dogs, supported by several
| actors and actresses of SOmeN hat less
| ability. presented Il pictorial comedy
mt lodramatic sensation (Whatever that
| may mt;in) in the Opera Hous,. Friday
| night The Way OF the TransgresSor
| is thu name of this pictorial comedy
| mcloirlmatic sensation. and it intro
| duceS a number Of strong and cleverly
| drawn characters. chief among them,
| perhaps. being that OF the heroine's
| father, WIN dies II years before thu
opening of the play. A crowded
gallery applauGed vociferously."
There was unique disaster of no
small proportions at the home of Mrs.
| \. ". Peterson, Jonesport, one stormy
| day, last week. About noon she had
| occasion to go into the cellar and
when ut the foot of the stairs she
| heard rushing noise which she des-
| cribes as sounding like vessel start
! ing from the ways. AS self preserva-
| ton is the first laws of nature, Mrs
| Peterson h3stened to leave the cellar
but had not more than started when
the ciStern of 1000 gallons capacity
| which was built of paving burst and
paving flew in every direction, demol-
| ishing the stairs and carrying away
| the posts under the house, the water
at the same time coming with a rush
that carried everything before it. Mrs.
| Peterson succeeded in getting so far
| out of the cellar as to be able to get
hold Of the door step where she held
on until her sister who lives in the
same house, hearing her cries for help
| came, and With much difficulty sue
| ceeded in rescuing her from her peri
lous condition.
The story of a belated apron comes
| from Brunswick. Before the Festival
of Aprons held by the Baptist society
| Of that town last April, letters We're
| sent by the committee in charge to
| Baptist churches in each of the states
of the Union soliciting an apron to
| represent that state at the festival. To
these appeals between twenty and
| thirty of the churches addressed kind