Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-04-05
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Another Hero.
There are heroes who are lauded for their
daring on the field,
There are heroes who on engines let their
courage be revealed;
There are heroes who rush boldly to save
others in distress;
There are heroes who give hungry little
orphans happiness;
But another merits mention as q hero
ring the bell
For the man who doesn't grumble when
lie isn't feeling well.
Let us give the heroes medals who go
forth to dare and dc
In the crash and roar of battle. when the
flames are leapinS, too;
Let us honor them that nobly help the
poor and weak and small,
But he ought to have statue finely
wrought and white and tall,
Who refrainS from boring others with
his troubles. just for spite,
Who works on without complaining when
he isn't feeling right.
Chicago Record-Herald.
All Maine mourns at the bier of its
best loved Jurist.
A few typical April First stories
found their way into the Maine papers.
No church had a happier Easter than
that in Bath which received an unex-
pected gift of $500.
They are suggesting baseball
diamond to restore the waning prestige
Of NIarcymaet;pr pnrl,
If 1000 lights can be guaranteed,
Winthrop will enjoy the luxury of
electric lights in the near future.
Dryden is plainly up and coming, II
the correspondent is right who tells of
16 houses to be built there, this season.
A Foxcroft man has dug out a baton
of old ball invitations received by an
ancestor in the sos. In each case the
dancing began at P. NJ, but that does
not mean that they also went nome
earlier in the good old times.
For the first time in long PERIOD,
Bath is now within its municipal debt
limit and the sensation is such novel
one that the papers seem a little
worried as to what extravaganza will
ensue.
Are you a religious man." anxiOusly
asked Hon. Seth L. Larrabee of 4 wit
ness in the great Chandler will case.
Il do not belong to the church. but 1
try to be a pretty decent sort of |
man." replied the witness. Certainly |
the law and the prophets could demand |
little more than that.
One high school graduating class |
proposes to wear caps and gowns, not |
in imitation of college customs but for |
the more practical reason that they will I
make unnecessary any expensive |
dresses. And a girl is never prettier
than in q cap and gown.
Poor clothes have many disad-
vantages, one being that the pockets
won't hold things. This was illustrated
on a train the other day when man
could not find the ticket which he had
put in his vest pocket. The reason was
apparent for the pocket didn't stop un-
til it got to the ground. His searching
reminded us of the man who walked
seven miles to do business at the saw
ings bank. He walked back home and
on his arrival could not find his bank
book. Thereupon he walked back to
the village, looking for the book, but
could not find it on the road nor at the
bank. He was fortunate in getting a
ride a part of the way on the fourth lap
of the IS miles, and more fortunate
when he got home in finding the book
in a pocket where he had overlooked it.
Carpenters have begun the demolition
Of the Oldest homestead IN South Thorn
aston in THE Willows section. The
house was built 105 years ago by the
late Isaac HiX, grandfather of Galen F.
Xix of Rockland and has recently been
purchased from the IIiX heirs by Cap
tain George r. HiX of the Mallory line
Of steamers plying between New York
,ity and Galveston. who has decided to
retire from sea-faring life and remove
from Brooklyn, n. Y. to the home of
mis- ancestors. The Hix homestead was
built in the generous style of century
Ego, with rafters as sturdy as ship
imbers and large brick chimney
which accommodated later five fire
places. The wOrkmen who We're en-
gagged i'm razing the house found a
single column of brick between the
and seventeen large loads Of
prick were hauled away from the ruins.
Rev. S. II. Beale celebrated his S9th
Sunday. by preaching in the
Methodist Church in Camden, Sunday
morning. Mr.. Beal was born in Sidney,
April s. 1915. He commenced teaching
school when 16 years of age and when
20 entered the ministry as preacher of
the Methodist doctrine and is now the
oldest member of the Eastern Maine