Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-09-02
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An Optimism.
There's just ole thing to wait for
The time is surely due,
ms lie Will be a round of glce
When all the ads come true.
wei have no more bad servants
TO make the housewife rue;
Wen have a pill for every ill
w men ali the ads come true.
No more ill-treated viands
At summer boards We'll view,
Our food will keep and will be cheap
When all the ads come true.
If one thing doesn't tit your case
Anothcr's certain to.
And bargain day will last fol aye
When all the ads come true.
Washington Star.
Off for Manassas.
There is call for rain in many
sections.
September is fully as Septemberish
as August was.
Are your plans all made for Labor
day?
The Lakeside campmeeting Is open
for business at the old stand.
1t is double pity that Fryeburg
loses it's lighting plant just as the
moon is waning.
Not quite so much excitement over
the departure of the soldier boys for
the South as there was in 1S9S-or 1861.
This is the season when garden
thieves get in their work and wax fat
on fruit, corn, tomatoes, ETC., stolen by
the light of the moon.
Down in Bath they are already talk
ing about making Mayor Hyde take a
fourth term when another year comes
around.
The months with an "r" are back
with us again, and the wise oyster will
take TO the deep water without any
unnecessary delay.
The Bryant's Pond man who made
three attempts at suicide before he
finally succeeded must have believed:
that if at first you don't succeed, then
die, die again.
Miss Barrows of York Harbor re-
Gently took novel way of entertain
ing her guests. She secured the big
of hn n nd
had sides put up and straw literally
packed in, and in this way straw
ride was enjoyed. The car went over
the entire system.
The largest pay day in the sardine
canning plants this season, or in fact
for few seasons past, was last Satur-
day, when about $4,000 was paid out
to the sardine Gamers of EastpOrt and
in the afternoon the several thousand
employees received their well filled
envelope for the work of the past week.
AS fish were very plentiful there was
considerable night work and the fac
tory folks were kept on the move to
handle the herring supply that came in
during the six days.
Students of the Brewer High school
now say that owing to the recent adop-
ton of the twO-session plan there will,
in all probability. be no football team
to represent the school this fall. This,
if true will be a great disappointment
to many Brewer people and. of course.
especially to the students themselves.
But it has not caused the cruel school
board to decide to change back to the
one session system.
A Goldfish recently opened i'm the
shops Of H. A. Sargent on Commercial
wharf Portland. disclosed the fact that
he was good deal of cannibal. Not
that he had been eating other Goldfish.
but he had been devouring other in
habitants of the sea. Lying in his
stomach We're found two Holsters each
about four inches in length, and be-
tween them a crab as big as the top Of
a teacup. One of the Holsters had
grown soft. showing the early stages
of digestion, while the other was still
hard shelled. Fish Warden Dow was
summoned to look at the curiosity
When he saw the Holsters he at first
had mind to arrest the cod for hav-
ing shorts in his possession. but after
wards gave up the idea as he thought
the fish was an irresponsible party.
The Boston Journal mourns over the
purchase of 10000 acres Of woodland
by big paper company, and says that
if Maine permits the destruction of
her woods she will suffer the penalty.
There is no doubt about that. but we
agree with the Gardiner Reporter /,