Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-12-09
Maine Gossip

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Holiday Merchandise.
| Take them our carefully.
Set them on high.
Goods that have fingered
AS months drifted by.
J Dust them and polish theHl'
| Still perSevere;
| Do not despair of them,
| Christmas is here.
Take of the price tag
| And write one that's new,
Shoppers are now
Coming swiftly TO view.
In the wild struggle
All things disappear;
They can't stop to argue
When Christmas is here.
Washington star
The prevalence of new calendars is
already making 1904 seem like thing
OF the past.
Augusta and Vicinity will warmly
| welcome King Pepper and his court
when the mirth-and music-maklng
collegians bring them here in January.
Having threshed out the question for
the 'steenth time, Bath decides to con-
tinue the two session plan in the High
school.
The weather prophets tell US that
| winter will really arrive blizzards. in
| tense cold and all, about the middle OF
| the month.
Every month is June up in MILL
nocket, as far as weddings are con-
cerned, and the end of the epidemic is
not in sight.
Youthful in years, but Of deter
mined spirit. Was the little Bowdoin-
ham girl. who was required to write
composition on the seasons. Much
displeased at her task, when driven to
it, she produced the following unique
article: There are four seasons.
spring, summer autumn and winter.
Some like one best, and some like
another: but for my part. give me
liberty, or give me DEATH"
There has been an unusual mortality
among the rare wild animals in captiv-
ity in Maine this fall. Two of the
herd of buffalo that is kept at Casco
Castle have succumbed to the rigors OF
Names climate and last week one OF
| the elk family which is an attractive
feature at Riverton, was removed by
grIl.- &c = Ho NJ
| tally appears to be the same disease
| that is Sc fatal to the human family in
| this and neighboring states, the dread
white plague. tuberculosis.
The railroad survey which is being
made in the town of Stockton for the
extension of the line Of the Bangor &
Aroostook railroad, is the advance
guard in the demand for rents in the
little village. There will be big
change with the opening of the COM
ing spring in Stockton. and it is ex-
pected that many improvements will
be made III the little village, which has
remained quiet for so long time. Last
week applications were made there in
one day for rents by a dentist, law
yer, a teacher ard barber. Others
are securing buildings there, and con-
siderable residential property is being
bonded.
Here is the latest Aroostook story:
South Caribou can boast of some
big potato crops but that isn't the
only noteworthy crop we can point
to as a credit to the place. On Wednes-
day last Mr.. and Mrs. W. S. Bailey
were made happy by the arrival in
their family circle of a boy which
weighed sixteen pounds. Something
like year and half ago they enjoyed
a like wave of gladness In boy
weighing nearly fifteen pounds. We
think we can challenge the State to
produce two better boys than these"
The Portsmouth Chronicle notes
that seventy-five carloads of perish
able freight from points in Maine
passed through Portsmouth, Sunday.
Twenty seven of the cars were loaded
with apples for shipment across the
Atlantic. The Others carried potatoes
for Texa: and the South. They were
consigned to hotels in Southern states.
Maine apples and Maine potatoes are
known, or are becoming known.
wherever the people are satisfied only
with what is best.
The largest lobster ever seen in
Washington county, and probably the
biggest crustacean caught in eastern
waters for many years was shipped to
Boston on the steamer Calvin Austin,
Thursday. being in charge of the own
er. Oscar 3. Goodwin. The body was
"a inches long, from tail to claws was
43 inches, the largest claw was tx
inches across and 15l2 inches long, and
the spread across from claw to claw
was 43 inches. The crustacean
weighed 56k pounds and measured %
inches around the body. This big
LOBSTER was caught in small weir