Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-10-25
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Unterrified.
Oh. de 'possum's gettin restless,
An de simmons gitt1n sweet,
An de punkin is shinin
In each con feel dat YOU meat.
De chickin' is a roostin
Every night, not far away
An l ism Gwinto worry
Bout no election day.
De white man buys de victuals,
An when he's had his share,
| has my little comfort.
case OARS always some TO spare.
An de taxes dey complains OF,
OATS his business fob to pay
So ism gwinto worry
Washington Star.
Hunting accidents increase as the
season advances.
Two of Portland's most distinguished
ex-mayors, Marquis F. King and Geo.
P. Wescott, have died within week.
This weeks football games are Bow
dom VS.. Brown at Providence,
Wednesday, and U. of NJ. VS.. Colby at
Waterville, Saturday.
Baths telephone service is having
big boom, this fall, and over 300 sub
scribers have recently Joined the ranks.
One of the most difficult propositions
Maine schoolma am has encountered
this fall, Was bunch of nine little
Russians. not one speaking word OF
English, who entered a New Auburn
school, last week.
There have been stories about the
potato-picking ability of Aroostook
boys, but the girls up there also get on
the roll of honor. Eva Lynch. the
ten-year- Old daughter of Mr.. and MIS-.
Thomas Lynch of Caribou, has picked
up 225 barrels of potatoes this fall.
Three high school football teams
have fallen by the waysde before COM
plotting their schedules for the fall. The
Brewer eleven was killed by the return
to the two session system; the Augusta
eleven had to disband because some of
standard; and the Brunswick High
team got discouraged because no sec
ond eleven would turn out for it to
practice against.
The scarcity of good men for the
woods is particularly noticeable. The
wages offered are about the same as
last year, from $26 to $50 per month,
and still the employment agencies
cannot furnish the operators with
enough men of the class wanted to
handle the cut. There are plenty of
Poles, Swedes, Firms and other for
eisners, but they are poor wOOdsmen.
They are all right for saving but they
cannot handle an axe. Once there
were plenty of good axe-men to be
found in Bangor, but that time is
past. The men who formerly came
from the Provinces and stopped in
Maine to hire for the woods come no
longer. They are here but they do
not stop. They all have tickets for
New Hampshire and other points
west. In a short time the rafting
booms will be shut down and some of
the mills will be shut down for the
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idle and available for the operations.
There are a good many farmers who
believe that the day is not far distant
when the barrel for packing apples
will pass into history and give place to
the case just as the salt box has given
place to bags and cartons. One Bow
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cases to some extent in the past and
has found that they are handy to use
and that as a rule his apples have
brought a better price, probably due
to the fact that the purchaser could see
the fruit and know what he was buy
ing. A clean case makes much more
| attractive package than an ordinary
| -four barrel which usually is old and
weather stained, and there's much in
appearance nowadays. Speaking Of
appearances one man who markets
good many eggs tells the Bath Inde-
pendent that he always gets little
| more on case than some Of his neigh
bors even if they both ship the same
day. He says that this is because he
always washes the eggs before he
sends them to market and when the
case is opened the contents look so
clean that a few cents additional
usually comes along with the price.
Here's hint to other farmers.
The 30-day test of the new driven
| we'll system in Brunswick, ended, last
| week. From the wells there has been
pumped an average of about million
| gallons of water a day, so that the
| total amount pumped in the entire test
will be about thirty million gallons. 1t
is difficult to appreciate such a vast
quantity when expressed in gallons.
The standpipe holds about $4,000 gall
Ions, and enough has been pumped to
fill that forty-six times. The Mall
| contains about three acres. Thirty
million gallons would cover the Mall 80
feet deep. The Topsham fair grounds
inside the half mile track contain
| a hOut 10 a acreS Thirty million GAL