Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-06-26
Maine Gossip
Aindrances,

You're told to love your neighbor. to be
gentle. good and kind.
No matter whatsoever the provocation you
You must try to learn life's lesson in a
philanthrOpic school.
But you feel there ought to be a few ex-
ceptions to the rule.
When a nervous little brindle pup comes
prancing through the fence
And shows his teeth and laughs aloud on
marking your suspense.
You may strive to love your neighbor as
along your way you jog.
But it isn't very easy when your neighbor
keeps a dog.
When the busy day is ended and you seek
your couch at last
In dreamy meditation on the future and
the past,
There comes fearful wailing. there's a
shrek and then a squawl.
AS some missile hits a feline promenading
And in vain you grab the pillow. try to
stuff 1t in your ear,
The chorus is augmented till it reaches
far and near.
You should strive to love your neighbor,
there Is no doubt of that,
But it isn't very easy when your neighbor
Washington Star.
This is the week of the First Cru
sade.''
Another big batch OF baccalaureate
sermons. yesterday.
This is Commencement week at Colby
and Bates.
The Trolley league season opens. this
afternoon, for two months schedule.
Kenduskeag will have a deferred
Memorial day. Wednesday, when the
new soldiers monument will be dedi-
Gated.
The seasons second circus comes
along. this week. and still third one
Is due. 10 days later.
Northern AroOstook calls the atten-
ton of capitalists to the fact that a
package rolled oats mill established in
that vicinity would pay big money
There is an immense amount Of this
cereal shipped to AroostDok from the
West, and there is 10 reason why IL
could not be manufactured here as we'll
People at the Pines near Biddeford
made a discovery Tuesday night that
has set them wondering II there is any,
thing unusual in the shape Of location
coming to them. After the shower.
which passed over the city during the
evening, Of which the Pines got a taste,
a number OF the cottagers found their
piazzas a quarter Of an inch deep with
sulphur that had come down during the
shower. In appearance and smell it
was sure enough sulphur.
In the old graveyard. back Of the lit
tie white church at Mancet, lies the
body Of one Jonathan Brown who was
once a sailor, perhaps an officer. on
John Paul Jones' ship. Two people,
living in Southwest HarbOr. Capt. Will
liam Herrick and Mrs. Joanna Lurvey.
remember him. The grave Is unmarked
and very little attention has ever been
paid to this soldier OF the revolution,
although the d. \. r. are making
efforts to have at least a tombstone to
mark his resting place.
Camden is to have a big celebration
the Fourth. Many attractive features
arc being prepared. There will be a
hose race, double balloon ascension.
band concert and other features in the
square in the forenoon. with three trots
at the Park in the afternoon at 1.3O.
There are three classes, all of which are
filed.
The Bangor auditorium has been let
as a skating-rink at a rent Of $500 a
year. So the future Ct the Maine
Music Festival would seem to be as
sured, with a good balance each year
on the right side % the ledger. The
greatest deficit in the Festival receipts
any year yet has been only about $500.
50 that Director Chapman now can
bring down New York artists by the
dozen II he wants to. and still clear ex-
penses, thanks to the revival of the
| roller skating craze. Everybody Is
glad enough that the future OF the
Festival is made certain. Eastern
Maine ia certainly to BE- congratulated.
A York county young man is busy at