Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-11-28
Maine Gossip

III Maine GOSSIP |
The Sweet Song Coming.
The nights mighty long,
| An the roads mighty dim,
| An the owls in the shadows
| Are hoOting their hymn;
| But blossoms will brighten
The winter stripped limb,
| An song will come after the sighn'.
| So. with Hope holdin' hands.
| We press on eVermOre,
| An Faith sights the ships
By the lights on Ghe shore,
An we dr. am u the light
When the dark's at the door.
| An song Will come after the SlShin
Atlanta Constitution.
Last Saturday, with the thermometer
| at TO in the shade. was the warmest
| late November day i'm Portland since
| the weather bureau was established in
1870.
The dates of the presentation of 1.-THE
First Crusade" in Bangor have been
changed to Dec IL. IA and Is, and all Of
eastern Maine will be there.
The fraternal order of Eagles is said
to have about 2OO0 members in Maine,
but not all of them are of the bald
headed variety, neither would it be
just to assume that they are all high
flyers.
Thanksgiving week will be celebrated
in Bath by the launching of the five
masted schooner Davis Palmer from
the Percy & Small yard. The date set
is next Tuesday at noon. The craft is
| one of the largest five-masters ever
built in this country.
One Of the most gratifying tributes
to the memory Of Speaker Reed is
made in the letter of Hon. w. Bourke
Cochran in his letter enclosing a sub
scription to the Reed monument fund
1t well illustrates the high place of Mr.
Reed in public respect and the nom
partisan character of the movement.
The p. & A. gives notice that it will
operate the new Northern Maine Sea-
port railroad, on which traffic has now
begun, and that the Il. & A. mileage
books will be accepted on the new line.
A Bangor taXidermist received the
head and skin of bear, last week,
| hard luck and suffering. 1t was killed
near Millnocket. The head and hide
| only were sent but the head is i'm a
condition which has caused consider
| able comment on the part of those who
have seen it. The bear was evidently
| an old staser as the great tusks were
| worn so that they were rounded off and
blackened on the end. The lower jaw
had been broken so that the incisOr
teeth and the huge tusk on one side
| hung loose and could easily be twisted
in any direction. The tusk where it
had been broken. had the appearance
of having been in that condition for a
long time. and those who have seen the
bear are wondering how the animal
ever managed to eat with his jaw in
| look as though it had been caused by
a bullet and the hunters think bruin
may have run up against side-hill
gOuger or a plunkus.
1t was not a hunter from Boston or
| New York but a Pressure Isle man who
| went hunting, last week. and on seeing
! deer Armed and fired, but was very
disappointed when he realized the fact
that lie had got so excited that he for
got to load his gun. He was still more
disappointed when he went to load his
gun and found he had left his am
| munition at home. That is not the way
| most AroostoOk men go hunting.
The Bangor News says that last
week marked the shutting down of
most of the sawmills on the Penobscot
river. as the ice is getting thick where
the logs float and the work is delayed
from many causes. 1t has been a good
| SeaSon-one of the best seen on PenOb-
scot river for many years. The prices
for lumber opened briskly and have
not fallen off for all summer. Here
and there mill down East has been
obliged to close for want of water
though the saving season has been a
long one. The logs came along in time
to keep the mills running Wages
faVe been good and employment has