Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-09-26

The birds are singing small.
But still II doesn't quite occur
To us to put on wool and fur
To dress by the thermometer.
Sing hey. it's coming fail.
A few more days of warmth and then
Sing hey, the autumn cold.
But oh. how often foolish men
These clammy facts are told.
They go on in the same old way
Until there's just the deuce TO pay
The demon of Sciati-c;i-
Sing hey, the autumn cold!
Chicago News.
The troubles pile higher on Shiloh's
sandy summit.
Everybody in this section will now
go to the old Kennebec fair at Read
field A.
Some idea of the poultry business of
Waldoboro may be had from the state
ment that 1900 pounds Of live and
dressed poultry was shipped in one day
last week.
The traffic in souvenir postal cards
has reached enormous proportions and
still the business grows. In the Rock
land postoffice the sales of one cent
stamps the past summer has quad
rupled any preceding season. and if
this increase is true of Rockland it is
doubtless true of many Offices.
Waldo county deer hunters should
remember that the open season for the
county has been abbreviated and it is
only lawful to shoot them during the
month Of November: also that each
hunter is entitled to but one deer. The
season for partridges. ducks and other
game birds is the same as in the rest
of Maine.
There is not one man in a thousand
who is ambideXtrous in writing, that
is, can write with either the right or
the left hand and display the same de-
gree Of skill in penmanShip in either
case. There is one man in Portland
who possesses this remarkable accom-
plishment. This is Harry Amman. the
clerk at the Lafayette whose penman-
ship is model of accuracy and neat
ness when writing with either hand.
Here is a song Of the seasons close as
sung in his editorial column by the
office devil of the York Transcript:
Put up your winter shutters now and
let the people go, for we want to get
together and we want you all to know
that York in the winter time is quite a
lively place when the people here in
summer set us such a lively pace. When
you see the summer people go don't
once think that everything is slow. for
we all join hands as happy as can be
in the old town of York by the sea-but
there, sing it for yourself. here are the
words: try il to the tune of 'Therell be
Hot Time If you like the sample
send for full box"
Rockland COurier-Gazette: Some fool
paper or other saw where Rockland
Mass. or some Rockland had a
typhoid epidemic and copied the
item, giving people abroad the impress
sion that it was our city which was af-
fiiCted. The particular item which is
causing the mischief says that 80 new
cases have been reported this week.
AS matter of fact Rockland has but
a single case of contagious disease,
which is practically convalescent. For
the past six months the board of health
has given Rockland a clean BILL with
one exception. The misinforma ton
above noted was having a certain eff
feet with the delegates who are to come
here to the Free Baptist State conven-
ton this week. but they have the
health boards guarantee that the story
relates to some other Rockland.
AS potato digging progresses in
Aroostook. it is being discovered that
the yield per acre is in excess of what
was predicted few weeks ago-the
smiles of the farmers broaden in con-
sequence, for it seems to be the prevail
ing idea that the price during the COM
ing winter and spring will be satisfac-
tory. To be sure. there are fields that
are only producing 40 and so barrels to
the acre; but these are scarce: more are
Welding from go to so and even S. and
90. And few fields have been report
ed where over 100 barrels are being dug
even as high as 125. Such crops as
these last mentioned help swell the
average. And not in the history of
Aroostook has there been a season
when the quality of the potato exceed
ed or even equaled the crop of 1905
This will have its effect in making Il
demand for the country's output.