Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-11-04


Maine Gossip
The. Star in Life's Sky.
The sky that bends above you
May not be always blue.
But / bet a stars a-shinin there
That winkS his eye at you!
The storm that hides the heavens
Feels rainbows slippin' through;
An the end of every rainbow
Has a golden dream for you!
When winter blights the blossoms,
Bent down with icy dew,
l bet you, in the snowdrift
There's Il rose that dreams of you.
Frank l.. Stanton.
The fros,ier it gets the more the
gridiron SINNERS.
Portland reports d sleigh driven
through it's streets. this week.
The Bangor Festival chorus begins
another year with membership of 300.
Belfast and Rockland are both show
ing wisdom in securing sites for public
parks.
They now predict that dramatized
version of Squire Phin" will soon be
caar ,IpOn the stage
Most of the gates removed on Hal
lowe'en are now back in place and the
sidewalks are being repaired.
Two weeks more of the football sea-
son in Maine and the last games will be
the best ones. The centers of interest,
today, are Orono and Waterville.
They are having an indoor football
upon roller skates in Portland. but it
is a very ladylke version Of the real
thing.
The path that George Cummings of
Albany has Travelled during the past
oScSoii H'o oONii II tiIoihS oit- ILloI
spring the most of the family were
down with the scarlet fever SO that the
house was uuarantined for six weeks;
a few months ago they buried their
little wo-year-oid boy. and now Mr.
Cummings is in Il hospital having his
left hand amputated.
A Belfast merchant was in sporting
trim when he offered any man S. to lift
Il barrel weighing 40 pounds in front
of his place of business. DO you
mean it'' asked a visitor standing
near. On receiving an affirmative an
swer the man moved the barrel to one
side and picked it up. The merchant
looked his establishment and with "A
majestic wave Of his hand said: GO
help yourself to peanuts" but did not
refer to the IS.
The scallop industry in Frenchmans
bay is prospecting wonderfully and the
fleet is rapidly assuming proportions
Two facts which ought to be especially
pleasing to Bar Harborites are first,
that nearly all of the boats dragging
are home boats, manned by residents
of the town, and secondly, that the $50
to S75 per boat they earn each day
comes from New York and will be
spent there. At present there are is
boats in the fleet and there are several
more to be added next week. The
scallops shipped to New York at pres
ent prices bring about So per gallon,
while the commission merchants get
about 81 per quart for the same seal
| lops.
The latest scheme of Bath people to
get rid of tramp cats which sometimes
take liking to a home and remain
| against the wishes of the inmates has
been discovered and has evidently been
| IN use for some time. During the sum-
| mer cats have made their appearance
IN most mysterious manner on the
| different steamers of the Kennebec di-
vision and nobody would appear to
| claim them. One night this week. at
| the kennebec wharf in this city a
| Times reporter noticed a man in the
dark shadows of the office building
carrying a cat. The man turned up his
coat collar and walked swiftly aboa nd
the Ransom b. Fuller, going to the
port side of the steamer where he dis
appeared aft. In a minute he returned
without Mr.. Cat and with a very satis-
fed look on his face hurried off the
steamer and disappeared in the dark
ness. An employe of the company saw
the performance, found the cat and
placed it ashore
Almon Goodwin, the prominent New
York lawyer whose death was briefly
noted in the papers. yesterday, was a
native of Maine, having been born in
Baldwin in 1910. He graduated with
high rank from Bowdoin in the class of
~ and at once went to the front, be-
coming lieutenant in Co. c, 18th Me.
Inf. After the war he studied law in
Biddeford and at Harvard. and since
1867 has been member of the New
York par. He was senior partner in
the well known Wall street law firm of
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