Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-08-30
Maine Gossip

Maine Gossip
A Little Way.
A little way to walk with you. my own
Only Il little way
Then one of us must weep and walk alone
Until Gods day.
A little way! 1t is so sweet to live
Iogether, that l know
Life would not have one withered rose to
Ii one of us should go.
And if these lips should ever learn to
With thy heart far from mine.
'Twould be for joy that in Il little while
They would be kissed by thine:
Frank l.. Station.
Still sultry.
The special demand for rubber COL
lars bids fair to continue through
September.
Guilford has placed contract for
the painting VI HeW SlSIlS AoT HeT
streets. There are some other Maine
communities that would be rendered
more attractive if they were to follow
her example.
The fish wardens are determined to
put stop to the use of dynamite by
those who seek in this unlawful man.
ner to serve their own greedy purposes
at the expense of the general public.
Such fellows richly deserve the full
penalty of the law.
Grafton. An exchange tells of seven
charming young Massachusetts girls
stopping at the beaches near Old
Orchard. who live on % cents
a day. Each day they pool in a
quarter apiece and this is all that the
person in charge of the commissary de-
partment is allowed to spend for the
day. They get along nicely on the
amount, have plenty to eat and are
having as good time as some others
stopping at the large hotels who pay
$40 to $50 week at q hotel.
Burnham people say they will have
one of the best hotels in Maine. when
the new house now being built by
John e. Hart is completed.
The warships have been a decided
drawing card" at Rockland this sum-
mer. The number of visitors who
at least 1000 more than at the same
time last year.
The Eastern Maine fair has started
in under favorable auspices. 1t is to
be hoped that the weather conditions
will continue propitious.
A Bangor clergyman is reported to
have made "a record breaking matri-
monial hitch" one day last week. The
young couple stopped at his house on
their way to the train, and when he
opened the door, in response to the
young mans ring the reverend gentle
man was nearly surprised out of his
dignity by the words, "Say, have you
got quick ceremony that you can
perform right away? We've got to get
that 40 train and not much time to
do it in" The minister required sew
eral moments in which to recover his
breath but finally said he thought he
could perform the desired ceremony.
The blushing bride hustled to the side
of her lover, the cab driver was called
in for a witness and the knot was tied
in short order. No time was wasted in
unnecessary details and as soon as the
ceremony was over the couple entered
the cab again and were driven to the
station whre they arrived just in time
to catch their train.
The new school year is nearly at
hand and the boys and girls should
make the most of the vacation season
that still remains to them.
The Calais Times very strongly urges
the adoption of Manual training in the
schools Of that city. 1t says: "Col-
lege preparation is not the main thing
in the preparatory school, Very many
school children are preparing not for
college. but for life-a life OF
toll and struggle. They are 60
ing out, not into college
but into world where practical
knowledge is not to be despised. in the
process of earning a living. any more
than the knowledge of what took place
in the dark and middle ages. Latin
and Greek. mathematics and the ele-
ments Of science are not to be thrown
aside for a single moment. They are
invaluable. But the manual training
should walk with them hand in hand"
An 1855 club composed of citizens
who were residents of Biddeford 50
years ago will be one of the big parade