Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-11-30
Maine Gossip

| Maine Gossip
An OId-Time Thanksgiving.
/ Patience Deliyerance Hopeful Ann,
| A gray little prim little PURITAN
| Who lived in the years that are FAR away.
4 Sat down to her dinner Thanksgiving day.
( Turkey and goose, and pumpkin pie.
/ A little roast pig with chestnut eye.
pudding and apples. and good brown
81 feel very hungry" Deliverance said.
| Patience DCliverance Hopeful Ann
| She ate and ate, when she once began,
| Turkey and goose and the chestnut pig.
Till, srandmamma says. she was just like
| me.
They put her to bed with thoroughwort
tea.
Patience Delivcrance Hopeful Ann.
| That gray little prim little Puritan.
Carolyn Bailey in Good Housekeeping.
Down with turkey-and all the fix
ings!
Hardly enough snow here for IL
! Thanksgiving sleigh ride.
Here's hoping nobody in Maine fails
to have a good dinner today.
Don't forget the special ThanksSiv
ing services in the churches. this morn
ing.
Positively the last football games of
the season, today, and they arouse very
little interest.
Both Portland and Rockand are put
ting in vigorous claims for the coming
State encampment Of the G.. A. r.
The boys and girls are all home from
college, today, many of them for the
first time since the fall term began.
The Gardiner Board of Trade fair is
success. for that is the way that
hustling organization does things.
The Biddeford Journal is grieved be-
cause the people of the city in question
prefer ."Old Town." to "Oldtown." 1t
: even declares that it would not object
to "Oldorchard." It'll not likely to have
any occasion to.
Prominent among about 80 Mayflower
descendants whom President Roosevelt
greeted in Washington. last week. were
two from Maine. One of them WAS
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of the year on his ancestral acres near
Mt. Vernon. He was formerly presi-
dent of the local society. The other
was Capt. G. H. Ellis of Fort Fairfield,
| now 80 years old, the former editor of
what is now the Fort Fairfield Review.
Bangor News: Perhaps the tomcOds
have arrived, though the men who sell
them have not made any trips into the
country as yet. OF course. it is not
| possible that these fish have deserted
| us right in the midst of good times! 1t
| may be that we should not miss them
much if they should go away and stay
away, but when one wishes to reduce
his weight and live cheaply the tom
cod is a very useful standard from
| which to count the cost. A man can
| live on tomcods almost as cheapIy as
| he can on his wifeS relations.
! Engineer Horace w. Lyons, who was
in charge of the forward locomotive of
| the Montreal express on the Fitchburg
division of the Boston & Maine which
crashed into a local at Lincoln, Mass.
| Sunday night, resulting in the loss of
II lives. and who is now charged by
President Tuttle as responsible for the
awful accident, is resident of Old
| Orchard. His mother, two brothers.
sister and other relatives are grief
| stricken over the great trouble with
which the railroad man is now sur
rounded. They believe that a more
complete investigation will clear him
| from all blame.
In the story of the Maine college
football heroes who have scored OH
| Harvard as told in this column, a few
days ago. there was chapter omitted
1t seems that Kendall of Bates was not
the first Maine college player to carry
| the ball over the Harvard goal line as
| one paper had it. nor yet the third as
| this paper had it. He was the fourth
on the contrary, and one of his prede-
cessOrs. of whom no mention vas made
| the other day. was an earlier Bates
! player named Blake. 1t was in the fall
| OF 1901. Blake was playing right end
! for Bates and picking up the ball OH a
| tumble. with clear field before him.
he ran 25 yards for a touchdown. Thus
there have been four Maine college
football players who have scored on
| Harvard as follows: Walter D. Clarke,
| captain and fullback of the Bowdoin
eleven in the fall of 1898, who scored by
straight line plunging after BOwdoin
4 had pushed Harvard slowly back over
half the length of the field; Blake. right
end on Bates in 1901. who picked up the
ball on a tumble and ran % yards for
a touchdown; Porter. right end on
Bowdoin in 1902. who picked up the ball
on tumble and ran over 100 yards fol-.
a touchdown: and Kendall captain and
| halfback on Bates in 1905. who scored
or crisscross play after run of 20
yards in which he lodged several