Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-10-16

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The Song of Good Cheer.
over aud over and over
The song OF the robin IS sung.
And people VIII praise il forever,
Whenever the glad year Is vouiS.
No note is discarded or added:
lis always the song OF good Chcei,
The song that once gladdened our fathers,
Tho song that our children shall hear.
over and over and over
Thu words that give hope may be told;
Like the song of the robin. they never
Will cease to be sweet or be old.
They gladdened the hearts OF our fathers,
We hear them and cease TO De SAD
Let us pass them along that our children
May know them and learn 70 be glad.
S 4. kiScr.
October is half gone, but summer is
dc laying it's departure.
Here's hoping the list of kennebec
murder mysteries remains for while
without more additions.
The Aroostook starch factories are
closing up the seasons work with the
smallest output for years. The pota-
toes were too good for starch. this fall.
Elijah Sanford escapes his year
in Jail and his fine of s173 causes him
no serious Inconvenience.
The receipts of the Bangor end of the
Music Festival were $4,000 and the ex-
penses $500, leaving $500 to use in
cutting down the debt on the auditori-
UNI.
Her. is a watch story. About eight
years ago T.. CT. Barker was working in
one Of the fields on his farm i'll
SpraGucs Mills, and lost his watch,
one day. last week, as |. II. Pattee was
watch. took it to the house, wound it,
and found II would run as we'll as eve.
At last accounts the watch was still go
| ing.
The Furt Fairfield young woman who
sent her father a telegram saying his
mother was dead and did not tell him
till he WAS ready to talk" The train lvr
| The funeral that il Was All 4 joke" has
i remarkabl" conception Of humor.
While making repairs recently at The
IDld Mems Home. Bangor. in 4 sealed
mouldy closet IN 4 dark corner Of tht
cellar. workmrn came across "a quaint
ty of silver pieces evidently belonging
to two OF three. different sets. They
We're 50 tarnishrd taht at first the
workmen didn't know what they were
but on examination they We're found L
BE- solid silver and uf artistic design
They are valuable chiefly for their an.
| tiquity ana sentiment. but the money
| N;,!ue represented is in the neighbor
hood Of Slu0. The silver was at once
| turned over To the heirs of the Edwin
Clark estate by the officers of the
home after its identity had been traced
Biddeford Journal: The Colby col
lege girls have voted to abolish hazing
III view of the nature of the hazine
that has heretofore obtained among The
girls in our colleges. everybody vii
now rejoice that life at Colby vii
| it,rau- ha aft
shed. fewer broken limbs and mini
mum of black eyes and fractured noses
| In proof of the enthusiasm which ha.
been excited by the gigantic success O.
this years Music Festival. a Maine
man who has been in constant atten.
dance went to Prof. Chapman after th'
"Wednesday morning rehearsal in Port
land. and expressed a strong desire t
have established in Maine permanent
organization similar to the Boston
symphony orchestra which would Civ,
weekly concerts in Portland and posi-
olE III Bangor and as an incentive
towards this object offered TO be one O
~ to give $4,000 for its support Thi.
would mean much. not only TO Port
iahd but to Maine and seems wortl
Nhlle considering. 1t could be made
"'uSlcal event of the utmost importanc.
'hu WAS received by Prof. Chapnal
: with qualification. Now if some Of III.
!foninent men Of our city would com,
forward To further this macnifcan
SSeSt'"h. Il" On" can prnphnsy nh
magnitude IT the outcome.