Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-11-09
Maine Gossip
WiIIinq to Take the Chance.

W1IItn9 TO ] axe the NndHCSs
They tell me it's a risky thing
To eat expensive food;
That terrapin and quail will bring
OF aches frightful brood,
A life of ease will cause distress
And lead your nerves dance.
But none the less 1 must confess
I'd like to take 4 chance.
I'm told that sorrows often Turk
Within a palace grand.
And that deceiverS smile and Smirk
And cheat on every hand.
You'll envy. when with govt you're lame
The poor folks who can dance:
But, just the same, I'm downright game.
Washington Star
Three weeks more to Thanksgiving
day.
Not very promising for dry football
fields Saturday.
The buyers are now paying s1.6O pei
barrel for Aroostook potatoes.
Turner will devote tomorrow to i
grand celebration of the opening of its
electric road.
They are indeed feeling Puritanical
ing to collect d bill on Sunday.
They are working for d public read
ing room in Dexter, an institution
which cannot fail to be blessing tC
any village.
Twenty-on mismatched couples were
set free by order of the judge of the
; Supreme Judicial court, October term
| at Machias.
Director w. r. Chapman is improv-
| ing, hut it will be weeks before he is
able to do any work.
They have excavated an ancient relic
! on Peaks Island which is thought to
| have been an Indian plough. It is OF
| stone and weighs about 20 pounds.
| The Abbott school, known as Little
! Blue" in Pennington, has every room
filled. 1t is learned from George Dud-
| ley Church. principal. that all but one
of the new boys are from out of the
! State, New York, Boston and Provi-
dence being represented. Little
Blue" is one of the famous boys
schools, and il is significant that par
ents in larger cities appreciate the
benefits of the school more than the
residents of the State Of Maine. This
is the fourth year under the new man.
| agement, and it is gratifying to the
friends of the school to know that
| Notwithstanding the comparative small
attendance of Maine boys, every room
| in the school is filled.
A Spiritualist medium has made the
following prophecy: Another Readfield
young woman is to be murdered before
the crimes in Eennebec county will be
| at an end" And without being at all
superstitious. it is said that they are
! getting nervous in Readfield-for the
| horrible death of Matte Hackett has
not yet been forgotten.
| The successful story, 1.-The Rainy
Day Railroad War;" which Holman F.
Day wrote for the Youths Companion
will he issued in book form by a WELL
known publishing house-Mr. Day
writing in several additional chapters
and bringing it up to $4,000 words. I,
is now $4,000 words. Mr.. Day has re.
| Gently sold to the Youths Companior
| another serial. 1.-THE Skokums of the
Allegash"-somewhat larger than the
Rainy Day Railroad War" and said tc
be even more lively and with more ad.
venture and human interest than the
| former.
Here's a chance for the ornithologists
biologists. bugologists and other olo.
sists, to get busy. A party of Old
| Town hunters were out last week on q
| nttleshunting trip in the vicinity Of
Greenneld. One of the party shot an
arlfnai which nobody who has seen i,
mas yet been able to name or CLASSIFY