Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-11-06
Maine Gossip
Aowdx. Mr.. Winter.

Howdy, Mister Winter: II " -" Soo
Haven't had a visit from you since 1
Thought | heard you laughin'-must "a
heen n week ago
Whom the north wind shouted just as it
began to blow;
Thought / heard you chuckle when the
grass was turned to brown
An the withered flowers lost their mott
an futtered down.
Hear you at the window; hear you in the
chimney, too
Howdy., Mister Winter; howdy' howdy
See the leaves a-racin' down the middle
O. the street,
Leapin' an a-dancin' like they all was
Jumpin' far am futher till they're scat
tered roundabout
Some gives up an falters like they was
They all Know you're comm. and they
rustic from the trees
Catchin' in their hurry to the fingers of
worryin' and scurryin' to get away
Howdy, Mister Winter. howdy. howdy do!
| Little brook is sleepy where it winds
around the hill
Yesterday twas singin' but today it,
somethin' come an told it in the mid
die afternoon
An it stopped it's singin'-never finished
all the tune.
Hawk away up yonder in never-endin'
sail;
Somewhere from the stubble comes the
whistle of a quail;
Frosty mist a-creepin' where the sky was
Howdy, Mister Winter: howdy. howdy
Howdy. Mister Winter! I can hear you
tn door
Got the fire a-blazin' an the shadows
paint the floor.
Play among the pictures; an the ruddy
Stream out through the windows. whers
you're waitin' in the night
l can hear you mutter in the bushes
See your snowfiakes pattin' on the glow
| in window pane
Here's the place for me Ito be, and there's
| the place for YOU
Howdy. Mister Winter: howdy. howdy
w. d. Nesbit in Chicago Tribune.
| They are making plans for producing
THE First Crusade" on Il grand scale
in Bangor and Portland.
Rain and mud do not prevent football
games as they do baseball games. but
they do not add to the success and en-
joyment Of the former.
Bath is renewing the talk of munic-
ipal ownership Of its water system, and
is wondering what became of the COM
mittee of investigation appointed, two
years ago.
The bear crop up Bethel way is un-
usually good. this fall One hunter
went out. the other morning, and shot
four before dinner time
BuckfieId's new water-wOrks are
nearing completion. The work of sup
plying, customers is well along and an
exhibition of the working of hydrants
few days since was up to the expec-
tatiCns of the most sanguine.
The Finlanders are now so numerous
at West Paris. there being fully 100 OF
their. that they are going to have d
church of their own.
y West Porter sends down a gOoC
| otoiy. 6CdH VI tiid
town raised pumpkin vine which was
100 feet long. with 25 sub-branches al
bearing pumpkins. The biggest
pumpkin weighed 52k pounds.
In the bath room of the upstair.
tenement of a certain Lewiston hous'
a pipe burst the other evening TIL,
lady who occupies this tenement
hastily informed the gentleman dowr
stairs and he hurried after a plumber
s He sought out one of the members Of 1
A local firm who directed him to gooc
d plumber in their employ. So he hur
II ried to the young mans boarding place
only to find him gone. In despair h
returned home and found that some
oody had been bright enough to turn
1T on the water in the cellar. And all tn,
ly ume that very plumber was being en-
70 tsrtalned in the downstairs parlor b,
tne sentleman's hired girl.
e "A SAD coincidence in connection witt
L the drowning Of William Stuart q
is Larrabee, last week. is that his brothe
10 was drowned by the upsetting of