Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-06-29
Maine Gossip
The Sweet Girl Graduate.

The Sweet Girl Graduate.
With sparkling eyes and winsome smile.
A confidence in knowledge great
Diploma. too. with ribbon pink
We welcome you, sweet graduate!
Your gown of white. your wavy hair,
Your pose Of graciOuSneSS Sedate-
Alas, with hope, Mere mans a bore.
And love is naught. sweet GRADUATED!
In years to come. when love has won
And knowledge finds it has no mate,
'Tis then the world will sing for JOY
And love will reign, sweet graduate.
Judge.
1.-THE First Crusade" this evening. at
Augusta. :.
The last of the 1905 commandments
is over.
The luscious field strawberries were
never more abundant.
| Wells is to have a s6GnO town house to
replace the one burned in May.
| Colby has reason to be proud of its
handsome new dormitory fer women.
| Those preliminary pOppings are the
way in which the American eagle clears
his throat.
| Foster, the weather prophet, says the
day before the Fourth will bring the
hottest wave Of the summer.
Mr.. Carnegie has increased his gift
for a library building at Madison from
5000 to $1,000 the town having ex-
pressed it's willingness to raise $500 an
nually for it's support.
| The Maine Democrats are gasping at
the prospect of new deluge Of grief
to be nncorked for them by G. Langtry
Crockett under the name of 1.-The Knox
| idea"
| Having spoken Of a downfall of go
inches of rain instead of go inches,"
| the Lewiston Sun explains that any
wetness looks like sixty since the raid
of the enforcement deputies. The edi-
/ wi tHC Has
signed the pledge.
June % was formerly the day that
those who battle in the ocean at Old
Orchard were supposed to be cured of
| all bodily ills. 1t used 10 be a date of
| some consequence but liObody pays any
| attention to ii now.
| st. Jean BaptiSte society of Biddeford
| did not celebrate st. Johns day, for the
| reason that next year marks the 10th
| anniversary of the organization. and it
| is proposed to observe tie event with
| elaborate ceremonies. The Biddefori
| st. Jean Baptiste society l.; the second
| Oldest in the country. a society in New
York being first. The society now has
400 members and IS in a flourishing
condition.
W. Wallace Keen Of Togus brought
into the Kennebec Journa, office, We'd
nesday. an interesting, souvenir of this
| papers early days. It was receipt
| for the payment Of subscription by
Thomas Keen of North Turner. signed
by Severance & Eaton. the founders Of
the paper. and dated July d. 1928.
FOrty-three years ago Faustina
Leavitt of Turner Taught school in the
her pupils was Royal c. thompson. and
as had happened before in human
affairs, they formed an attachment and
finally an engagement. Shortly after
| this she had an OffeI' Of a position in
| Wisconsin and went there to teach.
| There another Of the i,cculiarities Of
human nature ASSERTED itself and she
married and settled on farm in
Minnesota. Thompson very wisely re-
covered from his disappointment. and
in the course of time found himself
i'm Minnesota. Now, to come to the
climax by long jump. She had lost
her husband and he his wife. each hav-
ing four children. and they have
crossed each others track and were
married, June 13, at River Falls, Wis.
| The pastor of st. Saviour's church
at Bar Harbor announced at Sunday
mornings service the receipt of a very
ancient and famous cross from the
Archbishop of Canterbury. who visited
Bar Harbor last summer with J. Pier
pont Morgan. The cross is over three
hundred years old ana It's history &C :
| companied it.
Portland Express: 1t IS a burning
shame that the streets Of Portland
should be so torn up and made insight
~ at the very season of the year when
| it is most important tG all our inter-
ests that we look at our best Still, ap-
parently the shocked and harassed citi-
zens are powerless to prevent it.
Two sets of bucks antlcrs found last
week. on an open heath between Ken
nebec and Machiaspor.. firmly locked
together, where the ground is torn up
for a distance Of more than fifty feet
square. tells the tale Of a death struggle
unsurpassed by gladiators in the
Roman arena. When these antlers
We're found the animals evidently had
been dead about. fvc weeks. About
half of the bodies had been eaten by