Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-11-20
Maine Gossip


In These November Days.
All. but life is good in these November
days,
When white the boar frost CLEANS along
unnumbered ways
And yonder hills are yelled In shiltLhs'
purple blaze.
The spring has gone, the summer too.
The rose has fled with summer dew.
But still yon vaultec skies are blue.
All, but life is good in these November
days,
When fields and woods are clothed in
sober browns and grays,
And bold the north wind pipes his change
full roundelays
The thrush has gone, the robin. too;
Far south they sing their songs anew
But still yon vaulted skies are blue.
All, but life is good in these November
days;
The sun enfolds us in the glory of his
rays
And every voice takes up eXulting songs
of praise.
The leaves have gone, the flowers, too;
The birds have hidden us adieu,
But still yon vaulted skies are blue.
Will Reed DunrOy, in Chicago Record
Herald.
Better hide away the boys skates
for a week or two longer.
The hot dog" carts, long barred
from the streets of Bangor, are now
doing business there again.
December 6, and S are the dates
selected for the presentation of 1.-The
First Crusade" at Bangor.
GuilfOrd expects to be very busy
little town next. summer as quite a
number OF teneihents and houses are
to be built to accommodate the help
for the new mill. We understand
that Il number of private residences
are to be built, also.
Wages in the northern Maine woods
are SO scarce the operators are taking
boys of Il dozen years of age. on the
same principle. that they are now
2days cutting trees only about four
inches in diameter.
When two painters in a Maine city
received an order from one of the city
need only their brushes and
overallS to do the work they
wondered, especially as it was to be a
job of several days duration. No
ladders of any kind We're TO be re-
quired. What was it they were to
paint? That was a question they
couldn't answer. until they reached
the scene of operations. They We're
engaged to paint the fence about the
city cemetery.
Biddeford Journal: Now that
Geciduous foliage has succumbed to
to keep a weather eye open for nests
of the browntail moth. They can be
easily seen wherever they appear on
the naked trees, and Il little energy
and persistence i'm the right direction
now may avert a calamity later.
About a year ago Chicago man
offered five prizes for articles of
highest excellence on certain economic
SubJe-'tS ny ColicSt IltIi. lie dWdIuS
have just been announced and the
second prize is won by Il Maine boy,
the other four all going to western
college students. The second prize of
$3.50 comes to John Edward Newton
of West Woolwich who graduated
from BOwdOin last June and is now
in Yale Theological school. His
article was on 1.-THE Influence of the
Industrial Combinations on the
American Laborer."
The college boys and girls will soon
be home for Thanksgiving. The calf
has been fattening since last September
and in many rural home will it be
killed for the home coming boys and
gir!S.-Bridgton News.
Veal for a Maine Thanksgiving din
ner? Not as long as there is anything
on the farm that can gobble or cackle.
Now concerted effort is being made
to induce the oyster to come back to
Maine. Down at the "Gurnet' on the
New Meadows. is a large sign which
for years has informed the passerby
state of Maine. It's like last years
! crows nest however, for there haven't
| been any oysters there for years. Now
| oysters have been planted at
Damariscotta, Saco, York and the New
Meadows and Maine people are watch
ing the result of the project with a
great deal of interest
TI,l
The report comes that hunters on the
slopes of Mount Katahdin have seen
roaming there a herd Of caribou, the
| hrst known to have been i'm the state
Tor a number of years. Rumors of
The return of the caribou have been
coming in this fall from other parts
| OF northern Maine. 1t was about ten
years ago that the caribou disappear-
ed from the state, migrating to Cana
da. The cause of the migration has
been matter of some dispute, but the
most authoritative view has laid it
to the lack of proper feeding grounds,
and the return of the splendid game
mas therefore been hoped for. but little