Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-06-13
Maine Gossip

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faint Of the Times.
Tainted money,
Tainted stocks.
Tainted ways of
Getting rocks;
Tainted garments,
Tainted shoes,
Tainted food
And tainted booze.
Tainted morals,
Tainted sports:
Tainted cases
In the courts.
Tainted votes
And tainted tricks
In the world
OF politics.
Tainted novels.
Tainted plays,
Occupy our
Nights and days.
Tainted husbands,
Tainted wives
Gee. but ours are
Tainted lives!
Philadelphia Bulletin.
And still third circus is now prom
Used, and will be along early in July.
That 100000 gift to the Maine sana-
forum is one of the notable benefac-
lions of the year.
The lumber war does not prevent
Aroostook and New Brunswick from
joining forces against the border dives
Here's to the Maine newspaper boys
and their guests who will gather
around the board over at Bucksport
tonight, for a reunion and "shop-t talk"
Hundreds Of men, woE,en and chill
dren witnessed an unusual sight early
last Thursday evening at Thomaston,
when they watched 10 horses, four
abreast. drag along d skid on which
was a huge bowlder, six feet high,
seven feet long and weighing over
twelve tons. The bowlder was hauled a
distance of about two miles and placed
in the mall in the center Cf the village.
In it will be set the handsome bronze
tablet in commemo-ation of the land
ing Of Capt. George Weymouth, a;
which is now ThomastOn. in 1906. and
which will be unveiled OH the three
hundredth anniversary day. Thursday
July 6. The horses that hauled the
bowlder averaged in weight 14O0 each,
total of $1,000 pounds.
The Portland Light Infantry has
rounded out 1O2 years of successful life.
Only one of many thousand of the men
A.
and it is but seldom that a military Or
ganization reaches that great age. The
officers and members have much to
look backward to and much to emulate.
Portland has good reason to be proud
Of all her military bodies, and the in
fantry. now a part of the First Maine,
is certainly first among them.
Plucky Mamie Babb, a pretty West
brook girl. will brave the perils of an
arctic expedition ard accompany CON-
mander and Mrs. Peary as stenogra-
phtr to the frozen northland in the
Roosevelt. Miss f3ahb has spent large
portion of her life in Westbrook at the
home of her aunt, Mrs. J. l.. Horn. Miss
Babb is the younger daughter of Mr..
w. S. Babb who resides in Lebanon.
After graduating from the New York
schools where she spent several years
with her aunt, Miss Louise T. Babb, at
that time Il teacher in that city. she
came to WestbroOk and attended the
Gorham Normal school. Since gradu-
aiOn she has been a teacher. Miss Babh
is now at Eagle Island. She is to go to
New York on the Roosevelt and ex-
poets to sail the first week in July for
the North. Mrs. Peary and children,
with Miss Babb, expect to return the
first of September in the relief ship
which accompanies the Roosevelt,
carrying supplies.
In inaugurating a movement for the
observance of the centennial anniver-
sary Of the settlement of Newport, the
trustees of the public library in that
town have taken 4 course which will be
generally commended and one which it
is the proper function for a library as
ISOLATION to engage in. 1t should be a