Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-04-24

IL Maine Gossip |.
That Easter Hat Of Moliy's.
nm take me clar till Christmas. I'd have
you understan,
prt-didn't she look wonderful. You
| never seen the IKE,
| Tb. other gals said: Jest can tell
| whar lishtnn's goin to strike!
The very finest ribbons o the whole
| worlds ribbon crop.
| An. them thar millinery birds-they set
| it off tiptop. .
| Thar warn't another like 1t in all the
That Easter hat that Molly wore. on the
| inStallmCnt plan.
| Oh, l don't regret the money!-them rib
| bons, birds. an blooms.
: An a ward or two | reckon. o the finest
| painted plumcS.
She Jest outshined the settlement. an SO,
I'm wilIin' fer to foot that bill on the
| installment plan;
Atlanta Constitution.
The mayfowers are little tardy,
but will be along with early May.
The roads are drying up in places
and the worst of the hard travelling
is over.
The Augusta knights Templar are
making plans for pilgrimage to Mont
real in early August.
The Kennebec grand jury meets to-
day and it has some important busi-
ness to attend to.
Three pardon hearings are sched-
uled for this mornings meeting of the
Governor and Council
Old Town boasts of a woman who
has been doing housework in the same
family for 35 years, and she isn't the
woman of the house either.
Outing has an article on How to
Catch Trout" Wait until the city
sport arrives. with all his theories and
wealth of trappings, and makes a fail
ure of it. Then the country lad with
alder pole. home made line and old
fashioned hook, will show him Il string
of the Speckled beauties.
The famous Appalachian Mountain
Club of Boston has arranged among
a,inc Of
cursiOns and meetings for the coming
summer an outing at York for June
1918. The visit will include, in addi-
tion to sightseeing trip to various
places of interest i'm York, an ascent
of Mount AgamenticuS as the chief
event designed for the outing.
Here is the unkind comment of a
Bath paper on our new steamer: IF
the City of Augusta had been built
down here on the kennebec, as she
| ought. she would have looked like IL
| real boat, and have been adapted to
the service mapped out for her as well.
She is fast shallow and capacious, as
matters are, but not beautiful in sea-
| mans eye"
There is tangIe in Vcazic. An old
| man of SO and Il young man of IS, both
widowers. The young man has d step
daughter SO years old, who has mar
| :icd the older gentleman, and in re-
turn the younger man has taken the
| old mans daughter for a wife. Now
what relation are those four people to
| one another?
A freak Of freaks was brought to
| Hoxie's in Foxcroft last week to be
mounted. The freak is in the shape
| of a calfs head but instead of being
| like most bOSSieS the animal was fitted
with two lower jaws and three tongues.
| The two jaws of the animal were per
| feet in all respects while the tongues
| We're not fully developed but All three
| had started from the same root The
| calfS head is the property of George
Maxfield Of GuifOrd and it was one of
his cows that produced the wonderful
| animal. 1t was II large calf and was
apparently in the best of condition,
but after several days Mr.. Maxfield
found trouble in making the animal
take nourishment. Upon examination
of its mouth the strange state of af-
| fairs was disclosed.
| George w. Dickerman. secretary
of the st. CroiX Valley Association of
Massachusetts. has been in this state
and up the st. Croix valley in CONSUL
tatiOn with the Old Home Week com
| mittee Of the St. Croix valley. The
association expects to leave Boston for
Calais on a special train. Aug. 9Th, and
several hundred people are expected to
accompany them. Mr. Dickcrman re-
ports great enthusiasm throughout
Calais. St. Stephen. as well all
along the valley, on account of this
event, and "a number of the leading
citizens being on the committee, the
names of which are a guarantee OF
success and all showing "A spirit which
is sure to bring results, promises to
make this reunion big success among
the St. Croix valley people.
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