Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-08-17
maine Gossip
An August Prejudice.

| must confess l don't much like the
news my paper prints.
Of course. it's purity good fur crop reports
l an garden hints.
But tain't the literature that they was
| sendin' round of yure.
| / can't help wOnderiE' why | didn't pre-
ciate it more.
I run across a copy that is five or six
months old;
l tell you, twas wurth while to know the
things that paper told
"A Geld waves comm, was the piece
that first dawned on my gaze.
| | tell you what, they don't git out Sech
papers nowadays.
| 1t did me good to read bou how Bill
Jones pump got friz.
An how red tlannclS often purity good
fur rh, umatiZ.
An how the sleighin'. taken on an aver
age through the wear,
VIII very likely be the best We've ever
had round here.
Zeb Taylor'S got his ice house nearly
filled from Stubbs' pool.
The Jenkins boys had chlblains. so they
couldn't go to school.
read it till mosquitoes made me put the
lamp away.
tell you what. You don't git papers sech
them today.
Washington Star
Senator Beveridge of Indiana will
speak in Portland Wednesday, August
30 This will inaugurate the formal
Republican speaking campaign in this
state.
Every summer Hotel Velvet manages
to furnish Old Orchard with a sensa-
ton. The name is smoother than the
course of those who try to run the big
house.
Camden is anxiously awaiting the
coming of the warships and the digni-
taries, August 80, when the tablet will
be unveiled in honor of the Camden
boy who would not pull down the flag
at Pensacola in 1851
1t was q bright Southern woman,
now summering in Maine, Who re-
marked the other day, "When Maine
goes Democratic South Carolina will
have to be Republican," one PROPOSE
ton is as reasor,eb bic as the other.
Particularly pathetic was the death
of Harry Day. a Portland linesman
who came in contact with % live wire.
In another column of the same raper
that told the story Of the tragedy "o-S
the announcement OF MS 'oih'iS NO.
riagc to a Portland girl
"Evervbody happy" is the popular
cry at the shore resorts TINS su"i'ii''
and one hears it at every turn. 1t IS
a fitting vacation watchWord.
Maine Catholics seem well pleased
with the appointment of Rev. LOUIS .
Walsh of Salem as bishop OF thls
diocese. Others had been more profni-
| nent!y mentioned but noDouS pueS'i'
| the strength of the appointment. ~
has relatives in Maine and mas ire
| quently visited here.
That 10 q nrettv hard story which
comes from Path that the water taken
| from the hydrants is 50 tnick Win
| slime ana tilth that it frequently plugs
IN the snrinkler 50 badly that 1T re
| fuses to work.
There are 81 new lawyers in Maine as
n result Of the recent examination IN
| Portland, this number P"''o
20 applicants. one Of the new law
| vers is Young lady, Miss Ethel Wal
tor, of Skowhegan. who comes ot u
| family of LAWYERS and judges. she -
:, graduate of Roston University anu
;s said to he the second young woman
to practice law in Maine, the first @ pc
inc a Rockland girl. Regarding MISS
Walton the Portland Express says:
Miss Walton certainly ought 10 i'iahe
an impression on juries for she Is a
handsome and statuesque oionoe WIN
a very winning manner Ihe llst co ol
the newly admitted lawyers IS as 1oi-
lows: Oscar H. Dunbar. zones Sonesport' :
Lucius 3. Sweet. Hollis; Elmer T.
Burnham, Kittery; George A. c9wan'
Hampden; Sidney 3. Larrapee' Ioi
land; Wiley c. Conary, Bluehill; Perry .
l.. Brooks, Upton; J. A. Lallberte' Fort
Kent: Percy A. Hasty. Bangor Eu-
ward F. Merrill. skowhegan;. Augustus
lP. Norton. Lewiston; Winfield ;
Brown, Dexter: Fred f. Doyle Fills
worth: Ansel II. Bridges, Easton; Ed