Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-01-31

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But somehow or another
We are boun to get along.
Little bit o. money,
If your lucky now an then:
A little time to spend it,
Until Father Time says "When!'
A little bit of hOpin'
Our feelin'S to eXalt;
It's all SO little, what's the use
OF findin' any fault?
"A washington Star.
The last day of a very summerlike
January.
1t will hardly be surprising If Feb
ruary brings out the field strawberries.
The Portland Advertiser has a new
head, but it is the same good old Ad-
vertiser of 120 years.
Portland is visited by two remark
able women this week, but Helen
Kellar will hardly draw the crowd that
greeted Bernhardt.
The strength of organized labor's
| army in Maine is placed by Commits
sioner Matthew'S figures at 1898
members.
Bath physicians report that they
| never saw the town more healthy than
this winter. You see, everybody
| wants to stay alive in order to read
The new Anvil. tIAi4t44l
The Portland Express says that it
patiently stood all the midwinter yarns
until the story about the Biddeford
frogs came along. That caused it TO
declare that the limit of it's credulity
had been passed. Now comes the Bid
deford Journal with the assertion that
| while it is not in possession of one of
the local mid-winter amphibianS. it
| has carefully preserved some of the
croaks for the benefit of doubters,
| whose minds are still open to cOnvic-
tions of error.
No town can make a better showing
| than Sanford. In 1906 there were us
more births than deaths within it's
borders. the figures being 267 births
and 152 deaths.
The SacO firemen are having a good
long rest. There has not been an
alarm of fire for two months. The
last alarm was Nov. 25. when the fire.
| men We're summoned by telephone to
come to Saco Ferry where it was said
| 4 number of buildings We're threatened
| with destruction from a brush fire.
The pay roll at the Preston B. Keith
shoe factory in Springvale amounts to
81, 900 per week. The citizens are
greatly pleased that the new company
is getting such fine start and the
steady income is of great value TO the
Towns prosperity. -
The best lobster haul reported for a
long time from Monhegan was that of
Walter Davis last Monday who took
$50 large Holsters from the traps he
bad set Saturday. He sold them for
/ so and So cents each, not Il bad days
| work.
The log train on the Madrid railroad
hauled a spruce log to the Berlin Mills
Lumber Co.'S mill at Madrid station a
few days ago that measured three feet
and four inches at the butt and scaled
1920 feet. This is the biggest log
| brought 10 the mill thus far this year
and there are very few such trees left
in the Maine woods.
Last September the weather prophet
of the Bangor News declared that
every storm during the next six months
would clear off, mild. Honor is due
this wise prophet as about four in
every five storms have since fulfilled
his predictions; and our cold snaps
| turn out to be thaws.
Close calculator was LiZy Jane
Biggs, famed for stinginess i'm that
kennebec valley town wherein she
lived. One morning a neighbor call
| ed early at the Biggs horne and found
| the angular Eliza preparing the morn
| ing meal. On the stove a small and
| lonely looking doughnut sizzled de-
| Jectedly in the fry kettle "Gracious
me, Lizy Jane" said her caller, what
in the world are you doing?" Frying
one doughnut for pas breakfast"
came the complacent answer, PAS
so greedy. he eats a lot; so now, only
| fry one a meal"
Another time. neighbors of the
| gr"Sping Eliza determined to give her
a surprise party, to pay off Old scores
when this ShreWd calculatnr had