Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-13
Maine Gossip
Dainty Little Graduate.

ana thtrt Two VINO gaze AT YOU ana
listen Wen and plainly show
That they are filled with wonder at the
many things YOU know.
SnfteSt, pureSt white.
You know not in your innocence that all
you gravely say is trite;
All that You say in yonr sweet way was
often said long. long ago
But there are two who gaze at you for
getting. il they know.
Oh, dainty little graduate your breast is
filled with righteous pride,
But greater pride is in their hearts who
sit and listen, side bv side.
And something more than pride have they
who hear with faces all aglOW.
When your brown locks are tinged with
gray, perhapS-pC rhaJIS, YOU IL Know.
Chicago Record Herald.
Figh time for the Trolley league TO
be organized for business.
The mxuriant June foliage shows no
sign of the presence of the dreaded
brown tails.
The Maine soldier boys are much in
terested in the plan for a hike to camp
in August.
The Coronet. like its owner, occa-
sicnally strikes the rocks. but it soon
gets afioat again.
There is talk of an electric road ex-
tension from South Windham to the
shores of Sebago lake.
Bates and Colby meet on the diamond
at Watorvillc today and Bowdoin plays
Harvard at Cambridge.
Even the keepers of the peace cannot
keep peace when they try to play ball.
The policemen of Lewiston and Au-
burn started in to have a friendly game
the other day. but it ended in free
fight.
1t is a great spring for boys up in
Bridgton. OF the six children born in
the town in May only one was n girl.
The town of Lincoln hears that a live
weekly newspaper is likely to be esSab-
lshcd there in the near future.
It is long time yet to the hunting
season but Bangor believes in early
advertising and sends out the story of
moose trotting through the streets of
the city the other morning just as the
first risers We're astir.
The tide of summer travel is set
ting Maine ward earlier this season
than ever before. With the harvest
time beginning earlier and closing
later every year the possibilities of
our tourist and transient resident
business should inspire widespread
on the. part of alI-the- !
year-rnund citizens to do their part |
in maintaining the states reputation |
as big section of the nations play
ground.
Good Will Record: We note that a |
business man in Maine has offered
seyenty-fvc dollars to help pay the ex- |
penses of group of boys from that |
city to the Good Will Assembly and |
Poys' Encampment. He is shrewd |
business man and knows how to make |
good investments of great sums. This |
We fancy will prove to be
as good one for a small sum as he /
has often made; we predict large divi-
fends and wonder why more men don't |
make similar investment.
plan as the famous Ferris wheel
which was run during the Worlds
Fair at Chicago, i'm 1898 but a good
many sizes smaller. started in to do
rushing business at Old Orchard
beach Sunday. But the people had
IN opportunity of taking these aerial
rips for only ashort time. as it was
soon stopped by order of the select
men of the town. The Ferris wheel
has Just been erected on the beach in
front of the Irving House on property
which is controlled by the management
If the house. Near il is q merry-go-
'ound set of flying horses being put
here by the same parties. The Fer
is wheel is ready for the summer sea-
son but the other is not yet finished
The location of the Ferris wheel |
md the flying horses has caused
OF Of feeling at Old Orchard ard
here have been some very lively dis
'uSStoflS over II. Inc MANAGEMENT OF |
some of the hotels in that vicinity |
rave made the most strenuous obiec-
ions to it. They opposed the locat-
ng of such things there because they
nterferad with walking on the beach |
1t high water. They also claimed that
he noise would be very objectionable
q the guests at their hotel.
A small circus exhibited at Gorham |
asst week and in connection with it's
.isit there was an interesting incident.
IN the wear 1926 q circus visited the
own and during the performance a
rick clown was thrown from his horse
md injured so that he died in few
Having no near relatives
lie vas buried in the little cemetery on
Eohth street and a stone erected to his !
Many visitors are drawn 70
he spot from curiosity and visit the