Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-11-02
maine Gossip
The Trials of an Auto,


| remember. ] remember
The car ! used to drive.
1t started out right gailantly
But never would arrive.
The commutator wouldn't work.
The jump-siIark wouldn't play:
Theil suddenly 'twould give Il jerk
That took my breath away.
l remember, i remember
How nothing would stay right;
The aspiration pipe got loose.
Tn" carbureter tight:
The steering knuckle broke one day;
Twas lust before we met
Eeedless Old pedestrian
The man is living yet
l remember. | remember.
The curves | used to swing;
thought that twenty miles an hour
Was speed like anything,
The car seemed like a feather them
That seems so heavy now.
And DunctureG tires could not dispense
The smiles that wreathed my brow.
l remember, 7 remember,
That little runlbout:
1t always skidded. slipped. and backed,
And calmly threw me out.
/ have 4 Palace Flyer now,
But still It's little fun
For | am far less satisfied
Than when l first begun.
-Ridgway's Magazine.
These October and November snow
storms make it seem a long time td
spring.
That famous NeaZie weather sharp
says that all the signs-birds. corn
husks. muskrats. goosebones. deer ant
lers, etc-indicate an open winter.
Livermore Falls is happy over the an
nOnncement that Hon. Edwin Riley
will give the Village a soldiers mon
ument. 1t will be located on Church
street hill.
A Patten correspondent tells 4 re-
markable yarn of the invasion of the
town by an army of moles He mod
cstly estimates their number at mil
lion and tells great things of the troub-
le they made and the terror they
spread. He falls down however, when
he remarks that all the cats in town
got full, fat. heavy-bellied and stu
pid," for everybody knows that Il cat
will no eat q mole.
The lumber camps are well opened
The coming winter will be a busy one
on the Kennebec system of timber
towns. The seasons cut will be lit
tie larger than that of last year. Tho
wages are slightly better than for sew
eral seasons. Spruce will again be the
main timber of the winters opera
tions. The tree saw is fast giving the
old choppers axe the cold shoulder and
will be more generally used on Kenne-
bee waters. There appears to be 4
good demand for cedar and hemlOck.
The Old Home week spirit is not con-
fined to the summer season or tC
Thanksgiving time. A visitor to Scar
boro last week was Freedom NJ. Rice
of Visalia, Cal, who went away Z:
years ago when a boy Of 10 and has
never been back to Maine. At the
same time c. c. Flagg of San Francis
co arrived for a visit at his Old home
in Lincoln for the first time for AZ
years. He was in the heart of the
great earthquake and tells some very
interesting incidents in connection with
it. He also was in Chicago at the
time Of the big fire of 1871.
There is much interest in the expert
ments which are soon to be tried nj
South ThOmaston by which the tides
are to be utilized for .he generation
Of power. This is n scheme that ,mil.
men have been looking into Cor s"m1
time. as the scheme would prove t" lie
money saver if found practicable
By utilizing the tide, lnillmen plan +,
make it store up compressed air anO
thus furnish power Tor the running a
mills and factories. Ornan B. Hunph-
rey of Bangor, who has had much eX-
perience in engineering of this sort. IS
Of the opinion that the scheme is not
practicable for mills On the Penobs cot
river for the reason tna: dams would
be necessary to PIT the plan in opera
ton and that would mean pcrhal s
closing the river I'd navigation.