Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-11-01

night?
Seldom does November find the riv-
ers at such frcshet pitch.
For three more Saturdays the Maine
sridirons Will siZZle and smoke
Here's hoping that Edward Pays"n
Weston finds better travelling on the
way to Chicago than the Maine mud in
which he began his journey.
| Those seven girls from Bates Col
lege who helped Turner farmer gath
er 81 barrels Of apples this week got
| some training in the higher branches
! which they did not figure on when they
/ matriculated.
The item that Maine has only one
| surviving soldier of the Mexican war
has brought to the front six such sur
Vivors in the immediate vicinity Of Au-
| gusta and the returns have hardly be-
gun to come in
About 800 Portland children who
are attending the public schools
| cannot be provided with seats in the
school buildings and because of that
| condition are being accommodated this
tall in such scilonlrooms as can be
| fitted up in dwelling houses and In a
structure formerly used as hose
house.
Hairy Anderson. d Dayton boy. has
| raised some pumpkins this year shat
| are entitled to a place on the prize
winning list One of these he re-
| Gently exhibited with good zeal of
| pride. 1t weighed 20 pounds. was IS
inches in diameter and so inches in
length.
As indicating the character of the
young Zen VINO so to our colleges. il
| is pointed out that Of the 1o3 freshmen
at Bow dom no fever than CT are mem
| bers--not merely attendants, but en-
rolled membt rs-pf some church as fol-
lows: Congregational -: Roman
Catholic. 10: Episcopal. nine: Metho-
dist. six: Baptist. five; tniVcrsalist
two: Friends. two.
a former South Paris girl. Miss Anne
Parsons now of New York. was adj
mitted recently to the bar in that city.
Miss Parsons. VINO is the daughter OF
the late s. X. Parsons, has been a
stcnographcr for some years. in New
York. and while working at Stenog-
raphy she has found time to make 4
practical study of law. and her course
iii the New York University. was the
prelude to her Abundance to the New
York bar.
One of West F'ranklin's amateur
hunters. fearing that he might be silot
purchased q web of sheeting and sewed
ii upon his back. One Gay last week
| he took to The bush and came upon a
COW and calf moose. The moose. not
being accustomed to seeing a dry goods
store in the wilderness. began to paw
ana below furiously. The noise
proved to lie more than the nerves Of
tn. hunter could stand, and he started
towards home in hurry.
Stealing from Il public museum may
not be the meancst kind. but ii comes
near that. In q. letter to the Bldde-
| ford Record Ferguson Haines states
| that relics and curiosities presented
| by him to the York institution years
ago have disappeared. These included
a collection of copper cents from 1893
| to 1919. remarkable formation of
i of
his father by Governor Fairfield, and
some specimens Of the beavers work.
Doubtless they have been :tolen by
| that modern pest, the souvenir fend.
or by some OF those persons of warped
moral nature who consider it no
sin to steal public property. Only
recently it was reported that thefts
and vandalism at the Louvre in Paris
had become so serious that il was
necessary to increase the number and
vigilance of the guards. Other muse
ums have the same trouble. and it all
seems to Indicate an increasing deteri-
Grafton of the moral sense. 1t is /,
particularly mean form of thievine
because these valuable collections have
been established and maintained by
generous giverS or at the public ex-
l
! lie forever. and because the lnsbe-
haVior of few puts all visitors I'M
der suspicion instead of on their honor
"A man who has been staying in
Maine this summer, tells this story to
the Maine Woods: One day as he was
driving over the hills he saw beauti-
fui deer drinking out of the trough BY
the WaEside. So intent was she tina,
she did not seem to notice Il dog which
was trntting down the road towards
her. Fearful lest harm should come t.
the graceful little creature the MAJ
tired to drive the dog away. VIVA,
was his surprise to see the deer wher
she had finished drinking. turn to the
dog. greet him by rubbing her nose
against him. while he responded bS
ilcking her face. Then together the,
trotted away over the fields. evidentl,
on the best of terms He spoke Of
ms adventure to his Maine host ant
was told that the deer was tame. ina
: it had heen brought UP by a farmer: