Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-11-30
Maine Gossip

j Maine GOSSIP \
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Sing Ne a Sweet, Low Song Of Night.
Sing me a sweet. low song Of night
Before the moon Is risen,
song that tells of the stars delight
Escaped from days bright prison.
A song that croons with the cilckets
voice.
That sleeps with the Swallowed trees.
song that shall bid my heart rejofr~
| At it's tender mysteries!
| And then when the song is ended, love.
| BenI down your head unto me.
| Whisper the word that was born above
| Ere the neon had swayCd :he sea,
Ere the Oldest star began to shine.
| Or the farthcS sun to burn
| The Oldest Of words. O heart Of mine.
| Yet newest, ard sweet to learn.
-Hildegarde Hawthorne
II is not unfair to assume that Port
| land will talk politics more or less over
Sunday
All of the Elks lodges in Maine will
hold memorial services for their
deceased members tomorrow afternoon.
The EOWdoin Dramatic club has
made arrangements to present its play
in Brunswick. Pennington, Bangor.
| Portland. Bath, Belfast ana Camden.
There are certainly some very
| mysterious features in the tragic death
| in New York Of that Young Winthrop
art student
A car on the Atlantic Shore Line
struck and killed Il large buck deer last
| Thursday night near Bald Head cliff
-Four deer crossed the track ahead Of
| the ear: three doe got by in safety but
| the buck came to grief
Dandelions are still blooming in
| Hancock county. Down on Swan S
Island, jefferson Torrey picked "a full
blown one Nov IS. at Brooksville Mrs.
a. T. Friend picked one Nov. 10. at
North BrOOksville, Mrs. j. r.. Staples
picked one Nov. Il, and at Ellsworth
William f.. MOrang picked one Nov. %.
DandeliOn green's We're a Thanksgiving
dish down that way.
| Phillips village is fighting hard for
the privilege Of buying its water supply
| system. The water company con-
! structed its plant by contract be-
tween it and the village corporation
NAe. eby the company had rights to lay
its pipes, operate it's system and
| receive $500 "a year rental from the
village for hydrant service. The
| company in return agreed to sell to the
village corporation at the expiration Of
ten years if the village wished to buy.
The village claims to have kept its part
of the contract, but the company re-
fuses to take steps toward selling.
The case will be argued before tn.
| Law court in December.
According to reports from the East
Bucksport and North Orland SECTION
the thieves are reaping a harvest. Last
week they visited Miss Fannie Little,
at East Bucksport, stealing twenty-five
pullets. WinSlow Davis, of East
| BuckspOrt, lost 100 choice cabbage.
Mark CHM and B. +. Johnson, Of North
Orland. within three weeks have lost
100 pulletS.
A West Franklin correspondent
writes: Some people are trying to
breed discomfort by harping about high
prices, etc. An extract from a diary
under date Of December. 10. 1875, might
be of interest to them. Wages then
We're from ST. to $40 Il month, if you
could get q job. Flour was from 50 80
81 a barrel; corn. $3.50 bag: pork. Ii
to IS cents a pound; beans, So !,
bushel''
| Belfast Journal: A man was ar
rested in Bucksport last week charged
with embeZzlement. He will be tried
and if found guilty will be punished
But the man who sells worthless stock
to the public, and knows that is
! worthless when he sells it, escapes the
legal penalty for what is simply a form
of robbery. The Yellow Dog, Blacl,
| Cat. and Blue Monkey mines number
their victims by thousands and there is
no redress for those who are buncoed
| by glib talk and garish literature.
The demands and accompanying
threats of the Italian Society of black
mailerS known as the BLACK Hand
have reached Houlton. The Aroostoor
Pioneer says that Louis Murray, q
respected and well-to-do Italian o.
HOultOn has had demands made upor
him by the society for $4,000. He has
received several such demands and has
been threatened with death if he fail.
to make good at a certain date. Mr.
Murray has been driven to despair by
these letters and he does not know
what to do. He has closed his resi-.
dence and gone away with his family
| for a time.
III York Transcript:-A few Main.
papers published away from the coas