Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-29
Maine Gossip
OId-Fashioned Philosophy.

Old Fashioned Philosophy.
Scorn not the hon;cly virtues. We ar,
prone
To search thru all the world for some
And vet sometimes old-fashioncd things
aye hest
Old-fashioned work, old-fashioncd recti
tude,
Old-fashioned honor and old-fashionet
Old-fashoncd patience that can bde it,
time.
Old-fashioncd lrcsides sacred from the
world.
Old-fashicned satisfaction with enough
Old-fasliioncd candor and simplicity,
Old fashioned folks that practice what
they preach.
National Magazine
This is the extra day that Leap
Year throws in for good measure.
The Republican administration Of
Auburn has reduced the city debt
10000 in the past year
Occasionally Il basketball team is
heard from which has the distinction
of not claiming the State champiou-
ship.
They have caught a Portland police :
man who has made Il regular bust
ness of entering a grocery store at
night for his family groceries.
AS the Piscataquis grand jury will
not meet until next September the
Woodbury. case will have Il long time
to simmer.
At Bar Harbors town meeting the
automobile problem will as usual be
prominently at the front.
The BoWdoin alumni Of Portland
have their annual banquet at the
Congress Square tonight. Those of
kennebcc county will meet at the
HalloWell house Wednesday evening,
March 4.
Somerset Reporter: Our Maine
farmers who held on to their apples,
last fall. although they were offered a
good price. find too late that they
made great mistake. The person
who wants the last dollar" for his
product usually gets left
Higgins Hill correspondence Of Fort
Fairfield Review: whats the matter
with Higgins Hill anyway? Not one
birth here for months and months.
Now just to stimulate activity in this
line Of business "" will give a new
dress to every child born here in the
next l. MONTHS
Tripets are very rare and those
that live are still more uncommon.
over in Orland everybody is inter-
ested in the three sons Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Rodney Cray who are now nine
weeks old and are doing finely, grow
ing steadily, gaining in health,
strength and avoirdupois. The trip
lets from their birth have been
healthy little fellows. They are
named Kenneth, Kermit and kclsie.
Kenneth. who when he was born
weighed "A pounds, now weighs 101i !:
AL MT, NIIo htlSI1tAI Il'il '''ii V -
now weighs So, and kclsie, who
weighed 6. now weighs So.
A Canada lynx was killed at Nash's
lake near Calais ths week
by Mcssrs Curtis ana Lincoln, The
animal being caught in a trap set
by them. The lynx was four feet,
4.,i1
stood IS inches high and weighed ~
pounds. In his struggles he broke The
chain attached to the trap and his
captors We're obliged to shoot him.
The Parsonsficld club of Boston
held its annual meeting this week
with 60 sons and daughters of the
good old York county town in attend
arcc 1t was a delightful reunion for
all Frank Banks was elected prcsi-
dent and Geo. NJ. BlaZo secretary.
Turf. Farm and Home: What is the
outlook in the horse breeding bust
ness? Just now this is an important
question. and one that deserves and
should receive prompt ana serious
consideration. 1t is serious rcf1nc
ton on our sagacity as business mon
that Maine is coming nowhere near
breeding the horses she uses. We are
aware that this is contrary to tile
general understanding Of the situ0-
ton. but that it is correct is easy of
proof. Where we ship one horse out
of the State we ship in a carload
Surely this is not as it should be.
a white ash log of unusual size was
hauled to Skowhegan from Madison
this week and sold to Palmer e CO.
who will use it in their carriagl