Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-11

New York police do their duty and that
is a safe haven for crooks.
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The Whole Story.
Catchin cold ar gcttin' We'll
That's 'l"ut all there is to tell
Of this life. II seems to me.
All the way from y 10 IL.
Some one asks you How dye do?"
An you've only got les two
Answers, if the truth ii told
''Gettii.' we'll. or cstclin' cold
When rour. throat is feelIn' sore,
An your head begirs 10 roar,
Then you know if you wait
Pate! tly you feet first rate.
An you know. when flee from pain
] ou'll be catchn' cold again.
That's bout all there 1t to tell
Catchin cold an Settin' well.
Washington Star.
Almost every day has it's thin ice
somewhere in Maine
A lot of counterfeit money, both
small bills and change, is said to be in
in Portland.
Mathematics, politics and various
other things seem to be involved III
the failure of the Portland liquor
agency to take in as much money last
year as it paid out
Ellsworth just now has one of those
Sunday closing movements that break
out at odd times in the cities of the
State. and it is creating the usual dis
turbance
A three year-old Lewiston girl dis
Tuesday and the terrified
mother notified the police. For three
hours five men secured the city for the
missing child, that was finally found
in the house next door!
Daniel Wingate of SomerSw ortiz,
though 80 years old. took IA mile
tramp into the country, this week.
going to the home of his sister. MIS-.
Samuel Hubbard on the West
Lebanon road in Berwick. and return.
James Bernicr and wife of West
kenncbunk are rejoicing over the
birth of their 9th child. Mr.. Ber-
nier is a French Canadian who works
in the will there There are 10 chill
Il,
50 that Mr.. Bernicr does not know
where they all are.
The only prizes that came to Maine
from the recent meeting of the Massa-
chusetts Horticultural society were
won by Charles S Strout of Biddeford
with his carnations and chrysanthc-
NUNS. He won eight prizes in all.
Mr.. Strout was for many years a sue
cessful teacher of Biddeford but now
devoteS all his time to his green
houses.
The Knights Templar Communicates
on the lower Penobscot, Claremont at
Rockland. Camden at Camden, De-
Ntti'A' OF iiiui AidNti anu
at Belfast are planning on joint cele-
bration of St Johns day. June "a.
Hugh ]. Chisholm has offered the
town of Rumford Falls the sum Of
$1,000 providing that some society or
organization will raise money to the
amount of $500. all for the benefit of
the public library. The Searchlight
Club of that town will endeavor to
raise the amount required by Mr..
Chisholm and indications are that the
club will be successful in its
endcavorS.
Rev. f z. Wilson of Fryeburg is
good story teller. and always seems to
have just the right one for the oc-
Casion. At recent wedding. when
there was a wait for some Of the
guests. Mr.. Wilson, as usual, broke the
monotony that might have ensued by
telling the guests of a man who was
about to enter the matrimonial state
for the fifth time, and when the minis
ter said. II will have you stand over
here. the man turned and replied. Il
have usually Sot on these OCCASIONS"
One of the Biddeford dailies in an
that there We're $40 births in
the city last year. went on to tell its
readers how many times each of the
26 physicians of the city officiated at
the interesting occasions in question.
One physician reported 9S births, and
so on down the list In thesame item
it was stated that there were 36l
deaths in Biddeford in 1907. but by
some oversight the statistics as to the
attending physicians were not in
cluded.
The following interesting notice APP
pears in this weeks issue of the
Brunswick Record:
Viii every person who sees this notice
and who personally attended. on July /,
1877. Mt the Church in Brunswick. the
celebration of the fiftietli anniversary OF
the Class of 1875 of Bowdoin. and who
saw and heard Mr. Lopgfellow read his
poem there please communicate with
J.. S LIVINGSTON
dale