Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-25
Maine Gossip

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Just to Be Boy Again.
Just 10 be Il child again" sighed the
millionaire.
Know ing not that woe exists, free from
every care.
Just to re a child again. filled with boy
Free from all the ills I bear and from
sorrows free.
Round the corner lay boy, frettins in
his bed.
Gee. visit was a man." disnially he
said.
Every winter seems 10 bring some dis
ease somehow.
Had the scarlet fever ,ast-got the mea-
Slcs now
Yes. I've hal the chickcnpox ana the
iaunGicc, too:
'Spcse I'll have the mrmps the next-al-
WINS something new;
When yoIlr'rc sick there amt 10 fun,
cause You feel so bad:
When You're w"li you 90 to school-gce
but If" il sad.
Just 10 he 4 boy" tic man :nurmnred
Free 70 irolic rs ! pleased. al things
IN, how small mems triua!ph< arc. what
price we pay
F1r ift lille that we Gel rs we scheme
AWAY.
-Cni"aec Hccord-Hcra
The Governor and Council VIII as
usual consider the Haynes pardon and
q few ether matters today.
Down 1T Bath, where they know
Charles w. Morse best, they are con-
WINGED that he will not wind up i'll
PERJURY or The penitentiary.
Those wolves" at Gray have now
resolved thcns, Ives into "peary's
Esquimeux dogs" and win probably
next prove to be very ordinary
neiSh5orhocd ours.
Speaking of a theatre party the
The party is said to have been
chaperoned by Miss Margaret Good
win"
Every day brings Il few new de-
veopments and complications in that
The orange crop of Garland is ready
for harvesting. II consists of y hand
some oranges on tree owned by Mrs.
Lionel Lincoln.
The Bowdoin Musical clubs, which
gave most successful concerts at Old
Town, Bangor and Augusta last week.
have engagements ahead at Farming
ton, Livermore Falls, Norway, Bethel,
Brunswick. Bath and Portland. and
during the Easter recess will take Il
Massachusetts trip with five or six
concerts.
1t is source of great grief to the
Democratic newspapers of Maine that
the Sturgis law paid its way with over
$1,000 to spare for the first month Of
the present year.
The most remarkable freak Of
February hurricane happened at
MahollanTs Cove at the entrance 70
the Narraguagus river near Milbridge.
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launches. two large gasoline engines
and about 500 pounds Of lead, intended
for ballast, was picked up from Il
wharf. blown over 4 fence of piling
seven feet in height and deposited on
a bank nearly 500 feet away. The
contents were not damaged.
Every year as the birthday of
Benjamin f. Hamilton of Saco comes
round, the newspapers like to remind
Maine people that Mr.. Hamilton was
the first dry goods dealer in New Eng
land to employ a woman clerk in his
store. The innovation created stir
everywhere and was discussed by
platform orators in all parts of the
country. Mr.. Hamilton was born i'll
WATERFORD, Feb. 20, 1919. He was
engaged in business in Boston prevl-
Gus to locating in Saco.
SAYS Il correspondent: We think
that Norridgewock can boast Of hav-
ing one of the smartest old men in the
State. Mr.. Joseph Smith. who is 81
years of age (and he does not call that
OldD has been in the woods this
winter. cut 10 cords of wood loaded
and hauled it to the house and cut and
split it into stove wood and has de-
livered nearly all of it in the village
for five dollars a cord.
The disarmament of one of the four
National Guard companies in Lewiston
and Auburn has aroused n great deal
of speculation as to the location of the
new company which must be recruited
TO take the place of Co. d. Second
Maine regiment An application from
citizens of Livermore Falls has been
before the state military authorities
several years. Adjt. Gen. Augustus Il.
Farnham of Bangor states that he has
no idea as to where it will be. The
history of militia companies shows
that they have been tried in COM
paratively recent years in Belfast.
Dexter, Old Town and Calais and the
towns failed to maintain them per
mancntly. The requirement of three
commissioned officers and IS enlisted
men permanently in each company