Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-02-07

J Maine Gossip I
| On the Life-Way.
Walk the way Observation-Disclosures
But look out fer the dust thar. in Inc
middle O. the road;
Sometime it's mighty blirdin'-it gifts you
! fore you know,
You still mus. keep a-gOin' an you
| dunno Whar TO so!
Walk the way contented-that's jest the
| WY to Go,
Sinsin' with the travellers that are go
| in long with you.
Yander, in the shadders. rest the heavy
| load
After all the dust thar in the middle
o the read.
| Frank L. Stanton.
The cruise OF the cutter Woodbury.
| along the Maine shore is hardly in
the nature Of 4 pleasure trip.
Bangor again hears the rumor that it
| Is to be added to the Keith vaudeville
circuit in the near future.
Fort Fairfield got the prominence in
the newspaper headlines. but Malta
wamkeag with temperature of 40
below beat it by one degree.
Other communities may we'll pray
to be delivered from that terrible and
mysterious insect pest reported from
4 section of Machiasport
The Maine editor who tried the other
day to run q cheerful little joke about
the proper treatment of sunstroke
should nave labeled it as joke and
arranged diagram to go with it,
Mrs Holman +. Day is to have a
part in the latest book by her distin-
suished husband. She has drawn the
cover design for the novel king
Spruce" which is soon to be published
by Harper & Bros.
Who can beat the record Of Miss
Cahill who is now a junior in the Bath
High school? For the past nine years,
or ever since she entered the public
schools, she has not been absent or
late.
Not all the wealth of Bar Harbor is
represented by it's summer residents
Tobias I. xx.I,H ioI In.
month, left an estate valued at over
$275,0GO.
A Belfast cribbage enthusiast scored
- in 4 game, the other day, and he
thinks that must be pretty nearly a
record peg. He thus describes his
hand: Il dealt and held three skies
and a nine. A three was turned. My
opponent played a king. I played the
nine, he follow ed with another king
and l said go whereupon he played
a two spot leaving him but one card.
l then played six, which he paired,
thus giving me an opportunity to peg
nineteen. On the count I had eighteen
points in my hand and the crib con-
tanned fifteen. making total Of fifty
IwO.'
a Millinocket Italian murder case
will come before the grand Jury OF
the Penobscot S. ]. court which con-
vened at Bangor Tuesday Giuseppe
reti came to his end at Dolby Rips,
on the evening OF November 8. In
connection with the death of Teti,
VITO and Natali Prunesti are awaiting
the action of the grand jury, having
peen bound over on the charge OF
murder. The chief witness against
them is Nicola Teti who claims that
the two PrunetiS with one Francesca
Scala entered the shack where he and
his brother were sleeping and demand
ed money and that later a revolver
was fired and his brother killed and
| himself wounded. The men have but
| little English SD that the trial is like.
| ly to be protracted although there can.
not be a large number of witnesses in
the case. Scala has not been appre.
hended although the officers have KEPT
up a determined search
Bath Independent: In last Satur.
| days Bowdolnham news in the indie
pendent We stated that over 1o0.o0t
bushels of potatoes valued at 5000,
were raised in the upper part of Saga.
dahoc county last year. This state
ment was a surprise to great man,
of our people who have not realizet
the extent of the growth of our agri.
cultural interests. The estimate mad,
is a very conservative one and simpl,
alludes to potatoes alone and not t,
any other of the many valuable crops
which the farmers in upper Sagadaho,
are raising. 1t is a fact that durin.
last year over 60 farms changed hand
in that part of our county. Many o
them were taken up. by progressiv,
farmers from ,Aroostook county. VIII
realise that the best county in tn