Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-12-15
Maine Gossip
The Shoppers.

You can see it on the street
In tie attitudiniZing
OF the shopper most discreet.
There are merry times a-coming;
Santa Claus is on the way
You can tell it by the humming
Round the bargain counter say.
There's boom in wnrsted slippers
Such as .pious PREACHERS wear;
Wooden mitts for chilly fippers
Rich tararaS for the hair.
Every tcy shops spick and spandy,
All aboom with dolls and things,
And the men who make the candy
Look us prosperous as kings.
Santa Clauses by the dozens
stand behind the window. panes
While. our sisters, wives and cousins
DisSipate our surplus gains.
Zen the fated Christmas turkey
BY the spectacle is nerved
AS he thinks how fine and perky
he will look when he is served.
There are twenty thousand women
On each ordinary blocl,
IT. human ocean SWlmmln'.
With no thought of fraZzleu frock.
Like 4 lot of center rushers
In resistless force they roll
Pmllers. haulers. showers, pushers,
They're advancing toward the goal.
Mr. Forthos, Mr.. Athos.
D'AItagnan. the fierce ard brave,
Would become thing 81 pathos
If they stood before that wave
For a woman with a mission
That is all beneticence
Would have made that coalition
Look like q cents.
John Kendrick Bangs. in New York Sun.
A fairly good prospect now of white
Christmas.
If the Maine Grange does not see
what it wants at Waterville, it has
only TO ask for it,
Mighty little liquor brought into
Maine would stand the test of the pure
food law, and the latest decision puts
a big club in the hands of the officers.
That mystery of the Bowdoinham
railroad track is one Of the most grew
some that Maine officers have been
called upon to solve for a long time.
Very little, if any numbering is to be
carried on this season in the territory
drained by the Pressure Isle stream.
Much of the timber land reached by
that stream has passed into the hands
VI pup companies, WliiCH pl
means an abandonment Of the local in
dustry of cutting and manufacturing
lumber heretofore carried on.
The work of taking up the buoys
along the Maine coast at the mouths of
the rivers and in the rivers themselves
will soon be completed. Every fall at
the approach of the cold weather, the
buoy steamers are sent along the coast
where the ice collects in winter and up
the rivers as far as the United States
has jurisdiction. The spar buoys in the
streams are taken up to prevent their
being carried out by the ice and the
can buoys in the mouths Of the river
are replaced with spars until spring.
There We're eight vessels lying at
anchor in Rockland harbor during last
weeks storm. Nothing like it has
been seen there since the days of the
big lime coasting fleet. Most of the
vessels were lumber laden from Ban
gor, or had stone cargoes from the
various granite ports.
1t is said that plans have been made
fer a $4,000 concrete theatre building
to tie erected in Brunswick next sum-
mer. On the first floor will be two
stores, while number Of offices will
be in the front part of the second
story.
0. NJ. Hubbard has at his house in
Brunswick five trees which are rather
| uncommon in this climate. They are q
! pineapple tree. an orange tree, a lemon
holly tree and fig tree. All of these
trees have blossomed this season. Or
the lemon tree the largest lemon which