Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-04-14
Maine Gossip
Scientifically Explained.

M udL uO-SOuAI lazy 6CIHs
I wants to sit In comfort.
An simply draw my BRET.
Dem hustle germs done lef' me,
He has got 'em skyht to def!
De only thing to staht me
Might he {; fishin' worm;
Dey somehow goes together,
Him an de lazy germ.
Tain no use to lecture:
Tain no usa to scold;
Tain no use o. medicine,
Like had cough or cold.
needs repCse an quiet
Till he done serve out his term.
It amt my disposition.
It is jes' de lazy germ! CO...
It is now Justice Bird of the Maine
Supreme court.
This is the busy week of the choir
singers and the milliners.
Sebago as usual offers the fishermen
their first opportunity for sport.
Let us hope that the Bath Republic
cans will poll as large a vote-1S78-at
the September election as they did at
Saturdays caucus.
The promoters of the Rumford Falls
and Bethel electric road say that
work will be begun by June and fin
ished by October.
The idea Of a National Guard COM
pany at Rumford Falls is proving
popular one and the necessary num-
Der of recruits will quickly be secured.
A former Houlton boy Major Fred
Perkins of the regular army, has just
been appointed adjutant general on
the staff of General Grant with head
quarters at New York.
The changing character Of the mill
population of Biddeford is indicated
by the plan to establish an Albanian
church for the growing number Of AL
banianS in that city.
According to the official list given
out at Washington there are 90 Maine
men on the hattleship fleet now in the
L dSIlS. ~ SliCoC cpouI Az cAAS VII t'iS
battleship bearing the name of our
State. There are IL Portland men
among the 90. Augusta is represented
by Fred w. Connors, turret captain
on the new battleship Vermont.
A Biddeford boy named Clegg drives
around town with a handsome pair of
collie dogs neatly harnessed into an
express cart and the cute hitch at
tracts much attention. No better
broken pair of horses ever went
through the streets Of Biddeford.
The many friends in Maine of Miss
Edith Bradford, formerly OF Bangor,
will be interested to learn that She is
now singing with summer opera
company at the Princess theatre in
San Francisco, which is filling an all
summer engagement in the Golden
Gate City and is winning golden opin-
ions from the press in that city. Re
Gently she has been appearing in 1.-THE
Fencing Master" "Florodora" and
1.-THE Belle Of New York" and has
made great hits in these pieces.
Speaking of Portlands various
troubles and problems at this time, the
Portland correspondent of the Bangor
Commercial remarks: 'The Lord be
praised for keeping the State House
from us! Had the legislature cursed
us with the curse of an answered
prayer and made Portland the capital
of the State nobody knows what would
have followed. One thing is certain,
we never should have agreed on
site.''
The story goes that seven years ago
an Aroostcok man went to Colorado.
When he was about to start he filled a
shoe box with apples and put it in MS
suit case. Just before he started one
of his joking friends got chance and
removed the apples and filled the box
with Green Mountain potatoes. When
the hungry traveller opened his grip to
get an apple he discovered the joke
He, however, took the potatoes along
and planted them. The abundant yield
and fine flavor soon brought them to a
high price and the Aroostcok man is
rapidly getting rich on his potato
farm.
A "shrewd" small boy played truant
one day, says the Pressure Isle Cor
respondence Of the Bangor News, and
undertook to write note of excuse
and sign his mothers name Another
somewhat older fellow, of whom the
boy had asked to borrow a pencil with
which to write his own excuse, on his
way to school. offered to write one for
him. The little fellow gladly accepted
the offer and this is what number
two wrote: Dear teacher. please give
Tommy a licking for running away
from school, What the sequel was
is left to the imagination of the gentle
reader.