Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-04-06
Maine Gossip
Rules for Editorial Writers.

allie lie,
Please begin your observations with LAS
No one Will Deny"
With modest little, bashful little effort
to deceive,
Kindly use the introduction. I'VE Have
Reason TO Believe"
When the information's doubtful, be no
witt diSmayed thereat.
Finding refuge IN the sentence, Ills an
open Secret That -
You NAV search the very marrow of your
controversial foes
With that phrase of cold diSparagement.
''-As Every Schoobcy Knows
And Il freud will seem as pious as a mis-
With the PREDATORY label. 1T Is an I'm
doubted Fact"
So, by paying close attention to n few
slch rules as these
You will speedily be- able to prevarcate
with ease.
The Maine druggists will have their
annual outing at kineo this year, June
% % being the dates.
We gather from the Rockland
Opinion that the disbanding Of Co. IT.
is not wholly pleasing to Pockland
people.
The queer Inequalities of life are
Illustrated in the State report of vital
statistics for 1907. For instance ii
mentions one woman married for the
fifth time at 90 and one married for
the first time at -.
People who object to seeing their
names in print must pay their taxes.
The Maine Legislature has made
it the duty of municipal officers to
publish in town and city reports the
names of the delinquents. Publicity
of this kind should be Il great aid to
the tax collector.
The York Transcript doubts if any
county weekly can boast of as many
famous authors as regular subscribers
as it has and gives the following list:
William Dean Howells, Samuel l..
Clemens Mark Twaim, Sarah Orne
Jewett, Thomas Nelson Page. f. p.
Dunno, John Kendrick Bangs, and in
former times its list held the names of
Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Hamilton w
Chandler Moulton, Charles Dudley
Warner.
Here is an item of general interest
from a Thomaston correspondent:
DIR. G.. l.. Crockett has recently re-
turned from New York. where he met
Mr.. Hearst and other promoters of the
Independence League. He was the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Hearst at lunch
and spent some three hours with the
boss OF the League. discussing the sit
uation in Maine and elsewhere. Mr..
Hearst hopes to be able to visit Maine
during the year He has been in al
most every country in the world. but
has yet to have the pleasure of seeing
the grandest of them all. He realizes
the sad hiatus in his experience and
intends to fill it at the earliest possible
| time"
When Portland's city hall was
burned the fire reached the desk of
Justice Peabody and some important
cases which had been turned over to
him to prepare for the law court were
| destroyed. Among these was the now
| famous case against the Bangor Com
mercial for printing an advertisement
for the sale of liquors. which is
claimed to be contrary to the Name
statutes. The case was at first dis
missed because of technicality. but
was later sent up to the law court and
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| argued and briefs submitted. The
case was then sent to Justice Woodland
of Bangor who was to write the
| opinion upon it. He was taken sick
| and later died. when the case was
| transferred to Justice Peabody. The
papers in this case having all been
burned the chief justice is now en-
| deavoring to secure copies of the
| original arguments and briefs in or
| der to get the case in such condition
| that the opinion may be written. 1t
seems as though fate had decreed that
| the decision in this case should be a
long time on the way
In the retirement of Principal Henry
X. White of the Bangor High school at
the end of the present school year.
Maine will lose from active service
the best known and most efficient
teacher in its secondary schools.
He has been at the head of the
Bangor High School for Is years
and before that was principal OF WASH
inston academy for eight years and of
Lincoln academy for the same length
of time. Mr.. White is a native of
Dresden and graduate of Bowdoin
in the class of 1874. He is now 50 years
Of age and after teaching for third
of a century he proposes to take va
cation at the farm which he owns in
Newcastle. In his 16 years in Bangor
he has seen the High school grow from