Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-01-13
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Maine Gossip
Cussin' the Climate.

cussin' the Climate.
| Old Sid Smith vas the blessedest one
| For cussin' the climate:
| Feared that his only idee OF run
NJ taat,e,. here old Sid would go,
Whether 'twould rain or whether 't"ould
| snow.
sIir.in' or stor1nln'. cam, or blow
lie WAS cussin the climate.
Lived in Mizzoury for quite spell.
| i.-cusain' the climate IN,
Said Il was hotter than wont tell.
| Then. ct.ssfn' the climate.
SID moved down into ArKansaW,
Where ne continued to work his Jaw
| Sc med oteJin' SORT law
| In cussin' the climate
Then old Sid he rnoseyed Fest,
! sin cue<in' the climate;
| FTotheG 1T the mouth like ragin beast.
| A-cussin' the climate:
Massae hueetts, Connecticut. Maine,
| Each rne ROin' asIr' his grain.
| old SiG's mission Was alWays plain
| Jest cusSin' the climate.
After a while he went ort West,
| Sill crg::n' the climate.
So carin' that so.ncwl., res else vas best;
| So, cr,sstn' the climate
Clean iron. Oregon down the coast,
Finally Sid give UP, the ghost.
Now he's some where the zrumblers
Still cussin' the climate!
New York Sun.
AS result of the new law, this is
the busy season for the tax collectors.
From all sides come the warmest
tributes to the memory of the late
General Manager Evans.
Portland will welcome Nordica, the
famous daughter of Maine and music,
February 10.
The Masons of Old Town are talking
up the proposition to erect Masonic
Temple in that city.
At it's annual meeting this evening
the Ellsworth Board Of Trade will
consider a proposition regarding a
new manufacturing enterprise for this
city.
West Bath Grange is one Of the
many which thinks it has the best hall
in the State. The building with
equipment has cost over $4,000.
Buyers are now paying s1.60 a barrel
for potatoes in Aroostook. During
last week the hauling was fairly good
and potatoes were brought to mar
ket in large quantities and drew good
prices.
Penobscot was in the lead among
N frfhIltinSr the
gain of SI4,1S5,O76 to the State valua-
ton last year. Its gain was $3,4OS,65
Cumberland was a close second and
Aroostook third. Kennebec ranked
ninth with n gain of $46T,201. The
gain Of Knox was least. s46.S3S. being
the only one of the 16 counties to gain
less than $150.000 for the year.
The first launching OF the year 1908
will take place from the New England
yard at Bath next Wednesday and is
of more than usual Importance for not
only will it be the first of the year
from n Bath yard but will be the first
the New England company has had
since 1906.
Bath Independents: Baths City hall
bell is one OF the old Revere bells cast
back in 1906 and consequently pos
scsscs some historic value. This
would lead some to wonder if it ~
wise to leave il in the old befry on the
city building which was declared last
summer to be- 50 weak that it was IN
safe for decorators to climb while
purposes.
Maine people generally will be inter-
ested in the announcement from
Washington that Senator Proctor Of
Vermont has introduced a bill in the
Senate 70 place Mai Con. O. ..
Howard. L ). 4. Retired, on the
retired list with the rank and pay of a
lieutenant-g general Gen. Howard, who
now makes his home in Burlington.
Vt. is native of Leeds, Maine, q
graduate of BowdUin College class of
1850, West Point, in 1854, and was the
first colonel of the Third Maine regi-
mcnt at the beginning Of the Civil
war. His war record was an enviable
one and he rose to the rank of Major
General in the regular army. His
many friends and admirers in Maine
viii hope for the passage of the
present bill introduced by Sen.
Proctor.
The seasons record for fish was
broken at Portland the other day
when ten fishing vessels which came
in the previous night landed their car
goes at the market. No less than
1876, 900 pounds of fish were landed and
this is the largest amount by several
thousand pounds that has come into
the port this winter in one day. The
vessels which came in with good
hauls We're: The Lochinvar with H.
000 Albert d. Willard. $1,000: Ella
NJ. Doughty. 10000: Margie Turner,
10000; George H. Lubee. $4,000; Angie
Watson. 1000; ST. Paul, 5000: Bernie
and Bessie. 1000: Albert w. Black.
$4,000: Wesley Sinnett. 5000; and the
Isabel Parsons. 1000.
The prospect OF the Suffolk hosiery
mills nl,+tipp $Iair Waldoforo mill y,