Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-08
Maine Gossip
With All Her Faults.

With All Her Faults.
With all her faults love her still;
She once was young and Slim ana lar,
At present she can more than fill
An ordinary easy chair.
She talks behind her neighbors backs;
She scolds as certain women VIII,
There are Il lot of charms she lacks
With all her faults / love her STILL;
S. e. kiser in Chicago Record-l1efaiu'
George II. Scwall, for many years
city solicitor for the city of Old Town
drew up the city charter in 1891.
There are eight people at Wlley's
Corner in the town Of st. George, who
are over eighty years of age.
Passport has an epidemic OF bur-
glaries. One resident whose house was
entered Is snort some $500 in cold cash
SkoWhegan has young men at WORK
n Porto Rico, California, North Car
DINA. Japan, the Philippines, Missouri
ard Panama-as well as at home.
Fishermen at Biddefcrd Pool are
having excellent luck seining for
smeltS.
AT meeting of the Saco Board OF
Trade the soliciting committee an
nounced that they had secured ST., III
tny vi
G.. S. Whitney Of Harrison has sold
a hoe to the management Of muse
um at Boston. 1t is estimated that the
porker will weigh 1000 pounds. In the
West such hog would be considered
sufficient cause for {; celebration and
the publicity bureaus would work
seven days week Fact is, it's "some
rog'
Calais MISUNDERSTANDING of Cal
ais who are married in the Provinces
should promptly report the same to
the City Clerk. Those failing to com
ply with the law in this respect WITHIN
seven days are liable to fine of $50
'oc iii oti WI lliy N>llN Ngi'lh iiSt'' lttii',
to enforce the penalty, but in the fu-
ture he may not be 50 complainant.
1t IS said that the $31S6.99 received
by tie county Of Waldo because w s
Edministcr jumped his bail is the larg-
est sum ever received for that cause IN
a case where the fugitive was charged
w PC at of In 10
Rev. George Y. Whitehousc, a former
Westbrook boy, has resigned his pas
torate at the Emmanuel Baptist church
of Washington, d. c., where he has
been located for the past four years
and will go to the Sixth avenue Bap.
fist church in Tacoma, Washington.
Chas. c. WoOdcock and wife Of Port
land, Oregon are making a short visit
with Mr.. ana Mrs H. n. Woodcock OF
Camden. MIR. Woodcock is native o.
Searsmont and went to Oregon about
twenty five years ago.
BoWloin Orient.-A. w. Wandtke, 10
room in the Science Building by Prof
Hutchins in which to build Il model OF
Il Wright acroplane. The model upor
which Messrs. Wandtke and Pratt are
now working will have planes nine feet
in length and is the fOrerunner of q
working aerorlane which will carry
two men.
The Schooner William Cobb which
recently landed a cargo of calcimine
plaster v orth $4,000 at Red Beach. car
ried her first cargo from Richmond in
1874 She was then a brigantine. Capt
Cook of the Cobb disClaimS any rela-
tionship with the famous explorer or
the Captain Cook of the South Sea
Islands, but having been on the sea for
forty five years has had many adven-
lures.
a peculiar accident happened re-
Gently near the Portland breakwatcr
when a two-masted schooner attempt
ed to get underway The schooner
which had been held up here several
days by the bad weather had just
reached point directly off from the
fish wharf when she misstayed and
grounded on the muI flats. On the
start the anchor was lifted but instead
of making toward the main channel