Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-12
Maine Gossip
The Sure Sign.

| 1t isn't the money she's spending, ii ism t
the plans she has made,
} 1t isn't the wonderful windows with all
of their trinkcts arrayed:
1t isn't the weather that tells me, Tor so
far we've had not a wave
Suggestive that Christmas Is eeming-the
boy has begun to behave.
I've noticed them busy crocheung, rye
read while they bustly sewed
Without realizing that Christmas Is blk
ing along DER the road
And | might still be Flooding unthinking
that now is the time 1 should save,
But I've tumbled at last to the season
the boy has begun 10 BEHAVE
Why Christmas is almost upon us-last
night he said ''Fhank YOU. to me,
His hands were as white as his mother's
his hair was as straight as could be
And he Went up to bed without grumb-
ling. the artful and roguish young
It's time to be thinking Of Christmas
the hoy has begun 10 behave!
Edgar a. Guest in Detroit free fress.
Work is progressing finely on the
new building at the +. NJ. c. seminary,
Bucxsport. 1t is now Up to the sec
ond story ana They are putting the
windows into the second story. II
this good weather holds, one will soon
see the building finished This, and
tie Gol1nftory which looks like a new
building after the Improvements of the
past summer. piaZzas and new story,
make very attractive campus and
one of which the town can be justly
proud.
The mystery surrounding some of
the petty thefts which have been
made in Appleton the past three years,
was apparently solved, Friday, when
Austin simmons, d deaf mute, Is sad
To have made certain admissions of
guilt To State Detective X. +. Leader
of Lewiston. simmons WAS submitted
To mild form of the third degree
and eventually led the detective to his
barn where several hiding places were
revealed and some of the alleged stolen
goods produced. Most of the missing
articles were of small value, showing
that the thief was actuated by mania
rather than the desire of gain. The
larceny OF food seemed almost a hobby.
because of his physical condition and
an ignorance of his crime, il is pro-
bable that no arrest Will be made.
Folks at o'NeiFs Corner, East Mead
ONS, says the INOckIdnu 1OuT1tT-tFu-
zette, are beginning to believe that the
old ONeil house, one of the WELL
known landmarks of that section, has
a charmed existence. It was in great
danger OF destruction. last Tuesday
night, when the house of Ernest Da-
Wis burned. The two buildings stood
within a few feet of each other. and it
was only through the energetic efforts
of a bucket brigade that the O'Neil
house was saved. The present owners,
Mrs. Charles Mcdonald and James
0'Neil, are extremely grateful to all
who worked so OPPORTUNITY. Twenty
nine years ago, Nov. Is, the same
house narrowly escaped the fire which
destroyed the Halsey Monroe building,
standing on the site of the Ernest Da-
Wis house. The O'Neil house was built
by a son of John ONeil an Irish ma
son, who came to Thomaston with
Gen. Knox. ~
E. S. Monroe, taxidermist- of Port
land was very lucky to escape serious
injury when his pet owl Scopo attack
ed him recently. Scobo started out
early the other morning to show that
he was entire master of the situation.
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