Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-09-23
Maine Gossip


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!, premonition.
| It is the time when summer rests and
Before she fees from autumns keen
pursuit.
The hills are sompre. motionless, and
The valleylands are lulled in drowsy
CLEANS;
The grasses leaning listless to the
Whisper Of PANS love-murmuring.
reed-linked flute;
on sinewy stems the clustered, pur-
Is 6dorous in the suns persuasive
beams.
tiny bribery quavers in the air,
Touched with timid tenderness of
The skies take on faint, vague tint
Sudden a chill voice byeathes the word,
Beware
y frosty shiver stirs the startled leaf
At hint of winters white and cruel
A. T. Schumann in Boston Transcript
The survey for the power line that
is to bring electric power from
Rumford to Biddeford and Saco was
completed to Saco, Wednesday, and
as far as this portion of the work
goes all is now ready for the build
ing of the line of wires that will
convey the electricity to this part of
the State. The route as surveyed is 20
miles long and 100 feet wide. In the
center of this lane will be erected the
towers to which will be attached the
wires.
Old Town Enterprise: Mr.. Ammi
Judkins "a years young, voted for the
7Sd fall election, this year, which
means much when you think it over.
He has lived through the most impor-
tant epoch making periods of this
country, and he is going to round out
the century. so he can vote for two
more Presidents. Mr.. Judkins is ;
staunch Republican and took part in
the Saturday night parade before
election, going over the whole route in
an automobile and enjoying it TO the |
limit. "Gramp." as his nelghbors and |
friends Familiarity address him. has Il |
merry twinkle yet in his eye and can |
enjoy a Bristol or Pittsburg Stogie |
as we'll as the best of them.
Reports which have been received |
from Merrymeeting bay, and other |
bodies of water in that section. indi |
cate that sportsmen are finding the |
fall shooting, this season, of the best. |
The Woolwich correspondent of the |
Bath Independent says there has been |
some great cunning at Wolf Pond |
since the open time on ducks and. |
water fowl commenced. On the first |
day that the law was off there were |
SIS birds shot out of the pond. Parties |
have been coming by team. automo- |
bile, on foot and most every way to
try the cunning and few have gone |
home without getting shot at some |
thing.
Lewiston Journal: 4 decided step |
forward has been taken by a group of |
Auburn women in the matter of |
household bookkeeping. One Auburn |
woman says that by securing from |
her husband of a regular stated in |
come each week, and the close figur |
ing of every penny of her outlay, she |
has saved fully 10 per cent. on house |
hold expenditures and gotten 100 PEI
all, Where formerly the constant |
asking for money by herself and the |
eternal inquiry as to what did you
do with that SO gave you yester
day." created needless debate, now |
nothing of the sort. He passes out |
the cash or a check on a certain day
She makes it go for the week and |
saves what she cam She now keeps d |
bank account and set of books, bal |
anced once a month. She knows what |
it costs for food; for clothing; foe |
car-fares; for church; for charity: |
for incidentals and for all else in con- |
nection with the household. And |
best of all--it saves not only money
but nervous energy. Bates College |
is to establish a class soon to teach |
household training, including house
hold bookkeeping and economics. |
They should secure some of these wo- |
men to tell them the practical results |
of this method of having an allow
ance and living within it.
Secretary of the Treasury Mac
Veagh has awarded a silver medal of |
honor to George p. Koran, gunner's
elderly man and woman at Eastpert |
July 4th.
The Bangor Commercial says that |
although the number of visitors at
the Maine summer resorts has now
dwindled almost to the vanishing
point, most of the sporting camps are
full at present The vacancies made |
by departing summer guests have
been filled by partridge shooters and
those who prefer the woods in the fall
months to any other time of the year.
Business at Maine sporting camps
will continue with a rush from now
until well into December.
At an enthusiastic meeting in the
Jewish synagogue at Rockland, re-
Gently, it was voted to build new
temple the coming year. A large sum
haC al VIn