Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-09
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Where the West Begins.

| Where the West Begins.
Out where the handclasp's little
| stronger,
out where a smile dwells little longer,
| That's where the West begins;
| out where the sun is a little brighter,
Where the SHOWS that fall are trifie
| whittier.
| Where the bonds of home are a wee bit
| That's where the West begins;
out where the skies are a triae bluer,
| Out where friendships q little truer,
| That's where the West begins;
Out where fresher breeze is blowing.
Where there's laughter in every stream
let flowing,
] Where there's more of reaping and less
That's where the West begins;
out where the world is in the making,
| Where fewer hearts with despair are
That's where the West begins;
Where there's more of singing and less
of signing,
Where there's more of giving and less of
buying,
And man makes friends without half
That's where the West begins:
Arthur Chapman, in Denver Republic
can.
\ true potato story is told by K. +.
Stone who is buying potatoes at
| Unity. writes the Journals Troy cor
Respondent. One day, last week, he
bought two loads of potatoes of Eli
Mouton who lives some distance
from the state. Mr.. Moulton hauled
them with his pair of 2300 pound
horses and when weighed there was
found to be Us 2-3 bushels d6.720
pounds1 in the two loads for which
Mr.. Stone paid him s250.S0 (90c. per
bushel.) This will be hard 10 beat
with a team of equal weight over an
upgrade road such as he had TO haul.
| The venerable but sprightly Capt.
| William NJ. Otis, of Brunswick. eele-
brated his 9Sth birthday by INDUCING
| in his favorite game of 63 at the
rooms of the Brunswick club. where
| there was a reception in his honor
Thu sday night. He and his "pard-
ner," Perley ]. Meserve. defeated their
opponents by a score of 527 to ll6. Otis
was presented with IS pinks during
the day, and when he left the club
house he vas cheered
| The winning ways of some editors
are amazing to the fraternity In
witness whereof, the following from
the Bath Times: This noon a dele
cation of four young ladies from the
Friday morning cooking class of the
Bailey School called at the Times Of
] flee with box of as handsome rolls
las were ever made from flour. The
rolls were samples of the work of the
class at the morning session and Were
presented the Times in recognition OF
the notices appearing in this paper
regarding the cooking school,"
| The WelchVille correspondent sends
out two interesting items as follows:
David Staples flock of birds have
| GENE for the winter. Mr.. Staples has
| built an arbor for them to shield
them from the storms. He has on
| his window sill dishes for different
| foods. and it is very interesting to
watch them come and go. It keeps
| Mrs Staples busy feeding and caring
| for them.
| Alice Ring~of Welehville has a house
| pet this winter. She calls it GruntY
| Squeeze Well. 1t is little chicken
| without any feathers, so Alice has to
| keep it in the house to keep it from
| freezing, and the little thing rather
enjoys being pet. Alice has little
| basket for it, and it goes in and
comes out when it wants to.
| Freeport, enjoying the limelight
| turned upon it during the Sanford
case, makes a bid for new publicity
with the assertion that Arnold Reeves,
| the actor who collaborated with
| Wright Lorimer the recent suicide,
in writing THE Shepherd King now
| lives in Freeport having purchased a
| farm there. The correspondent states
| that Mr.. Reeves land adjoins that of
| James Parker CoombS, who is well
| known in musical circles. and the two
| estates are very beautifully located
both containing several acres of tim
| Der land. Mr.. Reeves is engaged in
writing another play. Mrs. Reeves
| has decided literary ability, being the
| author of book and doing writing of
| various kinds. Their son, about L. is
| also at the farm.
| 4 Lisbon Falls booster" writes:
1.-The close of 1911 finds Lisbon Falls
richer in several buildings than it was
d year ago. There has been no boom.
Just steady necessary growth. Ma
ture SO fixed it that the Androseoggin
falls down hill here rapidly. There
are two dams only about a quarter of
It mile apart The whole of the An
ldroscoggin furnishes the power. Hun
idreds of horse power now flow over
the DAMS doing no one any good, the
work of which the world sadly needs.
little by little the work of the water
lis being utilized and it is confidently