Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-31
Maine Gossip
sation.

When you hear teller braggin on his
honesty and SIGH:
When he says If he'd been crooked he
would certainly be rich.
When he blows about the chances ne
has had to beat his pards,.
Just make out that you believe. him,
but don't fail to cut the cards
When YOU hear a Teller spoutin' on the
way he runs his house,
When he says it is dead easy for to
regulate his spouse.
make up your mind for cert
It's his wife that wears the trousers
and it's him that wears the SKIRT.
When you hear Teller telin' how to
run the Government,
When he thinks it is his duty TO correct
the President, .-a.-1sssss-ss5 ,ssss,s..,y
You can listen. quite, respectful, but
make up your mind offhand
That he hasn't got the gumptien for to
run a peanut stand.
Roy n. Moulton, in Boston GLOBE.
Sc
Maine Division Sons of Veterans,
are making extensive arrangements
for their annual meeting in Bath,
June and ). Among the principal
features for the entertainment OF the
delegates will be a sail down the Ken
nebec and elanibake at Popham
Beach. IA big parade and grand pan.
Mrs. T.. L. Durham of Greenwood
has a rose bush which she knows To
be 80 years oId-and noW contains SIX
full blown roses. and the same num-
Der of buds in several stages of eX-
pansion. Divers slips have ieen tax
en- from il, but it now looks as II II
-, -, hence.
Many Maine people will attend the
International Sunday School Conven-
ton to be held in Zurich, Switzer-
land, in July, the following having al
ready signified their intertion of max
ing the trip Mr. and Mrs. II. Wallace
Moves of Portland, Miss Florence
BRYANT of Yarmouth, Miss Brakeman
of Bath and General Secretary Wes-
lev ]. Weir, representing the Maine
State Sunday School Association.
Mrs. w. E. Wilder of LivermoIe
Falls was caller on The Advertiser
last week and exhibited a huge lemon
which she raised on lemon tree at
her- home This lemon measured ia
by 1fa, inches and weighed one
pound and certainly was a curiosity
as it was grown here in our own
State. Mrs. Wilder informs The Ad-
vertiser that the tree had seven lem
ons on it but the one exhibited was
the only specimen that matured.
York Transcript: Mrs. Michael Nc
lSenna is rejoicing over the recovery
of her wedding ring, lost about nine
years ago. Frank Donnell. while
launching a boat Sunday, noticed
something shiny in the marsh mud,
and picking it out found that he had
a ring. Upon inquiry it proved to be
the lost wedding ring, for which Mrs.
MeKenna and the family had made "a
long search. Just how the ring hap
pened to be in the mud is a mystery.
1t is apparently none the worse for its
long submersion.
Norway Advertiser; Mrs. Julian
Brown has in her possension a quilt
which was made by her mother, the
hate Mrs Clarissa Glines Knapp the
material of which came down from
Revolutionary lllitCs Liz slthN ~
made in red and black and is prettjly
quilted in. variety of designs, in the
form of flowers. squares diamonds. etc,
The red material of the quilt was made
from Mrs. Browns great grandfather's
scarlet coat, which he wore when an
officer in the Revolutionary War.
Elroy s. Elwell keeper of the R9ck-
land Breakwater light ard fog signal,
saws the Courier Gazette, had a rough
experience in the harbor. Tuesday att
ernoon He had started for tue break
water i'm sailboat when he spied oneI
of our numerous recent SQUALLS com
| ing. In attempting to shorten sail he /
fell overheard. The accident WAS seer
from the Northend wharves, but " |
luck would have it there were no powa' |
loats with which to accomplish > |
speedy rescue. Gaily Mears finay |
reached him in dory and sthe<naf-
| frozen lightkeeper was rulep ou' OF
| the briny.
Bath Times: Sanford ,fstt "a nan
about 80 years of ag ~
doinham, had a p<faw da~s p 30 :" IT,
-
oathahce hirpsyon the ice near Amasa
attempted tn when the ice gave way |
Wnfiaihs through into the river. He
ana Idstily for help and his criesf
eai'eSkard by Ira Allen, Henry Preblei
NetCharles Blair who fastened to his I
| distance and succeeded in pulling hml
6''t when the old gentleman was nearly 1
exhausted.
The Maine sea coast missionary
yacht Sunbeam has been engaged in
a novel work. states the Bath Indepen-l
dent. That of moving the schoolhoussI
on Malaga Island, vacated by thej
wards of the State, who have been re-
moved to other localities, to Muscon-
gus. The building was taken apart.
loaded on scow and towed by the
Sunbeam to Muscongus. where it viii
be set up and used as a neiehborhood
aotse. The structure is 20 by % feet
md was built Jointly by the State and
he women of cortland, PERMISSION to
nike the change having beer obtained
rom the joint owners. The passage
o Mnsconaus from Malaga Island is
ne If 20 miles