Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-01-13
READING THE LOCAL ITEMS.
Why These Small Matters Are Worth
Using in the Newspaper.

| GU lpul page Gdliy ISSUED III a town
large in it's own esteem and in COM
parison with the sleepy smaller towns
and tiny villages of which it was the
proud metropolis, but small by every
other standard. Sympatica gave scant
attention to the outside pages of the
paper The world news she would get
from her Boston and New York dali
lies, while nowhere but in this sheet
would she find the affairs of her own
town revealed as by a searchlight di-
rected first to one neighbour home and
then another's.
The page she sought was headed
News from Nearby Towns" and the
group of items under Worthwhile was
the first to which her eager gaze
turned. West Bybridge, Bpdokdale and
Jones Corner news could wait.
Orlando Jenkins spent yesterday
in town.. y w a
Sympatica unused. Orlando Jenk-
ms? Now who is that? oh, yes! He
lis the son of that feeble old Mrs. sJenk-
.lns who lives over in East Northvfnei
A wonder whether she knaW he WAS
coming. l DO hope SC" .still,l afsurprise
is pleasant too. Why that man in the
nice gray suit who got off the BY
bridge car must have been the one
He went off toward East Worthwhile.
probably just finished her little bit of
Ny! to think of it The old lady had
homework and thought the day was
going to be like every other when in
he walked, looking so fine I don't
think he had bag, so he didn't bring
her present. / suppose; but there, he
probably knew that a present of mon
ey would be the best thing to give her
Yes. I shouldn't wonder if he gave her
quite "a handsome present of money.
How she must have enjoyed busting
about to get dinner for himi Nice
that she has hens and that apples are
plentiful. She could give him fried
eggs and apple pie, and anyway, any
thing would taste good to him after
his trip away out here. And now old
Mrs. Jenkins will have plenty to think
about for long time, as she sits
alone.
well, let's see what else has hap
pened.
Thomas Moriarty has painted his
barn
!, 'tOh, isn't that good That little
neighborhood has looked so forlorn and
neglected, but now very likely his barn
looking so nice will make some one
else spruce up and it may spread to
the whole neighborhood. 1t would be
quite pretty spot there if those cum
ming little cottages We're all freshly
painted; and If they were, the factory
owners might clear up the rubbish
from the next corner: and then the
town might feel the disgrace of having
those tumble-down buildings it owns
left standing there, and
Sympatica lost herself in a beatifie
vision of what glorified town North
Vile might be when her easily i'm
agined sequence started by the paint
ing of Thomas Moriarty's barn had
worked itself out. The paper slipping
from her fingers recalled her to her
reading.
HIM, Northville-here it is.
Mrs. B. Hobbs went to Woonsock-
ct today to visit a friend
Thrilling itemw murmured a scot
fer, glancing over Sympatica's should
er. But Sympatica did not scott On
the contrary,
ooh. how glad I am! That means oaq
day. of ease, and bliss to- poor Mrs.
Hobbs She told me one day eabouts
this devoted friend at Weonsoclset.
and how she loved TO visit there The
friend is well to do, lives on tile main
street where everybody and everything
goes by; and Mrs. Hobbs and she sit
on the piazza and see it all. Rather
says Mrs. Hobbs, sfrom
inch-ing around with my lame leg, do
ing homework. My friend she's got
an elegant cook, and we just fold our
hands till dinner time, and then till
supper time again; and l come back
on the last ear and Mr. Hobbs and the
get me home."
Sympatica's face was as beaming as
Mrs. Hobbs's own had been when tell
ing of the joys of a Woonsocket visit
Pete Benson drove to Boston this
morning with a load of apples
There's enterprise for you! I do
hope the apples will SELL Pete has
such a nice, hard working little wife,
so ambitious for her children. She
hoped they would have a big crop of
apples and they must have or Pete
wouldn't be going to Boston with
them.
"a. NJ. Crapsey and family have
moved TO Hilton
$50 that is what becomes of the
Crapseys, poor things; Eleven little
Crapseys with a drunken father and
disheartened. shiftless mother. Well,
this town couldn't cope with that
problem, but 1T may be that Mr.. Crap
sey will get a new start in a new
place. and in that city there are so
many settlement houses and other
good agencies. and the public schools
are so good that the little Crapseys
will have a great deal better chance of
amounting to something than if they
stayed here. SO I'm glad they've
gone
Only one more item under North
vile.
ga new piazza has been built on
the Melvin house, Brookdale road
1.-THE Melvin house. That's the long,
plain. white house where that Harri-
son family lives now-quite grown
up son and daughter. What an i'm
provement the piazza must be. And
what joy to them to have it, l can