Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-07
Maine Gossip
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OF the pair should successfully WOO.
II offer you love-" said the honest young
For YOU will toll day and night;
If YOU will take me | Will do all l can
| To make your life happy ana bright.
| I'm work like a slave and will never
| complain,
| / pray you won't tell me my wooing is
Just because now chance to be poor,
II offer you gold. said young Reginald
You will ride in Your own limousine;
You never will have to do houSework or
AS my wife you'll live like queen.
| II will dress you in finest of fabrics, and
MAJ wear diamonds at breakfast, my
Your life shall be sunny. your skies al
You will never have trouble to fear
Now can YOU imagine. / ask of you,
of this pair of fond lovers she took?
The poor YOUTH All. no, she took Regl-
For this is real life-not a book.
Edgar A. Guest, in Detroit Free Press.
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East skowhesan:
Il was % years and nine months
old the 18th of last April. If there
is as old or older Richardson .
Maine or the United States, please
notify the Kennebec Journal ana
oblige. Yours truly, A. Richardson
The first woman student ever elected
To the editorial board of the Campus.
the University of Maine weekly is Miss
Elizabeth Hanley, 1915. of Thomaston.
she was chosen this week The other
Officers are as follows: Editor in ehleI,
Russell S. Ferguson. New York city,
business manager, Harold L. Dlns-
more, Hebron; managing editors. Rob-
|ert P Clark, Lincoln; Frank ID.
Freese, Bangor.
Chief Mason of the Bangor fire de-
partment and the Bangor health board
have Just. joined the arson trust. On
Saturday morning they visited and
fired the one and a half story shack
on the saltwater road, which had been
occupied by Charles Fields for the
past eight years. Fields was recently
taken to the aImshouse with his limbs
badly frozen and underwent amputa-
ton. He had been living alone in filth
for years and the house was in such
condition that it was decided that for
the benefit of the community At large
the place should be burned 10 the
ground.
Contracts for the steel bridges at
North Paris and above Trap Corner,
voted by the last town meeting. says
the Oxford Democrat, have been made
by the selectmen with the United Con-
struction Co. of Albany, n. \. The
North Paris bridge is truss bridge oil
50 feet span, the other girder bridge
of 81 feet. Both are To be in place by
July list No rebuilding of abutments
will be necessary. The contract for the
concrete bridge in South Paris village
has not yet been made, but it is eX-
pected that it will be before long. The
selectmen say that they expect the
|cost of all three of these bridges to be
inside of $4,000
So anxious are some of the German
and Slav social clubs at Lisbon Falls
to keep their supply of beer that they
are going to ask Gov. Haines ii some
thing cannot be done, says a despatch
to the Lewiston Sun. Up to the pres
ent time, these organizations which
fiourished in Lisbon Falls, have had
their supply, but Sheriff Stevens is in
tending to place the lid on here and is
going to make the place as dry as
country road in August. Just at
present the new sheriff of Androscog-
gin is having considerable difficulty IN
securing a deputy for this town as
there seems to be no one anxious TO
take the job. What Sheriff Stevens
wants is a man who will close the
clubs, visit the railroad stations and
confiscate all the contraband wet
goods. Nobody is anxious for the job,
and even ii the right man is secured,
the members of the flourishing social
clubs say they will ask Gov. Haines for
a respite.
| oxford Democrat: How many hens
do you suppose there are in the town
of Paris? 1t surprised the selectmen
a little when they took the poultry
i
Though any one who observes the epi-
demic of henhouses and incubators In
South Paris village ought not to be
surprised at any statistics. The Sc
llectmen found 12,042 hens, "a turkeys.
30 ducks, and 3 geese. Then as re-
lquired, they estimated the total value
lcf the production of eggs and poultry
for the year preceding April LIST. Some
Ipoultry keepers keep records, more do
not, so IL was necessary to estimate it,
Tor, as is sometimes said, "guesstimate'
ut. Their estimate of the total pro-
duction for the year was $20.993
Bath Times: The service Of single
Icopy Of a newspaper was illustrated
to-day. when lady from Five Islands,
told the gossiper, that she always sent
her copy of the Independent to a
: brother at Fruitdale, California. He
{ In turn after reading it gave 1t to a
relative. who is chief engineer on IA