Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-12-03

Make all the hours q slnSle HOut
For when the dusk begins to Newer
Il The man / love will come to me-
4 But no, go slowly as you will;
i 1 should not bid you hasten so,
II For perhaps | wait for love 70 come,
! Perhaps some other heart is dumb,
! Fearing her love will go.
I sara Teasdale, in Lippincotts.
4
i Now that the Boston American has
pricked the Boston Posts sensational
bubble concerning Joe knowles, papers
all over the country are referring to
Mr.. Knowles as the doc Cook OF the
! Maine Woods" 1t will be remembered
4 that on the day Joe came out of the
woods and shook hands with Glenn
| Murphy and received such glorious
ovation in Augusta, the Kennebec
| Journal sports expert had the temerity
! to compare Knowles with Doc Cook
/ and several other persons of doubtful
! veraeity. The only comment we have 10
make now is that we were unkind to
| Doc Cook.
| Pus of the Biddeferd Record warns
| Bangor against the commission form
| of government after what the Record
terms Gardeners Reputation of the
! new charter. Fearing that someone in
Bangor may have seen a copy of the
! Record we would state that this ques-
ton was not live issue at Gardiner S
election.
The painter at the Kittery navy yard,
who after as years has received PEN
sion claim for back pay, believes that
patient waiter is no loser.
Charles A. Wilson of Industry, now
serving a sentence of seven years in
State prison at Thomaston for man
slaughter, has asked Nelson Gould of
Pennington to write to Warden Frank
]. Ham telling the facts in the case
Gould was a deputy sheriff in 1904,
when Wilson was accused of shooting
Leroy A. Brackley after a drunken
row near West Mills in Kennebec coun-
ty. Wilson claims that Brackley
threatened to brain him with a shovel
and that he fired and killed the man In
self defense. Wilson fled the country
after the shooting and was not appre-
hended until 1898, when he was tried,
convicted and sentenced. Ex-Deputy
Gould sent a letter to Warden ham
setting forth the particulars OF the al
fair as he remembers them, and saying
he believed that Wilson had been suf-
ficiently punished.
Scott Tolman of Boston has purchas-
ed a tract of land lying next to the
shore below Bay View extension, Bel
fast. and known to the older residents
as Indian HILL and another year Will
erect number of cottages to rent or
sell. The need of more houses is I'M
pressing itself more and more on those
who have an interest In the growth OF
the city at heart, but strange to say
the only moves to meet the demands
are coming from outside sources.
Probably the finest deer head to be
brought out OF the Maine Woods, this
season. was that obtained by FL. 5.
True. a spare engineer on the Maine
central Railroad, living on St. John
street. Portland. The deer while not
unusually heavy had a remarkably me
set of antlers the horns from UP 10 up
measuring % INCHES with IA points. Inc
other buck shot by Mr.. True was some
what smaller and had a much smaller
bead of antlers Mr.. True was accom-
named on his hunting expedition by
Herbert and Meyers Prosser OF Exeter
and they also secured their fuii quota
William C. Mohun's reported suicide
in California, the suicides identity be-
ing conjectured because the NUMBER Oh
the works in his watch correspondent
with those registered in the salesbook
of a Bath jeweler, recalls the INTEREST
ing story of his brothers suddenly ac-
ouired wealth or competency Inns
brother was a workman in the Bath
Iron Works and happened to purchase
of a travelling promoter some SHARES
of gold mining stock. He paid $40 LOT
the stock. Some time later the mine
began paying dividends and the I'M
Outstanding in Bath was that Mohun
shares yielded him an income OF $lIVV
a year. Upon the brothers DEATH the
shares of stock became William who
for some years resided in Bath Inc
Mohuns came from England ana were
we'll educated, the report being thaC
they were of aristocratic family ana
descendants or relatives of LORD MO
hun. William was a good worker IN
Grace Eiscop;al church of Bath.