Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-15
Maine Gossip
Hard Luck Tom.

| Tom Hankins was a pessimist, which no
! one could deny,
He thought that people charged too much
| for what he had to buy;
i When he had anything to sell the price
was always low
1 Tom Hankins was a pessimst, as anyone
| might know.
| His house burned down one August
| night, when all was calm and clear
| He'6 lately had the place insured-Wmch
seemed a little queer:
| He told the agents up in town most
pathetic yarn:
But all his furniture was found secreted
| in the barn.
/ Since then il has been mighty hard 10
| get him to agree
| That things upon this earth are not as
| bad as they can be.
| He never raised a crop of corn or oats
that made him glad;
| He never felt quite satisfied with any
thing he had.
Because his girls had not been boys he
| worried and was blue:
And bad news was the only kind he ever
thought was true;
There never was a pleasant day that
| filled him with delight,
| He never Tor a moment thought that
things were going right
When Harvey Dixon's wife took sick and
died within week,
Tom sadly said-and in his voice there
ii
That's twice he's been a widower-
there's no such luck for met
Tom Hankins was pessimist, as any.
one could see.
s f. kiser, in Chicago Record Herafd,
Rev Philip A. Best of Englewood,
y. J., has written the editor of the
Kennebec Journal making a sugges-
ton we are sure will appeal to all
those who have been fortunate enough
to read any of the poetry published
over the name of Caroline d. Swan
at the head of this column. He says:
Il suggest that you ask your read
ers 10 give a post card shower to
Miss Caroline d. Swan, SO Harriet
street, South Portland. Maine, on her
f2nd birthday, December 2, 1913. She
is still young in heart and would
greatly appreciate such recognition.
Her pen has honored Maine and has
gladdened many hearts here and
abroad
Why not mark this date on your
calendar?
short sketch of the life of d. Ly-
man NORWOOD, superintendent of
Bangor schools and newly elected
president of the Maine Teachers AS
seeia ton, must be of interest. he is
practical educator and one VINO
knows Maine school and college sys-
tenn in all it's branches. He was
educated in country schools. an acad-
envy and college, and has taught
school and taught school teachers.
Those who reckon experience as the
best of teachers realize that Superin-
tendent NORWOOD has acquired
valuable fund of essential facts during
the years he has been in schools, as
student and as a teacher. He was
born in Crawford, a small town %
miles north of Machias. with a small
population, and is the center of big
lumber operations. Mr.. Wormwood's
father was a lumberman and a farm
er. and the boy who is now the man
and at the head of one of the great
est organizations in Maine. passed
his boyhood days in part in the woods
and ON the farm. He had d yearning
for an education, encouraged by his
father who was the leading man of
ane town. Young NORWOOD went to
tnc stIiOOiS VI uotisC tc"i etAAN
fitted for college in the Washington
academy at Machias. He graduated
there and entered Bowdoin and grad
uated in 1898. He taught school in
the meantime, before and during his
college course, two years as principal
of the Whitneyville Grammar school,
and was principal of the Machias High
school five years after leaving college.
Then he went to Old Town as superin-
tendent and taught Greek in the High
school two years. Then he was APP
pointed superintendent of the schools
of old Town and Orono, the district
employing one man. He remained
nine years. From there he went to
Waterville for a brief time as superin-
tendent when he was secured in Au-
gust, 1912, as successor to Superin-
tendent Tilton of Bangor who re.
signed.
The clerk or postmaster in your city
or town is under new orders-things
amt as they usterbe and. hereafter,
your postage, if you ask the man be-
nlnd the stamps 10 lick en- loF you
he'll do it very meekly. A Boston
contemporary has remarked that the
stamps had just as soon take lick
| ing from one man as another and
that postmasters and clerks will have
to eat SO much glue and gum from the
backs of the stamps that they will
have little appetite for doughnuts at
| home When the wife knows the
reason she'll realize it isn't because
| they're not like mothers, but merely
because hubby is filled up with
| stickum.
| It's damp, disagreeable hunting in
the woods, and the sportsmen are
saying about the same thing.
| Private subscriptions will pay for
the wrought-iron poles tor Bangors
new lighting system. The city will
do the rest.
Maine now has one more mile of
Trolley line--an extension of the Ban
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