Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-03-07
Maine Gossip

Name GOSSIP
Mary's Animal Show.
National Humane Review.)
Mary had a little lamb
Twas Persian-on her coat
Sne also had mink or two
About her dainty throat;
A bird of paradise, tern,
And ermine made the hat
That perched at jaunty angle
ON her coiffure, largely rat
Her tiny boots were sable topped.
Her gloves were muskrat, too.
Her muff had heads and tails of half
The critters in the zoo.
And when she walked abroad / ween,
She feared no wintry wind;
At keeping warm, twas plain to see.
She had all nature skinned"
Two of Baths young old men are
heard from this week, being as lively
as some men of half their age. The
Times says that Benz A. Merrill,
aged 80, was down town Thursday
for his weekly shave and ''fixin up"
He is in fair health, barring slight
cough and a little trouble with his
eyes and hearing. John w. Roberts,
youth of "a, celegrated that birth
day on Wednesday. He received
many callers and appeared as young
as a man of 10 years. His health is
good and he retains all his faculties
unimpaired.
President Hyde's able defence of
college fraternities will be appreciated
by thousands of college men who have
enjoyed the pleasures and benefited
by the training received in their meet
ings.
Genuine winter weather when Bel
fast is deprived of Boston steamer
for over week.
Part of Bangor, at least, is wrathy
over the alleged discovery that the
new post office has no suitable pro-
vision for the proper handling of the
parcel post.
The horse and nine head of cattle
owned by Frank T. Moulton Of Alfred.
where he conducts the Moulton house,
will doubtless have better care, now
that Moulton has been arrested,
charged with not providing proper
shelter for them, arraigned in court
and bound over in 5000 for the grand
jury The officers found one steer tied
up in a stall, dead, some of the stock
standing in four or five inches of wa
ter, all apparently very hungry and
but very little hay in the barn.
1t was fifty years ago Thursday, the
5th, that Gen. C. w. Tilden, now of
Hallowell, Me, and then of Castine
arrived home in Castine after his es-
cape from the horrors of Libby pri-
son at Richmond, Va.
The mayor of Bath so years ago
published the statement that so many
men had gone to the war that the
street commissioner was unable to
clear the streets in a reasonable time
after a storm and asked the citizens
to clean their own sidewalks. We
have a city ordinance obliging that
to be done here, but it seems to be
forgotten or overlooked in many
cases.
Watch the price of Holsters soar
now that the. cold snap has killed off
A measly 5000 or SO at Portland.
The old and time -honored Spanish
prisoner swintle letter is again being
sent to people in this vicinity, one or
two having been received in Augusta
and some reported from Watervllie.
1t is doubtful if anyone around these
/ places will bite
If memory serves us correctly the
escape of Louis Nadeau from the Pls-
cataauis county Jail is not the hrs'
from that institution.
| Dexter people are much pleased over
tho suceess of their third annual au-
tomobile show The bad weather IN
terferred somewhat with the attend
ance. but the dinners, suppers ana the
ball. with music by the only Puiien
more than made up for that. Mum
erous sales are reported.
A total of AIS new voters were reg
;stered this week at Bangor. Ot THESE
17s registered as Republicans. ia as
Democrats and 1o7 expressed no po-
litical preference.
Brewer will Monday vote on the ac-
ceptance of as a gift of the free pup
lie library now owned and conducted
nv the Brewer Free Public library
Association. 1t is said to be wor,f
fully $4,000.
/ A Houlton man is doing some tai
bragging and growing because ne na'
a bunch of nine chickens which wer'
hatched out on Feb. 22 and ANYONE
aeouainteS With an Aroostook winter
will not blame him.
Hundreds of people will miss th'
face of Conductor VIM. H. Boone o.
the p. & A., who was killed py
snowplow last week at sinclairs sia
ing His long service, his geniai 'h@n
fine