Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-04-14
Maine Gossip
Newspaperitis.

A man who works on the copy desk has
terrible dreams, they say;
When he leaves his work and YEARLY
goes to bed at the break of day;
He closes his eyes, and vainly tries to
win to a dreamless sleep.
By saying the Lords Prayer backward,
or counting a flock of sheep.
For his tired brain still feels the strain
of reading the whole worlds news,
And through the night he seems to write
impossible interviews:
"shall we have a granite three-cent car,
or sandstone route for nyeY
Shall the government care for the TEDDY
bear, to keep the species alive!
II Rockefeller's compelled to label his oil,
by the pure food law,
Can the law go further and charge him
with murther-the Staying of Ber-
nard Thaw?
IF Evelyn Nesbit refuses to play In
sSalome,' because it's coarse.
Will Conried and Strauss raise very
rough house, and sue for an instant
divorce?
VIII the British government censure
Shonts for acting like such sloo,
II Roosevelt fires Swettenham for skimp-
ing that Panama job?'
Now that is enough--but that is the stuff
that bothers the weary. mind
OF the man who works on the copy desk
F. till he's dopy and dead and blind.
ana JDdi 5 lnt fCdcOiI yoh ocaN|4A ~'A'~
copy-reader today
Who's old-they are all in asylums long
before their hair turns gray,
You'll hear their yells from padded cells,
And, with Shrek and curse, they scrioble
verse remarkably like this here.
BY order of Justice Haley of the
supreme court, the Boston News Blu
reau, a Maine corporation, was order
ed dissolved Friday afternoon. The ac-
ton was taken as the result CT
bill brought by c. w. Barron, presi-
dent Of the company. and was in ac-
cordance with vote of the stock
holders taken March 6. There are no
assets of the company.
The Maine Central civil engineers
are at work in Brunswick stalking out
the lines for the new yard that is to
be built west of Spring street in their
effort to relieve the intolerable stu
alton caused by the continual shift
ing of freight cars over the Main street
crossing. In order to make things as
they should be it will be necessary
to build a new yard and get 1T in work
ing order before giving up the old
one and that is what is now in pro-
cess. AS soon as the frost works out
of the ground, the work of building
the yard will begin.
1t is reported that John r. Graham
has offered to build a much-needed
bridge at Central street. Bangor, and
allow the city to reimburse him in
easy installments. The bridge will be
a concrete and granite affair, with a
handsome ballustrade of granite. 1t
will be built at once, taking care of
a problem that has long bothered the
Central street merchants and doing
away with the necessity at later
date of tearing up the street.
Maxine Bouchard of Van Buren, will
probably smuggle no more hay across
the border and he probably now un-
derstands more about the revenue laws
than he did a short time ago. He
brought over load of hay, without
paying the duty and when arrested
and arraigned claimed that he sup
posed he had right to it, as it came
from his own farm in New Brunswick,
but failed to explain why he came
across in the night and by an out
f-the-way path. His counsel, Peter
Charles Keegan, pleaded guilty for him
Friday at Portland and handed over
the amount Of the fine, $25.
A society named the Aroostookracy
has been formed by people who have
moved from the Aroostook section to
the Kenduskeag valley towns. with
the following officers: Pres, Frank
Everett; Sec, Mrs. John Clark. The
society already has 40 members, with
more to join. The object is wholly
for social purposes.
Machias is suffering from an epi
demic of the measles, to the extern
that moving pictures and the schools
except the High and Normal, have
been closed.
The Perryville Weekly. a four page
five-by-nine paper published by tn,
Clothcy & Ludden Pub, Co. OF Perry
vile. Ailburn. Ne, has reached US.