Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-05-24
Maine GOSSIP
The Morrow Moo.

Edmund Vance Cooke. in CHRONICLES o.
2 Lizzie Tot
SO closs ] could almost touch:
Ell / led him couple OF times or Two
En- l wasn't fra:d-cat-inuch.
The rroo-cow -nnoo's got tail ike q rope.
I'm it's ravel=d down where il grows.
En- us just Ike feeling & piece OF soap
All over the rToo-cows nose.
En- the noo-cow-raoo's got deers on his
En- his eyes STICK out Of their place;
Ea the nose Q: the moo-cow-roo is
Al over the end OF ms face.
FL his seet is nothing bu, finger nails.
Ell his mana don't keep en- cut:
En- he gives folks milk in water pals
e Re don't keep his handles shut
Cause ef you or me pulls the handles,
The noo-cow-H1oo says it hurts;
But the hired man he sits down clost by
En- squirts en- sqErts en- squirts.
The quickest hair cut on record
probably was that given George Eaton
Of Bath last week. when ne crawled
under q bench where a circular saw
was i'll operation and bumped his
head against il. he was able TO walk
10 the doctors Office 10 have the re-
mainder Of the trimming done. 1t
reminds Us also OF a case Of quick
meat cutting, that happened some
years ago in a Maine town. The man
was at work near one Of those blind
bench saws that are thrown up
through the bench by a trip. when he
made a nisstep and his foot struck
the trip just as he sat down over the
hole in the bench. The saw did the
res; and he didn't sit down at the din
ner table for weeks.
Deputy Heal, turnkey at the Knox
county Jail at Rockland, has recently
put the Jail "workship' into commits
sion after long period of disuse.
The contract with F. r. Spear under
which the work was formerly done has
ben abrogated, and the county has it
self engaged in the business Of the
manufacture of cord wood into stove
wood. Two gangs Of FIVE or six pris-
oners are employed, one gang in the
forenoon and one in the afternoon.
They are all greatly pleased with the
arrangement and work faithfully and
arduousIy through their shift and with
out superintendent: Mr. Heal looks in
a half dozen or so times a day with a
pleasant word for the men and occa-
sionally with a bag of fruit: and
sometimes he takes a saw and gives
himself a little exercise and gives a
man rest. He finds the work to be
beneficial to the prisoners in every way
and is satisfied that he will graduate
them in better condition, physically and
morally. for it. The work is not par
ticularly profitable. None but the best
marketable wood is used. The county
pays $3.50 per cord for it and sells it
all fitted and put up in compact form
for 90 cents per foot.
The Dresden Richmond county
ferry is just now the cause of con-
siderable talk and speculation. A
petition was some time ago signed by
residents of Richmond Dresden and
Perkins asking for the removal of the
ferryman. E. 3. Rankins. The Com
missioners met at Richmond for
hearing on the matter, but found the
ferryman in bed with broken leg. so
adjourned the meeting until June 3.
A petition for the retention of Mr..
Rankins as ferryman has been circu-
lated in the three towns above men
toned and is said to have received as
many if not more signatures than the
petition asking for his removal
In order to settle the question and
to remove any fear as to the value
and quality of Aroostook potatoes as
an article Of food, the Bangor Com
mercial wrote to Charles S. Wood. di-
rector Of the Maine Experiment Sta
ton at Orono, asking about the effect
of powdery scab on the potatoes as an
article of food and received the fol-
lowing reply:
In answer to your definite inquiry
as to whether potatoes which are at
fected with scab are poisonous when
used az food, wish to say emphati-
cally that they are not. Potato scah