Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-01-21
Maine Gossip.
Uses of Hair Pin.

portland Times.)
10 keep tidy on a chair
., 1t has no equal too;
10 fasten pages of book
When one is short of glue,
l have used it as a skewer
j" men turkey l would roast;
IL was worth its weight in silver
| VI even gold, almost.
I've used it oft to test cake,
| To see if it was done;
10 faSten on clean apron
While to the door l run.
have mended my umprela;
opened up some bottled milk,
lug art from my typewriter;
braped back sash curtains of silk.
You can fasten on your hat with it,
And also fasten cape;
You can straighten it and use it;
| You can bend it any shape.
I keep one always on my desk,
10 use in case of need,
For 1t has proven itself to be
| y valued friend indeed.
Now this is all I'll tell just now,
Although I'm very sure
Ii stopped to think about it.
l could tell hundred more.
A lighted match dropped unconscious
ly by passerby into a pool Of gasoline
that had leaked from an automobile and
into the gutter back Of market row on
| Free street, Portland. the other day
started spectacular stream of fire lit
orally running down the street and made
1t appear for few seconds as though
the earth ieself was spouting flames like
a volcano. me heat was SO intense that
rear window of one Of the fruit stores
close by was cracked, and the automo-
bile was backed out of the way just in
time to escape catching fire.
Representative Charles H. Sloan of
the 4th district, Nebraska. has been Sc
lected by Congressman Kinds. as one
of the speakers at the annual banquet
of the Lincoln Club to be held Feb. -
i'm Portland. Congressman Sloan is a
graduate of the Iowa State Agricul-
tural college in 1851 and moved 10
Nebraska the same year For three
years he was superintendent OF the
Fairmont city schools and was twice
elected to the Nebraska state Senate.
and was sent to the end Congress
as representative from the 4t1 district
. He vas reelected to the 63d Congress by
4 majority Of 4015 over C. NJ Skiles
Democrat. Mr.. Sloan is said to be a
very eloquent speaker.
If Judge Connolly of Portland could
have given that Yarmouth couple who
deserted nine children and did nothing
for their support life sentences in the
State prison the children might have a
! chance of being looked after and given
I hgtter c iY,
separation from their parents effected
| by the Jail sentence will afford. How
ever, the judge did his best and the
children will, at least, be given a fight
ing chance.
The steel ship pirieo OF Bath which
was booked to leave Philadelphia yes
t|rday for Japan, will go via the Pana
ma canal. she has made many voyages
around Cape Horn to the Pacific. but
Will PROBABLY never do SO again, the
canal lessening the route about $500
miles.
BY recent ruling of the commissioner
OF internal revenue (Treasury Decisions
No. 20G.), it will be necessary for users
! Of the new revenue stamps of higher
I values, to use a different method of can
/ collation.. All stamps when used, must
be cancelled by the person afflxing them
with his initials or name, and with the
date of cancellation. In addition. the
commissioner has ruled as follows:
Stamps of the value of 10 cents or more
shall have three parallel incisions made
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through the stamp after the stamp has
been attached to the document"
mat advertising Maine pays was
again recently shown when a gentle
man from South Africa was select
ing farm in Waldoboro for a home.
having read of the place through an
advertising pamphlet. w. S. Taft of
johannesburg, South Africa, picked
up Strout Co. real estate catalogue
and after reading it thoroughly decided
to come to Maine. He left there on
Oct. 20 last, reaching Waldoboro Jan.
b, having come a distance of 1900
miles to find home He put in the
Following days with the firms agent
in looking at numerous places and
| W eiiAS tiiiley We nope, IS a happy
citizen of the Pine Tree State.
Portland is having all sorts Of fun
out of her new-fangled pay-as-you-
enter street cars. Among the incidents
related is that of woman who handed
a dime to the conductor at the rear
door The street was damned with
people trying to board the car and he
motioned her to move on, which she
did, dime in hand. Her seat was we'll
front. Soon she signalled to leave.
The conductor walked down and gave
her two nickels. She tried to pass one
back for the fare. He intimated that
he wanted Is cents. She was then
asked to deposit her nickle in the box,
according to the rules of the road.
Madam refused, however, and left her
fare on the windowsill, departing amid
the curious glances of the crowd, as
the car stopped for her.
| D. W. Corey, the large seed potato
grower and dealer, and J. 2. Guinu,
president of the Northern Maine Fair
Association, both Of Presque Isle, have
sent two rae1c of