Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-12-22
Maine Gossip
Shop Early, Ladies!

Shop early, ladies! You who, blessed with
OF gold-paved moments, can your way
pursue
In search of gifts, rare, beautiful, and
Exactly when your precious fancies
Recall, pray you, how each one OF these
Who waits upon you, labors day by day
With little rest and only meager pay
And with your thought their woe of life
Shop early! Wait not till that latest
day
When hands are clumsy through great
WEAKNESS:
When tired feet shuttle slowly on their
way
And every minute means increased dis
This brings to you no burden great or
small;
Have mercy then, and show good will
to all.
-Lurana Sheldon, in New York times
We are now enjoying the shortest
days of the year. Watch for the in
crease of one minute on Christmas
day.
Winter will arrive at :, of the clock
and 81 minutes this evening. after we
have had 80 days, IS hours and 81
minutes of autumn
dec. 20, Box IS 7.35 A NJ, location Of
fire. the sun, no water used is the Off
Town fire department, on account of an
alarm rung in Monday morning by a cti-
zen who discovered the sun peering
through a smoky haze and didn't recog
niZe it. No comment, please.
Bangor had plenty of roast pig Mon
day night, when the Goode & Drscoll
piggery on the Strickland road was de-
stroyed by fire. The main building was
40Xloo feet, with cement floor. One hun
bred and three pigs were lost, among
them the largest and best, the smaller
being kept outside the main buildings and
were saved The farm buildings were
saved. Loss on building about s1500 and
on pigs about the same; about half in
sured.
Another rumor concerning the disap-
pearance year ago on Dec. u. 1914. of
Deputy Sheriff Harold c. Hllman OF
Island Falls is to the effect that he en-
listed in the Canadian volunteers, al
though the reason for that course on the
part of the deputy does not appear 1t
will be remembered that search for Hill
man lasted for months, scores and scores
of bodies of water and likely hiding
places for a body being ransacked. Free
man Nadeau, who was said to have made
threats against Hilman, on account Of
the latter's activity against he liquor
dealers. was arrested on suspicion, but
the grand jury failed to indict.
A very peculiar thing occurred Co
incident with the death Of Hannibal
H. Bachelor of Livermore Falls. a
pet dog, which had been an almost
constant companion of Mr.. Bachelor
and which throughout it's life had been
taken i'll whenever its master was i'll,
was stricken about the same time his
master suffered a shock last Friday
and died within a few hours Of the
master
A. Smith Thompson, proprietor of
Maplewood farm, Jay, and w. A.
Look Of the same town, shipped to
Boston five yoke of oxen on the ad
vice Of the purchaser, w. A. Kicker
of st. Johnsbury. Vt. OF the five
yoke three came from Maplewood
farm The five yoke would weigh
rising 1900 pounds. These oxen,
constituting Jays town team last
fall won blue ribbons wherever
they were exhibited in competition
for prizes. The Pennington Journal
says: That such beeves should be
shipped out of the State while the
people of Maine are consuming west
ern beef, seems extravagant when
freight rates each way are taken into
consideration. Maine has farm land
enough to raise all of the beef con-
sumed in the State and then some.