Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-08-28
Maine Gossip
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Friend Sam l understand you swear,
Said Peter, with a serious air.
This sin, friend Peter l confess,
With penitence and humbleness.
Through many years OF earthly STRIFE,
l have been hitched up to wife,
Who nags me morning, noon and night,
And in it seems to take dellght.
1 simply grit my teeth and swear,
Instead of Offering up prayer.
Remember, Peter. how a girl
Set all your mouth-piece in a whirl,
In only saying what was true,
And how the cock third time crew.
Before your conscience was awake
To magnitude your mistake.
With oats your Master you denied:
Besides how shamefully you lied"
Enough cried Peter. Say no more,
For YOU I open wide the door.
Profanity can be forgiven;
For tagging wives there Is no heaven
J. M. Cavaness.
Chanute, Kan.
E. F. Floyd of San Andrias, Cal.
was a visitor at the Pressure Isle Star
Herald office Monday. Mr.. Floyd is on
a brief visit to his son DR.. A. E. Floyd
of Mapleton. He was former resi-
dent of Maine, going from Kennebec
County to California in 1873. At home
Mr.. Floyd is editor of the Calaneras
Prospect
d. L, Cummings, the well known
game warden Of Houlton, says that
cartridges are fairly plentiful now,
but that this is no sign that there will
be good shooting after the season
opens. He thinks it wonderful that
cartridges hold out as well as they
do, considering what they are up
against. They are hunted and shot
from July to January, and around
many lumber and railroads tie camps
they kill them all winter The hawks
and the owls pick up quite number,
but the worst enemy, Mr.. Cummings
says, is the fox. Mr. Cummings
thinks that the law protecting foxes
from March / to October 81 should be
repealed and he is probably about
right in the matter.
Fort Fairfield Review-On returning
to his office the other day the editor
was informed by one of the crew, THE
central operator wants you to cali
by telephone. has been dead for
two years." said the editor. Never
mind" said the office help. she want
ed you to call him, any way Not
knowing just where to call. the editor
called up information, and inquired,
but in this case Information could give
no reliable information, so the call has
not yet been duly entered and an
sWered
In these days Of higher education,
specialization in the various sciences
and professions, we hear frequently
of a man, who with four years at
good college or university, steps our
into the world and embraces posi-
ton that calls for many units or the
coin of the realm, says the Brunswick
Record The advantages of educa-
ton are rarely doubted, but the height
of efficiency and productiveness
reached by a Bowdoin senior for
few wears ago-1913 to be eXact-goes
far to prove that time spent in delv-
ing into musty books and research
work was not wasted. For this man.
during his working days we unhesitat-
ingly predict success. Burdened with
a girl who demanded a letter once
during each "a hours, the senior made
a practice Of worship and writing sew
en- letters to the lady Of his choice.
The envelopes were numbered in pen
Gil and the lot entrusted to a freshman,
who mailed one each night on the mid
night train, so that the young lady,
blissfully ignorant, had a charming
little note at the breakfast table each
morning OF course, the mail Is not
yo<4 To- Sfv,ev h,y$
that, of course, was just in time for
her breakfast.
The best strawberry yield for 1915
thus far known or reported. says the
Ellsworth American, is held by ]. I.
circuit of North Sedgwick. who took
from one-half acre set to Barrymore,
Gibson, Glen Mary and Senators $3.50
quarts This production is at the rate
of 1878 quarts per acre, and would have
been much greater had it not been for
so much wet weather.
A peculiar sight in travelling through
Aroostook just now is to see hay
stacked in the fields. which was made
necessary on account Of the large
amount Of the crop this season. Many
farmers are threshing their grain in the
fields and burning the straw on account
of lack Of barn room.
The sum Of 100000 Is said to have
been raised toward the erection Of the
proposed new summer hotel at Isles.
boro.
Master William Wight, aged years
Of Oquossoc, is wearing but a scanty
supply Of hair at this writing, having
espied his mothers scissors the other
day when that estimable lady thought