Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-12-05
Maine Gossip
"A Roy in the House."


And a hat for whose ownership none
And out on the porch, CALAMITY prancing
A spirited hobby horse paws at the air;
And a ell-polished pie plate out there Oh
Near ii the TIA" tail jelly jar which this mis-
chievons elf
Emptied as slyly and slick as a mouse,
Make it easy to see there's ooy' IN the
racket. a rattle, a rollicking shout.
Above and below, around and about;
A whistling. pounding, hammerlne
of nails,
The building of houses the shaping OF
Entreaties for paper. for scissors. for
For every unfndable, bothersome thing;
A bang Of the door. and a dash up the
In the interest of burdensome business
And an elephant hunt for bit Of a
Make it easy to hear there's boy in the
house. -Seiecteu'
Seldom will a deer seek a village at
open time, but such was the case re-
Gently in South Paris. Reginald Cum
minss. Harold Cole and John Cole were
driving an automobile from Paris Hill
to the village. AS the car approached
the Park street iron bridge, q flne deer
sprung into tho range of light and
ran ahead into the bridge. She turned
around and started to leave, but the
car struck her with a killing force.
Harold Cole claimed the 120-pound
prize.
He was a little Augusta lad, who
had that feeling that has sometimes
been known to afflict other boys and
even girls of rather being out Of doors
at play than in school and his mother
was charging him with having failed
to attend the previous days session.
Now Buster. you didn't go to school
yesterday-why not?"
ooh, yes, did. Mother"
"Oh, no, you didn't, your teacher told
me about it,"
We'll. I'll tell you, mother. There's
so many Of us there, that she didn't
see me when I went In
And in hiding her confusion caused
by the little fellows ingenious expla-
nation, he escaped what had appeared
to be coming to him.
For the first time in more than 20
years an Auburn couple this year en-
joyed Thanksgiving dinner alone, with
out relatives and friends surrounding
them. And even this was unpremeditat-
ed. "A headache did it," said the man.
We had planned to go with the rest
Of the family to a dinner out Of town.
Thursday morning came and my wife
was too i'll to start The rest of the
household departed and left us two to-
gether. We felt almost as though we
needed chapercnes. l was nurse and
cook. There was nothing to eat
worth mentioning in the house. The
rain beat upon the house, the winds
ratified the windows, the steam sizzled
in the radiators and we were alone.
Not thing to do but to give thanks.
dream and smoke. But when it came
to dinner 1t was rather funny. Instead
of the Thanksgiving dinner that we
had expected I sat down to a dinner of
dry toast and tea and cold baked beans
OF a previous vintage. My wife ate tea
and toast and we found 1t very anus
ing. l washed more dishes and did
more culinary work than 1 have done
IN all the 20 years Of married life put
together and as for the dinner-why
what's food?"
Over 35 children were made happv
on Thanksgiving day, when this num-
Der enjoyed feast in the Gospel
Mission hall at Lewiston. 1t was
through the generosity Of the donators
that this was made possible. At the
salvation Army hall in the same CITY.
between 80 and 100 children had a hap
py day with all they could eat and
more, too. There was also a sufficient
supply. so that a number Of families
were remembered.
The re adjustment of lawvers' feea IN
Cumberland to meet the new business
conditions, will soon take effect and
the same action is being talked in
counties, where as in Cumberland's
case. revision has not been made for
years.
Inc poor debtors cell in the Penob-
scot county jail at Bangor has an &C.
cupant who was not committed on
tEat charge, but because he is a Jail
inmate and cannot get into any other
sell, owing to his size.
The Journal is in receipt of a
Thanksgiving menu card and program
OF the exercises at the Southern
Branch, National Home for Disabled
Volunteer Soldiers at Hampton. Va,
with the compliments of Gen. Joseph
5. Smith, governor Of the branch, a
former Bangor man. 1t bears on the
front page a fine engraving Of the
general in uniform, the inside pages
carrying the menu and program with
list of the Home officers on the last