Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-03-02
Maine Gossip
Friendship.

FFiSnCSnIPs
If doubt should rise between you and a
friend,
OF thought, or speech, or deed, let not
Go by before you haste to make amend,
Or give him chance to clear the doubt
away.
He may be right perhaps, and you be
But that should not detain you from him
long;
Or, if he should be wrong and you be
right,
Is he not still a brother in your sight?
And should it chance that neither is to
blame,
Your manly course, 1 hold, is still the
same.
A loyal friend is Gods best gift to man,
And ever has been since the world began.
Let no false pride break friendship
golden bowl;
True friendship is true manhood's worthy
Jerome B. Bell in Philadelphia Record.
Charged with stealing coal from the
sheds of the Maine Central Railroad at
Belfast, an aged resident of that city
was recently before the police court.
The accused said he had been unable
to wSrk for some time, had wife and
five children and nothing to keep them
warm. He said that almost everybody
else who lived around that neighbour
hood helped themselves to the Maine
Central Railroads coal and he thought
he could.
The only dog in this country, as far
as known which wore a wooden leg,
finished his career last week, owing to
old age and injuries. Teddy" named
for President Roosevelt, was owned by
Alfred L. Davis, a Rumford mail car
rier. The dog when 10 months old was
attacked by a bull dog and his right
foreleg was SO mangled that it was re-
moved at the first joint. Assistant
Postmaster Harry Ladd made an arti-
fetal leg, which Teddy wore successful
ly up to within a few months of his
death. The dog was IS years Old.
According to recent reports made by
pupils of the Lisbon Falls High school
they have earned outside of school
hours from Sept. l to Jan. l, 1,O29 81.
to $50. Nineteen have earned over S25
each. The girls have earned $4,000
and the boys $S39.97.
The market qualifications of the
Maine apple are referred to in the fol-
lowing manner in PUSH" the official
bulletin of the Portland Chamber Of
Commerce. The
quick to take advantage Of every good
talking point in the merchandising of
their stock. The white-coated lads who
bring baskets of luscious fruit into the
passenger trains at Union station, and
the news agents who make the daily
runs out of Portland over the Boston
& Maine, Maine Central and Grand
Trunk lines. no longer consider it su-
fficient to say Oranges and apples!"
Their appeal, so much more distinctive
and productive Of interest is: Native
Maine apples. Oranges!" A news
agent on a Boston-bound train went
still further few days ago in refer
ence to the apples in his stock. Ma
tive Maine apples! No flavor equals
theirs!" was his slogan. And his bas-
ket was emptieG before he reached the
end of the last car.
1t happened in the famous Hub O.
H" at the State House, and the guilty
man is said to be an old and expert
enced newspaper worker, who has COW
cred many Governors reception and
Governors ball. as the reception ten
dered by the citizens is often called. He
was inquiring by phone regarding the
gown a lady was to wear at Thursday
nights ball and started in like this:
Say, Mrs. So-andSo. want to get
your dress for the ball"
He evidently didn't get 1t, because he
didn't attend the ball.
The next inspiration was when he
gleefully announced that he had Mr.
So-and-So's dress and spoke of the af-
ternooon reception. Being told that the
work was on the evening function and
that II was the ladies' costumes being
sought, he snapped back:
"Oh, I'VE got her night dress"
And he didn't attend the ball.
Secretary of the Senate Lawry is
licking the wounds in his pride of