Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-13

| Drat the luck. what SHALL l do?
my Jim has Joined the colors!"
| Boosted sturdy farmer John
| AS he boIted down the crullers
! Extra early in the morn;
And I'm proud TO be the sire
| OF a true red-blooded son
With SUFFICIENT grit and fire
! To battle down the Hun.
Yes, l know that III be sweating
| Under single harness now
But I'll do MY bit by getting
In the harvest, anyhow"
This is no time for any man to
seek to avoid jury duty" said Justice
| Warren c. Philbrook of the Maine
! Supreme court at the opening of the
| September criminal term Tuesday
morning in the Bangor court house
To-day great many men are cheer
| fully performing duty for the public
veal, even risking their lives for their
country, and all men with spark. OF
civic conscience should make every
effort to sit on a jury when their
| names are drawn"
| Higher wages are being offered
woodsmen in eastern and northern
Maine today than ever before, accord
| ing to statements made Tuesday at
Bangor by employers of labor. tx
perienced woodsmen are being paid as
high as $50 month. The average pay
is 50 a day with board. Even at these
| figures, men are difficult to get. There
is work enough for everyone and there
is no reason for anyone who is able
bodied being without work this sea-
son. Wages were high in the woods
| last season. Men were paid from SIS
to $40 a month, which was then top
notch price. Usually woods pay has
ranged from $40 to s35 a month. Cooks
today are being paid $40 a day;
teamsters, 1925: and blacksmithers
and f1lers about 1910. These figures
are all for men with experience.
| Apropos to the high cost OF something
or other, a Lewiston man says he noticed
a husky specimen Of humanity leaning
over the Lewiston end of the bridge a
| day or two ago. He approa ched him
and asked If he was working. The man
stared at him laziiy and said No
why don't you go over to the other end
| of the bridge and get job, them" ask
ed the curious citizen. Who me?" re-
piled the jobless one in amazement. Say,
do you know what they are paying over
there? Only s315 a day! What do you
think Of that ONLY 1915 a DAY! Me,
Why, I wouldn't work for no such wages
as that I gotta have $3.50 day or T
won't work. They are paying $3.50 a
! day down at, but jumping over-
| alls! I'd hafta pay % cents a day car
/ fare He turned back to his contempla-
| ton of the river.
! Congressman Peters has sufficiently re-
covered from his recent operation in the
Bar Harbor hospital to return to his
duties In Washington and left Tuesday
on the afternoon train.
| He returns In time to assist In the
consideration Of the s11,ooo. oo0.ooO revenue
bill which comes back to the House after
| extensive amendments in the Senate.
Other important matters to come before
this session are the Deficiency Revenue
bill and the Insurance bill which pro-
vdes for the insurance upon the lives
Of our soldiers and sailors during the
| term of the war.
Small Point fishermen report the
best fishing Of their lives this sum-
mer. Hake have been. more plentiful
than for years and the high prices
have made the season most profitable
one. One fisherman made $50 in one
nights catch recently.
T OF course if the owner wants to
| waste gasoline, that's none of our
funeral, says the Oxford Democrat,
South Paris, but when a man leaves
his car standing under our window
with the engine running for half an
hour. we have right to complain of
the unnecessary noise.
The Bangor Commercial had quite
| a, late haying yarn in its Wednesdays
issue this week, but Fred Preble of
Pushaw can beat it, says the Old
Town Enterprise. Somwhere about
| thirty years ago he was haying for
Josh" Sargent of Alton, when they
cut and hauled fifteen ton of hay on
the ice, which Mr.. Preble thinks beats
the Commercial story of it's being so
cold and late that the windrows froze
SO hard that they were twitched into
tho barn by a pair of horses. Next!
The three fishermen, Capt. Wilson
Sargent, Capt. w. E. Coombs and Capt.
Dan Sawyer of Winter Harbor at last
accounts Tuesday has sold $4,000
worth of herring and had on hand in
the pound upwards of 300 hogsheads
more. With their crews they number
dozen. so they have nearly $1,000
each in three-weeks cruise.
A Rockland professional man. &C
companied by deputy sheriff and
another friend. started toward Crescent
Beach the other night to capture a
couple OF alleged marauders who had
taken possession of the Rockland
mans summer cottage. The invasion
vas called off when the professional
mans wife admitted that she had given
the keys 70 a couple OF newlyweds, says