Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-12-24
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Jes' fore Christmas.

yes IO'C Oi'
They're acting mighty funny UP at our
Thevre different than they used to be an
Not long ago if should want some toy
They used to make me get a chair and
hunt for it myself.
Las night l wanted building blocks and
went to get 'en. too. .,,
An three of EN- got up an saia: Il !!
get EN- down Tor you.
, l used to have to hunt for things that
somehow went astray,
They'r mighty quick to see that ] don
out a word 70 say;
Ma would sew and sis would play, an pa
would read his book,
An never think of gettin' from their
chairs to help me look.
But las night when I started in to find
my 'lectric car
They all exclaimed: Wen hunt for it;
you stay right where you are
I've never known 'em be so kind In all
my life before:
They'll jump to wait on me an find the
things I'm huntin for:
Although they used 10 grumble an to say
| was a pest, .
/ m not a bother any more-but why,
haven't guessed.
I only know that when | want some toy
that's on a shelf.
They'r mighty quick to see that | don't
hunt for it myself.
Edgar A. Guest, in Chicago Daily News.
The former beam trawler Endion,
/ now q L. s. coast patrol steamer on
duty along the New England coast. ar
rived in the PASSPORT harbor Monday
Eoon for brief stop and While at the
! y. Y. wharf attracted many residents
who recognized the fast and Warllke
looking craft. although she has been
much changed since owned and on
DUTY at PASSPORT when Captain Frank
Neill of Boston conducted u wholesale
fish business at the former Holmes fac
tory. Captain Neill is in command ana
met many of his Eastport friends The
craft is fitted with two rapid fire guns
one near the bow and the other at the
stern. and she is one of the fastest
crafts to visit PASSPORT.
The reputation Of Sheriff w. G.
Oliver as a man who enfor,ess the law
is not confined to Bath. IL count! o,
State. says the Path Time. Seems 1t
is known IN many sections If the COM
try. In an account of the national W.
c. L. L. convention being held III
Washington. .. c. Il special despatch
to the Lewiston Journal Saturday said:
Another Maine man who visited
the convention was Sheriff Wilbur c.
Oliver of Sagadahoc county. When the
delegates to the convention learned
about Sheriff divers record and nov
he had proved that an honest enforce
inent Of the law was popular, they we've
more than pleased that he was able to
call on them. SenatoE Fernald rc-
marked to Mrs. Quimbya thas sllerlft
oliver was III the city, Is that 50.
cxcla med that lady, wen. you tell him
we want him tC come down to this con-
vention." The message was conveyed
AID Sheriff and Mrs. OliE'r accepted
the invitation.'
Through the endeavors of Mayor
Burnham of Auburn, an important
step has been taken to avoid the fire.
1uent fatal accidents on the thin ice
of the river and other bodies of water
used by local skating parties. y large
field given for that purpose by Mark
Morrow, near. his home on Minot ave-
nue.. Auburn, has been flooded and is al
ready being patronized. a crew of city
employees prepared the field for use as
9 pond and it was flooded by the crew
from the fire department. There is an
area of about 10000 square feet lin the
POND and more of about the same style
are being planned by the city authori-
, ties.
Sanford claims the distinction of
having family with more relatives in
t the war than any other, probably, in
! New England. Mr.. and Mrs. John
! Dewey, Elm street, lEVe o. relatives
now serving their country.
! John Dowey's relatives i'll the British
army are A son, Richard Dewey: four
! brothers. William. Thomas, James and
/ Robert Dewey; three cousins. Thomas
and Nelson Colye. and Robert Dewey;
! eight nepheWs. Walter v. Conner. a
drummer; Alfred Conner d musician;
George, Edward and Thomas Dewey,
! lien Wcrrell, Stanley Winell and
! James Dewey.
! Mrs. Dewey has 10 relatives in the
service, including her son, two brothers,
! Richard Leach, James Leach. and a
j brother-n-law, Roger Asphalt. The
remaining soldiers of her kin are rCus-
ms and nephews.
! No public mention has been made
for some time of the movements of
/ the coast guard cutter AndroscocGin
, but the Boston papers of Dec. % in
reporting the arrival there of the fish
; ing schooner Acushla, reports that Two
! Of her men had received medical
! treatment on board the Androscog2in,
! which at the time was in Shelburne,
+ \. S. and the latter undoubtedly is
acting as a hospital ship for the New
/ England fishing fleet, on the Nova
Scotia coast this winter as she has for
several years before. The men in
question had been washed overheard
! by a heavy sea, and a minute later
! We're washed back again, they escap-
! ing with only quite severe bruises.
! Marshal Bill Fernandez has been out
to Pickerel Pond. hunting. Pill" says
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