Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-01-03


That We've got a cot and blanket,
When we might have just a board.
For they feeds US beans for breakfast,
And al noon we have EN- too;
And at night they fill our tummies
With good old army stew.
But by jinks, we'll lick the Kaiser
When the sergeants teach us how;
For, hang him, he's the reason
That were in the army now.
Broken that resolution yet?
Sam of East New Sharon looks upon
it thusly and so states in the Pennington
Chronicles
Snow three feet in the woods here.
Breaking roads good part of the time.
We have plenty of wood in New Sharon
on the stump, but nobody to cut it; If by
any way coaxing or hiring anyone he
must have % cents an hour and boaro
Then the man who sells the wood must
get S. or $40 per cord and what about the
man who buys the wood and whoever
hires q man and two-horse team has
got to pay Sc to S. day and why not,
corn $50 per 100 pounds and oats 30 cents
per bushel. 1t beats us how a common
working man with a family of two to six
can live and buy 50 cents worth of tobac-
co week extra. Well, there ere lots OF
things We can't see or understand
Lottie Adams of West Stoneham, re-
Gently hearing a commoton. went to the
door to ascertain the cause and saw as
she first thought coon cat UP a tree near
the house. but getting nearer it was
snarling and so cross she stepped back
into the house and got shot gun and
Shot him. 1t proved to be a young bob
cat
The Bath Times learns that it is not the
pro-German male residents Of Bath alone
that are to be watched, hut there are do
mestics who are also lauding up the Ger
man empire and its ruler. "One such lady
recently got her walking ticket for recit-
ing praises for the hated nation, and il
stands those who are unfortunate enough
70 be in sympathy with people so bru-
tai TO keep their mouth shut while thev
are earning their living in the country Of
Uncle Sam"
\ hnox county politician. vino gen
orally has his ear very close to the
ground, is authority for the statement
that Hon. Daniel j. McGillicuddy win
again hC the Democratic candidate for
Congress in the Second district 1t is
merely Il matter Cf "A little urging on
TIE part Of the proper leaders. the
Knox county politician said-Rocklan.i
Courier Gazette
Some funny things are found by the
Sagadahoc examining board when
looking over missionaries returned
10y registrants, says the Bath Times.
For instance. one reSistrant answered
to the question of what occupation he
considered himself more proficient that
he considered himself expert as a
fertilizer. Another claimed exemption
because he had habitually failed to
support his wife. The nearest an AL
bantam could set to the date he was
born was cherry time
The fa. reaching influence OF Maine
fact that recently from Dexter, there
was shipped by a machine company, d
car load OF canning machinery to
Alaska. The Fay & Scott shops of
this Pine Tree town is doing IL excep-
tionally fine business. About 400 men
arc now employed
hDr
pedited coal deliveries by sending in
coming freighter not into the big coal
pockets. but through shutes directly
into the waiting coal teams. "a method
not hitherto tried because never before
was the pressure for Immediate de-
livery Sc great.
The Mexico congregational church
held a Christmas tree and entertain
ment and Il teacher of one of the
Sunday school classes, Mrs. NJ. O.
BaltZer, VINO is the pastors wife. was
presented with a very pleasing gift, a
beautifully made silk sofa pillow, from
four of the oldest young" ladies of the
church, Mrs. Elizabeth Richards, Mrs.
Milly Gleason, Mrs, Lucy Tucker and
Mrs. y. ID. Kidder. each Of whom Is
over so years of age.
The Beachcomber in the Portland
Sunday Telegram discloses the awful
fact that not only have the up-country
people been fiubdubhed into eating
cusk for halibut. to the tune Of IS
cents a pound, but not a few Portland
people have fallen for it. Another
TRACE DISEASE
TO CONSTIPATION
One Of the points on which
different schools Of medicine prac.
tically agree Is, that about $3.50 OF
all human disease - directly
4 traceablo to intestinal putrsfec-
tion Of stomach waste due to n
activity Of the bowels, or couSt1-
patton. The elininattve process