Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-10-22
Maine Gossip
Youth

Right merrily he sung:
What matter ten brief years to me
If still my heart is young?"
1 met Youth on the mountain trail
It was just 10 years ago
And he had breasted many a gale
And many a night Of snow:
The carol of his song:
For still with youth my heart is warm
And still / sing along"
met Youth on the downward hill
IT was only yesterday
And he was singing with a will
The old. accustomed way.
For l have found" he said, said he.
(Now gray his hair Of gold).
For have found" he said. that we.
We never do grow old!'
Douglas Malloch. in the American
Lumberman.
A letter from Maine man recently
returned for the winter to st. Peters,
burg. Fla, and arriving there Oct. 5,
said that en- route he visited Jackson
Vile, where over 10000 cases of the
influenza had demoralized every
thing, even the stores could only be
open for a. brief stated time daily.
Miami was nearly as bad. The cpl
demic had not then struck st. Peters
burg-but was expected.
A Richmond 9-year- old, writing to
her uncle. mentions her fathers leav-
ing on hunting trip in the big
woods as follows: Daddy and So
and-So left Monday for above Bing-
ham to get a deer. Daddy will do
we'll If he doesn't shoot himself or
some one else, think" Comment
on Daddy's standing at home as a
mighty hunter seems unnecessary.
Pennington Journal-Joseph c.
Mangold, who figured to certain ex-
tent in the sale Of worthless stocks
in this county some years ago. was
recently convicted at Dover, N. H., Of
obtaining $1,000 under false pretences
by selling an aged lady worthless
stock in a Buffalo cemetery, for which
he was given sentence of not less
than four and not more than five
years in the State Prison and to pay
the costs.
Archie Gray and Wilfred Howes Of
Jay while digging potatoes not far
from the house recently heard the
cog barking loudly and on looking up
were surprised to see, but a few feet
from them a large bull moose. He
seemed not at all disconnected by the
presence Of the young men and re-
manned several seconds in the posi-
ton when first seen. These visitors
are not frequent so near the villege.
Detective William H. Kalloch has
received word from the county soli-
citor of Belknap county, n. H., Of
the trial at Laconia of a man who
has given Knox county a great deal
of trouble first and last. Joseph Hen
ry Peters, alias Frank Warren, alias
Joseph Pollard, alias Bert Brandon.
This is the first time that Peters has
been heard from since leaving Thorn
aston and reports had reached here
that he was dead but according to
the information received by Detective
hdllOCl cteTS Id Nely awe
and still up to his old tricks. Peters.
who is 6S years Of age, has spent
Sc years of his life within prison
walls, ~ of which has been in Thorn
aston. His last sentence was a two
year term for breaking and entering.
Knox Messenger.
"Some apple" is one among many
brought to Bangor market by Ern-
est Grant of Newburg, which weighs
one pound and two ounces and meas
ures IA 1-2 inches around. The va
riety is Wolf River and is almost per-
feet in type, beautifully colored, per-
feet in shape.-Commercial.
Portland PreSs-It was exceedingly
rough outside Sunday and at that
there was quite little gale blowing
in the inner harbor. The patrol boat
which lies outside Gushing island was
driven in by rough water and dropped
her anchor by the breakwater where
there was a good view out through
the channel and where it was not
quite so nubbly. This is the first time
since last February that the patrol
boat has been forced to leave her sta
ton by rough weather.
Mr.. and Mrs. Franklin S. Libby on
Sunday celebrated their golden we'd
ding in the home Of their daughter.
Mrs Fred w. Higgins, B street, South
Portland. Mr.. Libby Is a native Of
Scarboro. served during the Civil
war and has lived in South Portland
ever since he was married. There
are two children, Mrs. Higgins of that
city and Charles F. Libby Of Portland.
Work is being hustled upon the two
Government housing projects in the
city before cold weather sets in. one
at the North End, where nearly 100
brick houses are being Quilt by the
United States Shipping Board for
employees of the Emergency Fleet
Corporation, and the other on the
West Side, where IS wooden houses
are under construction by the De-
partment Of Labor for employees Of
naval craft. The building Of these
houses will greatly relieve the gen.
eral housing conditions here.
A number Of men have been tempt
ed by the German propaganda yarns