Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-08-12

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Knitting two and purling~two.
II was all we cared to do,
Fascinating sport tits true
That knitting!
Didn't pause and didn't shirk-
Didn't think twas useless work
Now that they've come marching back.
Socks and sweaters in their PACK
We are glad we were not slack
In Knitting.
Three more campmeetings are scneo'
uled for Old Orchard: Aug. II to il.
International Union Gospel Mission.
Miss Katherine NJ. Leonard. leader;
Aug. Is to Is. National Holiness Con-
vention. Rev. c. ]. Fowler. leader: Aug.
Is to Sept. 2. Hope Mission. David
Reid, superintendent.
Elisha w. Pike, erstwhile of Eastport,
which burg he represents in the 18th.
LEGISLATURE, and now of Rockland. was
ever ready to accept an opportunity.
He saw one and moved to Rockland.
He availed himself of the professional
ethical privilege and inserted a business
card in a local paper. intending to an
nounce to the good people of that sec
ton that he is an attorney at law.
Compositors and type make some Won
derful combinations. SO Lawyer Pike
was more or less surprised when his
card announced that he was an "Eter-
nally at Law" But he saw another
opportunity and is now having his
pocket business cards printed with the
new version of an attorney at law.
Are there any perch in this pond?"
asked shore fisherman from fisher
man passing in boat at the Y. N. c.
A. camp at Cobbosseecontee. Surprised
that the stranger had not heard of the
famous Cobbossee white perch, the
troller replied that the lake had all va
rieties of game fish. including perch.
That's good said the stranger.
we've come long way to get here
from Georgia-but we must get afte-
those perch tomorrow" He was then
Joined by his wife and two young sons
and the four put in the next few hours
after bass along the rocky shore south
of the camp. They were travelling by
auto. carrying a complete camping our
fit and having their tent pitched in thc
beautiful Y pine grove.
About 100 acres was burned over by
the recent forest fire in Arrowsic be-
fore the rain. extinguished it.
Double volked hens eggs are much
more common than hens teeth. but
''how many persons ever saw an egg
with three yolks?' asks the Courier
Gazette. which explains the question by
saying: Mrs. Fred Remission found
such a freak when she went to gather
the eggs one day last week and kindly
informs the Courier-Gazette Of the fact.
Il has an extra large egg as one Nigh:
well imagine.
One Maine paper, with very laud-
abs desire to help out in q good cause.
sition at Springfield. Mass. but locates
the show in its heading at worceste-
and make curtor Thomas A. James Of
the State museum state Ash and game
commissioner. And-in two ways at
least it might be worse than that.
The Maiden, Mass. Evening News
publishes the following very handsome
notice of the State of Maine. for which
thanks are extended:
The State of Maine was never 81
prosperous. From the navy yard at
Kittery to the sardine factories at
Eastport everybody is getting better
wages than ever before. Every sum
mer cottage is rented and most of the
hotels are turning away people Never
before have the farmers planted so
large an acreage. And they are get
ting good prices. Hay is at recorl
prices. The canning factories never
paid SO much for peas and corn. vege-
tables bring as high prices in Washing
ton and Hancock counties as they 10
in Boston. Butter and eggs are no
longer cheap in the country districts
The Down casters never had so many
autos. The roads were never better.
The motorists can drive from the
Piscataqua to the ST. Croix over fine
gravel roads and then continue north
to Houlton and Fort Fairfield without
clCouHteFiuS any SUCH poor TOdQS as
he finds in the suburbs of Boston. This
daily newspapers are brimful of adver-
tisements rejecting the prosperity of
retail trade. Houlton is the only place
in New England with courage enough
to start a new daily regardless of the
high cost of paper. The drummers who
cover Maine are smoking Is cent cigars
and are all over kicking at the hotel
men who no longer give them reduced
rates Every mill and factory Is busy
and Help Wanted advertisements
appear at every factory gateway. The
Maine Central and Bangor & Aroostook
are looking so prosperous that 1t Ia a
wonder some group Of New York bank
ers does not sally forth to rob the
stockholders. New farm buildings are
being erected and additions built. The
potato crop of Aroostook promises to he
q bumper one. Maine is prospering as
never before and her sons and daugh-
tiers home for a vacation and the tens
Of thousands of summer boarders and ,
motorists who see it all rejoice with |
her.
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