Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-11-05
Maine Gossip
Amt it Funnyi"
(Ethel N. Brainerd.)

Amt il funny. when YOU want EN-
most there's not a friend around;
Amt it funny when you need a prop
~, there's not place seems sound:
When the things YOU thought were solid
lie a-tremblin' on the ground
Amt it funny!
Amt it funny when you think you've
won YOU slip and fall again.
Amt it funny when your neighbors
sorter hate to meet you then,
When you need a hundred dollars and
can hardly scrape up ten
Amt it funny!
Amt it funny when you've grasped at
fame and found it's only dust.
Amt it funny just to reap despair
When all your castles in the air. like
punctured bubbles bust
Amt it funny.
a-feelin' kinder blue,
And a feller comes DIP friendly-like
and slips hand TO you.
And cheers you up till you admit that
what YOU said amt true
Amt it funny.
The party OF engineers which has
been busy about this part Of the bound
arr during the past summer. under the
direction of Mr.. Martin. concluded its
work last week, says the Eastport Sem
tinel, and many of the young men left
for their homes on Saturday. while Mr.
Mart n himself and the remaining menu
bers leave today. Their operations
have been directed 10 the erection Of
stone and concrete pyramids at various
points along the Maine and New Bruins
wick shores. these pyramids being so
paced that ranges from them establish
the exact boundary between the state
ard the province. They came here
early in the summer, and located their
camp first at South End. Later thev
went to Campobello and more recently
they have occupied the George S. alac.
Donald house at Kendalls Head.
Are not too many cattle leaving For.
Fairfield and other parts Of Aroostook?
asks the Fort Fairfield Review? We d,
rot find fault with any man for going
around and buying cattle, if people will
sell them. for that may be his business.
and he has right to buy them if the
owners will sell; but If our yearlings
are all sold out, we can have NJ two
year-elds next year. unless We import
them, and we have learned that the i'm
portation of many cattle by our farm
ers is quite unlikely. If our two-year-
olds are all sold this year, We shall
have no three-year-olds next year. ana
SO on. Selling cattle now means MANY
comparatively stockless days, weeks.
months and years in Aroostook. we
greatly fear.
The Biddeford and Saco railroad
company has contracted for six new
one-man closed cars, the first Of
which will be put in operation before
the end of the month. When the cars
are all running a number of conduc-
tors will be thrown out of employ
ment. In the summer conductors
will be employed on the open cars.
but during thes winter one man will
operate the new cars. The road is
one Of the few in the country that
has not advanced its fares from 5
cents to or ! cents.
Mrs. Harriet A. WEIGH recently OBJ
served her s9th birthday at the Old
Ladies Home IN Bath, where she has
lived for some time. birthday cake
with So candles being given her by
friends. Mrs. WEIGH was a daughter
of William Winslow. one of the sub
stantial citizens of Bath some gener-
atoms ago. He was prominent in the
business life of the city. and the
Winslow home. which was located on
the corner Of Center and High
streets. was social center of the
day. Winslow's Rocks, located in the
kennebec river opposite the north
end Of Bath, were named for Mr..
Winslow. Mrs. WEIGH, a sister, Mrs.
Ansel Marston, who lives at the Old
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