Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-01-07

Am free! :,
For pipe yon chicken on yonder tree
out Of luck!"
There il a stir in Yucatan,
And several gents with very much
Exc,aim to the vexed American.
"The gag is bust and the game is
Queered.
Not all the words that Lansings sent
When they come, Senior American,
Please don't mention the way we
u. B. KENNEDY.
Mrs. Isaiah stetson of Bangor. who
had an enforced residence in Germany
during the war. with her daughter. the
wife Of Gen. wolfgang Won Buttlar of
the German army. is now in England
! with her daughter, Mrs. Ernest Foote'
j reports the News. Mrs. Stetson Is plan
! ming to visit her home in Bangor during
the coming summer accompanied by
Mrs. Foote. Mrs: Stetson and her
daughter, Baroness Won Buttlar. suf-
fered many privations by reason IF lack
Of food during the war.
Henry e. Goss. the new mayor Of Au-
burn, and the city council elected two
weeks ago. were quietly inaugurated
Monday night at Auburn hall. Council
man E. F. Abbott was unable to be
present on account of illness. Mayor
/ Goss delivered brief. but pointed, in
augural. the principal recommendation
! being a thorough investigation OF
the tax rate. He believed that the bur-
den now falls too heavily on the small
cottage owner and not heavily enough
on the large manufacturing industries.
He did not believe the new charter
should be political issue.
| II see." remarked newspaper man
Monday morning. that DR.. Bartlett
said in his Sunday sermon that it is re-
freshing to hear one preparing for 4
! vocation say: I could make more
money in another line Of work, but
money is a secondary consideration
compared to the service wish to rem
, der We newspaper people should &C.
cupy high place in DR.. Bartlett's es-
TEEN. Anybody with the brains and
ability to be an editor or reliable re-
porter on a daily paper, outside Of the
very largest centers. could make twice
as much by placing the same brains and
ability at the disposal of almost any
other business. That is an economic
| fact, nationwide. The true newspaper
man sticks to the game because he
loves it. He makes sacrifices to do so,
but It is in his blood. And that is what
| I call giving service. Lewiston Jour
nal.
The annual Christmas number of
The Argus. published in Seattle,
Wash, and Of which Harry A. Chad
wick, Gardiner boy. is editor, has
been received. It is a particularly
artistic and pleasing number, run
ming over with interesting descriptive
matter and illustrations of the mar
velous beauties of that lovely section
Of the Pacific coast. The Christmas
number of the Argus is worthy of all
the praise it must have received
from coast to coast.
Mrs. L. W. Hazlett, State regent OF
Daughters of the American Revolution
has returned from an extensive trip t.
various points in the West ana has TAX
| en- an apartment at the Bangor House
for the winter. Mrs. Hazlett left Ban
gor early in October and went to WASH
ington, D. c.. where she attended a
| meeting of the board of management
Of the D. A. r. She then went to Der
yer. Col, where she visited for some
time and on her return visited in Erie,
Penn, where she was the guest of DR..
Blake, woman physician, who was in
France with the Red Cross. From
Pennsylvania. Mrs. Hazlett came direct
ings Of the D. A. R., in Portland and in
Augusta.
| Captain and Mrs. Thomas Buker Of
| No. 8 Trufant street, Bath. on New
Years celebrated the 50th anniversary
| Of their marriage. Their two sons and
a daughter were with them but Mrs.
| oehSA . ASoasAs u'u wv peI1u1I d IoTMai
reception. Congratulations were re-
ceived from all over the country. :.
| Calais is paying SIS a ton for loose
hay. Pressers demand and get IS a ton
for pressing. the old price having been
q.
! Mayor Woodman Of Bangor claims
the city is in the best financial condi-
ton 1t has been since the fire Of 1911
He says the year 1919 was a good one
financially but that 1920 will be even
better. Chief Maso OF the fire depart
ment adds that 1919 was the easiest on
men and property for some years.
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