Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-11-02
Maine GOSSIP

MUtne GOSSIP
Business n business
Business is business, we've often been
told;
Successful business is measured in
gold;
Do other men first or they will do you:
Trust no man. not one. for no man is
Every man for self. "old Nick" for
Are terms in business we've used in
the past,
And we cared not how we were cussed
and slammed
But got all we could-the public be
damned.
Business is business whatever we
think it;
1t may be a god, may be, a trinket:
/ may be a mill for grinding out gold.
A mart where humans are bartered
and sold;
It may be trap to catch all we can.
A snare for stransling our fellow-man;
1t may be a virile, strenuous game
1t may be a ladder to climb to power.
To be hailed by some, The man of
1t may be a joy-ride Of riot and dash
TO gather rep" for spending the
cash;
1t may be SERVICE to human kind;
If we think SO, it will be, we will find.
Business is business. and when under
stood,
Business is SERVICE for all human
And SERVICE means striving ever to
give
Sincere effort aiding others to live.
Believing all men, for all men are true, :,
Success and happiness come without
strife
When business is sERvIcE-BUsI-
NESS IS LIFE.
On. "
Five children in two years would
have delighted the heart of Theodore
Roosevelt. Triplets were born last
Sunday night to Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
! mond Labrecque of 124A Oxford
street, Lewiston. Twins We're born to
them last year. The triplets are
girls, one weighing CD pounds and the
others 81 each.
It is believed in Portland that the
late John l.. Harding. search for
whose relatives, if any, is being made,
stopped last July at Asa Cumberland
street, that city, with Chester /. Orr,
being known as John L. Hanon. Mr..
Orr said Hanon made periodic trips
to the northern part of the State.
A Smith College girl who had cor
responded with Hanon, had received
o letter giving the Cumberland street
number as his Portland address.
West Paris is much pleased with
plans which if carried out will give
that town a fine new business block.
A syndicate of business men has
| bought a wooden building and early
next spring will erect brick one on
tho site.
| Friends all over the, country will
regret the death on Friday last of
Capt Charles ]. Robinsom aged Ga. at
! his home in Greenville. He had been
/ in falling health for a long time.
Captain Robinson for half century
was connected with steamboating on
| Moosehcad, rising from boy aboard
ship" through pilot, officer. COM
manGer and general manager
/ widow and two sisters survive. He
was a Mason and Knight Templar
delegation from Bangor attended the
funeral on Tuesday.
| DR. Langdon r. 'Snipe OF Bath has
been recommended by Congressman
White as a member Of the United
! state Pension Examining Board for
Sagadahoc county. to succeed DR.. w.
n. Price of Richmond, resigned on
account of removal to Wisconsin.
The other members Of the board are
DR.. Robert G.. Hannigan and Dr. H.
Motley Fuller, both of Bath.
"Porridge ladle made by Samuel
| Adams at Valley Forge, 111S, is the
Inscription on the handle of wooden
ladIe owned by Fl. w. Adams of Cali
| fornia, direct descendant of the
maker OF the 1adle, and brother-ln-
law of William B. Kendall of Bow
doinham in whose possession the IN
teresting relic is at present. The wood
of which the ladle was made is
cypress. Mr.. Kendall is also the pres
ent possessor of part of an arith-
metic in manuscript which is covered
with cloth from one of the tents at
Valley Forge. Other mementoes OF
Revolutionary days. once the property
of Samuel Adams. now in the custody
of Mr.. Kendall are twothirds OF
dollar paper bill. printed in Philadcl-
phia in February. 1875. bill for three
dollars, printed for the state OF Mas
sachusetts Bay in May, 1880; and Dill
for 500 printed for the state of Massa-
sachusetts Bay in May, 1880; and
bill for $50 printed for the state OF
Massachusetts Bay in May, 1850; and
a bill for five dollars issued by the
Chesapeake 6: Ohio Canal Company
in December, 1910.