Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-03-08
Maine GOSSIP
The woodchuck of Larone

The woodchuck rolled over way down
SEE he to himself. sez he.
Its the second day Of the second
month
OF nineteen twenty-three."
SCI he to himself. last night SCI he.
| had a most beautiful dream.
That Id chuck my shadow, Christmas
day
On the banks of Martin stream.
So he chuclled off his sncakcYs. and
chuched on his claws
And came to the top of the land.
But he saw nothing there but ice and
Where there used to be grass, and
sand.
And he swore to himself terrible
oath,
AS any mad woodchuck could.
That he wouldn't chuck ice. and he
wouldn't chuck snow,
And he'd be darnod if he would chuck
wood
So he got out his pcriscope, trusty and
true.
And thus to himself did say
The natives of Maine will remember
From now til the first of May.
He would chuck himself back in his
dtAl he said
And the farmers might guess if they
could,
Just how much wood would a wood
chuck chuck.
If a woodchuck could chuck wood.
SO he pulled in the latch string, crcpt
into his bed,
And says he as he curled up his
Good shedding up there for three
And there's some say the woodchuck
knows.
Don't hurry about getting off your wool
socks.
(Though the crow may appear with
While the willy old ground hog is yet
in his den.
Sucking vitamines out of his claws
Charles Handley.
Laronc, Maine.
The two murdcC trials at the Febru-
airy term of court will cost the county
of Franklin in the ncighborhood of
$500. which is getting off easily. The
Lean trial was a bonanza for the hotels
and restaurants in Pennington and for
the dealers in foodstuffs. Its an i'll
wind that blows no good.
An inventory of the estate of the
late DIR. William c. Mason of Ban
gor was filed in the probate court on
Tuesday. Frederick w. Adams was
the appraiser, the inventory showing
the following: Real estate, $4,000
90; goods and chattels, S15oO.O0;
,;,l> orc1ifS GA 0i- 81. total
$40 J97.61.
Edward w. Box, former editor of
the Ladies' Home Journal, who is
frequent visitor in Bath every summer
when he passes through to Camden
where he maintains a summer home,
has recently completed a new book en-
titled "Thc Man from Maine which
deals with the career of Cyrus ii. II.
Curtis. head of the Curtis Publishing
Co. and donor to the City of Portland
of its famous municipal organ.
For the first time since Kenne-
bunk was Incorporated as town,
some 1913 years ago, the voters, Mon
day in an annual meeting. elected a
woman tax collector, Miss A. Louise
Stone of Summer street. who was a
candidate on the Citizens ticket. She
defeated her male opponent. John \.
Balch. republican, candidate and
prominent. dry goods dealer, by SO, in
total vote of $50.
A call was extended to Rev. Law
renee Breed Walker Of jefferson.
Ohio, at a special meeting of the
Saco First Parish Congregational
church, held in the Parish House on
Beach street, Tuesday evening. at
1880. He is a candidate for the pas
tcrate made vacant by the resigna-
ton of Rev. G. w. Judson and has
preached in Saco twice within a few
weeks.
The travelling parson" is the name
that Bangor folks have given
to the Reverend Donald C.
Lewis. a student at the Theologi-
cal seminary here. who has charge of
four churches, scattered over an area
Of % miles in the vicinity of this
city. Not one sermon, but four are
preached every Sunday by this 81