Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-10-14
Maine Gossip,
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AnS oou
Whether the job be large or small,
Splendid or poorly paid;
Whether you come at another's call
Master or not of your trade
Merchant, mechanic. stenographer.
clerk.
Laborer. salesman, tell
If the works worth Goins-at all
worth doing
It's worth doing we'll!
Whether the hours be short or long,
, Lowly or not the work.
Whether you're. ruled by talk or gong.
Boss of the job or clerk: :.
Whether YOU labor with JOY or await
Clang of the quitting bell:
II the works worth doing-at all
It's worth doing we'll!
Whether the job be large or small.
II it's the task for you,
Get in your stride, or quit it all,
Struggle and strive to do.
Honest! Be square. Be not sip-shod
nor slick:
Crgings to idle ouer.
For job worth doing-at all worth
lis worth doing we'll
Edmund Leamy, in ForbGS Magazine.
IN. "
The girls Of, the fifth. sSsh, seventh
and eighth grades of the Auburn pub
lie schools eXcelled the boys, in rank
and had far more winners in their
ranks than the boys. figured proper
tionately. in the Woody Mccall stand
ard tests. mixed fundamentals. given a
week ago. according to figures just
compiled and made public by Superin-
tendcnt Of Schools Gardiner.
Thompson Berdeen of Neazie and a
Bangor High school student, has re-
turned from Camp Perry. Ohio. where
he took part in the big government rifle
contest, being one of the picked team
sent to Camp Devens to participate.
He was the only representative from
Bangor at Camp Perry and his team
won second honors. AIR. Berdccn re-
ceived several medals for his shoot
ing and several cash prizes.
The. work on the dormitory of the
New England Baptist Association and
School of Methods at Ocean Park has
been commenced by w. A. Pride. a
Mcdtord, Mass. contractor. The build
ing Will be three stories high There
will be a dining room 3ox50 feet on the
the second floor and nine sleeping
rooms and two bathrooms on the top
floor.
a special town meeting at Norway is
called for Saturday, oct. is. to see if
the town will vote to give the Women's
Relief Corps permission to erect a Sol
diers Monument in Withcrell Park.
also to see if the town will vote to
abate the taxes of the Norway Shoe
TO. and the Sanborn shoe Co for the
year 1924 And to transact any other
business that may legally come before
the meeting.
"Oh. dear. mother. pin a rose on me-"
shouted school boy as he passed the
garden of Mrs. Lawrence a. Doc of
Saco and glimpsed large beautiful!
rose that had just been picked from a
rose bush in the front yard While
killing frosts have withered many
garden flowers the rose was as fresh.
fragrant and perfec: as any that bios
som in midsummer, Last year rose
was picked on this bush after the first
snow storm.
.ihutcatio IONS point 10 mig game year
for HancocH county. The birds. in
Guiding ducks and par:ridscs, are
plentiful! and there is fair supply Of
woodcock SO much in demand nov. es-
pecially among hunters from outside
and sections have been conbed for the
birds. Deer are plentiful. also moose
but the law on the latter protects them
Tor another year al least. Out on Nc
Fariands Hi. so-called. deer have
been seen. while moose are ambIirs
about in the up-ri, or section accord
ing to reports.
The Longfellow Garden of Yester-
DAY and Today, is the title of