Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-05-07

cts worse than being disappointed
in love" say the boys who have to SO
| home.
The ice has left Moosehead and the
most chronic doubter now admits that
it is spring.
| Bowdoin and the University Of Maine
open the college league season at
Brunswick, this forenoon.
| Belfast must brace up. II has had
only two marriages since 1893 began,
over four months ago. Perhaps it is
| the war scare.
Rockport has a new society whose
motto is Judge not" Every town
should have large branch of this or
der.
Perryvlle had a Spanish hotilla
scare this week. but it proved to be
only an explosion of kerosene in the
stove Of man who wanted, and sue
Bangor Commercial: Now that the
troops are away and the delirium has
subsidized a bit, we are beginning to see
that the boys that stayed at home will
be as useful as those who marched on
Monday The heroes Of the counting
room don't get their names into the
newspapers, but they are on duty 800
days every year.
The Syracuse University Herald gives
great credit to Chancellor Day for the
unmistakable signs of the Cniversity's
growth during the four years he has
been connected with the institution.
The handsome university block, new
and well-equpped medical college,
good athletic field, with a large grand
stand, and improvements in the gym
nasium are mentioned as among inn
provements already accomplished, and
row a science hall is looked for while,
which is Of chief Importance, the
standing of the university in scholar
ship has been raised considerably. AS
Maine raised Chancellor Day, nothing
Salmon has OF late been a scarce ar
ticle in Bangor markets, much more
so than usual at this time of year, but
flshdealcrs say that if the weather
continues warm for few days, the fish
viii be 50 plentiful that all can afford
TO eat them. The combination of high
water and the cold weather has pre-
vented many fishermen from enjoying
their faVorite sport at the Bangor pool
hut with day or two more of genuine
May weather and with the continual
dropping OF the water, il is expected
that dozens of enthusiasts Will be seen
in their boats.
Beginning with this week the Rum
ford Falls Times becomes a semi week
~. step that its patrons win appre-
ciate The motto of the times has al
ways been advance" and it proposes
to keep pace With The hustling town it
represents.
a tobacco company has been posting
advertisements on glazing red cards in !
the various parks of Bangor-"Keep off |
the grass and use tobacco" The |
park commissioners have justly decided |
that such signs are worse than |
tramplea grass and promptly remov ID !
the signs, notifying the company that |
they will prosecute it if any more are
put up.
Ben. Sweet Of Houlton. is said to be
the only man living who accompanied |
the Webster and Ashburton Expedi- |
ton. on their trip through eastern |
Maine in 1912. He remembers very dis
tinctly different incidents of that event, |
and speaks Of Gen. Robert f. Lee who
belonged to the party. in glowing !
terms.
Knox is in trouble over the school |
house question and is INDUCING in a |
series of special town meetings. One
was held April -, and now another is
called for today to repeal the vote of
that meeting. and there are more
stated for the future.
The earth opened in Portland, one
day this week, and swallowed a citizen
who was walking along the street
about his business. 1t was an old
reservoir on Exchange street, and but
for the prompt arrival of help the vic |
tim would have been drowned. There |
was over 20 feet of water in the
reservoir.
f, Willis Rice, formerly Of Bangor, |
the son of eX-Congressman Rice, is now
the owner and editor of the only paper
of its kind in the world. The National
Daily Hotel Reporter, of Chicago, a |
publication which deals wholly with
the hotel happenings of the American
continent 1t is said to be a smashing |
unNSna in its line with hGaN of