Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-03-01
Maine Gossip.
A Sunny Change.

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A Sunny Change.
Warmer sunshine in the skies
Winters on the wing:
Purity soon you'll dry your eyes
And kiss your MISUNDERSTANDING.
Even now a nowery crap
Smiles on hills and plains.
An the bare trees feel the sap
Thrillin' through their veins.
In the sun the OF worr swings;
Fcathered fine an free
Thar's a mockin' bird that sings
Whar the blooms II be.
Atlanta Constitution.
Forward, March!
VIII March bring marching orders TO
the n. G. S. NJ?
1t is still three weeks before spring
will officially arrive.
But spring poetry is beginning to
arrive to cheer us up.
Two years ago, this week, Maine had
it's famous. record breaking freshet.
The small boy ana his marbles are
due on the corner very soon
After all her naughty capcrs. nothing
could have been more Iamb-lkc than
Fcbruary's departure.
4 viii lac fnlsriNap ia arch u, i'll
tinue as we'll behaved as she promises
to be at the start.
There was the true smell of spring
in the air, yesterday, just limiting OF
robins and mayilowcrs and maple
syrup and blood purifiers.
Every Maine hill is a tohogEdn chute.
these mornings, and sliding on TIN
crust keeps health and happiness in
the secure possession of many
younGStcr.
Seeing the word "ovcrlayinG" in tn
town report. a Richmond lad asked ms
father what ii meant. and the latter
said he didn't know, but guessed it had
something to do with the sidewalks
Too bad for the Penobscot. Only half
an ice crop. and "A small prospect ii
harvesting the other half
Old Orchard has had more than its
share of fires in the past year or two,
but has been fortunate that they have
not come in the crowded summer sea
son.
An Will miss the Sea Shell Office where
the news and gossip of the resort have
been served out to thousands of o.d
Orchard visitors every summer TOT
over dozen years. This office was a
great place for the boys to gather--and
the girls. too. for that matter
The salmon is a big fish and the
smelt a very small one. but last year
Names salmon catch yield about $4,000,
while our sme!ts were sold for moe
than $50. 900.
When the ladies of the Maine delega-
ton, who have been attending the ses-
snns of the Continental Congress OF
the Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton return to their homes from Wash
inSton let friends ask them: Did YOU
attend Mrs. Donald McLean's reception
at La Mason Rausdher on Connecticut
avenue, Monday evening"" Then let
them supplement- this with still other
questions about the quality of punch
that lady and ambitious candidate for
the position of president general of the
National Society of the Daughters Of
the Revolution, served up to her fash
ionable sisters. 1t is said there is quite
an interesting tale connected with that
punch.
Mock trials are not in the usual lin"
With Augustus hustlinG and brainy
legal lights, but last evening they
were fully equal to even that emer-
Sency
The Prospect Sewing Circle does not
believe in gambling but it is about to
hold fair, including a lottery. q raflie,
a gue0s bottle a jug filled with corn or
beans, and a grab bag
BoNdoinham correspondent of the
Richmond Bee: From what can hc
learned il is safe To assume that by 1890
there will be a trolley line through
i}OWdonhan, forming Il connecting
link between Augusta and BrunsWick.
As the brunswick and Tnpsham line
already runs out to tn" TopSham fair
grounds it will only require about &c
miles of track to connect Augusta with
Brunswick. Bath and Lewiston. TIL"
road out Of TopSham will follow the