Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-03-15

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s Help.
oh Spring. sweet Spring. rush swiftly in.
In fact. become Il "sprinter;
We've had an awful. awful time
with wild and wicked Winter.
Come boldly in and drive him forth,
Attack him and confuse him;
Don't let him linger in your lap
Or we may never lose him.
Exchange.
Winter fingers in the lap Of Spring.
Now watch the lawmakers squirt
down the home stretch.
/ Not single crumb of Democratic
comfort in Mondays municipal cleo
tons.
Happy Monmouth. What town
wouldn't like the gift Of an $4,000
town hall?
/ The village of Scion is to have a
handsome new three-room schoolhousc,
the coming summer. An appropriation
of $4,000 for this purpose was voted at
the recent town meeting. Scion is one
of the places that will have a substan-
tial share in the returning prosperity
of the State. 1t is said that new
paper mill for that place is one of the
assured facts of the near future.
| One of Names successful instructors
is Professor Perkins of the Milo high
school. who is at present teaching his
one hundredth term of school.
Deblois is a town that claims to be
entirely free from rats. The only raj
ever seen in the place. it is claimed,
was imported in load of meal from
Cherryfield in the summer of 1870. The
town also claims honors, inasmuch as
there has not been a case of grip there
for more than a year.
| Houlton ladies are devoting all OF
their spare moments now to procuring
| funds for the proposed public library.
That they are meeting with success in
4 the work goes without saying. and
I Houlton will, in the near future, be re-
ceiving congratulations on such de-
sirable addition to its local instltu-
tons.
A Lewiston small boy who is great
lover of birds, cut an opening through
the wall of his shed recently. and built
small platform outside for the Eng
lish sparrows to stop on. hoping that
they would go into the shed and live.
Instead of tine sparrows, lot of doves
took possession of the place and made
a home of it. He is now the proud
possessor of 20 doves, and his neigh
boris houses are the roosting places
for them all when they are not in the
shed. The neighboring roofs are COW
cred with them every pleasant after
noon, and their cooling makes odd
music in the air.
Il
there is u $4,000 piece of property in
Sagadahoc county which for Is years
eluded the eagle eyes of the assessors,
but was at last unearthed by the build
ing of the electric road in it's vicinity.
Waldoboro citizens hope to see their
now idle ship yards once more filled
with life and activity. Where once
| over 80 ships were built in a single
year, now not even a single vessel is
built.
The nerves Of the good people Of
Paris Hill have not recovered their
normal, condition since the recent fire,
and as result some amusing incidents
are being reported. One Sunday
morning recently one of the towns
leading citizens mistook the striking of
the town clock at o'clock for fire
alarm, and. arming himself with a
couple of pals. ran the entire length
of Lincoln street shouting fire."
When he reached Main street. finding
no one stirring. he concluded he was
mistaken and started back home. but
he met the whole neighborhood re-
spending promptly to his alarm. He
was obliged to explain to them that
he'd had nothing to take that morning
mot even his breakfast.