Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-31

Is March's departure lamb like
/ enough for you?
Look out for buttons in the contri-
button box, tomorrow.
1t is a little satisfaction that the
awful tragedy at Calais cannot be
traced to rum.
trouble in proving Names prosperous
condition.
The Brunswick Telegraph thinks
that if Maine can stand Sanfordism
it ought not To mind the Mormons up
, in oxford county.
Mayor Chaplin of Bangor is urging
city crematory, not for human dust.
, hut for garbage and rubbish. That is
, infinitely better and more sanitary
than the dump system
The grip is here ana there ana every
where now, hardly a city or town fail
ing to report large amount of sick
ness Of this nature.
The quantity of canned corn on hand
in Maine is reported as the smallest
for years: but already plans are made
for planting large acreage in a few
weeks.
In commenting upon the Independ-
ent's remark that there are more
/ pretty girls on Baths streets than ever
before in its history. one exchange
says that this Il probably due to the
new electric line connecting Bath with
Brunswick and Lewiston.
The Maine town or city which
doesn't get into gear and make plans
very soon for Old Home week will be
left behind the procession. The prod
igals are coming and we must make it
interesting for them.
Lewiston merchants are talking up
a local organization to agree not to adj
vertise otherwise than in the news
papers That is a sensible. business
like proposition, as all merchants
know who have wasted money adver-
Using in programs. or on fences, or by
! means of handbills.
1t looks as though the first week in
July would be settled upon as old
| Home week for Maine. That is the
| time recommended by the State Board
| of Trade. when in session. at Bidde-
ford. this week. and is the time most
| generally urged
| The crusade for the birds is going on
with encouraging vigor. Nearly all the
| papers of the State are taking up the
I matter with an earnestnesS that means
business. Popular sentiment will not
| be long in getting aroused to the i'm
! portance of the situation.
| Politics is the most important news.
1t must be reported accurately and
| impartially Necessarily the best
newspaper must be PARTISAN
| Lewiston Sun.
This is all right as far as the news
columns Of a paper are concerned. and
| few, indeed, are the newspapers which
| are not non-partisan in this respect.
| But the paper which attempts to be
| partisan on it's editorial pages, is
| almost always n farce and failure,
/ and binders. rather than helps, the
canse of good government.
! The Biddeford Journal has this good
word for the wOmen's clubs and it is
| fully deserved: The club women Of
! Maine have reason to be proud of the
work accomplished during the season
now drawing to n close. In their de-
| liberations they have considered a wide
| range of subjects, from the eminently
practical topic Of village improvements
| to the abStruSe theories inspired by
f, Browning's The Ring and the Book"
/ There is no city. and hardly village.
! in the State that has not had its social
and literary atmosphere revivified
through the direct influence of wo-
mans clubs. The benefit the members
Of such clubs have derived from the
/ meetings does not end with the knoWl-
edge acquired indeed. that is perhaps
| n secondary consideration. The good
in many instances comes from the
= effort made to rise above the dead
| level Of a hum drum existence; many
rough places have been smoothed. ana
| life has been made better worth the
living.
| The AroOstOok Pioneer thinks that
| there will ha mara wheat apd I.,c IN,