Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-04-05
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The lcnqtheninl DAYS.


And can't sleep if there is any noise
about,
Soon will hear the merry clattcr OF the
mower on the lawn
And the garbage man who rolls the bar
rels out
How they'll toss ard turn and tumble i'll
vain attempt to sleep
When the rising sun shines IN Al four
O'Clock:
How they'll srowl ana groan ana grum-
bic and they'll curse both loud and
As they hear the mlkman coming down
the block.
one fails into doZc.
Then crash against the door-you'rc
wide awake.
II resembles bombardmont, but. as cv-
erybody knows.
It's the way the newsboys leave the Daily
Fake.
It's no use to try to sllmber, for the
world is waking up.
The trolley Gongs are changing as they
The files are buzzing Gerccly and the
neshbor's yelpinE pup
Is chasing English sparrows of the
grass,
oh. we're glad the Summers coming,
when the snow will disappear.
And when it comes well wish the W.n-
ter back.
And the moral seems 10 DC mat every
season of the year
Has advantages that all the others lack
Buffalo Express.
Have you ordered your Eater
lilies?
Nothing calm and placid about the
Maine rivers now.
Sheriff Pearson is seizing everything
drinkable except water.
Only three weeks to the opening OF
the baseball season.
Augusta seems to have led the State
with the first mayfower.
Where will that new government
lobster hatchery be located?
The Maine cows are being called
upon to relieve the milk famine in
Boston.
o tho-c gallant Bangor fishermen TO
allow a lady to capture the first sal
mon. Or was the gallanty on the part
of the salmon?
Delays are dangerous in selecting
that Easter bonnet. Think of the
crushing disappointment if the MILL
ner should be unable to finish it.
The Biddeford and SacO festivals
chorus has grown small almost to the
vanishing point, and a pail of gloom
envelopes the faithful few.
The Portland Press enters a vigorous
kick upon the system that imposes mp
times as large as the average per
capita tax paid by the rest of the
State. -
The Biddeford Record, on April I.
| told of 4 wholesale liquor splitting bee
which was to take place in the early
evening at City square. and hundreds
| took the bait.
While the Franklin county trains
| We're ploughing through eight inches
|
was fighting forest fire in the woods
| between North Berwick and Wells. the
blaze apparently being set by spark
| from train.
| Evangelist SandfOrd's city on hill
is thriving. The Shiloh evangelists
have just gathered in new recruits
from far-off Tacoma in the state Of
| WashingtOn-includi n converted
baker of so years with $4,000 in money
Himself. wife and four children with
| their $4,000 purse are now due to enter
the gates of Shiloh. together with 81
other converts, including merchant
who sold two houses and dedicated the
proceeds to the Lord as interpreted by
| Brother Sanford. The Tacoma word
is that the Spirit moved the brethren
| to buy tickets to Shiloh over the cheaD-
est route-and the spirit that did that
could certainly be called business-like
The last meeting of the Nezinscot
Club Of Buckfield was "Buckfleld Day.
and the discussions proudly en-
phasized the fact that that town has
given to the country one rear admiral,
one secretary of the navy, one COVER
nor, three congressman, three presi-
dents Of the Maine Senate Zone of
them serving two terms), one judge of
probate, one college president, one
eminent college professor. one famous
humOrist, one composer of church
music and one noted band director.
The Maine society with the long
name and the good intentions held it's