Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-09

All ecstasy ci soalnd upcaught;
Songs apOtheosis.
The dreaming lilies lift their heads
TO listen and grow wise;
The fragrant roses from their beds
in sudden beauty rise:
Enrapturcd. on the eastern hill.
y moment, hHlts the sun;
Day breaks. ana all AGAIN is still
The thrush S song is done!
Frank Demrster sherman.
College baseball games, today. in
clude BOWdoin VS.. L. of NJ. at Orono,
and massachusetts Agricultural College
VS.. Colby at Waterville.
These are busy days in the fields, and
scarcity of help is all the farmers
are complaining of.
| kennebunk gets some consolation
| from the reelection that it's fire loss was
| not due to Il Door and inadequate fire
protection. While Kennebunk has no
| modern fire engine. it has a most ex-
| cellent water system which supplies
| hydrant pressure sufficient for all
practical purposes. The fire last Sun
| day was one that would have called for
the best endeayors of almost any city
| fire department in the State, and the
| fact that it was got under control be
fore the entire village was destroyed
speaks volumes for the local facilities
which can be brought to bear in such
| all emergency.
| Three good old Maine academies will
observe their centennial, this year, that
at Gorham. now the western Normal
school. Buehiu and Hampden. Nine
Maine academies are 100 years old or
over, Of which seven are in operation,
| today. Names first academy was that
at HalloWell, incorporated in 1891.
| There We're p academies in Maine
when it became a State in 1920.
Belfast passes the half century
mark as city, this year, and proposes
to observe the anniversary in connec-
ton With its Old Home week celebra-
ton in August.
a Kennebunk woman has sued the
Sanford & Cape Porpoise Railway Co.
for damage done her by the noise OF
the roads power house which is near
her home. Ii is the first case OF the
kind IN Maine.
Franklin has a facetious dog-fancier.
He wants to keep d dog, and seems per
fectly willing to pay the license as re-
quired by law. He wants certain privi-
Ileges, however, which he may or may
not get. This is what he writes to the
town clerk: In accordance with the
laws of the State of Maine, I apply for
a license for one male dog that bears
The name Of Brownie to ran at large
over my neighb0rs gardens, in their
chicken pens, and to commit such
other deprcdatiOns as their natures al
nit. He is a cross between n cur and
a nuisance the latter predOminating.
Please find SIZE good American money.
BE charitable in your conclusions in re
gard to sanity. etc. Please send the
certificate by mail
Three Portland gentlemen have been
having some fun with It Watervilc
citizen of late. One had circulated the
report that the Watcrvillian had
signed the pledge. The Watrrviile man
sent the fellow d dispatch denying the
report and the Portland man settled
with the telegraph company Portland
man took another into his confidence
and the latter sent the W&terville man
Il telegram paying for the same. He
received a reply for which he paid the
tolls and was caught thereby. The
| I'D -In
is also Il friend Of the Waterville man.
The proper thing of course was to
catch the other Portlander He was
advised of the new step reported to
have been taken by the Waterville
man and he sent a telegram asking
how it had happened. He received the
following reply for which he paid:
MY dear colonel: / have signed the
pledge because l believe that from the
moment it issues from the coiled and
poisonous worm in the distillery until it
empties into the hell of death, dis ;.
honor and crime, alcohol is demoraliz-
ing to all who touch it from it's source
to where it; ends. Go thou and do
| likewise Very cordially" 1t is not
often that even a Portland gentleman
receives a temperance lecture by teie-
graph and pays the tolls on it himself.
! The proposed electric railroad from
Caribou to Woodland, Perham and
Wdshburn seems to be meeting with
great favor among Caribou folks 1t is
| thought that sufficient power to run the
| road could be secured by the present
power house at the dam for about nine
months of the year. Perham and
Washburn people are doing all in their
power to Secure this road. and are very
| much pleased with the prospect of Sc
| curing it.
It is a frequent source of pleasure |
when college graduates get together
| to compare the athletic teams of their
college days with those that now rep
| resent the same institutions on the |
diamond and the gridiron. There |
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