Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-05-15
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The Bright World.
Bright world around us good people
better to sing it that way,
An reap all the roses uplifted to meet
the red lips O. the May.
Sighin don't ever
Smooth pathways along
a world full o signs
For a heart full O. song.
Bright world around us, good people
sorrow will come with the years,
But-ask all the souls that have suffered |
Sighin' don't ever
Smooth pathways along
a world full o signs
Needs a heart tull o song!
Frank l.. Stanton. |
The first apple blossoms have ap-
peared.
The rivers are well down to summer
pitch.
A "Vision of Fair Women" is nothing !
new for Augusta.
The advance guard of the summer |
travel is already here.
Colby VS.. U. of M. at Orono, today, |
for their first game, this year.
The baseball cranks can hardly wait |
for the summer leagues to get at it,
This weeks forest fires have done
more damage than all the prickly
porcupnes that ever trod Maine soil.
A feature of the Waterville- Oakland |
trolley line will be the bridge over the
picturesque Messalonskee cascades, 10
feet above the water. 49,.
In view of the average of two births
per week in Millinocket, for the past
year or more, the race suicide" talk
doesn't make much impression in that
town.
Rangeley fishermen never had such
luck as during the past few days, and
| all the fish seem to be at least five
FOUNDERS.
1t is time to be making the Old Home
week plans. The Portland committee
has organized for business, and Belfast
| proposes to celebrate it's semi-cen
| tennial as a city.
Lewiston has been looking over the
plans for its new theatre and feels
very we'll pleased. The cost will be
about $4,000.
Those Grand Trunk reports from
Montreal aren't bit pleasant reading
| for Portland, but the Forest City
| doesn't believe that there's a word Of
truth in the hints thrown out to the
effect that the Grand Trunk will give
Portland the go-by, so far as trans
| continental business is concerned.
! AS the result of little jealousy
among rival photographers there will
be no more Sunday picture-taking in
Biddeford for time. The police have
tsirct orders to see that the studios are
| closed on that day.
| An old negro walked into a Bangor
|
clerk for cents worth of insect powder.
ga cents WORTH" asked the clerk.
| 'Why, that isn't worth wrapping up"
"Ah done said nothin' bout yoh wrap
pin it up was the impatient reply.
"Ah wants yoh to pc it down nah
back"
The scarcity of rents in Westbrook
still continues. and is not confined to
some years of business depression the
| Paper City seems to be entering upon
Ian era of prosperity. The valuation is
| the highest with one exception that it
has ever been in the history of the
city.
A resident of PASSPORT received a
pleasant surprise upon leaving his
house one day recently. Upon stepping
on to his porch he found an envelope
addressed to himself containing a sum
of money Whether it was part of
conscience fund or not is a question
that is now being discussed by the
neighbors and each is keeping a close
watch on his own porch.
| AS a part of the systematic move
ment to beautify Bangor and improve
its local park system the park COM
missioners are planning to eXpend $4,000
during the present year.
| The Waterville Mail scolds Water
vile people for their neglect of the
beautiful shade trees for which their |
city has long been famed. Such trees
as Waterville possesses along its
principle streets should be sources of |
pride to every citizen, and well cared |
for and promptly replaced as fast as
they die or are destroyed. They are |
municipal asset whose value is only |
| annreciated when they are gone.