Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-04-30


on record. and Rangeley cleared the
same date as last year.
The ice has also left Mooselucmagun-
tic. but unfortunately it did not take
ANY syllables out with it.
The streams and rivers are getting
down to summer pitch too early to suit
the lumbcrmen.
Good for Surry, whose public-spirited
and enterprising citizens will celebrate
its centennial. June p.
Richmond sees a ray of light in the
visit of Massachusetts parties to look
over the two vacant shoe factories.
The friends of Bucksport seminary
have put their shoulders to the wheel
to help in the work of raising $4,000 to
ada to the endowment fund.
The demand for farm help, this
sprinS, far exceeds the supply and
there was never a time when there was
less excuse for a man to be out of work
Portland has a suspicion that its
costly fire on the wharves was the re-
suit CT sailors carousal in which a
key of beer figured prominently
! y large and modern fire-boat to pro-
! tect its water front is one of PortIands
needs as indicated by it's recent des-
tructivc fire which threatened the en-
tire harbor frontage.
According to the Commercial, the
! Bangor spinsters are planning on q
home OF club house Of their own, an Old
maids paradise, and all because the
Bangor men are growing bashful.
These Maine publishers who want to
have liquor advertisements in their
pa pers VIII not get any great amount
of consos ton from the Supreme court
| decision announced, this week. 1t
simply rules that Il York county court
does not have jurisdiction in such q
matter over a paper published in
Penohscot county.
Belfast celebrates May day, tOmor
! row. as Merchants day and there will
be an excursion over the Belfast and
Burnham branch of the Maine Cen
/ tr9!.
| Monhegan sends out word to the
world that the cattle on the island arc
! hereafter to be fenced in. This will
be something Of a relief to fair rustica-
tors, but it will remove one of the pic
turesque features Of the Struggling
!Street.
| When times are dull in the Portland
| Advertiser office this is the kind of 4
special dispatch" they fix up With big
headlines for the first page: Brown
! vile. April 2T.-Considerable interest
has been aroused here by Henry John
sons big st. Bernard pup. MaioH, who
Swallowed his own tail at a dance in
! the town hall, Saturday night. Major,
who loves music. was capering around
like a kitten. when, in chasing his own
/ tail in the center of the floor. sur
rounded by an applauding crowd, he
accidentally swallowed six and a half
inches of it. Nobody was able to I'M
Hook him. and he remains doubled up in
n Painful position, there is talk of
surgical operation for his relief"
| In spite of the denials OF the Rock
J l., ~ n,1in 1.ly ion,
Gazette repeats with emphasis that it
quoted Senator Staples verbatim in an
InGnncing his gubernatorial candidacy
and that it also quoted DR. Crockett
correctly in giving his comments
/ thereon. though it was obliged TO tone
down the latter's language a little to
make it printable. 1t is evident that
| the Knox Democracy is about due to
gather around the board for a harmony
banquet of the Kilkenny variety.
| Bangor News: This is growing to be
big State filled with many important
interests. No sooner does our garden
become dry enough for us to SOW onion
seeds, than the lumbermen and mill
owners begin to call for more rain to
help the logs along. OF course, we are
inclined to be accommodating in ali
things, but We dislike to have mem
spoil our garden just for the sake of
making little money. When man
has waited whole year just for the
privilege of making a garden he is
! disinclined to give way to anybody.
Give us few dry days next week and
plenty of warm, dry weather next
month. June rains will do as we'll as
any for the drives, While they will help
the hay crop amazingly.
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