Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-04-21

DAILY KENNEBE
prosper or be on plane with that of
our chief commercial rivals until it is
given the protection which fosters and
sustains other industries.
Although a week has passed some of
the metropolitan papers have not yet
recovered from the Vanderbilt-Neilson
wedding, though most of them have
ceased running the pictures.
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Wise Old Solomon.
Solomon, in all his glory.
Was not, SAYS the olden st Try,
So arrayed
As the lily of the valley
Which so unconventionally
Dots the glade.
Solomon, you may bet on it,
Never bought a brand-new bonnet
For each wife,
For he welded seven hundred.
And they say he never Numbered
In his life.
Chicago Tribune.
, Rumford Falls will entertain the
I Maine Methodist conference in 1904.
Maine is eating lots of early straw
berries. One day last week, 275 crates
came through Portland, breaking all
previous records.
One Hancock county farmer sowed
his grain April Is, one spring about 90
years ago, and says that with that e&-
ever knew.
Two Auburn sisters are named Fern
and Arbutus respectively, which is
rather the limit in floral nomenclature.
The handsome old elms on the lot of
the new Penobscot court house have
Commercial devotes column editorial
we'll calculated to prick the consciences
of those responsible for the ruthless
vandalism.
If you suffer from hiccoughs, have
yoilr eyes examined. At least that is
| the lesson of the experience of a Calais
l.; Of he
| time for two years, and who was cured
by having her eyes treated for astig-
matiSm.
| Old Town is going to have ball
team, this summer The boomers are
busy wiping out the old debt and no
man is allowed to escape as they
canvass the city for subscriptions to
| support the team.
| The social event of the spring down
shirtwaist party while Belfast is look
. ing forward to May l.
! The Berwick, Eliot & York electric
line. now being built, is 20 miles in
length and has just 90 bridges, giving
an idea of the picturesque country
| through which it runs. The grading is
Ill done and~a good part of the track
laid.
Lots of fragrant mayflowers from the
Maine hillsides are now being sent
| through the mails to friends in distant
states and cities.
! Penobscots splendid new court house
/ will be dedicated at the annual session
of the Law court which will meet there
June 49, The speakers will soon be
announced.
| In 1858 Thomas Small of Winnegance,
shingled his buildings and today those
Same shingles are nearly as good as
they were when laid. They have been
kept in this excellent state by white
washing every five years. The white
wash hardenS the wood as well as keeps
moss from growing on the shingles,
thus causing them to wear longer. But
there were better shingles in the good
Old times than can now be obtained.
| Mayor Hyde of Bath, has Joined the
Grange. He is a little more interested
in the ploughing of the briny deep than
the filling of the soil, but he neverthe-
less owns a lot of farm property and is
one of those public spirited, jolly good
fellows whom any good organization is
glad to welcome to membership.
| Here is the plant of an Auburn man
to the Lewiston Journal and wedding
parties will take due notice. We sus-
pect that he was on the wrong side of
the door when it was locked. He says:
| DO you know that there is one prac-
tice that is growing up in these COM
munities that is contrary to the laws of
the State and may some time cause
serious results? l refer to the habit of
locking doors at weddings. When the
house is full of guests the doors are
locked and remain so until the cere-
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