Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-03-30

I'm always thlnKln DOul II when INC
springti1ne comes along.
An the trees-they nod Good mornin',''
an the river rs song;
IT'S then [ fail to wishin' for the old
felds-more an more,
An, a lazy game O checkers by the old
''''' Atlanta Constitution.
Newcastle is still hesitating to pro-
vide a suitable celebration for its
sesquicentennial.
Talk about the gastronomic capacity
of goats. A Strong man boasts of
calf which ate five feet of rope, the
other day.
Bangor has had experience with Joe
Waterproof, and Jack the pepper, and
Jack the Hugger-now it has Jack
the Choker. and he is decidedly the
worst yet-if complaints that have
been made at the Bangor News office
are true. He will not live very long,
if anybody sees him at his work, for
Bangor men are in a nasty temper,
and might do rash things.
A little son of Leslie Strout in Ripley
has pet rooster which he has trained
so that he harnesses him to a little
wagon in which he will haul a few
sticks OF fine wood about the yard.
And the rooster doesn't seem to dislike
the performance, either.
Leander Clark made great record
Ali his taxes for the preceding year
We're gathered in and not single
piece of property had to be adver-
tised.
Orono is the latest to have a curfew
law, and it is promised that it shall be
strictly enforced after April Is.
Damariscotta mourns that there is no
prospect of any shipbuilding there, this
summer.
The outcome of the test clam case
to be on trial in the Supreme Court in
April, town of I.amoine VS.. residents
of Trenton. will be awaited with more
than ordinary interest by residents OF
| the shore towns in Hancock county
| The destruction of this hitherto profit
| able industry is rousing the people
considerably, especially in the towns
where the municipal ordinance has
been passed prohibiting non-residents
| from taking clans on their shores
Complaints are coming from all quar-
| tiers, every day new town filing its
complaint that the day of the clam is
passing, and that for the sake of the
people who flock to the coast in sum-
mer the bivalve should not be allowed
to become entirely extinct.
New schedules of wages go into eff
feet in some places, this week, where
the union men have been active.
Here is a Bangor News criticism of
the Penobscot highways and it holds
good of about any country roads at
this season: Blessed is the man
whose business does not take him out
along the country roads leading from
Bangor this week. Thrice blessed is
he who dWellS in the country and has
food enough so that he need not so
from his own dooryard. Though we
deSpisc wood saving either for fun or
rs a profession. we admit that we
would rather saw dry helnlock with
knots in it than wade and founder
through the mud these horrible days in
March when the wind blows from the
northeast all day and shifts around to
| northeast-by least every night, when
the slime oozes from the roadsides,
when the cellars are knee-high with
muddy water and when the fields are
quaking boys of liquid glue. 1t may
be that old age is coming upon us more
rapidly than we think, but out sincere
opinion is that the highways are
worse this spring than we have ever
seer them in any previous season. In
fact, We do not see how they can be
any worse
Hart Bachelor put his thumb out
of place playing ball one day last
week." says the East Sebago cores
the last few weeks we have been
watching the columns of our eX-
changes for undoubted evidence that
spring had arrived in Maine We have
noted the first robin, the skunk cab
bage, the first hand organ, the receipt
of congressional garden seeds, the APP
pearance of fresh spruce gum in the
local market, the drop in the price of
Holsters, and other signs that are sell
dom known to fail except possibly dur
ing an unusually severe drouth, but