Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-01-30

That sets the heart longing today.
Nor is it the brook that goes laushlngiy
by,
We sigh for the time when these troubles
That harrow the innermost soul,
For the time when the hens will be laying
once more
And We won't have to buy any coal.
Washington Star.
The Maine editors-some of them.
anyway,-will go to St. Louis in May.
Here's happiness to Editor Duhhlhs
of the Portland Press and his New
York bride.
The Maine courts are uphoiding the
plucky schoolma ans who thrashed the
unruly boys.
Another bad thing about those
prophecies of Il tough February is that
the month will be longer than usual.
1t is case of many being called and
few chosen with the Bowdoin seniors,
when 81 out of ~ young men in the
class are appointed to write commence
ment parts of which only six will be
delivered.
Two sisters in Northport each pre-
scented her husband with an infant
daughter within a few hours time last
week.
Warren Powers, of North Deer Isle.
is the owner of an enrerprisng hen.
On Jan. Is the hen in question stole her
nest with contents therein, and has
Matched out twelve chickens. ten OF
which are alive and smart and without
IL frozen toe in the lot.
Speaking of hens, an East Bluehiil
correspondent writes that Frank |.
Candage has twenty eight hens. From
Jan. ! to Jan. II. inclusive. they laid
, 80 eggs. He says that. besides the
! usual food, he fed them on CLANS hareS.
porcupineS. beets. milk, hay and cab
baSe. This diet is respectfully recon-
mcnded to the consideration of those
whose hens refuse to lay when eggs
, are high.
An interesting fact in connection
with the recent report of the county
commissioners for Hancock county is
that for the first time in many years
| perhaps the first time in its history
the entire county tax is shown to have
been collected.
In Waldo county there We're IS di-
vorccs granted in 1908. not a bad record
in comparison with some of the coun-
ties. OF these. 20 were granted on
complaint of the wife. Three OF The
| couples had been married less than two
, years.
About everybody will envy that
North sullivan young aldy. Miss Bea
trce Gordon. age II, who has just won
a prize for not missing a word in SPELL
ing for Il ten weeks term of school.
Some good spoilers are made. but most
of them are born that way. and Miss
Gordon is evidently of the latter kind.
This is the season of the Bowdoin
alumni dinners. Last evening the New
York city alumni met for their annual
banquet: next Monday evening. the
Kennebec alumni will meet at Hotel
North. Augusta; and Saturday evening.
February 6. the Portland alumni will
get together. The Washington alumni
will also meet early in February
Judge Spear has won the hearts of
The attorneys and the public at the
York county session of the supreme
court. 1t is n way he has. He can't
! help it for he is a just judge and an
/ honest man.-Lewiston Journal.
! Every word of which is true. and
here in his home county where he is
best known he is best liked.
! Now the ice men are complaining.
| Formerly the crop harvester was too
thin. but this season the other extreme
! is encountered. Ice 90 inches thick is
, more than they bargain for or desired
the cakes being too bulky to handle
conveniently. It's all ice. too. clear as
crystal. but the dealers are still kick
' ing and are hustling to fill their houses
before the cold weather congeals all
, the water in the river down to the
very bottom. But the fine crop on the
Hudson has dashed the hope of a good
harvest on the Eennebec and Penob-
scot. and but little ice will be cut in
Maine. this winter except for local con-
sumption.
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