Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-02-24

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many, has such an army of hungry
Office holders.
Kansas City has an organization
! known as the Knife and Fork Club
which General Miles was engaged to
address, and appointment which fol
some reason was cancelled. Possibl!
the General thought that his partici-
patton in such an event might be re-
garded by the manufacturers of break
fast foods as a protest against spoon
victuals.
&EagG1g9 Gossip
The Sanitary Mother Goose.
Little Miss Muffet
Sat on a tuffet,
Eating of curds and whey,
When along came DOCTOR
Who said-how he shocked her.
They've germs in them, throw them
away
Well, perhaps it will not be quite so
long to the next thaw.
The smell of spring is in the air, and
in the words Of the immortal poem
We'll be happy yet, you bet"
Lonsfcllow's birthday is soon here
and although it does not give them a
holiday, the school children will not
forget it.
Prominent and early among the sue
cesses of the 1904 graduation season,
are to be chronicled the exercises of
the Tony High school.
Hospitable Fort Fairfield homes have
been opened for the reception of half n
dozen little ones from the Chi!dren's
home, Augusta.
After such Il gathering as the Gardi-
ner Board of Trade had. Monday eve
ming, around the banquet board it is
difficult to see how the business or pro-
fcssiOnal life of that fair city can ever
again know friction or factions.
1t is case of going from the frying
pan into the fire when Thomas Coleman
steps forth from State prison, this
morning. and meets New Hampshire
offinn,. at tho 1nOr with n mt for
his arrest.
For the first 16 days in February
there was not death among the $500
Inhabitants of Rockland. This is es-
pcCiiilly remarkable in view of the fact
that the mortality rate is usually high
err at this season of the year than any
other.
1t is none too early for the city and
village improvement societies to be
planning cut the spring campaign.
There will be elms to protect. unsightly
rubbish to remove, walks to repair and
many things to do on the streets and
parks and lawns and cemeteries.
The Gardiner Reporter-Journalm man
ran up against a game of Pit, the
other evening. 1t was in the next
room, to be sure, but he got the benefit
of it. He says: 1T sounded at times
like Il flock of turkey gobblers, and at
others as though Bedlam had broken
loose. 1t may be an interesting game,
but it looks, Or sounds, like a very fool
ish one
They are talking OF organizing q
University of Pennsylvania Alumni
Association in this State. There are
said to be about 60 graduates of that
institution in Maine.
One of the best informed men on city
affairs in Portland predicts that there
will be no county building or lot there
for this year, after all. He says that
the city and county officials are grow
ing more and more disposed to let the
matter rest where it is and that means
an indefinite postponement of the
proposition. There are too many
elections coming on this year, he said
1T is likely that the whole project may
be allowed to slumber for the present.
Then will come a proposition from the
city to annul the agreement whereby
the transfer of the City hall lot was
bargained for and the next move will
be a request from the city to have the
commissioners present their demands
for improvements in the county wing.
Then the city. under the terms of the
original lease. would go ahead and fit
up the offices. There is no doubt but
that the voluminous records in these
offices should be provided for in a
better manner. They are not safe from
fire now. They could be and the city
could afford to lay out a few thousand
dollars to secure adequate protection
for the records in the various depart
ments and the county would be much
better off. The opposition to the pro-
posed expenditure is not all confined
to the grangers. There are many city
people who object to any further debt
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