Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-04-15

The street piano starts the echoes WIG 90
| With Good Old Summertime, an az" iii
The maiden fair comes forth 10 MT WIZ
| Death
/ In waist of peek-o-boo variety.
Sweet Spring has come. Below there
comes a yell; ,,orr,.
Fresh, feesh, peanutta, strawberry
banan.' ,s
New bric-a-brac adorns the mantel:; shell
| For Heavens sake. stop that srihhiis
''ole clo'es" man! r,>;os
A week of most successful conven-
tons.
The Penobscct cities are realizing
that polluted river is an unsafe water
supply.
Gardiner is fully convinced that King
Pepper will not be the kind to De
sneeZed at.
If envy ever has place in clergy
mans heart, there are probably most
of Maine clergymen enviOus of the Bar
Harbor parson who has been left 1or-
tune of several hundred thousand DOL
| lars by former parishioner III floridd.
Although the evening temperature is
hardly suggestive of band concerts,
Bath is lamenting that there is small
prospect that it will have any band,
| this summer.
Slowly but surely Cumberland is
moving toward that new court house
and some are now so optimistic as to
believe that the present generation Will
see it.
Uncle Sam comedies that Maine has
passed the 100000 mark The good old
State has been a long time reaching 1t,
considering that it passed the 100000
mark. a full half century ago. Will
Maine have 100000 population in 1854:
Who can doubt it?
Bath gets consolation out of the lat
est government estimates of popula-
| ton. 1t ranks seventh among the
Maine cities but enjoys the unique DIS
tinction of being the most densely
populated, that is. having more people
to the acre than any other city in the
State. And still Bath has lots of room
to grow.
1t is announced that Herman How
ard, the Rockland Opinions talented
cartoonist, is to illustrate the book of
travels and conversations which the
Hon. Stephen A. Douglas Smith of the
Machias Union is to publish.
April is a favorite birthday with
the Powers family up in South Paris.
On that day, this year, Mrs. l.. l..
Powers gave a birthday dinner for
three generations of the family. The
three who We're honored on the occa-
| sion We're Mrs. Powers father, {. n.
Porter, who was IS years old that day,
her brother, William "A. Porter. who
was Al, and her son. Go-Goa Pow -,
who completed his first year.
The proposition to have an athletic
park near Portland meets with violent
opposition from some who have an idea
| that a second Rigby park is to be built
where liquor and gambling Will be al
lowed. Rut those who urge the new
park declare they want only suitable
and convenient place for baseball, foot
ball and other clean and popular sports.
Every city should have such a place.
A young housekeeper recently called
| for a peck Of coffee in a Watervilie
| grocery store. 1t took some time To
| convince her that it was n pound ana
| not a peck she wanted but it was final
| ly done.
| The Riddeford Record. which dearly
loves to knock it's own city on all oc-
casions. quotes as follows one OF the
striking moulders Of that city who has
worked in many places: This town
| Diddeford beats them all that eve:
struck. Yet what can you expect win
| he lessons that the children are given.
| School children ut the last election
| stood around the polls and saw men
| buying votes as openly as butcher
| would buy cattle. There isn't Il child
4 dozen years old in BiddefOrd who
doesn't know that the child labor law
| is a farce. In places where | have been
the police are the servants of the reo-
ple and the man who is straight does
not care any more about police than
he does about truckmen. Here the po-
lice are kings. People don't dare to
Breathe unless the police tells them
| they can. When we came out on this
| strike we thought it was against the
| company. but it seems that we are up
against the police and the court as
much as we are against the company.
Belfast, or, at least, the Belfast I'M
orovement society is working toward
public park. AT this weeks meeting
If the city government there was pre-
sented petition from the Belfast I'M
prOvement society for an appropriations
If $1,000 to buy tract of land on the
shore for park. to be held by the city
for the public use and benefit. AL
Though no location is indicated in the
petition it is understood the society ha.
IAN option on seven or eight acres of
what wah formerly known as the AL