Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-25

heard. 1t is expected he will now pro-
, coed to St. Louis where he will doubt
less get more attentive ears.
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The Singing of the Birds.
reckon they've got troubles
The birds-and not lew:
: put still they keep a-slngln
All their sweet songs to you.
: Still welcOmin' the mornln
| Across the fields OF dew.
They have their storm and sunshine
,rhey bear a wounded breast;
Their little ones forsake them
| And lonely leave the nest:
Rut still they keep a-singin'
: Frank L. Stanton.
lot more Baccalaureate sermons,
tomorrow.
J With vacation beginning and the cir
Gus and the Fourth in sight. it is a
great season for the small boy.
Bath hospitality is at its best for the
knights Templar Of Skowhegan and
Rumford Falls.
Dexter is one of the first towns to get
the real summer baseball fever, and it
promises to be catching in that section.
If the battleship Maine only realized
what a beautiful banner the D. A. r.
has all ready for it, how it would hurry
to home waters.
The Lewiston people are disputing
the right of the circus people to canopy
the streets with red banners from the
span wires Of the trolley system.
The editors at home, who constitute
read the bulletins of the Press party's
progress to st. Louis.
The Biddeford School Board solemnly
warns all teachers that if they do not
resign before July 1 they will be re-
I
A North Arson correspondent sends
out the good word that the village
churches are better attended than they
have been before for years, all work.
' ing tremendously together, for the
good of the community.
Biddeford Journal: If this weather is
hot enough 70 you take it for granted
that it is also hot enough for the men
you meet incidentally in the course Of
your comings and goings. Don't dis
turb the balance Of the world by ask
ing u question that prOvOkes reply
couched in the monosyllabic language
of an unsanctified vocabulary.
Among all it's thousands of sons,
Bowdoin College has had one daughter
for the past three years, Miss Sarah
Orne Jcwctt, who was given an honor
airy degree in 1901. Now the number
of daughters has been increased to
two, the new one being Mrs. Geo. c.
Riggs (kate Douglass WigginD who
was given the degree of Lift. D. this
week. Mrs. Riggs has long been a
good friend of Bowdoin and few years
ago founded the Hawthorne prize, the
income of $1,000 given annually to the
undergraduate writing the best short
story. Both these famous Maine writ
ers are worthy the honor conferred
upon them.
In a little village in Waldo county
bn do 10 li-a hat
this was leap year. The clerk was sit
ting quietly in his Office when he heard
the approach of footsteps. On looking
up, he observed Il tall Willowy young
lady standing before him, blushing in
tensciy and lingering a silver dollar.
Stammering she said: Il have come to
have my intentions of marriage re-
corded" The clerk smilingly replied,
90 certainly" as though it was an
every day occurrence for young ladies
to indulge in such pleasantries. The
| wedding takes place at the home of the
bride June q, Gf the groom isn't too
bashfuD.
A threc-year-old moose killed him
self this week in Fort Fairfield village,
by catching himself in a barb-wire
fence east of the Canadian Pacific
| Railway depot. between the track and
the river In his jumping around he
threw himself over and is thought to
have broken his neck. He was a good
looking animal, that is. for a moose,
and would have made hunter happy
in open time. This is thought to be the
same moose that has been hanging
round for some weeks past. asking to
be shot. Becoming discouraged, he
was compelled to commit the deed him
self. 1t seems hard that the laws of a
State make such things necessary for
the poor animals.
Any Maine town that has an Oppor-
tunity to celebrate its centennial and