Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-24
Maine Gossip

malne Gossip /
The Early Fly.
The early fly has just arrived.
But no one seems to welcome him.
! The disposition seems to be,
Instead, to tear him limb from limb.
He buzzes cheerfully around,
As sOciable as he can be,
But no che greets him with smile,
Or shows the slightest sign of Slee.
| The early fly must think our hearts
Are very hard and cold indeed,
His own heart. if he's sensitive.
At all. at times must really bleed
To think that he's been gone SO long,
And no one glad to see him back;
To find Whenever he comes around,
-somerville Journal.
Bishop O'Connell will be a rank
skeptic if he doubts the warmth of his
welcome back to Maina.
As result of the cold spring 1t Is
feared the supply Of flowers for Me-
mortal day will not be so abundant as
usual.
| Todav,s game in the series for the
Maine college championship is between
BowdOin and U. of NJ. at OrOno.
Westbrook Seminary is another lead
ing Maine school which is looking for
new principal, as Principal Perry gets
through there, this term.
Up to the present tine there have
been more people after summer cot
tages at Old Orchard and at other York
county resorts than has been the case
for several seasons. Indications now
% int to 4 big summer business.
\ Bangor Physician ellis of man in
that town who was examined the other
day for heart disease and was greatly
relieved when he founi that the crack
| Ing sound he heard every time he drew
a long breath came from 4 small buckle
on his suspenders.
The Boston Yacht CLUB will have per-
manent summer quarters at Five
Islands. near Bootholy Harbor. The
cub members and boats met there last
July during the races. as the guests OF
Vice Commodore BoyntO1, and have ac-
cepted an invitation from him to meet
ii ere again, this season. The vice COM
n1cGore was in Bath, llst week. having
been to Five Islands, where he arranged
for the building Of a permanent house
for the club. which will be in readiness
| for use before the anna. cruise.
Rev. G.. w. Collier Of Orange, Mass.
| a Congregational clergyman who has
accepted a cali to Bangor. was identi-
fe with Princeto Williams, Harvard
and Yale as student before he was
ready for his life work. He entered
Princeton in The fail oe 1887. On ac-
count of homo circumstances he did not
return for the sophomore year. He en-
tered Williams in $50 and was gradu-
ated in 1892. He entered the senior
class at Harvard that fall and was
graduated in 1893. He was graduated
from the Yale Divinity school in
the class of &c. In the fall of
spent in study and travel and on his re-
| turn was called to the passionate of the
Orange Congregational church. where
| he has since remained.
| Boston Transcript: A man has adj
vertised in Lewiston newspaper for 4
haunted house. situated anywhere in
| the State of Maine. According to one
| report he wants it as place OF resi-
dcnce for some Of his wife's people; it
| may be suspected, however. that his
keep up spirits during the dry time now
prevailing i'm the Pine Tree State
Wallace r. harrington. formerly on
gagged in newspaper work in Maine. an5
now editor of the Honolulu Evening
| Bulletin. has been appointed a member
OF the Territorial Board OF Public In
structiOn in Honolulu. All the public
schools of the Hawaiian islands are un-
der the direction and control Of 4 super
intendent and the board of commissions
ers to which Mr.. Harrington has just
| been elected. The board also has I'M
der its jurisdiction the reformatory
schools for boys and girls, Il branch in
which Mr.. Harrington Will doubtless
take special interest as his father was
for years at the head Of the Maine Re-
form School.
The editor of the Portland Advertiser
thus relates one of the disappointments
of life: 1T does irk one 50 to be unable
| to see the end of a promising complica-
ton which was our experience yeSter-
| day afternoon. A whaciman was beat
| ing up against the fresh ncrtherly wind
on the bicycle path between this city
and WestbrOok. when we noted some
thing like the formation of an obstacle
race for him. Immediately ahead was
Il young woman with skirts flutterng
and pressing on unmindful Of the warn
ing bell. and little farther on horse.
whose owner had left the wagon, hal
projected his head We'll across the
cyclists way, while 4 short distance be-
yond these. big. drowsy cat sat blink