Daily Kennebec journal., 1905-01-17
DAILY KENNEREC JOURNAL. TUESDAY. JANUARY Il. 1905

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Maine Gossip
Winter.
| In bitter cold the year is born;
All. Can ii ever bring
The sweet wild rose from y"nd-r SHOWS
And will the summer sing
W here, wrenched and worn and tempest
These icy branches swing?
Oh tell me. Time. do birds hut fly
iriets wintry sky.
TO sing OF sprinstime, by and by?
DO seeds hut sleep. are buds MOI dfld
In hearts 50 chilled and buffet~u:
-Ros: on Transcript.
One cold wave follows another so fast
that the figures and stories about them
are getting all mixed up. but all agree
that it is a record breaking old Janu-
airy.
IIoI!l Nolih va tii'
from places down in this section OF the
State. Fort Fairfield is in danger OF
losing its reputation as the coldest
place on the map.
Horse racing on the ice is much III
vogue this " inter. and We expect soon
/. hear froln that man who told us.
last winter. of horse races on the ice in
P.robscot bay, live miles out to sea.
The Maine lawmakers will assemble.
this morning, for the work of the third
week The organization is completed
and the prcliniirlariss disposed Of and
the commuters will now be settling
down to tn, business of sitting out the
mass of measures referred to them.
Bath has lost the unique distinction
of having tile only pOst"fiice in the
country where the rent OF the boxes
differs ON account OF their location.
The l-nt has been made uniform. and
The change causes a variety Of emo
tinns among the holders.
The Knox county Democrats are
beating their breasts in sorrow 1T the
annouucem, that q. l.angdon
Crockett is to retire from the state
committee. Some doubt if the party
can survive the blow. The Rockland
Opinion tries To cheer up the faithful
by declaring that the doughty doctor
will stir he in the thick of the fray
" hen III, trurnpcts call TO battle again.
Something OF the kind of girls they
raise in !AroostoOk is indicated by the
fact that caribou has one-Miss Amy
Errc aged Il years-whO recently ap-
p.ar,,, standing erect as any man. on
a snow scrapcr and driving Il pair OF
horses weighing 800 pounds, and scrap
ing the snow off the streets in the vii
lagc.
a niddcford paper says that Office
room il that city at the present time is
Very scarc" and that the city is pretty
badly in need of It new building with
lots Of good rooms on the upper fiGorS
t. be let for this purpose. There are !,
number, OF parties in the city who have
tried tor Il long time to get offlce room
to he used in various ways and after Il
long search have been unable TO ma
.nythin3 that was anywhere near SAT-
iSs,t,or. or would fill the requirements.
Sncaking of the dana &c done ut
Popham by the recent storm and TIL"
danger to the summer cottages a friend
Of Tie Independent suggests that the
summer homes there should he built
upon stringers of hard pine with rollers
o" small trucks arranged so that AT lie
time of u big storm they could be
hauled back, say 30 feet. from the Dink
with very little eXer,lon. This w"iid
be :r,y nice except that it might prove
rough on the chimneys.
EidIcford Journal The day before the
disnatCh"s chroncicd Il temperature OF
tU-.nty-thrcc degrees below zero at the
-! uit.,l OF Maine the krnncbec Journal
had an item conveying the information
that :. resident OF Augusta had s"en Il
robin. There might have been some
doubt whether the bird was the last of
Lrt season OF the first Of this. but i'll
such cases il is customary to give hope
the benefit of doubt. 1t would have
been highly pleasing to any of us il we
could have claimed this first robin. hut
as We cannot honestly do 50 the next
best thing is 10 see that credit is siNri:
wh-re il is really due. and square the
game by Watching out sharply for the
first strawberry and the first green
reas.
Gardiner Ecporter-Journal: Tho Bath
| Indcnendcnt thinks al our cities and
| towns should have their municipal year
commence with the calendar year. That
| would sem to be the natural way of do
| ing business. Another point that the
| independent makes is that in the conn-
try towns January and February are
| months where there is not much doing
| for tn" farmers. and so the new murirl
| pal officers could commence their
work for the town when their priv ate
work was MT requiring their attention.
| Eut ca far aS that their work iS