Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-15
Maine Gossip
Spring Prospects.

Soon you'll feel the wavin'
OF blossoms soft rs silk.
While the bubblin', shady springs
Cool the Duttermilk!
Sunny fields of clover,
Rivers Singin sweet,
Gray doves flying over
Daisies 1T your feet.
An you'll feel forgivn'
To the Wintry blast
Thankful that you're Twin
With viUlets ut last.
Atlanta Constitution.
The Shilohi.as. so strong, had things
pretty much their own way at the
Durham town meeting.
BanSor'S fan from grace was the
most reg! etable ana most unaccount-
able happening of the spring election
season.
The Auburn Board Oh Trade is aei
tatlng the plan of Il public gymnasium
for the boys who arr not fortunate
enough to have 4 wood pile in the back
yard.
Speaking of wood piles-the hoboes in
the Houiton iail are now required to
push a saw eight hours each day ami
the Institution promises to be a less
popular winter resort in the future.
The Portland uapers are publishing
pictures of Miss Helen Pingree, a
South Portland young woman in the
Girl from Paris" company, who Is;
asserted by niany critics to be tn"
prettiest girl ON the American stage.
today.
Instead Of having the oldest mayor in
EaiEe. Saco has one of the youngest.
after all. Mr.. Shaw. whom the first
returns elected b two votes, is 20 years
%: age, but Nj. Taplcy whom the re-
count elects b. one vote is only So.
Fifteen sticks Of dynamite. each
weighing a pound were tossed from an
electric car opposite the Topshlm
paper mills The other afternoon. Til.
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smashed and the dynamite rolled out
on the ground. In tn" car We're about
20 persons. Ii Was noticed that a man
who boarded the car at Pc jepscot car
RED a box. but no one knew what it
contained until later when he asked :,
young man to throw il of to him. 1t
vas only by q miracle that the stuff
failed to explode and thus destroy
many lives ana much property.
An engagement of general interest is
that Of Miss Christine Lernox Pencil,
daughter Of Sheriff ard Mrs. William
NJ. P~nnell, and Donald Francis Snow
Of Bangor. Miss Pencil. who has
been passing, the winter at her honl"
III Brunswick completed her course at
wheaton Seminary last June. Mr.
Snow is one ,: hangers youngest law
--crs. He WIS graduated from Bow
coin in 1901 and mas since studied law
aid been admitted to The bar.
A well known lady of Presque Isle. in
her religious ideas and proclivities an
ardent Methodist. is at the present time
an active member of he Free Baptist
choir. Just at the present time under
the Jealous ministratiOns of Pastor A.
ID. Paul. the Free Baptist folks are
having rousing old-fashioned revival
which crowds the sanctuary every Sun
day. and makes necessary pretty con-
slant use OF the baptismal font. SAT-
urday afternoon. preparatory to a bap-
tisnal service the following Sunday
the tank was filled with water. so that
it might stand and lose the icy chill
which, in these modern times il is re-
Garded as permissible to eliminate as
not an Indispensable means of grace i'm
connection with the ordinance. The
font was well filled. for the Free Ram
fist people don't believe in doing thinrc
by halves and by some oversight i'm th,
hustle prevailing in the church ut pres-
ent 1t had been left uncovered. While