Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-30

/ Maine Gossip |
Mister BIuebird.
Here come Mister Bluebird.
Sunshine on his breaS':
His song is mighty little.
But he always sing his beS
| He up dar on de wire
A-chirpin bout de May.
''rhankful fer de sunshine,
Is de very word he say.
Whar' he been. l wonder.
Wen snow wuZ comm down?
HoWdy, Mister Bluebirl.-
Atlanta Constitution.
The rivers are rising as leisurely as
the small boy in the morning.
The Bangor city governments dead
lock causes almost as much talk over
east as the drouth.
In an unusually large number of
towns there have been attempts to es-
tablish liquor agencies, this spring. but
in most of them the voters have turned
down the proposition.
| South Paris will be the third Maine
municipality to own it's lighting plant.
Lewiston and Madison having led the
way.
| A Saco young man. Benjamin Ben
son, who escaped unhurt from the
wrecked Brockton shoe factory, had
previously been through three railroad
wrecks, and is convinced that he was
born to die natural death.
| Houlton is making quiet but ener
getic effort to have the Bangor &
| AroostoOk repair shops removed to
that town from Old Town.
1t is doubtful if any Maine man has
clerk than Granville Stevens of Port
land who has just been elected clerk
of All Souls Universalist parish for
the 47th year.
If the small boys would hunt brown
tail moth nests half as industriously
as they will hunt in the mud for a lost
marble. there would be nothing to fear
from the pest.
That Orrington story Of restitution,
misery and starvation rivals anything
that comes. from the slums of the great
cities.
The first white family in Mars Hill
moved into that town, March %. 1916.
and J. D. Snow, who was a five-year-
old boy in that family, still lives on
the old place which his father cleared
and which is one of the best farms in
that section.
In the old times the Portland city
poor farm was place of extended and
varied industry. In looking over the
old records it is found that in 1S4S
there were manufactured on the farm
100000 bricks, and the produce raised
was as follows: 100 tons hay, tons
straw, 40 bushels barley and rye, 800
bushels potatoes, 100 bushels beets,
500 bushels turnips, IS bushels car
rots. 1881 lbs. pork, 400 lbs. beef, 81
shoats. 60 ducks. IS pigs, sold. In ad-
ditiOn to the labor performed on the
farm the inmates of the almshouse
performed labor on the streets, &C.,
with the assistance of cattle, to the
value of $2,363.O3
The Maine building which was so
attractive and so popular during the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition, at ST
Louis last summer, has now been sold
to st. Louis parties and is to become
the property of a private hunting club
and be moved 40 miles south of the
city into the Ozark mountains on the
White river. The men who bought the
building for the club are d. r. Fran
els president of the exposition
Adolph Busch, the celebrated beer
manufacturer and c. H. Nuttig, all of
st. Louis. The price paid for the
building was $4,000 and this money
has already been paid over to the
State. The deal was made through
the Maine st. Louis fair commission
ers. and the disposal of the building
has not previously been made public.
The State of Maine building will he
moved very soon to its new location.
There are to be 81 sleeping rooms ar
ranged In 1t and a large cook room