Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-15
Maine Gossip

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The Call O. the Fields.
Want to get off where the daisies are
Winds wavin' blossoms, an sweet
streams II f1owin':
Where meadow-bells ring, an the cattle
Want to get off for day!
Want TO get off. in a green world Of
PEGS huntin' honey, an doves flynn over;
Let loose my soul. with joy Of a rover
Want to get off for d day!
Want to get off where the south winds
| Over the brook where the speckled trout
Away with the sowin'! Away with the
Want to get off for day.. ,
minneapolis Tribune
Only two weeks to Memorial day
and then comes summer.
The sweet peas are coming up ana
the first white is appearing on the
| cherry trees.
Exeter is not big town but it is
planning on a Fourth of July celebra-
| tiop that will be heard all over eastern
| Maine.
AS the intercollegiate field day sports
| we're held May IL, the day was bound
| to be an unlucky one for somebody.
The Maine college baseball games
this week are as follows: Tuesday.
Bowdoin VS.. Amherst at Amherst and
Bates VS.. Fort Mckinley at Portland;
Wednesday, BowdOin VS.. Holy Cross at
Worcester. ard Colby VS.. U. of M. at
Wat erville; Saturday. Bowdoin VS..
Colby at Brunswick; and Bates VS.. L.
of NJ. at Lewiston.
A place out in Indiana named Goshen
has just named a theatre for Joe
Jefferson and claims to be the first to
do so. Evidently Goshen has never
heard of Portland which has had Il
beautiful theatre called the jefferson
since 1897.
The lecture by Pcary before the
| Bowdoin students. last week, recalls
the last previous visit of the great cx-
plorer to his Alma Mater. 1t was in
1891 at the 10Th anniversary of his
graduation and his speech at the
alumni dinner will never be forgotten
| by those who heard it. Later he and
his classmates had d jolly reunion
| around the old tombstone which they
had planted in the pine woods above
| the grave where they buried their
| sophomore mathematical books.
1t came about in an interesting way
| that a silver from the mast of Pcary's
| ship the Roosevelt is the beginning of
| Il churcl away down in Texas. Rev.
| Geo. Il. Palmer of Portland went to
| Boston, last week, to attend meeting
| of prominent MethodiStS. He took
| with him two or three chips from the
masts Of Commander Pearys Arctic
ship Roosevelt and when shown them
Bishop Mallalieu said that if he could
have one of them he would start Il
| frontier church in Texas. Bishop
| Mallalieu said that he had Il letter
| from the presiding elder of one of the
Texas districts saying that if he. the
bishop, would raise $50 to buy doors.
windows and hardware, he would build
a church. A member of the society
who was present said that he would
buy the chip from Bishop Mallalieu
and thus furnish the needed $50. which
| he did. The meeting was held in
| Bromiield Street church and the dinner
and exercises that followed were in
| Wesleyan hall. Mr.. Palmer says that
| when he took the chips with him he
had no idea that they were to be the
means of building church in Texas
| OF amy other state.
| The Portland Express discusses at
length the problem of the waste paper
upon the streets of the Forest City. 1t
says in conclusion: ut is evidently
quite useless to urge cleanliness upon
the city authorities. How would it do
| to form an association of bankers,
merchants. business men, mechanics,
| cicrgymen. professional men such as
| lawyers. physicians and teachers. adj
| hitting the ladies if they will consent
| to join with us in the new crusade.
and daily draft from the membership
OF this organization a squad of citi-
ems who shall patrol the streets and
| do the work which we have street
| department to do? 1t would be a pic
| turesque sight to see the president of
a bank. one or two of our State-tamous
surgeons, a clergyman and captain of
| industry. merchant prince and an es-
cort Of ladies. each carrying upon the
arm basket and at frequent intervals
| stopping down to gather in the sport
i've sheets of flying paper that now dis
figure street and square. 1t might
| awaken the members of the city gov