Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-04-11
Maine Gossip
An Idle Wish.


Oh, give me back the good old days;
l want the simple life,
The care free times before we knew
Bacteria were rife.
We never boiled the crystal stream
The oaken bucket drew.
And if our mud pies reeked with germs.
AT least we never knew.
But now we boil, and bake, and steam,
And disinfect and burn;
We wash and spray and shake and stir
And fume and scrape and churn.
We think it will prolong our days,
No nook or Granny shirk,
And just as every microbe fees,
We die of OverwOrk.
Only a week before the opening of
the college baseball season
Between the buying of more farms
and getting control Of town affairs.
Sanford is Shilohizing the whole of
Durham.
The mayf1Ower parties are starting
out and they have no trouble in getting
colds.
The prize baby of the season is a 17A
pound son born, last week, to Mr.. and
Mrs. Samuel Soucia Of Caribou. More
| over it is their thirteenth child. Send
| the news to Texas!
Portland is to have special election.
April "a, on the matter of abOlishing the
common council but it is not creating
the slightest interest.
| Everyone is wondering what Director
Chapmans great surprise" is, to be
given in connection with the festival in
| October. Something is said about a
large reception in Portland City Hall
at festival time when patrons will be
permitted to greet all the great artists
who will be present. On the 18th of
| April the list of artists will be given
out. Up to the present time the only
singer announced has been Madame
Eames.
| A Damariscotta bachelor has a new
and sure remedy for insomnia. A few
nights ago while tossing restlessly OH
his couch, he began to count up the
widows in the village. He enumer-
ated "a and was about 70 start on the
other minated ladies when he fell into
a sound and refreshing slumber. He
says his system beats any soporiferous
potion ever compounded.
| A short time ago one of the leading
magazines had an article on the evils
of college hazing. There were some
blood-curdling stories aud one of the
yarns, related as solemn truth, told
how a young man named Philips was
pounded across the back at Colby in
1900 so severely by his FELLOW students
that an acute kidney trouble was
| brought on from which he died. The
story is all right except in a few par
ticulars. One of thes, particulars Is
that Mr.. Phillips is still alive. Another
Is that the kidney trouble which re-
suited in his leaving college was of long
standing, as his parents stated at the
time. and was not the result of i'll treat
ment at college, as was stated in some
sensational newspaper stories which
gained circulation. The writer of the
magazine article referred to may have
meant well. but he did not know what
he was writing about
| Brunswick may be the next Maine
city. The Brunswick Record pub
fishes the text of the enabling act. from
which it appears that the town may
vote upon the acceptance Of the act any
| time within the next five years, but no
| more than one meeting for that pur-
pose may be called in any year.
Bangor News: In connection with
the new railroad line to Stockton
Springs it may be we'll enough to
observe that at last the busy village of
Frankfort is going to have ready access
to Bangor without the leople having to
cross the river and take the Bucksport
train. The line of tracks runs right
along the salt marsh under the shadow
of Mosquito mountain. 50 that passen-
gers riding along the road can look up
527 feet Of cliff and see the only raven;
nest within 40 miles of Bangor. There
are granite blocks enough in that
mountain to build wall four feet high
clear around Waldo county. More than
60 years ago a canal from the salt
water in Marsh creek was dug to the