Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-06-02

Bonaparte is given a place in the cabi-
net when Secretary Morton resigns.
/ Maine Gossip
Among the Birds.
The robin is mcrrily singing:
The whippoorwill sobs in the night;
The catbird it's call is repeating.
| And the OriOlc trills in delight
But there's one who is seeking the silence.
| Who Graves the reposc of its nest.
| The good old American Eagle,
| lie getting Il much-nCeded rest.
No more with long. resonant phrases
| Is the congressman testing his throat;
No more. in rhetorical pauses.
| Does he pose in his Prince Albert coat.
| The platitudc now has subsidized.
| And We feel it is all for the best,
That the good old American Eagle
| Is taking il muchneedcd rest.
Washington Star.
| There was marked Cooiness between
May ard June when they met
| It is about time 70 be hearing from
some Maine man who was with Togo in
the big fight.
| The Maine-built yacht. the Fleur dc
I.vs. finished seventh among the II
Yachts i'm the transatlantic race.
The Trolley league season will open,
June "A. and the schedule shows that 40
games will be played.
! This is Ivy day at i;owdoin. the OBJ
servance of a custom celebrated by the
Junior class there FOR Owe: 40 years and
since copied at many other colleges.
a large moose vlsitcl Columbia Falls.
this week. and after lcsurely inspcc-
ten of the village slowly trottcd off into
| the woods.
A freak dandclion blossom has been
| found by Marion Seas of Gardiner. 1t
consists of five distinct blossoms, al
grown on one stem, and it is quite a
| curiosity.
| Sanford Richie of Dover, who is Il
Jealous student of bird and plant life.
is taking notes on bird life for the Gov
eminent Department of Biology. He
has noted about - species of birds and
hopes to get hundred.
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| Cony High boys cannot settle their diff
| fcrences ard meet on the diamond, this
spring. The augusta boys have won II
| games without losing any. and the
| record of the Gardiner nine is almost
as good.
| The Waterv;lle writer's Who had it all
doped out that Colby had sure thing
on the Maine College championship are
| realizing the uncert1i;lty of baseball
| prophecies. Colby has two games to
| play with Bates and il it wins both of
| them it can only be tied for first place
| with the winner of the Rowdon-U. of
NJ. game at Brunswick today.
! Although the town of Bclgade had
about 40 soldiers in the Civil War and
many survivors of the war have since
| lived there. the town has never had d
6. A. K. post and until this year there
| was never formal or general observ-
ance of Memorial day. This year ].
| G. HeWett. a public spirited and encr-
Eetic citizen who is superintendent of
| schools and the lecturer of Belgrade
Grange. took up tn" matter, and as Il
result most successful exercises We're
| held at the cemetery in the afternoon
| and at the Grange hall in the evening.
| The graves Of all soldiers We're decor
| atcd and similar ceremonies are assure |
| for future Memorial days. Mr.. Hewctt
| deserves much credit for the manner
| i'm which the exercises of the afternoon
and evening were carried out under mis-
| direction.
| Mrs. A. G. Bryant was driving
| through North PittSton from Livcrmore
tn E.lgcconb this week she walked ur
| '"Togus Hill" 50 called and picked from
| a bunch or two of clover. 81 four. five
| and six leaved clovnrs. Six of them
| were Of the six lcavnd ,aricty, some
| thing found very rarely in this section
| Of the State.
| Waterford lost an old landmark the
Nthcr day. when fire destroyed tho
house of John Mason. a fine old resi-
dcnca built in 1890. In this house the
| first minister of the town lived. Rev.
Lincoln Ripley. and his ordination car2-
monies in 11"S took plI," upon a huge
boulder which occupies Il prominent
place in the doOryarl.
a prominent Lewiston physician was
| recently called to attend a young man
" no was a visitor in that city and who
was suffering With pneumonia. Night
and day h. attended tn. case and in
| all made some eighteen or twenty
visits. The patient was saved. When
| the last official visit was made the
mother Of the young man thanked the
| doctor and expressed great gratitude
| for his kindness in attending patient
who had no money. The doctor says