Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-28
Of the states whose sons fought and
died beneath them.

maine Gossip
A Fish Story.
De Catfish cry.
En- de Sturgeon say:
Wander is fishin' man
Comm dis way!
= "En he'll try fer ter git you I"
En- neil tell de folks & ~
4sYou wuz six-foot nine" q
Den de Catfish say:
Les swim up higher
We don't want to 'sociate
Atlanta Constitution.
The rain Of spring is ending the reign
of winter.
Have you registered guess on the
date that the ice will go out?
Don't delay the campaign after the
brown tails. Examine your shade and
orchard trees.
The Sturgis bill continues to be the
most discussed topic in Maine. except
perhaps the weather.
This is the happy season when each
of the college mines has no difficulty in
winning the State championship.
The second Rhodes scholar from
Massachusetts is Maine boy being
the son of Rev. Roland p. Hack, form
erly of Portland and now of Waterville
The young man is senior at Williams
College.
The town of Eliot put its appropri-
alton for fighting the brown-tail moth
into the hands of the local Grange and
no doubt it will be we'll expended.
"A Mouse for Monarch is the title
OF continued story by Holman F.
Day in the Success for April. 1t is a
legislative story in which woman's suf-
frage is involved and the opening chap
tiers give evidence that it will be one
of Mr.. Days brightest efforts.
The Maine girls ara beginning to
come home from their winters work in
the Massachusetts, straw shops. 1t is
caid i'm MoScaobucattc that twotb;rd,
of the workers in the straw hat fac
tories are from Maine.
1t appears that r. e. Grover of
BrocktCn the owner of the Inflated
shoe factory which was destroyed, last
week. with the loss of many lives, is a
former Maine man. He is native OF
WestbrOOk and served in the 18th
Maine.
Things are coming the way Of the
Popham girls. certainly-nOt only two
batteries of brass buttons but a sum-
mer school for boys.
In connection with the announcement
that lot of Uncle Sans soldiers will
be stationed at Popham, POpham girl
writes to the Bath Times to express
the hope that they will be a better
looking crowd than the Maine soldier
boys who were stationed there in the
summer of 1898
The story that Peary's new ship was
chrstened with water is labeled as Il
base fabrication by the Bangor News.
The News goes on to say that the
christening was with 4 magnum Of
genuine Meet and ChardOn white label
champagne. handsomely decorated and
beribboned. presented by the Peary
Arctic Club Of New York. 1t was en-
cased in a block Of ice and so ar
ranged by swinging lines. that ice and.
bottle were smashed against the bow
by Mrs. Peary when the vessel started
down the ways
An Oxford county man is making
snowshoes for the Peary expedition.
with his name stamped on the wood
work. The Portland Press pictures
the surprise the walruses and the
polar bears some time, as they cavort
hpout VIC Dulc, anu ste d. ulSCdrQe0
snOwshoe sticking UP in a drift and
marked "a. NJ. Durham, Norway,
Name
The best thing that could come to
Maine in the way Of weather conditions
has been given us during the past
three weeks. There has been no furi-
Gus rains t. create floods for the carry
ing away of bridges. The sun has
worked nearly every day. Gradually
and with sureness the drifts have
shrunken and turned to water. Night
and day the brooks and rivulets have
been carrying the surface water to the
sea. The frost is still holding the land
under lock and key. but fully so per
cent. Of the water that was on top of
the landscape on March 1 has run off.
so that If big rain should arrive now
it could do small harm.
Bangor News: Commander Peary
has the first elements of success
stamped upon him in his easy man.