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

gOr newspaper men threw fits, seems
to have gone into total eclipse.
/ Maine Gossip
The Man Who Rocks the Boat.
The men who rashly blow adown
The muZzle of the gun;
The men who twist the hcehaws tail,
And do il just for fun;
| The men who feign to hang themselves
| With slipknot round the throat
Are distanccd by that crazy tool,
The man who rocks the boat!
The men who Jump from off bridge
| And make Il startling splash;
The men who dance along the caves
| To show that they are rash,
The men who trick an elephant,
| Or irritate a goat
All these are distanced by that fool,
| The man who rocks the boat
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
1t is fight from now on to keel
| down the weeds in The garden.
With 123 arrests for drunkenness ir
May against GO in April the lid is evi
IDENTIFY lifting a little in Portland.
The first class to graduate from the
New Pressure Isle Normal school con-
sists of II young ladies and one young
man.
AroostoOk potato men are predicting
a crop of 10000, 600 bushels, next fall
the largest ever raised in the State.
Dump no yubish her" is the notice
in vacant lot between Washington
and Water streets in the city of Bath
Not as large as the rroverbial eggs
but as large as walnuts which is get
ting down somewhat nearer the truth
were the hailstones which fell in Carl
bOu, last week.
The handsome synagogue which the
Hebrews have built and dedicated ir
Portland shows that they are both
numerous and prosperous in that city.
According to reports from fishermen
who have returned from Springfield
Lincoln and nearby towns, the Dob.
sis" chain of lakes, reaching from
Lakeville Plantation to Princeton, arc
lust running over with big landlockct
salmon, all Of which are lying on tor
of the water and waiting for somebody
to come and catch them.
Between injunctionS and collisions
Elijah" Sanford is having hard luck
The order of the court restraining the
town treasurer of Durham from pay
ing money in support of the SandfOrC
schools is followed by the collision O
his vessels in Portland harbor.
Although May was colder than the
average, the Portland weather bureau
reminds us that the month in 1900 and
i'm 1901 both had a lover average tenn
perature than this year. The average
temperature of May for the past 80
years has been 54.2 while the average
temperature of the llontn just ended
was 80. The coolest May on record
was that of 1883 which averaged 1873.
There, are few trolley conductors IN
Maine like the one on whose car a GER
TAI, Do I, 10 CT I.
not only made no attempt to assist hel
to alight from one of the high steps, bu
when she jumped from the step am
fell heavily to the ground, sped away
while she was lying there, not know
| ing whether she had suffered any seri-
Gus injury or not. Maine conductors
have a pretty good reputation, and II
| Is too bad to spoil it in this way.
There will be something going on al
Old orchard the coming season and the
patrons of that popular resort will
have more put up to them in the lin
Of ul,-tO-date amusement than they
| have ever had before and of the kind
that will draw people to the beach ir
large numbers. 1t has been reported OF
| late many times that The hotels were
not going to do business On account OF
the enforcement law but this has beer
| fatty contradicted by hotel proprietor:
Themselves and others who are in {
position to know. The hotel men say
that the idea that has got into tn,
heads of a great many people tina
their custom and patronage is Deepen
dent upon the sale Of liquor is an en-
| tirely erroneous one and Aay furthe,
| that they would be able to draw a bet
ter class of summer boarlers if tn,
bSuch were dry and free from place!
where liquor could he obtained. thar
when the place was allowed to rur
wide open. The class of people wht
support the hotels and boarding house:
are those who come to the beach fol
the rest and quiet that they get rather
than for what they can drink.
There are u Maine girls in Vassar
Of whom four are in the graduatin.
class, this year. They are Louise +
Dutton, Ellsworth; Evelyn NJ. Lane
Westbrook. Ruth p. Smith. Portland
| and Kate p Wheeler Portland