Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-03

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/ Maine Gossip
Fisherman's Luck.
Ground is full of danger.
| Am mite of doubt;
| faithluake comes an gtS you
| FL you don't watch out.
Sea IS mighty risky.
| ihouSh YOUR boat Is stout,
| bis wave comes to git yoti
FL Soa don't watch out.
Air is lull of trouble
LOOK what you're ABOUT.
Cloud rs bound to sit y"li
IL You don't watch out.
Thank he Lord for fshin!
Anslln after trout.
Nnthn ever happens
IL you uont watch out
New York sun.
Brewer Republicans lead of today
''''' 49, 100 ''''' 800
The clubs ar. rapidly closing up
| their years work. II has been a busy
and prntitabl" season for the mai"rity.
On next Sunday waldo county Old
est resident, Eli Cook. of East Belfast.
will celebrate The l02d anniversary of
his birth.
Forty-One divorces granted ana five
denied is the record Of The recent term
of the Cumberland supreme court.
The announcement of the Watcrvill"
Trust Company that it will build Il
$50, 600 business block i'm Dexter this
year, is Il most welcome ON" 10 III"
residents of that town.
The clerks of Biddeford have formed
an organization whose object will be
to secure for them every night in the
week except Saturday and Il half holl-
day Wednesday afternoons during the
summer There has been q tendency
among Biddeford merchants Of late tu
keep their stores open several evenings
in the week. ana il is principally 10
combat this thar the organization has
been formed.
The first of the special local COM
mittees appointed by the Maine branch
of the National Red Cross Society tn
collect clothing. etc, for the san
Francisco sufferers to complete lis
work is that of BiddefOrd ana SaCO.
| This committee secured sufficient do
nations of clothing, bedding, etc, tn
| fill IA sugar barrels which have been
packed and shipped by American ex-
press to san Francisco.
The Massachusetts Alumni ASScia =
ton of the Gorham Normal school held
| n largely attended reunion at Boston,
last week one of the feathers of the
Evenings exercises was Il mock grad
| uation. including class parts. proph-
| ecy. history, poem. etc. a diploma. 81
called. was presented to each graduate.
When the blue ribbon was united and
the diploma unrntlrd, il was found III
be n picture of Hna. ". J. corthell. for
| 50 many years the honored principal
! Of t.orham Nora.ai se.uol
Some one who thinks he is a joker
will. if caught. be rather severely rhas-
tiscd by certain conductor on the
WcStbrOok division of the Portland
street railway. 1t seems that twice
during the past week this unknown
has dropped AN egg in the conductor :
side pocket The croWdimg Of paSSen
gers soon did the rest, and when this
collector Of nickelS reached for change
his remarks may be imagined. There
| will be- Il railroad tragedy if he OF the
| transfers ever finds the guilty party.
| Just at present the laugh seems To
be. ON Lewiston all right. For some
weeks there has been a rushing husi-
ness done there i'm the securing of
broWntail moth nests, and as 4 re-
suit the city has probably paid ont
several hundred dollars To nest hunt
lcrs. Recently some one teephoned
| Mayor Webster and asked him if he
We're positive that the city WAS buying
Ibrnwntaii moth nests. Til" mayor did
mot pretend to be an authority in the
matter So called in the city Oficia Is
who have received the nests only tC
find that they too We're not positive
| The services Of an expert We're thci
secured and he examined the nests
fresh heaps of which had just beer
brought i'll. and pronounced them to he
| those of the army caterpillar. not one
being Of tn. dreaded broWntail variety
| For III" present n least all moth nest
hunting expeditions in the %pindl,
jCity have been called off.
| 1t is said that in many ways the ap-
Iproaching wedding of Miss Caroline
| Frye Briggs. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Frank III. Briggs of Auburn, and Gar
ret a. Hobart. son of the late Vice
President Hobart of Paterson, y. j.
which is To take place June 6 gives
promise of being the most elaborate
Lewiston or Auburn has seen in II long
time. 1t is expected that the cerc-