Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-01
Maine Gossip
The Happy Banks.

The Happy Banks.
You are in the happy ranks
What more are you wishn
If you're on the river banks
Fishin'-just fShin?
Just a green half-mile from town.
Where the trees are swishin'.
An the cork a-Soin down.
Joy of fishin'-fishin.
Far from any worldly strife
Not for fortune wiSEin',
Give us only time in life
Just for fshin':
Atlanta Constitution.
June gives early evidence of being
more like June than May was like May
Aroostook has a most hearty welcome
for Governor Cobb and the executive
party.
1t is still winter on Katahdin and
from a distance the great mountain
seems to be covered with ice and snow.
That was a unique and pretty service
at Bangor Wednesday when flowers
were scattered on the waters of the
Northern Maine has had cold spring
but there has been less rain than in the
lower part of the State and the potato
fieds are pretty we'll planted.
They celebrate June day" down in
PASSPORT. whatever that may be- Judg-
about as noisy as the Fourth with the
June horn" as prominent feature.
S. p. Morrill,, weather prophet, makes
the following predictions for storms
during June: Hot and sultry weather
may be expected this month. From the
list to the Sd heavy local showers
From the 4th to the Sth cold. damp and
foggy weather. From the 9th to the
18th heavy local thunder showers
From the 14th to the 18th pleasant
! weather with rising temperature.
From the 18th to the 22nd heavy local
thunder showers. From the 23d
to the 26th cloudy. windy and
changeable weather From the
9th to the goth heavy local rains. The
temperature will be above normal while
the rainfall will he about normal.
Productions of two Maine authors
| grace the pages of the current number
| of the Atlantic Monthly. They are a
s. WATSON of Kittery. author of "The
Green Shay" and charming essay.
| PHILOSOPHY and Tramps." by Mrs.
Martha Baker Dunn of Watervile. au-
thor Of that delightful book Of essays.
Cicero in Maine"
Another distinguished divine will
| make Hancock county his home the
coming summer. DR.. Hills Of Henry
Ward Beecher's old church in Brook
| Ign. N Y, has rented a cottage at
Castine.
Mrs. Margery Daggett of Gushing has
a biddie which rather goes ahead of
| most bddies in the line of producing
| eggs Not long ago Mrs. Dageett
found a large egg which she supposed
was double yolked egg. but upon
breaking the shell discovered it con-
tanned threk perfectly formed yolks.
Who can beat this?
An Eastport correspondent writes
that fish. particularly pollock. are be-
ing taken in large numbers from the
bay there by local fishermen, and in
fact by many novices who find the
work very fascinating as we'll as
! profitable. Even the children between
school hours earn not a little of their
spending money catching good sized
fish along the wharves. which are
readily sold, the larger at the markets
and the smaller to private families
From present appearances dry fish will
not be so scarce and high the coming
. fall as they were last.
Wild Strawberries owing to tbs
, darapness of the season. are said to give
promise of an abundant eron this 500
son. Let usxhope it may prove :
fact Tor in the estimation of most peo.
i pie no berry that grows is more deli