The Republican journal., 1906-04-12
OVER TO "ORGUSTY."

.. friday morning the writer boarded
3D.. 80 train for Augusta 1t was raining
.t.-ard and the landscape with its fire.
.-.tIatches of snow had the m0ttled APP
........r of CASTLE soap. The ice in the
..,.. 4ssawaukeag was breaking up and
5-.4 was quite a jam of the floating cakes
. he upper bridge. The streams
s-.- ae8. 5 freed from their icy fetters, and
.a .,l be long before Messrs. Colburn,
.,- NTH, and other ardent fishermen,
. To- ttiuging in strings of Speckled
-., rom haunts known only to them
.-F.- " hen the train reached Brooks it
s, lowing fast, and the ground was
hen the train backed into the Burn
-r ttOn. Hart's new hotel looms up
4sS the track, haven of rest to the
e-- Iveller who arrives at Burnham
-t- .uall hours of the morning, or who
-., 7ng wait at this junction. April
,-tt. : proverbially capricious and be-
.-- noon it began to clear and in the after
q sun shown brightly.
0a ghjective point in Augusta was the
r, ilouse, where the annual meeting of
n, N1 ne Weekly Publishers Association
va, 81, ne held. Here we had the pleasure
r na-ung Holman F. Day, and it was
worm he trip to hear one of his stories,
.l,a als inimitable way. AS the meeting
s.,. r., in the afternoon there was time
+- -, calls, and at the Office of the New
4.- Na10T PlaiSted was found in consulta-
. , the new chief of the fire depart
u-r.4ud it was evident that the "new
. vas, or soon would be, in active
0-u His Honor is naturally feeling
,- his election and has taken up the
-4, the office with characteristic en-
r.,a-W The city clerks Office, now held
!. .. "loe" Williamson, is in the same
a.. wing merely been transferred from
f. f TO the senior member of the law
En- IS lliamson K Burlegh.
late House the Assistant Secre-
a- tate. Arthur l, Brown of this city,
g, at his desk, and a usual up to
- ior visitors from Waldo county.
i. Mrs. Brown are very pleasantly
,..- near the capitol, but Mrs. Brown
IS uow recovering from a severe i'll
a-. ten weeks duration, making her
o.. nJure out of doors last week She is
EH ing rapidly and expects to return
me i'll this city about the first of
ard some talk about spelling
4H lch had taken place the evening
ut did not know that it had local
.-- Until we read this item in the Bos-
.
,- Williamson and Mrs F. l.. Web
4 u-ied all the other contestants at
~ - match at the Congregational
|Am thursday evening, and were given
i' so books by Maine authors.
If topic of conversation every
the Cooper trial. People have
/ H miles around to attend it and
\ room has been crowded daily.
mas been too wearied with the
~ it in the newspapers to care to
o0urt room. 1t is said that this
-oSt Kennebec county $4,000 to
one of the strange features is
Lax 3unty is to pay Mrs. Cooper's
me theory in circulation is that
did the shooting; but the gen.
r. usus of opinion is that Mrs. Coop
nifty one, but that she will be
-.... there will be disagreement of
The matter of admitting Mrs.
ar 'ti, leaving her free to go and
u- pleasure while witnesses are
Il also the subject of comment
usiness meeting of the Maine
r. Iblishers' Association in the
Ulcers were elected for the ell
Frederick W. Plaisted of Au-
-sdent, and in the evening the
-."O the Association were entertain
II MAYOR Plaisted.