Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-17

AS on their way they go:
IT lis fine to hear at mornin'
The voice of robineen,
But best of all to Irish eyes.
IT is grand to see the green!
Sure, here in grim New England
The spring is always slow.
An every bit o green grass
Is kilt wild frost and snow;
All, many a heart is heavy
The weather days, / ween-
But oh. the joy when springtime comes
An brings the blessed green!
New England Magazine.
The motor boat fever has struck
Calais, and its victims are numerous.
Although the season is still young.
the list of Maine drowning accidents
is already a lengthy one.
The class of 1906, Milo High school,
by a trip to the Hub. And the trip
will not be taken at the expense Of the
regular graduating exercises, which
will be held this year as usual.
1t is not alone in scholarship that
college girls from Maine excel. Miss
Barbara Hunt of Bangor, Vassar '06,
who was recently awarded a scholar
ship for advanced work in biology,
took first place in The. broad jump at
Ii feet and one-half inch and second
place in the 1O0-yard hurdles in the
Vassar athletic contests. last week.
The senior class of the Westbrook
High school has voted to present a
piece of Statuary to the school. This
is a custom which has been fol- WED
for several years, in this school. and
Il most admirable one it is. as gradual
~ things of real and permanent value
to the school are being accumulated.
For a number of years the classes of
the Cony High school in this city have
followed this custom, and now the
school is adorned by a large number
of valuable pictures and pieces of
Statuary.
Bangor News: On the whole, it may
be safe by this time for country dwell
lers TO remove the outside layers of
the house banking, but the winter I'M
| WI SUI iiitiitS ullth lit
mosquitoes arrive, while the rubber
boots should be filled with hot oats
every night as usual. The winter of
1866 has no notion of "rntting in the
sky" even if it takes all summer.
The new general manager of the
Lewiston. Brunswick & Bath street
railway has just issued an order that
will be pleasing to all classes, and
especially to Civil War veterans. Tie
order is that on Memorial Day all
soldiers of the Civil War who wear Il
Distinguishing badge will be permitted
to ride on any electric car free of ca
pense. no matter how many times they
may desire to go back and forth The
conductors have also been notified to
give these soldiers the preference of
seats and to show them every possible
courtesy.
Bar Harbor and Pressure Isle have
been doing most commendable work Of
late in the matter of tree planting and
are furnishing an example that many
Maine municipalities would do well to
Village Green, so called. line of trees
has been planted around the entire lot.
In Pressure Isle regular tree plant
ing carnival was held. Under the
auspices of the Town Improvement
Committee of the Pierian Club over 40
trees We're set out in addition to a large
number by private parties. All the
trees We're elmS, and in future years
coming generations win reap the
benefit of their stately appearance
and comfortable shade
visitor to Portland from Bermuda
suggests that there is great o,,-
portunity for a line of steamships
between Portland and that Island. He
heartily believes that il would be a
most paying investment. At the
present time there is only one steam
ship line running to Bermuda and this
line having the monopoly has taken
advantage of it to the extent that the
tourist travel to the island has fallen
off greatly, wholly on account of the
high rates charged to get there and the
equally high rates which it costs to
stop at the hotels there and which are
controlled by his company. An indie
pendent hotel with lower rates is now
being built there. II is a fact that is
not generally known but great many
residents of Bermuda spend their
summers in Portland.
Over 5000 Holsters We're received at
Portland one day this week and will be
held in pounds for the summer trade
1t is expected that by the first of June
the market will have all the Holsters
| that it can handle BY that time it is
hoped that the price of this fayorite
cruStacean will be at least within
bowling distance.
Hiram harrington. who recently
completed his seasons la ors as brown
tail moth commissioner, for Rockland
reports having destroyed about 1900
nests. which is an increase Of about
200 over last year. The work was con-
fined almost wholly to fruit trees,
which seem to be the chosen prev of
| the caterpillars. Only two nests were