Daily Kennebec journal., 1906-03-26

On the open page beneath me just d leap
ing bar of gold. "a.
You may all poke fun at pipe dreams.' -
But thank God for those of mine.
Dreams that take me for IA moment out
beneath the birch and pine:
Out to where the brook is calling as
hope twill always do;
please come out into the woodland there
is pleasure here for you.
John Cone.
Only week to the April showers-or
blizzards. Forward, March!
Considering that the first day Of
April will fall on Sunday, the clergy
men will probably be thinking Of few
jokes this week for use in their next
Sundays sermon.
The State of Maine Club in Boston
issues all appeal for Maine authors to
send it copies of their books. If you
are not an author, send books just the
same FOR the library shelves arc bare.
Frankfort feels sure that it is in for
boom as lot of building is prom
iSeQ LOT Iuc ScdSOll.
Andrew Carnegie has come to the
rescue of the Rockland Methodists and
will give them $3.50 for a new church
organ, provided, etc, etc.
Turner is to have a new hotel, and
as the village has been without such an
institution since the memorable fire
there is much rejoicing. II
Horrfied and gibbering ghosts of the
good worsEippers of earlier days must
haunt that old Methodist church in
Ellsworth which has been transformed
INTO a roller skating rink.
Over in Southwest Harbor it is case
Of summer boarders or glue factory.
One or the other must so. Southwest
HarbOr must decide; for glue smells
into the heavenly nostrils of the sum-
mer guest and makes him i'll. There
are five hotels and thirty cottages in
Southwest Harbor. They pay the town
over $4,000 a season--cold cash. The
glue factory is a good industry and is
established in good faith. The conun-
drum is hard to solve. Which will
leave? On general principles. We
should say that the glue would stick.
One of the important subjects to be
considered at todays annual town
meeting in Presque Isle will be con-
cerning Carnegie library. Hon. T. Fl.
Phair makes a very generous Offer in
furtnerance of the project to secure Il
library, providing the town favorably
considers the question. in the gift of
$1,000 toward the purchase Of desirable
lot and the establishment of the Ii
brary.
DR.. J. l.. Forticr of Watcrvillc has
the French Canadians in the diocese
Of Portland. which is all Maine. The
first French Canadian parish founded
in Maine was at Van Buren, i'm 1893 and
Frenchville in 1S40. After that forty
years passed until the French Cana
dianS began to come to Lewiston and
Auburn. where the church was founded
dian parishes in So cities. towns and
villages. Supplying these are So priests
"f whom 33 are Canadians, "a are Irish.
four are French. one a Hollandcr. and
one Belgian. At the time of the
founding of these parishes. there We're
1922 parishioners. 81 parochiaI schools,
S.4O0 scholars. 14S nuns: II schools, COL
lcgcs and hospitals: with property be-
longing to the parishes to the value of
$1.2S5E00. The biggest parish is at
Lewiston and Auburn. where the cen-
sus shows total French Canadian
population Of 1851. Biddeford and
Saco come next with 11,1OO, and Water
vile follows with $500.
Biddeford Journal: Some Of the
nt wspaper illustrations used in con-
ntction with the two murder trials now
ir' progress in Maine suggest that some
of the lawyers and court officials
would be in danger Of being mistaken
for the alleged criminals were it not for
the explanatory text in connection with
the cuts.
1he papers frequently have stories nT
Totes found in barrels Of apples. III
casts OF eggs. inside of dressed tur-
keys and on articles shipped from fac.