Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-01-18
Maine Gossip
Since Times Iona Aqo.

llmeS-tneS HdNc cndnSeu SOI.le SINCE
times long ago.
Weary the winter and deeper the snow.
An gone are the friends that the heart
used to know!
Times-they have changed some: On fields
an on streams
Somehow a new light that's strange to
us CLEANS:
All that is left us is beautiful dreams!
Beautiful dreams of Life's love and LIES
light:
But the morning is gone, an the shadows
in sight
Are the shadows of rest. where the bells
Frank l.. Stanton.
Wasn't yesterday just a typical late
March day?
The Rockland> merchants are talking
up Il midwinter carnival.
Ice cutting operations get 4 good
many sudden Interruptions this winter.
One Maine reporter with lots of space
To FIJI and nothing to say devotes two
columns to the repetition of Il won't
say" from the lips of Readfield girl
who has figured lot in sensational
yarns about the Hackett case.
That Maine gang of burglars-or per
haps this one halls from New Hruns-
wick-Started off 1906 in a pretty
vicious fashion down at Calais.
OF the T. deaths in the town of
Dayton in 1905 all but one were
tiatter themselves that their turn is not
coming.
The public spirited women of IIoul-
ton. led by Mrs. A. O. Putnam. have
maintained Il district nurse in that
town during the past year and the sys-
TEN has been such 4 success that it
will BE- Ontmued.
Here is 4 society note from Fort
Fairfield: Luther Bryants tom cat has
kittens. He found them somewhere a
while ago,-three of th-nl.-brought
them home, pets them ami catches
mice for them just as if they We're
own folks
A Bath man who keeps we'll posted
on the boating situation estimates that
there will be more than 80 new
launches put in commission next
spring. He says they are being built
in cellars, atticS and stables.
Lakeview plantation is little off the
girls Of whom it has Il right to be
proud. Beatrice Whitney. who is
eight. and Dorothy NJ. Cook who is
seven. have not missed q single sun
day at Sunday school in four years.
Through two mammoth SpOrtSmen'S
shows, one in New York and one in
Chicago, Maine will receive the biggest
advertising among tourists and sports
men in the next two months in her his
tory. Arrangements have been made
with w. d. Kinds. the Portland
taxidermist. to exhibit his superb stock
of specimens. trophies of the hunt and
the chase. in these two shows and the
Maine railroads will cooperate This
important announcement will he re-
garded here as of the utmost signifi-
canoe. Advertising pays and there. is
no sense in disputing the assertion.
The Maine exhibit was the best feature
at the recent show in Boston.
There are no bodies lying in the tomb
at Laurel Hill cemetery in Saco. This
tomb was built in 1875 and such n
thing has never before occurred on the
18th of January. The latest into the
winter that the tomb has previously
been empty was Jan. 5. This is one
fact that shows that SacO is at present
in very healthy condition.
Portland ranked first in apple exports
for the week ending Jan. Is. with Hall
fax second. New York third and Ros-
ton fourth. Portland shipped 2S, 4O5
barrels of apples to all ports last week,
while for the same week n year ago
her exports We're only 1.095 barrels
HalifaX last week sent 1888 barrels to
all ports. while year ago for the same
week the shipments We're only 4lS5 bar
rels. New York during the past week
forwarded 1908 barrels. while for the
same week year ago her exports We're
1891 barrels. Boston during the past
week sent to all ports 11.629 barrels of
apples. while for the same week one
year ago her exports We're 25,7S5 barrels
st. John. \. b.. forwarded last week