Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-01-13
Maine Gossip

/ maine Gossip
a Sunny Day Song.
| Still YOU seek the shadows
| Still Ia trouble clinGin.
| When Winter sends u sunny day
| An sets Il bird a-S.nSin.
Still Won sit an listen
| To sorrows fearful story.
/ When morMn gives each misty hill,
] a twnklu' CROWN OF glory.
! Leave the lonesome valley
! Covered by the night:
| Climb the highway TO the stars
| Lose yourself in light.
Atlanta Constitution.
| Waterville votes today on the qucs-
ton of doors for its voting booths.
over in Orono the CongrcgationaIists
and Methodists are talking of uniting
| their churches.
Brooklin, down in Hancock county, is
the latest town to report u brown-tail
| mo.h invasion.
That Compound man-cating shark
should have postponed his visit to
Casco bay until the opening of the
summer season.
Having purchased five large snow
! rollers, GOrllam is anxious for an old
| trial
1t is Il pretty good record that out of
| 1.72JJ3'3333 passengers carried by the
Maine railroads LIST year. not one was
killed.
1t is - source of great qualification to
| Mars Hill, Hiaiuc, I;ridGcW;,t"r, Month
cello aad Iittlcton to feel that they
| are soon to have electric lights in
homes and business places. And
Washburn pcnplt, begin t" b" assured
that they will he connected with
Pressure Isle by IN electric railroad. the
first in Aroost"ok county. 1t is under
| stood onc-half of the amount to he
raised in the county has been raised in
a short time.
Surry feels a little ohaGriHcd because
some of her beautiful views like Con-
tcntiou cove and NcWbury Neck have
been put on Ellsworth postcards But
Surry can furnish many more pretty
views for Ellsworth. and then have a
plenty for the Surry cards when they
arc issued.
Deer Isle is becoming recnncilcd to
| he handing down of the Robbins muir
der as another of Names unsolvcd
last week says: 1T is now Il year
since Bill Robbins met an untimcly
death in his lonely home at Mountain
vile at the hands of a brutal and I'M
known assassin. 1t would seem that
the officers have done every reasonable
| thing 10 bring the guilty one to punish
mcnt. and that their efforts have not
been more successful is regretted by
none more than by the people of. Deer
Isle. The murderer. thus far. goes free
and unmoiested. except by the prick
| ings which must occasionally disturb
MS guilty conscience. Though we re-
| greet that the criminal has not been
ferreted out and made to suffer the
penalty of his act. none wish to see.
by any possible perversion of evidence.
an innocent man implicated in the
affair. Yea. it is indeed better that a
nOcent man suffer"
referring TO the fact that the Belfast
Republican Journal has just passed its
seventy-seventh milestone. the Gardi-
ner Reporter-Journal says: The
weekly Reporter-Journal does not
claim to be in the same class. but it
might be mentioned that it commenced
ITS ODD year with the first of January.
also that the man who printed the first
copy of it is still living in Gardiner :
The Reporter-Journal is an offspring of
which any printer might be proud. and
Mr.. Morrell who printed the first copv
is to be congratulated.
Fl. W. Coffin Of Addison. the cham
pion hoat-builder of Maine has COM
pieted the record of 322 boats since 1880.
The year 1905 was a very busy season.
more so than ever before. each wear
bringing more orders. new customers.
and a larger circulation. 1t now takes
IN most Of the cost line from Nova
Scotia to the Gulf Of Mexico. The diff
f@rent States whore they are sold out
side Of the State Of Maine are Masea-
chusetts. Connecticut. New York. New
Jersey. Georgia. Alabama and Texas.
also Nova Scotia, St George, Bermuda