Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-04
Maine Gossip

/ Maine Gossip |,
Crocuses.
Purple heads and golden heads
| Rising from the snow.
| Brave, bright little crOcuscs.
Twas good of you 10 grow.
Your cheerful faces say: "Alrs well,
| 'rhc ,Alth is soft and warm,
| These little patches left of sEow
| Arc not one bit OF harm
Soon birds will sing and bees will hum,
The skies grow fair ana blue,
| Our hearts leap up and sing for JOY
| Whene'er VIC look on YOU
| Golden heads and purple heads
Shining in the SUM-
Blessed little crocu5tS,
| Twas dear OF YOU to come
The Home Magazine.
Hear that hustling sound in tile
| houses this morning? The millinery
openings come today.
Steamer traffic between Bath AMI
Boothbay Harbor was resumed Monday
by the Island Belle.
Portland'S first boxing mill under
the new law will be pulled off next
Monday night
With Freddie Parent of Sanford oar
of the lineup. Maine fans will not fol
low the work Of the Boston Americans
with such intense interest as formerly.
"ThOmaSton has the finest lot of oil
colonial houses of any town in the
State" Gays u well known Main9 archi-
tect
Members Of the Lewiston Lodge Of
Elks say that without doubt their rev
1t is hoped 10 occupy the building 10y
another winter.
Portland Express: At this time Of
year. when YOU hear Il honk, honk. i;
is all wight to look overhead for tloci.
Of wild geese. but first look around
and soc that II isn't an automobile
stealing up on YOU.
The ScucoaSt Canning CO. has re-
Gently purchased from the iubtc Sar
line Co. ten thousand eases Of s;lrdinCs
20 ill their ORDERS. Teams have b24u
working throughout last week moving
them from storage. and it is said when
the order is filed there viii be but few
sardineS left for sale by the latter COM
rany.
The committee which went to Wash
ingson in the interests OF Maine Sar-
dine packers is able to report that the
department has no desire to impose
unnecessary hardShipS on their indus
try. and as the packing season is 50
near at hand no new regulations will
be formulated tina. would tend 20 en-
barrasS the packers. They will there
fore he permitted to go ahead with this
years pack usins; the same brands and
decorations Of cans as heretofore.
AZ Maine ports tic price OF holsters
has dropped about 10 cents per pound
during the past few days. but the
wholesalers are now paying the lobster
catcnerS 70 cents each. The highest
price paid this season and in fact. about
the highest price ever paid by the
wholesalers was - cents, which was
paid during the winter.
Even the oldest lumbcrmcn Oh the
Maine rivers cannot remember spring
when the weather has been more favor
able for the lumber industry in Maine.
The hauling to tie landings is now
practically completed. The prospects
for good driving was never better.
There is anywhere from three to five
feet of snow in tho lumber regions and
it promises D good pitch for driving
There is little frcSt in the ground, and
chances Of a frcShet are slight.
Usually the Lewiston school boar.l
takes the prize for being in hot water.
but that distinction now seems to be-
long TO the Bddeford board 1t is in Ii
deadlock over everything and when
ever it meets the local papers give it n
three or four column write-up.
The verses on The Scent of the Old
Tallow Candle" published on this page
this morning were sent to the Journal
by their author. Charles G.. Reed of
Oakland. California. Fifty years beside
the Golden Gate have not dimmed his
memory of boyhood days in Nassalboro.
ana his letter to the Journal has 50
much of local interest in it that we
lihnrlllN: from h.inA, u nj.