Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-03-22


And laLEhn' al! the day.
Ncvc" was Il colleen
rrid the kildare sod
Pint homeless wculd hav" Jared forth
Al homeless Larry : nod.
April Smart Set.
The late Thomas Bailey Aldrich was
a constant summer visitor to Maine
having a cottage at Tenants harDor
where he has spent the summer for
several years. The father of Mr. AID
rich was Il native of Bangor
A former Maine boy. Clifton Ham Of
Shaplcish, has become publisher and
editor of the Billings Gazette of Bill
ings, Montana.
Mrs. Dorothy Smith, who died re
Gently at Swans Island. was a real
daughter Of the Revolution, her faith
er. king David" Smith, the first per-
manent settler of Swans Island. hav-
Jig served throughout the Revolution
with a New Hampshire regiment.
Here's record for school attendance
for which the Ellsworth American
claims the State record, unless proof
to the contrary is Forthcoming. Miss
Lena Maddocks Of Bluehill, has an ex-
ceptiOnal record for school attendance
She has not been absent even half
day for SO terms; having attended
school three terms year for IL years.
A little Gardiner miss the other day
was asked how she was getting along
in reading at school. 81 am the best
reader in the class" she said. ''How
DO you know" she was asked. "Does
your teacher say so?" Don't you
suppose l can hear myself read?' was
the convincing reply.
While cleaning under a radiator in
the corridor of the Brunswick town
building Saturday. Janitor Robertson
found small flannel bag in which was
seven rings marked ii k. 1t was very
evident. however, that the rings were
imitation and probably had been hid
den under the radiator by some tramp
for safe keeping before being put in
the tramp room in the night, fearing
the officers would search him. The
officers make the tramps leave the
building Il different way than they
come in SO the tramp could not regain
possession of them. These rings are
such as are used by tramps in telling
hard luck stories. They meet a man
and tell him he needs Two or three
dollars and are willing to sell a gold
ring for that amount. They usually do
this at night SO cannot examine. and
then skip the man to find that it is
worth about ten cents.
Waltham. Mass. has a flourlshing
Sons and Daughters of Maine Associa-
ton, and Hancock county has the dis
tinction of being represented by more
members than any other county. The
ASSOCIATION has had as many as 345
members. Meetings are held MONTH
ly; they are opened with the transac-
ton of business. and then follows a
lecture and musical or literary enter
tainmcnt-sOmetimeS a combination.
Once or twice during the year an old
fashioned New England dinner is
served. The annual banquet is held
in March. and is always attended by
some prominent speakers from Maine.
Cerebro spinal meningitis is not
contagious, according to authorities
hunted up by the Biddeford Board of
Health. and the school board has been
advised to reopen the schools which
were closed on account of the preva-
lence of the terrible disease in town,
the assurance being given that the
scholars are in no danger of contract
ing the disease from assembling in the
schoolroomS which children who have