Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-24
maine Gossip
The Gentle Spring.

The Gentle Spring.
Urdsual freshness ladies' the air
Sunbeams temper all the wind.
The little birds fit here and there,
The crocus peeps and buds unbnd.
Hank! DagOeS hawk de vel banIn,
Hats fiowerbedeczed are now the
thing;
We pay fer them?-well. if we can
Hurrah.-a-ch-o-o: it's glorious spring.
Ah-h. up pcrchance at early dawn
The fleeing hours we hate to miss
Some, fishing gear take out of pawn,
And dream of-oh, ecstatic bliss,
Maud now appears in lOw-cut shoes
That give her ankles grace:
And open cars swell doctors dues
Bills we-a-ch-o o! must face
The period when stewed prunes appear.
When moth-balls scent the clothes,
And c'-op-destroying frostS are here
To AID to business woes.
When quinine stoops to conquer chill
And beads with headaches sing,
We Do divine by subtitle skill
A-ch 90. it's gentle spring.
The time of year when changcful skies,
A seasons vagarieS disclose.
When hucksters brawl discordant lies,
And Crgan grinders pose.
When influenza prowls the earth,
And sneeZeS punctuate
The clever throughts that we give birth
Inc Sp1InS-d-Cn-O-O. OF FiIthi
New York Commercial
Sebago as usual opens first and the
others will soon be heard from.
That s250.0OO fire at Lubec is the
worst Maine has had for many months.
No such grand shuttle at the Metho-
dist conference as used to be the case
each year.
jefferson was Incorporated in 1907
and has raised a fund of $1,000 for a
centennial celebrations
The steamer City of Augusta is OK
pected to get busy on the kcnncbcc
before the end OF the week.
The first arrivals reported at Suuir-
rel Island are a dozen fluffy chickens
in the barn of the superintendent.
few years ago a Brunswick hoy
named for Grover Cleveland was sent
to the Reform School and now a Trov
young man with the same name is ac
cused Of putting poison in his broth
er'S coffee.
They are ploughing out the drifts in
some towns to make them melt fast
and to make the roadway wide enough
for teams on wheels.
Il III hn ,,F
the Massachusetts state police. is
native of Maine though he has lived in
Massachusetts since boy and served
through the Civil War in q regiment
from that state
The loftiest cemetery in Maine is
SAID to be one in Norway, 800 feet
above the sea level. 1t dates back be-
fore 1900 and the pioneers of the region
sleep there.
A Lawrence, Mass, man has found a
new cure for that spring tired feeling.
He came down to visit friend in OK
ford, all tired out. without appetite. I'M
able to sleep and all nerves on edge
he worked hard week in his hosts
sawmill and then went home a new
man, able to sleep 10 hours a night and
hungry as bear at each meal
Boston Globe: "A college girl out in
New York is going into business this
summer as an Adirondack guide. If
the Maine girls ever follow her ex-
ample, the guides now licensed for the
Maine wilderness may have to cut
rates in order to get business"
The matter of changing the name of
South Portland to Elizabeth City,
which was the former name, a subject
which was recently preached at the
banquet at Riverton is rapidly gaining
adher2ntS on account of the manner in
which the citizens of Portland have
dealt with the people of that locality
during the last two elections in which
they turned down the matter of anneXa-
ton. The matter was referred to in
some after dinner remarks at Riverton
last Monday evening during a banquet
OF the city government, and the sug-
gestion was received with a good deal
of favor, AS there is no likelihood of
the city becoming a part Of Portland
in the near future it was urged by
Judge Reynolds in his Riverton speech
that it would be exceedingly fit to
change the name of the city, thus
avoiding confusion and preventing the
assumption that South Portland was
connected in any official way with
Portland.
Mime. Jean PommeroI has furnished
Paris the literary sensation of the season