Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-05-23
Maine Gossip
Tomorrow.

Tomorrow.
There's a bully time a-conin' and It's
only over there,
There's pichin' up o happiness a-l2ylh
| down o care,
| There's a chucklin' in the breezes and a
sinSin' every where, a..
And a Nalin' in the sunshine in the
morEin'.
| There's rinG-around-arosy with
dimpled hard to hold.
There are baby eyes a-lauShin luli
happiness an bold
AS can be, and yellow tresses shlnln ike
mess O gold,
And a walkin' in the sunshine in the
mornin'.
There's a place just over yondcr where
the singin' atreamlets run
III ard cut o coClin shadows tiikHh III
the yellow sun.
You'U have hardly stopped your grnmb-
lin til; your laughln' is begun.
And Il walkin' in the sunsnln" IN the
mornin'.
So cheer up il s over yonder, Just peyohd
the fartheSt hill,
There'll be calm in the moonlight ana
lie song o whiDpoorWlll,
Therell be perfumes ten times SWeeter
than a Jasmine bloom can spill,
And a wakin il the sunshine IN the
n.y. TIL Houston Post.
Fall is coming. The racing pro-
grams for The fairs are being an
nounced.
The chief feature of the visit of the
circus to BiddefOrd was the running
away of a girl who will repent at
leisure.
Nobody knows what the weather VIII
be today, but tits safe prediction that
one week from today there Will be
sudden showers in the afternoon when
all the girls are out in their white
dresses.
1t is not uncommon to shoot dogs
which are not licensed, but down in
Knox county the officers have taken to
shooting the owner who refuses to pay
the license.
When business is duh for the Lewis
ton doctors they run somebody down
with an automobile Anyway. that
is what one Of them did this week and
the scheme worked finely.
Hotel Velvet at Old orchard, which
has just changed hands again, always
big resort each summer. 1t is now in
the hands of two Portland men.
Saco lid not feel like following the
example Of Augusta in issuing bonds
for highway improvements. Perhaps
the people We're suspicious of the
proposition from the fact that both of
the Biddeford papers favored it, the
first time in dozen years that they
have agreed on anything.
The herring supply during the past
week has been large for PASSPORT and
all the big sardine factories that have
been opened recently have had all the |
fish they could handle, this being due |
to lack of help at this early part of |
the season. Many Eastporters are away, |
hut expected soon when the places will |
be filled up. In past years on the start
of the Sardine business many strangers
were here for early work and as a re- |
suit later in the season when many of |
the young residents came home for |
work they had soHe difficulty in secur- |
ing it quick, but not so this season.
One Of the forms for advertising |
Baths big celebration which will |
soon be ready for use are some large |
stckeys, about the size of a silver |
dollar, which will bear a picture of |
a ship in the center surrounded by /
the words Three Hundredth Ami |
of American Shipping. Cele-
brated at Bath, Maine, August $40, |
1907 These stickers will be printed |
in large numbers and will he diStribut- |
ed by the committee among those /
who are willing to use them on the /
backs Of envelopes which they may /
be sending out of the city.
Riggsville is alarmed over reports of |
a wild man who haunts the woods in |
that vicinity. The mans first appear
ance was about ten days ago. When
Will Atkins and Ben Stickney were |
driving through the deep cut they |
heard Il rustling in the woods and At |
kins happened to look up just in time
TO see the strangest man he had ever
seen. He was tall and gaunt, with
long, flowing hair. Atkins could not |
get a glimpse of his face The men
were urarmed. and did not think it
worth while to give chase. as the
stranger was a full eighth of mile
away when seen, and it was known
hat they would be unable to catch
him.
Run over the long list of vessels
which the Bath Iron Works has built
md consider their performances for
speed and you'll find that this Maine
Jla"t has made a record which few. if
any. in the country have equalled.
lust as long as the government paid Il