Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-04-30
Maine Gossip
A Welcome Visitor.

A Welcome Visitor.
Up there | see HMM the old mulberry
Last summers mockin'brd-he's sinGin
right at me-
l think / hear him safin'. "Oh, the spring
is goln' 10 Gr!
Don't you see the sunshine on the
meadowS?'
Up there l see him-hes lookin at his
hest:
Bright eyes takin' in the world from
rosy east TO west:
Pretty soon you'll see him with the
blossoms at his breast.
When springtime is sweet along the
meadows,
Atlanta Constitution
He carries the same expansive smile
ana the same far-reaching voice.
You ought TO be able to do little
business in that garden this week.
Friday, May 10. will be Arbor day 50
make your plans accordingly.
Next Thursday evening Bath will
take the first steps in organizing a city
hospital association.
Trinity college, Connecticut is trying
to lure away Prof. Ham who has been
connected with Bowdoin department Of
German for the past six years
booming times ahead for Vinalhayen
and Hurricane Isle with 300 men to be
busy nine months getting OUT granite on
RnStnI,
TO close or not to close the Huuor
agency is the big problem before the
Portland city fathers. and they are
scheduled To reach a decision May s.
Bath has The promise of lot of war
ships to help ou1 1h.. shipbuilding fer
centennial celebration during the weel,
Of August :. Also clambakes. Darad,s
receptions, rrgat1as, races. music, fire
works and other attractions TOO numcr-
Gus 10 mention.
The Portland correspondent of a Pos
ton paper asserts that the new Cum
bcrland county courthouse Will surely
'cSt fl,bcu,bUD before READY Tor Uccll-
pancy. The original estimates We're
$50o,O00. This suggests various thoughts
as 70 tie estimates given out in Port
land during the winter regarding the
cost of new public buildings.
The REMEMBERING of the houses in
Biddeford has led TO some queer shifts
There is one house. occupied by Henry
II. Cove. which has had four different
numbers and been assigned to three.
different streets, all within a period of
two months. 1t is located in the sharp
angle at the junction of Alfred and
what was formerly Everett street
Originally its designa ton was 1871 Al
fred street. When the change i'm the
numbering system came the figures on
the front of this dwelling We're changed
to 3i5. A little later the committee in
charge Of the REMEMBERING decided that
the house was really on Everett street.
and they changed its designation to /
Everett street. The next shift came
wnen Everett street and the extension
of Graham street We're combined and
the name Everett was effaced from the
city map. That gave the Cove house
its present and probably permanent.
number-139 Graham street.
Writes the Greenwood correspondent
of the oxford Democrat: The sap sea
son is now practically ended. and while
some report it is hardly up to the aver
age there has been no such a run here
III this small corner since the spring of
1894. The last week in February Of
that year was cold and windy enough
to do justice to northern Siberia; and
why the time is remembered 50 dis
tinctlY is the fact that our mOther-in-
law, the then Mrs. Tabitha Coffin. died
and ncr remains were conveyed to Ma
son. and during the same week Dr.
Lapham died and was buried at
Bryant's Pond. About the first of
March it changed to first class sap
weather and SO continued for two or
three weeks, and some who tapped eX-
tersivelv lost hundreds of gallons, ex-
pectinC no such a run and therefore
lacked the facilities for saving it, and
We have heard of some who have met
with a similar loss this spring from the
same cause. SO much then for the
sap season as il has been here and not
somewhere else.