Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-05-16
Maine Gossip
How About it, Mr.. Weatherman?


Where is our sprinStimc weather that We
know is long past due;
That brings Il balmy freshness when the
sky is aZlI;r blue
Ah. weatht rruan, be careful how you hold
The season back;
We HAY" big stick handy to deal you
a singing whack.
d. you think you're doing Justice to the
starving poor ice man
Or that you're dealing Sluarely with the
frozen baSrpall fan?
You've knocked the peach crop gallF
west; you've made us buy mere coal /;
So now we think it's time that you dis
peeled our Sricvous dole.
Just hang that snow spout mp for good
ana turn the sun spout down,
And give us weather mild enough to
,,harc away fiown.
Now, when you get things rlgnted up anu
they are running pat,
Inst let MS know 50 wen have tine to dig
Up that straw hat.
The first modest violets are following
the last Of the mayllnWers.
In all the cities concerned it is diff
ncult to get used to calling it the
Lewiston, Augusta ANA Waterville
line"
Nobody can blame The fish for stay
ing down in the deep water where there
is less danger Of freezing.
The Lewiston elks are making prep
aration for the erection this summer OF
q handsome new clubhouse at the
corner of Ash and Middle streets.
That $4,000 fire, wiping out its chief
industry and its business section, is a
terrible blow to the good old town OF
Harrison.
The cases Of cerebro spinal mcnin-
gifts are by no means confined to
children. Among the deaths this week
are those Of an Auburn man aged "a
ana 4 Saco girl aged is.
The Maine National Guard loses q
most popular and efficient officer in the
retirement of Colonel Kendall after IS
years at the head of the 1st Maine.
There are some strong men, however,
| i'm the list of candidates for the posi-
ton.
The Joke seems to be on the West
Franklin man who sold, during his
wife'S absence, what he supposed to be
a bag of rags, but what proved to b."
bag containing his and his wlfc'S
summer underwear.
The Bath independent publishes q
list Of AZ local committees which have
been appointed to help along the plans
for the big shipping tercentennial in
early August.
Next month Uncle Sam opens the
bids for two of the largest battlcships
anoat and the Bath Iron Works will
bid on them. 1t is not likely that there
will be any question raised as to the
ability of the Bath plant getting such
craft in and out of the kennebec, as
there was when the bid for building the
Georgia was submitted.
The Dominion line is to construct
two immense ocean liners for its st.
Lawrence and Portland traffic, ac-
Cording to information received Tues
day by the Portland office of the COM
p1ny. Both of these vessels are to be
IA 900 tons burden. 1000 tons larger
than the Canada. which runs to Port
land ana which is the present queen of
the Portland trans Atlantic steamship
fleet. Both boats are to he passenger
craft of the most luxurious type and
a n ha tho finest liners NV
| ing to any American port.
The beginning of what promises to
| develop into a farming operation on an
| extensive scale, is being put in pro-
| gress by Harry +. Nickels of Cherry
| field and Jasper Wyman Of Milbridge
| The plan as outlined is to prepare for
| cultivation large tract of barren
| land located between Cherryfield and
! Reddinston. 1t is the purpose of the
promoters of the project to prepare 80
| acres for n potato crop this season,
and by the middle Of the month the
! planting machine will he putting in the
seed. As soon as planting is through
| blowing will be resumed, and cnntin-
| ued until one hundred acres is broken
! for tilling next year. The soil is
| adapted to the growing Of variety Of
crops, and an experiment will be made
| as to the one most profitable.
Among the hundreds Of prominent
M&sons from AL parts Of the state who
attended the Grand Lodge meetings