Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-21

/ heard a robin singing,
When the. skies were dark above;
And from the song a lesson learned
OF hope. anC trust. and love.
It spoke to me of patience.
Of a spring our hearts shall knew.
Whcre snow of winter falleth not
And cold winds never blow.
Westminster Gazette.
Spring, the almanac kind at least, ar
rives today.
They are talking of forming a grange
at Kennebunkport
Portland is going to have ali old
fashioned town meeting to discuss the
city hall problem.
In the warrant for the Dexter town
meeting to be held Monday, there are
20 articles.
Tile family of Joseph Warren. Rock
land. are enjoying dandelon green's
from their own yard To persons vino
may be skeptical of this item it should
be said that the green's were dug where
an underground pipe kept the ground
warm and free from snow.
There are fGur generations living at
the home of r. E. Newman, at Seawall.
Ms. Kent and her infant son, Mrs. r.
r. Newman. grandmother and Mrs.
Samuel Moore. great grandmother
AIRS. Moore, the grandmother, is
only IS years old
The animals about Ellsworth, which
seem to be more plentiful this year
than ever before, are getting curious
and tame. An Ellsworth girl, on
walk one day through cross road.
short distance from the house, met on
the way moose and deer, and saw
a fox and several rabbits passing leiS-
urely along. The pet dog. Dana, of the
same house. is on friendly terms with
a rabbit, which he meets at the spring
each morning. He accompanies him
home io1 dainties that are left at the
door for Dana's friend by his mistress.
The great question that will come up
before town meeting at Caribou next
Monday is whether or not they shall
have a new $4,000 High school build
ing. This is a question that has been
argued for more than two years and
the people who are in favor of building
one are trying to convince the others
the necessity of new building. The
town has already bought lot on High
street, thinking that this year they
could erect an up-to-date High school
building, one that W ould accommodate
all and be an honor and credit to the
town.
Work Transcript: Now that John
kendrick Bangs has presented some
very good ideas in the New York Herald
eXtolling the merits Of the York coast
in Maine as an ideal place for summer
residence we would be pleased to hear
from Thomas Nelson Page, Finley
Peter Dunn, and other noted authors
who spend their summers in York. Will
liam Dean Howells has on several oc-
casons written very delightfully."- his
impressions of this beautiful locality,
and certainly too much cannot be said
IN its behalf. Besides we are too prac
teal not to appreciate the eXtraordi-
nary value of such advertising.
F. +. Rowland of Topsham brought
to the Brunswick Record Office this
week what might be called n stone
potato. 1t was found by Mr.. Rowland
in the Purinton field on the Meadow
road. The stone is shaped like a small
potato, and resembles a variety CON-
mon in Topsham about 50 years ago
called the "Chenango.' or ''Philadel-
phia' potato. The shape is perfect, the
indentations for the eyes and where
the stem would be attached are well de-
fined. and when found. about three
fourths of the surface was covered by
a thin broWnish integument Very
muCn like the skin of potato. In those
places where the integument has been
removed the stone shows white just
like a potato. Mr.. Howland's theory is,
that by some peculiar and uneNplain-
able process OF nature a potato has
turned to stone in 80 years. Scientists
may dispute this theory on the ground
that the conditions were not right for
petritlcation and that fifty years would
be too short d period in which to pro-
duce such a change. 1t may be In
tercsting to some to know that this
ter of d mile of Mt. Ararat. No one
need imagine. however, that Uncle
Noah lost this potato from his store of
provisions III the Ark.