Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-05-21


While the birds We're singing
Summer times refrain.
Bubble, bubble, bubble
Everywhere we burst.
We'd have gone to glory
Had our bubble burst.
Birmingham Age-Herald.
The Portland papers are publishing
pictures showing the overcrowded con-
ditions Of the public schools of that
city.
Bowdoinham and Phippsburg are
two Sagadahoc county towns which
report lower tax rate this year than
usual. No doubt this will be very
satisfactory to the people OF those
towns
One of the few apricot trees in
Maine is that in the garden of Mrs.
Nellie B .Scruton Of Lewiston. and
just at present it is like one big
beautiful bouquet OF pinks. The tree
was set out ten years ago and has
grown to a height OF about twenty
feet. 1t has blossomed every season
for five years but never have the
blossoms been as beautiful as this
spring. 1t has borne little fruit and,
unless all signs fail, the crop this year
will be worth while.
improvements on the government
900 dollars will place the building as
an extra attraction of the city. 1t is
understood that this expenditure is to
be used for changes in the main cor
ridor and for grading. 1t is proposed
to do away with the concrete front
yard and doorway and have there
instead an attractive lawn. Such a
change will improve the general APP
pearance OF the federal building great
".
Next Saturday it will be the turn of
the preparatory school athletes to
struggle on field and track for medals
and glory The following schools will
be represented on Whittier field,
Brunswick: Abbot school, Bangor
High school, Bar Harbor High school
Biddetord High school, Deering High
school, Edward Little High school,
Hallowell High school, Hebron Acad-
envy, kent's Hill Seminary, Lewiston
High school, Maine Central Institute
Oak Grove Seminary, Old Town High
school, Portland High school, West
brook Seminary, Yarmouth Academy
and Yarmouth High school.
A dashing Bath widow prepared 4
pleasant surprise for her sutton a few
evenings since. Expecting call
from him, she hid herself in a con-
venient corner of the dark hall, and
as he touched the knob of the door
bell, sprang out in the darkness and
nearly smothered him--with kisses.
His ccol reception of her caresses
startled her with recognition of the
fact that instead of her lover she had
been lavishing her sweetness upon a
friend of her sutton, who had come
with note explaining an unforeseen
absence. The widow thereupon, with
great propriety tainted on the spot
Over 200 years old is the string of
gold beads presented recently to Miss
Helen Leavitt of Bowdoinham by
Portland relatives. In connection
with this gift an interesting story is
told. The string Of beads when Civ
en- to Miss Leavitt was not complete,
some Of them having been lost years
ago. Trying to match the beads, the
young woman visited every place in
nd hiIt ,t o1I
like them. Hers We're of odd design
and had peculiar tracing found only
on the higher priced beads. Think
ing that perhaps she could match them
in size, she tried again with the same
result. The other day while in
Brunswick, Miss Leavitt CHANGED to
visit II curo shop in the college town,
and there found the exact duplicate
of her beads, bearing the same trac-
ings and of the same size. Further
examination convinced her that these
We're the lost beads that had at one
time belonged to the string presented
to her. The. way in which this por-
ton of family heirloom was lost still
remains a mystery.
~ AeSCiu VI u ySdIS III Ilti plCSCIll
position with not one day lost or
single trip missed is the remarkable
record of Mrs. Margaret Higgins,
stewardess of the steamer j. T. Morse,
on IT," Rockland and Bar Harbor run.
Mrs. Higgins has been connected with
the company back farther than the
present generation can remember, and
the hosts of travellers whom she has
made things easy for during her years
of service hope that she may be in the
service Of the company for as many
more years This is her 31st consecu-
tive summer in the capacity of stew
ardess, and the Morse without her IA
miliar face would hardly be the same
craft. She was for years on the old
Mount Desert, which ran before the
Morse was built, and for years on the
boats preceding her. During all this
time she has not lost a day from duty,
nor missed a trip, a record as faithful.
as remarkable. -
Another year will probably see a
new lighthouse tender in commission