Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-04-01
Maine Gossip

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April.
Swelling bud and fond suggestion,
Waiting of perfume,
fearful rapture. thrilling question
OF restraint or bloom,
Lift, all dreamlessly asleeping.
AS in death. but now.
Upward to the sunshine creeping
April, that is thou
MISERY'S authentic dwelling.
Faiths expanding wing.
Maiden loneliness foretellinS
Fuller biossoming.
Prophet of the new creation.
Priestess Of the Dough,
Month of the imagination
April. that is thou.
April Lippincott's.
Be cautious today, and not too cred
ulous.
No freshet this spring: not even a
freshet scare. 81
How quickly this year has slipped
into it's second quarter.
Madame Schumann- Heink's illness
simply allows Maine little more time
of delightful anticipation.
Thus far the Portland and Bidde-
ford baseball editors have neglected to
put any Maine cities in the Pacific
coast league.
The Democrats are wondering when
DIR. Crockett purposes to lead his new
party upon the Warpath.
Portland Express lilies will
be plentiful this year it is said.
And you just walk along Congress
if there isn't an abundance Of spring
daises, too.
A WeStbrOok man has just received
a check of s23s.45 from a Massachu-
sets Savings hank, it being $50 with
the accumulated interest which he had
left there 80 years ago and forgotten
all about until the bank officials traced
him to his Maine home.
That list of 50 Skowhegan octogen-
arians has set other towns to looking
over their population to see if they
cannot beat this record, or at least pre-
sent a list longer in proportion to
their number of inhabitants.
The Bowdoin nine is off on it's
spring vacation trip and in the next
four days will play four games in
three states, Rhode Island, New York
and New Jersey. Its Princeton game
will be the longest trip Maine base
ball team ever took. Last spring on
their trip the Bowdoin boys played
five games in Massachusetts. Rhode
Island. New York and New Jersey
and won four of them.
Word comes from Chico, California,
Of shocking tragedy in which the
members of former Maine family
were the victims. Walter Colman was
killed in terrible fashion by a short
circuit in an electric switch tower
where he was employed and his broth
err was almost fatally burned in at
tempting to rescue him. Their sister,
Nora Colman, who lived near by ran
to the tower and the shock of the eX-
perience wrecked her nervous system
SO that she died after a week of un-
speakable suffering. The three were
the children of Daniel B. Coleman, a
native of Vassalboro who went to Cal
ifornia in 1S49. He was the son of
Charles and Mary Colman of Vassal-
boro, and d sister. Mrs. Gustavus Hus
sey lives in that town. mir. Colman
died two years ago. never having re-
turned to Maine. His widow is liv-
ing, though completely Frustrated by
the accident which cost her the lives
OF two children and so badly injured
the third.
st. Mary's college of Van Buren, is
II years old and it celebrates it's birth
day by the opening Of the new college
hall, handsome and impressive
structure designed to last many years
st. Mary's is the youngest of the five
colleges in Maine. and the only one of
Roman Catholic denomination. When
the Marist fathers, at the invitation OF
the late Bishop James A. Healy, came
to the State of Maine in 1887 and start
ed the college in the extreme
north end of the county of
Aroostook. more than 200 miles
from any city either in the Uni
ted States or the provinces, the prof.
ect was regarded as chimerical. Now
the college president, Very Rev. FIR
Matthew Thouvenin. S. NJ, is happy
in dedicating this new building nearly
completed and already used in part for
the accommodation of more than 100
students. who gather for prayers and
instruction. ST. Mary's has had hard
Struggle, but those who have worked
for the little college believe that bet
ter days are dawning ard that the de-
velopment of the adjacent portions of
Maine, New Hampshire and Quebec