Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-04-22
DAILY KENNEBEC JOURNAL WEDNESDAY, APRIL o. 1908 ~


5 ": a:::!e :
The New Headsear.
The big spring hat.
Gee whiZ!
How wide and fiat
1t is
Two feet swear.
It's spread
Beyond the wear
Frs head.
The big spring hat
OF straw
Looks like a mat,
But pshaw
We'd better smile,
Not curse,
Re glad the style
Amt verse.
Louisville Courier-JoLrnal.
What is so rare as an April day
without a raw wind and Il snow
squall?
The name was changed and nothing
else when Maine replaced Fast day
with Patriots day.
Just as was the case year ago, the
closing part of the college year at
Colby is saddened by the sudden death
of leading member of the graduating
class.
The worthy project of public play
ground for the Biddeford children will
be discussed at meeting of the citi-
zens of that city Friday evening.
Ellen Beach YaW is to be the star
prima donna of the 18th Maine Music
Festival, and here is hoping she will
not catch cold on her way hither.
Fifty-seven grandchildren survive
Frank Moulin who died in Biddeford
last week. Can any Maine city beat
this record?
Our Maine author, Annie Hamilton
Donnell Of kent's Hill, has a story.
"The Pack" in the May number Of
Harper's Magazine. 1t is illustrated
by Elizabeth Shipper Green.
Ernest E. Morse, who bought the
Mi,linocket Journal of the Observer
Publishing company some five years
ago, has sold the business to his
brother, r. S. Morse, and taken
position as manager OF a publishing
house in Portland.
L. will be a little difficult to work up
any enthusiasm over Trolley league
baseball until there is some assurance
that snowplows will not be needed on
the diamond between innings.
The Odd Fellows of Maine are max
ing an effort to erect and maintain an
Odd Fellows home. The initial step
was taken a few days ago by the Re-
bekah assembly and small fund has
already been obtained. Mrs. Nellie A.
Stevens of Westbrook, a past presi-,
dent of the assembly is chairman of a
committee to raise funds for the move
ment.
"A Maine Central railroad official,
who visited Washington county, for
got to bring along his rubbers when
he started and being anxious to avoid
wet feet, he asked Washington
County brakeman il it was very dry in
Calais. Naturally, the native jumped
to the conclusion that the official was
thirsty and the reply was character
istic: Eyes, sir. it's pretty dry in
Calais; but you can get all you want
in ST. Stephen just around the bridge"
The official hastily explained that he
meant to learn the condition of the
streets and was not after liquid re-
fr2shments, whereupon it was the
turn of the brakeman to become dis
concerted.
John u. Rockefeller, Jr., is to be a
summer resident of Bar Harbor this
coming summer. Negotiations have
been under way for some time and a
number of the cottages at the resort
have been looked over, but no an
nouncement had been made until Mon
day of Mr.. Rockefeller's plans. The
cottage selected is the ]. Montgomery
Sears cottage on the Shore path, which
has been leased for term of years to
Mrs. Foster Mlliken of New York.
The Sears cottage is one of the hand
soonest in Bar Harbor. situated along
the shore front of the lower harbor,
and is one of the most extensive of
the summer palaces The coming of
the Rockefellers will make consider
able difference in the season. and the
newcomers will be welcomed by the
social set. This is the first visit of the
Standard Oil magnate to Bar Harbor
The news that q private crew has
been plundering cottages on Mt.
Desert Island and various places along
the Maine coast will be heard with
apprehension by many persons %fo
own property and spend their summer
vacations in that region. The thieves
may turn out to be boy novel-readers,
but the fact that several thousand dol
lars worth Of property has been taken
in !icates that there is some other mo-
tive for their operations besides adj
venture. In any event. the plunderers
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