Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-04-20
Maine Gossip
Brunswick.

A staid old town set in sandy plain
Not yet denuded of its mIrmerins pines.
Where the student zeal with simple lie
combines,
And the few rich, few poor think less of
Than of homely comfort free of social
Brunswick delights not him who richly
Nor her whose pride in jewelled raiment
shines: .
But has charmed great souls of finest
grain -
Here Youthful Hawthorne loved to muse
ard rove.
When study irked his melancholy mood.
Here I.ongfellow brought his BRIDE; mere
slrgs His Grove:
Here in white age mid a tearIui .hiohs
he stood
And sang farewell Here a great woman
Glove. ...
With magic pen. chains dyed in Afric
william Addison Houghton in Boston
Transcript.
Patriots day for everybody and
holiday for some.
This week Augusta is the property
of the Methodists of Maine.
About every town this side Of Fort
Kent has a ball game or two sched-
uled for today
And now the patient holders OF the
Schumann- Heink tickets are building
their hopes around early June.
The college games today are Colby
vs. U. OF NJ. at Waterville and Bow
dom twice with Portland in Portland.
A peculiar fact evidencing the pros
perity of Kingfield is that there has not
been a town pauper in 10 years.
The other lakes of the State do not
seem 10 be in any hurry to follow the
good example of Sebago in giving the
eager fishermen a show
The weather man seems to have
mixed large portion of March wealth
err into his April mixture and the peo-
pie who have been talking about an
early spring are very quiet now.
The Biddeford Journal suggests that
Portland might compromise by build
ing it's new city building on wheels
and then locating it to meet the de-
mands of changing public sentiment.
The general conference of The Con-
gregational churches Of Maine will con-
venc at the Central church in Bangor
May 5, 6 and Z. The conference has
not met with this church for IS years
and for that reason it's members and
parishioners are making every effort
for a program of speaking and enter
tainnent which will be of unusual in
terest
North Arson. thanks largely to the
loyal and public spirited women of the
town, is to have soldiers monument
and it is hoped that it will be complet-
ed and ready for dedication by Memo
rial day.
In its department of Local Hap
penings" the Lincoln Chronicle gives
us this little story; A man .quarreled
WIN HIo "ile, anu lOOh " uIlllk. Ills
wife, hoping to reform him, hired
suit one night and ac-
costed him on the street. Il am the
devil" she said. Her tipsy husband
grasped her hand cordially. "Shake
old boy" he SAID. II am your brother
in-law. 1 married your sister,
During the month of March there
were S94,2O3 bushels of potatoes ship
ped out of Aroostook county over the
&. & A. railroad, making total from
crop of 1907 up to and including March
81, 1909, 4,S0S,S35 bushels, or decrease
Of 4,s31,S74 bushels from the same pc
riod in 1907. This makes the ship
ments so far from last years crop
about equal to the shipments of the
1903 crop up to April 1, 1904, when A.
547.757 bushels were shipped. OF the
1904 crop 5,213,S53 bushels had been
shipped up to April 1. 1905 so that last
years crop is behind 1904 in amount
gone forward to April 1.
simultaneously with the organization
Of pigeon postal service in the French