Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-05-15

! HPn " 'ltef enters WIN gree,
And all the world is stirred
With inlrth and choral revclry,.
The While the bass is loud and free
Until the Spring is heard.
But whether wild or grave or gay
God renders them sublime
And thus in His mysterious way
1.-THE eVer-chansing seasons play
The mighty fugue of Time.
May Appleton's.
This is the day to plant tree.
They are now beginning to elect
delegates for the State convention
| Only month more of the school
and college baseball season.
Elmer Barnard of Orland captured
sturgeon nine feet long and weighing
400 pounds in his weir last week. 1t IL
said to De the first in the Penobscot for
| 10 years.
| The old-faShiOned and modern
methods are well illustrated at Bridg-
| ton; in one side of certain street is
an ancient well sweep, on the other an
| up date gasoline engine keeps the
| water supply undiminished.
| Eden had very warm special town
| meeting last Wednesday, when the
proposition to build bridge to Bar
island asked for by the owners of the
island with an idea of developing the
property and providing pleasure
drive and walk, was turned down by
a vote of 256 to PIG.
The launch Sea Gull, which is oper
ated by the Maine fish commission
was brought to Rockland last week
from winter quarters at Winter Har-
Dor and is in readiness to begin her
trips along the Maine coast, dis
tributing seed Holsters, etc. Capt.
Clarence A. Packard of Rockland is in
charge.
The mounted bear which the Oxford
county delegates brought down to the
Lewiston convention was presented to
the Knox delegates after the battle
was over and will be given place of
honor in the clubhouse Of the Rock
land Elks.
Mail Carrier Rosebrook of the Gram
berry Isles route has his new motor
boat in commission. The craft is
twenty-seven feet long, seven feet
beam, and has two four and one-half
horse power Knox engines. On her
first trip she lessened the time between
Islesford and Seal Harbor twenty per
cent. AMI will do much better when her
engines are well limbered up.
Last week, while digging out fox
hole which is at least four miles from
the nearest farm. Charles Garland. of
Lakewood. found fresh remains of a
hen which had been caught and
carried four miles through the forest
to the family of the fox. There was
found among the debris of the nest a
perfect hens egg which apparently
was in the hen al the time of capture
The egg, upon being broken, vas found
to be perfectly fresh. Madame Rey-
nard, whatever other charges may be
made against her, is evidently not an
gg-eater.
Biddeford Journal 1t was remarked
Monday by a Saco man who is IA
miliar with the conditions, that if Old
Orchard makes as much progress IN
building in the next three months as
has been made in the last three the
town Will soon be as large as ever. so
far as number and size Of buildings is
concerned
Director William r. Chapman of the
Maine Music festivals is very enthusi-
astic over the outlook for one of the
most successful festivals ever held in
Maine. Mr. Chapman is always
enthusiastic but it is noteworthy that
his confidence is never misplaced
Year after year he has conducted the
Maine festivals each annual affair be-
ing even more successful than that of
the preceding year Not only are the
festivals most pleasurable events for
Maine people but they have been a
great educational factor and their up
lifting influence is indeed hard to csti- |
mate.
Nahum Hodgkins and wife. of MARI |
hCro. who have lived to enjoy e. years
OF married life, are still in possession |
OF all of their faculties Mr. Hodg- |
kins is IS and his wife 50 Nine chill |
dfen have been born to them: all are |
llvlng but one. who died in infancy |
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