Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-14
Maine Gossip
A Thaw.

w hen rttltcf-tfreS Ill bloom
Relieve the gloom,
And drcary swash
OF Writer with the ripe 5olosl,
The deceased country side
Becomes Il SurSinS tide
OF rushing mud-iils
F.um the hills,
In onward forging to the anorous sea.
Thci bridegroom soon to be,
In town the highways seem,
Each one, broad toIrcntal stream
That ::ivr us hints Of The delights
OF bark Venetian nights.
III" ta>imeter with its paddle wheels
Along the foaning pillows spicls,
And SllaSheS water upward to The sky
TO later i"ll urCn the pas serby
Like summer rain,
And brings III dreams again
or lovely June-O great and frubjoua
time
lIarpor's Weekly.
The sun comes higher now, but we
must have ii.
pected bad luck?
Cny a week more to the official ar
rival Of spring.
1t is suspected that some Of the new
maple syrup nyN On the market is Of
the vintage of 1907
Portland begins to feel that it will
be driver to drink before that water
case is finally settled
When the summer season opens Oh
Sebago lake there will be a new steam
CT in commission, larger than amy ever
on the lake.
certain York man who lnadt. Il New
Years resolution never to allow a glas,
of liquor to touch his lips is still talk
inS his btters with a straw.
Biddefcrd journal: Why doesn't
somebody suggest that the Aroostooil
potato growers adopt the custom OF
the Kentucky night riders as a
means OF getting higher prices for their
crops?
After waiting two years for his queue.
10 grow, Chen Hing Of Portland will
visit China. lie left Wednesday morn
ing. When Chen came to this country
several years ago he became American
lied and had the queue cut off Two
years ago he decided to make Il tri!, to
his fathcrland, and 50 HAD to grow his
queue again.
The village If Tenants HarIor il
likely 10 see Il revival of the shipbuld-
ing Industry by another summer. Land
along the water front has been leased
by Portland parties for Il term of live
Years and il is expected that the frame
FOR one or more SchouncrS will hc Shin
ped re- in tn" spring and the work
of building started upon. Thirty wears
ago ShipbuidinS was one Of the inpuG-
tant Industries Of that section Of 81,
George, but in recent times most of 'tlis.
$hIpbrl!ding business Of Knox county
has gone elsewhere. The now shit
building concern is to be IL stocl, cont
pdny and Il number of local men irr
ready L. assist the Portland i,rclnutcr.s
in bickius the enterprise
Philadelphia parties have bought
three ltrgc farms at Trers Cove and
Turkeys Point, st. George, With view
to establishing a summer culo.ly there.
Al the head of the IhcVrmcnt is H. G.;
Gay, one of the Wculthicst ana most
influential attorneys of the Quaker
city. His son. II. q. Clay III. ;tn art
Isl, VIII be the first summer resident
~ IN" now resort. W. l.. Schwartz, =
Cinld"n building contractor has III"
piiuiS II hand for Il nine room cottage
ct the colonial typo. which is to DO
competed this season so that Mir. and
Mrs. clay may occupy it the coming
summer. Spectators have bought thu,
adjoining tract known as Otis Pom.
amt its development for the better class
Of cottages promises to be raDId. More
IMAM 800 years ago the Ola voyag"r.
cart. George Waymouth tool: BOSSES
@i"h "f this r|Gion on behalf Of his
sovereign. King James. ana l,ccan.e
inc inst real explorer Of this coast. IA,
at first brought his ship. the Arclnangc!.
To anchor north Of the isle Of Npuhp-
gan. hut soon weighed anchor and
round Il harbor. Georges river ana
later took the Alchangal up the river
I" IhnnIstpn ana in Ills long-boat
penetrated IL Warren He also ex-
pior"d the country around about and
gave 1n accurate dissertation of it and
conferred With the bold WtwenocllS. |
VINO then held il. He wound uD hi;
operations by capturing five Of these |
INDIANS. whom he took with him when |
ne returned t. England where they |
learned the language and religion Of
ihcIr "aptorS and afterwards returned
t" Mainc with ether expeditions to this
coast. acting as guides and as iuterpr..-
ters between the English ana their
savage kinsnIeE.
with the table covered with maga-
zines, vases filled with flowers. ana |
bo"NS t. While away the pleasant al
tcrnoon, Harrison j. PhllbroulI has ar
ranged 4 reading room in the tomb of |
ms forn!atherS, built on the lawn Of
ms colonial estate at Kittery Point.
NV" feet from tie sarcophagus Of his
father and mother, and in full sight of
IN" E7Scrlition on the l'd Of |
each he sits for hours at
tinc and holds. he says sac