Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-27
Maine Gossip
Wild Geese.


Wild Geese.
Along the oceans shinglv edge.
Atnwart the turquoise sweep of sky,
The wild geese in u winged wedge
Go darklng h..
From far lagoons beplumed with palm.
BY cove ana cape, by bluff and bay.
depths of storm, through waists
They speed their way.
The pharo flashes on their fight;
They do not heed its reckoning beam:
The great North, stretching weird and
white.
Lures like a dream;
Lures, and they answer to the call;
Charms, and they yield them to tie
Moved ever ty a subtle thrall
1nScrutable.
Do you not feel it, comrade, too.
The inescapahle delight,
The mounting raptrre. that bids you
Take velnal flight?
Better have the March weather in
March than in April
PORTLAND hears tfitl SECRETARY 1dll
will soon make a trip to Maine.
Passadumkeag had bad fire scare,
but got off pretty easily after all.
There is a lot of building at Old
Orchard this spring, though none of
the big hotels are being replaced.
No fewer than 81 Maine schools are
represented among the 165 pupils now
enrolled at the Pennington Normal
school,
They have had a great week of it,
those 90 Good Will boys who have been
in camp at Cobbosseecontee. And one
of the most genuine boys in the party
has been Mr. Hinckley himself.
They have Taft league organized
and doing business in Portland and it
is said that an organizer IS coming on
from New York to help start q
Hughes club.
Inc new GIlhS CiuD IlouSc III Lt"lS-
ton, one of the best in New England.
will soon be ready for occupancy. Be-
fore it is mussed up. however. by any
such affair as dedication the MEM
berS propose to have ladies' night
Ellsworth is much in need of High
school building, but as the debt limit is
100000 and the present debt is $4,000
the way to get the money for build
ing does not seem very plain.
The little daughter who arrived at
the home of Ray Perkins at North
Brooksvile, March IA. has a goodly
number of relatives. Besides four
grandparents, it has five great-grand-
parents and one great great grand
Gray, who died March IS. aged eighty
eight years.
Biddeford Journal The first straw
hat of the season is reported from
Bangor. A man who claims to know
Bangor well says there is undoubtedly
a mistake in this diagnosis; that the
hat seen was probably the last of last
years crop instead of being the first of
the present season.
The Life of Stephen A. Douglas
upon which Prof. Allen Johnson of
the chair of history at Bowdoin College
has been working for several years. is
ready for publication and will be
brought out by the Macmillan COM
pany this spring.
AT the second district Republican
convention which will select a candi-
date for Congress to succeed Mr.
Littlefield there will be 351 delegates
making 116 necessary for a choice
Androscoggin county has II delegates
Lincoln As and Sagadahoc 80.
Harry Smith, a Deer Isle boy, has
broken the worlds record at firing g
six inch gun. making six hits out OF
six shots in twenty-seven seconds
brought honor to the armOred cruiser
Tennessee, and won the admiration %
the whole United States fleet. Now III
has been promoted to gunner's mate
and bids fair to aStOniSh the world BY