Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-18

Let us give some reCOSnltloH
| To the dads who, year by year.
Keep their posts with grim decision,
Loss of job their greatest fear
They are working ACCOMMODATING
| In the mill and market place,
lust modest living gaining,
AS they keep their steady pace;
Not the club dads or the dud dads.
But the dads who day by DAY.
Keep on working, never shirklne
| And at night take home their pay
They deserve some recognition,
Not one day. Out e view 11 York Times.
Tag day bids fair to be the event of
the season in Gardiner.
With a new standpipe holding 6o00oo
gallons Old Orchard beach should be
well supplied with water the coming
| summer.
| Theninth convention of the Episco-
paiian diocese of Maine will hold a
three days convention. beginning to-
dav at St. Luke's Cathedral in Portland.
| The plan of the International League
for Highway Improvement to build
model highway from Maine to Florida
has much to commend it.
I 1t is expected that work upon the
plans for doing away with the Rines
Hill crossing--the' most dangerous one
in Maine-will be commenced about
July l.
| The various cities along the line of
| the electric road are considering the
project of the formation Of Trolley
league-the various teams to be COM
posed in part at least Of local players.
| With summer coming on every man
should look carefully after the sanitory
SUI roundings Of his home. With lit
tie care in this matter much of the
sickness that usually attends the heat
ed term may be avoided.
| Mrs Rhoda Little Tarr, for many
years a resident of Manchester. Maine.
celebrated her Tooth birthday last Sat
urday at the home of her daughter
Mrs. J. Nelson Jones at Haddon
Heights. N. j.
Tho old-fashioned high school grad
| uation is becoming more and more of
rarity. as the Washington trip idea
gains in popularity as substitute.
Such trips have at least positive ed
vocational value. which is more than
can be said Of many graduating eXer
cises.
In an open letter to the press. advo-
eating the admission of Charles w.
Morse to bail. Magistrate Leroy B.
Crane expresses the opinion that some
unknown power is working against the
former banker. Mr.. Morse is still con-
| fined i'm the Tom5s prison. There does
not appear to be any good reason in
fairness and equity why he should not
be released on bail awaiting the final
decision of his case by the U. S. court
of appeals.
John Kendrck Bangs has kindly con-
scented to deliver the commencement
Grafton to the graduating class of the
York High school this year. The exer-
cises will be held in the Congregational
tenth 1t was decided to hold the eXer-
ciscs in the afternoon rather than in
the evening owing to the fact that the
electric lights will not be on. thereby
making it impossible to light the build
ing.
The Bildeford city fathers contemp
late building a concrete bridge to cost
in the neiShborhood of $500 to replace
the Bradbury street bridge, which is in
dangerous condition. Extensive re-
pairs would cost the city about as
much as structure of reinforced con-
crete The present bridge was built
more than 30 years ago. and in the
spring OF 1896. during the big freshet. a
portion of the bridge was carried away
by the logs and high water which flood
ed Springs island.
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