Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-10
Maine Gossip

1 Ma'9s Gossip )
May Song.
A thousand buds stir in the break,
A myriad twinkling blooms
Across the dreaming valley shake
Their spears and jeweled plumes--
Oh. buds of love within my heart,
Oh, starry sprays of song,
Fling wide your clinSing leaves apart
And join the kindred throng!
Redeem the winters wilderness
With showers of :silve'' sound:
With myriad arms of tenderness
Enfold the world around!
Margaret Ridgely Partridge in Century.
Will Topsham fair try being good, or
isn't needed so badly as all that?
Bath-and especially the blushing
buds of the Shipping City-rejoices that
the naval training squadron will make
another visit this summer.
Maine will miss Prof. Puriuton of
Pennington. AS an educator and a
citizen he was powerful influence for
good. His old pupils by the hundreds
in score Of states will mourn his
death.
"Shal the City trim the Shade Trees
or the farmers" is the headline in an
exchange. This leads the Biddeford
Journal to remark that usually when
the farmers come to town there is no
hesitation on the part of the city as
to where the most profit in the trim
ming business is to be found.
Somerset Reporter: The Baptists and
Free Baptists of Maine have a special
committee TO draw up a list of PLACES
in the State in which Baptist and Free
Baptist interests, if united. would give
promise of much larger and more sue
cessful work. That looks good deal
like practical union. There are not
too many churches in Maine, but there
are too many meeting houses.
The new yacht KanaWha, which has
been built at Bath for H. f. Baxter Of
Brunswick to replace the yacht of the
same name 50 mysteriously burned d
year or two ago. is one of the finest
pleasure crafts ever launched in Maine
waters. The Kanawha is Is feet long
1872 feet beam. and has a draft of Az
feet. She is equipped with two auto
matte engines of so horse power each
Every detail of construction and equip
ment is of the best.
Virginia. which the Popham Steam
boat Co have chosen. seems a most APP
proprlate name for the new steamer
forth between Bath and the Beach,
That was the name the Popham colon
lists gave to the little pinnace they
built. the first seagoing vessel con-
structed in the New World whose ter
centenary Bath celebrated two years
ago. AS modern steamers go. the new
Virginia is a small one but she is lar
ger and of course, vastly more efficient
vessel than that first little American
ship which was & craft of only 30 tons
She will undoubtedly be model
steamer of her class and we'll worthy
to perpetuate the name which fills so
significant place in Kennebec history
The new dog law is one that should
be read with interest. not only by
every keeper Of dogs. but by every far
mcr as we'll. 1t goes into effect April 1,
to the advantage of the farmer are
that the license fee on the female dog
has been raised from S315 to $5.15,
which should tend to keep the female
dogs i'm the minority and by cutting off
the source of supplies lessen greatly
the rumber of dogs. The farmer will
no longer he obliged to take 50 for
his sheep and let it go at that, no
matter what the real value of the
sheep is. IL the owners of the sheep
| and the town officials are unable to
come to any agreement as to the real
value of the animal, the law provides
for the appointing of referees who shall
determine the value CT the sheep and
| their decision shall be taken as final
The law also imposes fine of from $50
to 800 upon the owner of the dog
found guilty of sheep killing The
owner has the option of killing the dog
| or paying the fine. In the great ma
jority of cases the owner will kill the
dog and thus do away with further
damage from that source Other fea-
lures of the law are of interest and it
will be worth while for both farmers
and thoce owning dogs to become &C
luainteo with all the points contained
Bangor does not really like it that
the Boston merchants regarded that
city as the jumping off place and failed
to go farther irtp Maine Says the
Commercial: TT is too bad that the
Boston expedition did not plan to make