Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-19

q Maine Gossip s
The June Bug.
Oh. dat June bug is critter
| OATS jes came 'roun dis way;
He ain no regular insect,
Like de readin' books done say.
He's a due along in May time.
An buZZeS dis refrain;
Look up, son De cold is done
| An summers hyur again.
He buzz about de sunshine,
| An de roses bloomin' strong;
He hypnotic oil trouble
| WIFI his sweet an murmurin' song.
| l hyuhs i'm when rs doZn'.
AS de hours glide swift an free.
Is got to shirk. How kin l work
Washington Star
| The fishermen are hurrying to Moose
| head since the ice went out on the l4th.
| The big fish stories will come later.
The Maine high schools appear to
have some exceptionally fast baseball
teams the present season.
The dipping of $4,000 alewives in a
single day reminds the Damariscotta
Herald of old times.
The excellent example which has been
set by Portland in this matter might be
Followed with profit by other Maine
cities.
The Northern Maine league is already
planning for some red hot baseball the
coming season 1t is said that business
is practically suspended in that section
while a game is on.
The Sturgis deputies have been max
ing matters decidedly interesting for
the liquor sellers of Orono. THE Ban
gor plan" appears to be going out of
business.
AutomobiliSts have been getting so
gay in Lewiston that City Marshal
Caller announces that he will take i'm
mediate steps to cool their ardor. They
are better behaved here in kennebec.
The Lewiston Teachers Association is
to hold banquet at Hotel Atwood
next Saturday evening. State Super
intendent Payson Smith is expected to
be in attendance.
Two unique services will be held at
the Court st. Free Baptist Church,
Auburn. on Sunday, May so. They will
be under the auspices of the Mission
for Deaf and Dumb and experts in the
sign language will be provided.
Steps are being taken to form a crack
military company in Portland The
petition is headed by Lawyer Robert
F.. Foster and the outlook is bright for
securing a company that will be a
credit to the Forest City and TO the
State.
Maine is to See q new form of Chris
tan work brought into the state this
summer when Rev. A A. Walsh of
Wellington, Mass, will tour the State
in a gospel wagon in which there will
be made to spread the gospel as it new
er has been spread before.
The Weld club of Boston will have its
annual reunion at the Virginia street
church Dorchester, Mass, on June 5,
where it will be entertained by Mrs.
Olive p. Rurlingame and her daughter
Miss Edith M. Burlingame. There will
be banquet at 1890 o'clock. business
meeting at 2 o'clock, and an entertain
ment at 3 o'clock
Messrs Don c. Foss. Clarence Hart
mann and Albini Fourier of Fairbanks,
each IA years IF age, nave, the past
winter. made each one canoe about
ten feet long. They have put them In
the pond there and Don Foss took three
persons about three miles up the pond
in his boat.
The workings OF the prohibtory law
in the State of Maine are to again be
investigated. this time by committee
representing Ohio brewers, who will
come here shortly. We trust the in
vestigation" will not be as some others
that have been conducted in the inter
ests of the liquor trade, and which We're
chiefly notable for the large amount of
misinformation they accumulated.
The advertising committee of the
Portland Board of Trade have started
their campaign of advertising Portland
as summer resort in real earnest and
the collections are coming in as rapidly
as oan be expected The booklet, Come
to Portland is being sent all over the
country and it is expected that the
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