Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-27
Maine Gossip
A Song of Change.

|
In gardens summer-dressed,
| When-presto! chanse.-a biting blizzard
| blows
| From the revengeful west!
The affrighted lily turns a wilder white,
The violet hides its head;
| Twenty degrees when comes the icy
| night
The rose of song is dead.
Gone is the summer brightness of the
| Lost on an Arctic shore,
| The telephone an extra ton of coal,
| And-shut that windy door!
Come, weather wild, and do your worst
| But, when your bleak breath blows,
I'll tell you this; in winter. as in May,
| My sweetheart is a rose!
| The American Ice company is also
harvesting $4,000 tons on the Penob-
scot this winter.
| Portland has survived tag day and
really seems to have enjoyed this
| species of highway robbery
| Thus far the 74th Legislature has
| actually appropriated about half as
much money as the 73d had appro-
priated at the corresponding date two
years ago
The date of Bowdoin- Wesleyan de-
bate is March 10. Their last debate
was on the gridron and the score was
a tie. AS there are three judges that
result can hardly occur this time.
| The new Somerset county sheriff is
| following the good example of Sheriff
henceforth all prisoners in the
Skowhegan Jail will fare alike, those
with money being refused the old
privileges OF special diet and of making
the turnkey their errand boy.
James B. Ryall, the Saco automo-
bile racer, figured in another sensa
tional smash-up Sunday at New Or
| leans with the Mardi Gras speed carn-
val. In the first race Ryall in his
| Mathewson car, made too wide q turn
| at the beginning of the stretch, and.
| losing control of his car, it ran into
lshed beyond repair, Ryal's escape
was remarkable as he was travelling
faster than q mile a minute at the
time.
] 1t is understood that the Canadian
Pacific contemplates the eiectrification
of its line from Aroostook Junction
| to Pressure Isle, through Fort Fairfield
and Caribou, and that plans even to
the smallest detail have been prepared,
submitted and accepted. This is ex-
| pected to carry with it an entirely new
schedule for that section of Aroostook
| county, and there is intimation that
| when it has demonstrated its success
an Independent company will ask the
| right to build from Pressure Isle
! through to Ashland. via Castle Hill
and Mapleton. This will give Ashland
a Canadian Pacific outlet The matter
has been rumored for some time, but
| it is understood now that it has been
definitely settled, and that electric ser
vice will be in operation one year
| hence
| The announcement that Asher c.
| IL
Congress if the Republicans of the
first Maine district should desire him
to do so has been followed by the cir
cuation of petitions asking him TO AL
| low the use OF his name. The petit
tions, which have already been signed
by large number of Republicans, read
as follows: The undersigned, Re
| publican voters of the First Congress
sional District of Maine, ask YOU to
allow the use of Your name, as a
| candidate for Congressman. in the next
| republican Convention, and pledge
| ourselves to use all honorable means
for your nomination and election"
Allie Pierce OF Mars Hill lost a val
liable driving mare last week in sin
gular manner. He drove to Presque
Isle, bought new horse. put it in
the pung and started home leading the
driver behind. He reached Westford
village about s p. NJ, where he took
a road running through piece Of
| woods to Eugene JEWELS. The mare
occasionally tried to browse jerking
the halter so Mr.. Pierce tied up the
| halter and put the mare ahead, think
ing she was well acquainted with the
| road she would go home ahead of, him.
At Mr.. JEWELS she suddenly turned
and dashed past him towards West
field. He did not see her again that
| night although he went to Westfieid
and inquired of those he met and
searched till late. Getting no trace Of
her he went home. Wednesday morn
ing he drove to Westfield again. The
mare was found dead 31-2 miles up
the Il. & A. r. r. track 1t is supposed
| she was killed by the train which
goes up late in the evening. There
are three bridges on the railroad be-
tween Westfield and where she was
found and how she got over them is a
mystery.
There will be q general exodus of
| Wiscasset people to the great North
west this spring according to the re-
port. Henry Dow of that town, for
mer resident of Bath, has been in the
| West about five years and when he