Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-08

Get off the track of doubt and gloom,
Get on the sunshine train, there's room,
Get a transfer
If you are on the worry train,
Get a transfer.
You must not stay there and complain,
Get a transfer
And there is lots of room for you,
Get a transfer.
If you are on the grouchy track,
Get a transfer
Just take the happy special back.
Get a transfer.
Jump on the train and pull the rope
That lands you at the station Hope
-Universalist Leader.
Another large batch of town meet
ings today.
The Legislature defers until tomor-
row the beginning of it's 10th week.
Augusta, Bangor, Biddeford and Bel
fast are tie scenes of the chief election
interest today.
According to the Pittsfield Advertiser
the chief need of Pittsfeld at this time
is new hotel.
The Maine college baseball schedules
are out anc it is only three weeks to
the first games, but they will not be
played on home diamonds.
There will be lot of building OF
camps ana cottages at Weld TINS
spring 1t i" estimated that the amount
of summer property in Weld equals the
valuation of real estate in the village.
Portland Express: Our New Hamp-
shire neighbors seem to have beaten us
in Maine in that the Legislature of the
former state sent it's formal cOngratu-
lations to the new President yesterday.
Why didn't somebody think of that at
Augusta?
Mrs Marcus A. Hanna. widow of the
famous chairman of the Republican
national committee during the first
Mckinley campaign in 1896 is building
one of the largest cottages at Seal
Harbor constructed for some time.
Miss Sarah Orne Jewett who has
been sick in Boston, is improving, SO
rapidly in health that her sister, Miss
Mary Jewett, is making plans to take
her to the quiet OF her home in South
Berwick.
Half Back Sandy which has been
presented by the college boys at Wa
terville and Brunswick, is to be staged
by the members of the new Waseca
club in Auburn.
President Chase announces that
young women desiring to enter Bates
College in September next must have
their applications in the hands of the
registrar on or before March 18th
Certificates of character from their
pastors and health from their physi-
clans, together with statement OF
character and scholarship from theii
principals, must accompany the appli-
cations.
During the month of January 1874.
S93 bushels of potatoes were shipped
over the Il. & A. railroad, making
from total crop of 1908 up to and inclu.
ding January 81, 1906, i36 bushels o'
an Ircroase of 4,OS4,0s9 bushels ovai
same period in 1907-GS. The figures
for the big year of 1906" are as fol
| lows. shipped i'll January, '0'. S4l,0S1
"a little under last January. The tota
shipments over the e. &. A. from tho
| 1906 crop up to Feb. /, 1907, were g.
| 553,S10 bushels, making the amount
gone forward over this road of the 100;
crop 652326 greater than the outgo Of
the 1906 crop for the corresponding
months.
Here's a remarkable tale from Nor,
rill. Miss Adelaide Merriam, the littl>
Merriam. was sliding down hill a few
rods above the dam near her father:
mill, the other day. when her sister
was thrown from the sled over the
bank into the river The older siste'
made an cutlery, and the father who
was at work in the mill, as we'll a:
| others, fastened to the rescue. HI
Jumped into the river and shortly saw
her floating under the water ant
caught her as she neared the sluiceway
The little girl had floated 100 feet un
Ger water. 40 feet of the distance un
der ice which reached from shore t.
shore. She came out crying. but per
| fectly conscious, and in a short time
was seemingly as well as ever. Sh;
says that while she was travelling un
der ice and water that she saw ;
snake and a frog.
1t is hard luck which befell tho
Maine national guard companies which
went to the Inauguration. They raised
the money to defray the expenses o
the trip and of course the same ex
perience that befell the other parader.
who were forced to struggle through
the sfush filled streets. What wa:
looked upon as a summer excursion be
came a battle with a winters storm
but we have no doubt that the Maine
boys made the best of it and took Their
hard luck with good nature. The.
made a fine appearance in Portland be-
| fore they started off and it is safe tC
| assume that they made as fine an ap.
| Dp1ranca in WASHINGTON 40 oould he