Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-05-07

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Z Maine Gossip 5
Nowadays.
You cannot sing the old songs.
So you need not commence
| The old songs were quite often MADE
OF reason, rhyme and SENSE
Chicago Post.
Maine politics are perking up bit.
Nine little foxes rewarded Surry
man who recently dug out the den'
A resident of Sebec, Samuel HARD
| ing, owns and drives a horse which IS
known to be 81 years of age.
Fort Fairfield enjoyed sno" STORM
Thursday, a little unusual for May.
Fortunately it did not last long and
the snow disappeared before night
Bethel is to have an electric IRE
alarm system and renew its hydraht
contracts. The electric fire alarm VIII
supplant the bells which have been
used for years.
Springvale has cause for rejoicing
i'm the leasing of it's big shoe factory
90 quickly after it was vacated by w.
l.. Douglas. The new tenants come
from the middle west and are be-
lieved to be permanent
The new box mill at Shirley is up
and covered in. A 50 horsepower en-
CINE will be installed as soon as pos
sible The company now employs 40
men but when the mill is started the
payroll will be largely increased.
The outlook for big summer busl-
ness in Maine would be better if the
sun came out and stayed out. Three
weeks of hot weather in the latter part
of May and the first of June would IN
sure q brisk season.
Napoleon Lajeunesse of Lewiston. -
former city clerk and for years lead
or Of the Democratic forces in d sec
ton of that city, is moving to the Ca
madam northwest where he will man
age a big farm owned by a Lewiston
business man.
The Portland Express reports that
Highland Lake in Cumberland county
is to be stocked with trout from the
government hatchery. A screen will
be built as soon as practicable ana
then Highland Lake will take it's for
mer position as one Of the best fishing
grounds in Maine.
Bangor was recently in direct COM
mun;cation by telegraph with Mlnne-
apolis for the purpose OF filing press
disnatch. The connections were
through New York and Chicago and
caused quite a stir as such long dis
lance work is unsual from Maine
Judge Clarence Hale has served no.
tice that men convicted OF seliihs
lialor to veterans at Togus VIII De
given the maximum sentence PROVIDED
in such cases. Such vigorous actlon
will have tendency to discourage
violations of the federal statutes.
The citizens who desired to stop
baseball playing on the federal mill
tarv reservations in Portland and VI
cinitv have not succeeded very Well
The complaint was against conditions
at Fort Preble where thousands at
tended the Sunday afternoon games.
This post is to be vacated, except LOT
a very small garrison. shortly and the
matter is left to adjust itself.
Vida Stockbridge, little Atlantic
girl suffering for three years from
hip disease, for more than Il year past
being in a hospital at Portland. dur
ing which time she has had one leg
amputated has written prlze-Wln-
ming story for a Boston paper, under
the title, Happy Days in Hospital.
The story. which contains not one word
Of complaint. not one word OF her own
suffering. is sermon on chcerfulnesS
as eloquent as any ever put IN words.
The first portrait to be hung III the
new supreme court room in the court
house at Portland, has been placed. IL
is portrait of former associate
iustice Sewall C. Strout OF Portland.
Nothing has been done as yet toward
restoring the pictures OF Judges wal
ton and Haskell as well as those OF
the older judges which were burned
in the fire that destroyed the old
court room. although it has been talk
ed that second copies of the other
portraits could be procured some time
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