Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-15
Maine Gossip

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Things That Pass.
I made resolution fair;
1t was d goodly thing, ! vow:
Wrought out with conscientious care
Where is that resolution now?
Then was I broke and filed with grief:
Since then kind Fortune doth endow
My purse with prospect Of relief
Where Is that resolution now
..where are the SHOWS of yester year."
IT'S vanished, and I scarce know how,
Twas earnest. frugal and sincere
Where is that resolution now!
Washington Star.
Asa p St Clair, who was one of the
Republican candidates for the Legis-
lature IN Rockland two years ago, an
nounces that, for business reasons. he
will not be candidate this year.
Residents of Monhegan Island are
glad to see the little steamer May Ar
cher running regularly between Mon
hogan and Thomaston again as she is
a great factor in the prosperity of the
noted islands summer business.
a unique feature of the program for
Children's day in the First Parish
church at Saco was the presence of
cages of songbirds. which were sus
pended from all parts of the galleries
which encircle the audience room.
Whiia tho litf1a tot Sinpin0 fha
canaries sang their loudest and sweet
est.
One of Monmouth's coming farmers
is Archie Robertson. He is already a
worker and full of ambition. He
walked three miles, Saturday. III the
rain, coming from his home, to hear
DR.. Twitchel's talk at the library
rooms in regard to the prizes offered
by the friends of the town fair this
year-not long distance for an IL
year-old boy to go fishing, but rather
strenuous for anything else.
Mrs. w. .. Fuller, Jr., wife of Editor
William O. Fuller, Jr., of the Rockland
CONFERENCE.-The. sailed Saturday from
land for a summer abroad, as the guest
| OF Mrs. Thomas Bailey Aldrich. The
party will be six in number and with
| two automobiles will land at Antwerp
and tour the continent, witness the
Passion Play at Oberammergau and
| finish with short run through Eng
land.
no 70 i,,t1 Of he tI,A, and
the uncertainty of the weather predic-
tons of some weather prophets is il
Illustrated by the Bath Times item
which says: The best story of the
weather for the past month in this vi
cinity is told by Capt. Cook of Bakers
yacht Kanawha. Four weeks ago he
started in on the annual job of paint
ing ship, and three times his work has
been ruined by the rain, although the
captain is somewhat of a weather pro-
phet.
The hunt through Massachusetts and
Vermont towns by an armed posse for
Desperate Silas Phelps can hardly fail
to remind Maine readers of the memoir
able man hunt four years ago in this
State, which lasted for the greater part
of d month. The man sought for in
that case was Minot st. Clair Francis,
Who had escaped from the State pris-
on at Thomaston. and who was after
wards captured at Glenburn in Penob-
scot county through information given
by q woman.
Commencement exercises of North
Yarmouth Academy will be held
Thursday evening in the First Parish
Congregational church at Yarmouth.
Hon. Luciius A. Emery, chief justice
of the supreme court of Maine will de-
liver the address, his subject being
"The Need and Functions of Endowed
Secondary Schools" The academy
has recently been reapproved by the
New England College Certificate
Board until January 1914. which is the
longest time allowed by the rulings of
the board. xAsn1A
When DR.. John Hunter of Glasgow.
Scotland. delivers his address at the
First Universalist church. Lewiston,
Tuesday, June u. he will be greeted by
body of his countrymen in the audi
ence. Members of Clan Campbell, Or
der Scottish Clan, of Lewiston. will at
tend the meeting in a body to honor
DR.. Hunter. Many of them come from
Glasgow and vicinity and know of him
and his work. DR.. Hunters address
will be part of the program at the
gathering of Cniversalists of all Maine
at Lewiston.
Fred Griffin of South Portland turned
a trick few days ago that has been
performed by few fishermen in these
parts, for with ordinary fishing nets
he landed mess of Holsters. AS it
happened. he was netting for haddOck
off Portland lightship He noticed on
hauling in besides a good lot of the
fish he was after. quantity of crus-
taceans. They all proved of legal
length. and when weighed tipped the