Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-18
Maine Gossip

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May speaks in the voices of busy brooks,
t, thS singing of wind Ia the grasses,
from her smiling skies ever downward
on n all her daintily powered hooks
/ mat the lazy bumble-bce passes.
May loves the little and helpless things
SIe sheiters each frai tiny fellow
Aha movers protecting mother wings
tr every struggling life that sings
In her breezes gentle ana mellow
We welcome you blithey with loving
And the earth her joy confesses:
lou, y GU creep up daintily with your charms
WIN WIN, lavish giving and upturned palms,
ana nealtnS an your CareSSeS.
Ethel Hallett III Ilppheotls-
At Sherman, Me, Monday, spark
from brush fire caught in the straw
banking around the farmhouse of La
Fayette Garnett on the Golden ridge
road and burned all the farm build
inSs, at a loss of $1,000.
The ten fish hatcheries of Maine are
busy distributing the annual spring
assignments of brook trout fry. The
distribution, this spring. will include
100000 tiny fish, to be released IN the
lakes of Maine. The distribution of
salmon will come in the fall.
/, Little Marion. the 12year-old daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas X.
kearns. of Bangor. was terribly
burned on January 8, and for four
months the physicians at the Eastern
Maine hospital who attended her have
been making a fight to save her life.
At times, it was believed she would
recover, but on Sunday she gave up
the battle, and science and hope We're
defeated
The trustees of BoWdoin College are
anxious to secure the rare collection
of geological specimens arranged by
H. a. Morrill, and his son the fate
Clarence Morrill,.
\ dozen dwellings were On fire at
once at Patten, Monday, ohen the little
town had a narrow Escape from being
wiped off the map. With a strong
gale blowing it was hard battle for
the villagers. but they won after d
loss of barely more than $4,000.
An Enfield man says so many musk
rats have been caught in traps on
Passadumkeag stream and have es-
capped by gnawing off a foot. that he
thinks nearly all the water rodents
there must be now travelling ON three
legs. What a nightmare for the trap
per to dream of a host of muSkrats
all swarming about him on crutches!
The Literary Union of Androscoggin
county has fixed upon May % as a
general cleaning up time" Let us
hope it may extend into other coun-
ties At Fairfield a strong civic re-
sponsibility is manifesting itself in
the cleaning up of rubbish and all in
fiammahle material. even to the ex-
tent of tearing down old rattletrap
buildings which are not only insight
iy but congregating places for hood
lums, and, in such dry times as this,
a standing menace to the community.
on the shores of Long Lake it is
said there are 237 cottages. the great
majority of which have been erected
within ten or dozen years.
The loss of PortIand's splendid high
school structure is cause for gem
eral regret. Portland's fires in the
last three years have been expensive,
but not disastrous, like the Bangor
fire.
Down at Sabine. the other day. ae-
known Bath man who had arranged
for choice leg of lamb for a Sunday
Dinner, was disappointed. His party
thought it would be nice to eat dim
ner out of doors, and so a table was
set in grove back of the cottage.
In the order of things. the leg of lamb
was done to turn and placed upon
the table with the other good things.
Then the host went to call his guests,
and few minutes later they gathered
about the table to discover that the
leg of mutton had disappeared The
host declared that it had been So Well
cooked there was not the slightest
possibility that it had walked away.
An investigation was decided upon,
and in due time a discovery was made.
1t was a dog having the picnic of his
life in the woods near the cottage
The only satisfaction the host gets
out of it. is the evident approval of
his cooking. but his invited guests did
not have lamb for dinner.
Already more than score of dwell
ing houses are under construction in
Bangor's burned district Work has
been started in the business section
also. Money appears to be plentiful,
and the city is flooded with funds for