Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-01-03

| N'tlh''s' wv " 4iLN'
\ haze hangs over the lill
TIE narr'inS. sun. warmed bill
And the voice is calling, calling.
| Calling ana never St.L
| y breath moves among the trees,
Yet thu voice is calling, calling,
| Calling ever i'll these.
| oh sea. and mountain rul wood,
The dark. green. lcafE wood.
| Thy voices are ever calling.
Calling the soul to good
Z Alice Adele FolScr
Augusta welcomes the rcprescscnt-
ativcs and senator's elect.
one of the few veterans of the Civil
| War in the incoming Legislature VIII
be Corydon Powers of Caribou. He
was born in Hanover and served in
the 9Th battery of the LIST mounted
artillery. He moved to Aroostook
county after the war and has made u
success of farming. He is a Republic
can and Il member OF the Grange and
the Ct. \. 4.
| Amos T. Saunders u Clinton, Mass.
| who may be made the Republican
| leader of the Massachusetts House of
| Representatives for the session of the
! Legislature in that Commonwealth,
| which opens this week is 4 native of
J Maine. having graduated from Bridg
ton academy and having many friends
! and acquaintanceS III Cumberland
/ county. His wife is also from Maine,
! being a member of enc of the oldest
! families in tie state, the CleavcS fam
! ilH Of Eridgton. Mrs. Saunders who
| was before her marriage Caroline
/ Walker Clcavcs, is a niece of the late
Ex-Governor Henry 4 CleaVes of
Portland.
/ Lewiston and Auburn merchants arr
enthusiastic over the proposition Of
having an industrial exhibition in tho
twin cities within few weeks 1t is
! expected that the city halls in both
| Lewiston and Auburn will be secured
| for thu exposition as there are So many
| industries in the two cities that it
would be impossible to give much
space to the manufactures il all the
i exhibits We're in ono hall.
y 17-E,ar-o,d Ninalhavcn boy con-
| fesse'l = f"W days ago to having writ
| ten black hand" letters to his board
ing mistress. According to the con-
| fcssion which it is alleged the boy
| made to IL" Portland police he tucked
| one letter unuer the door demanding
that a sum Of money be left in thu.
| house. Not getting any response Il
second letter was LEFT in which $500
/ 1,1n1f 1..1 ftalllltS. Of
it was refused. The hoy was suspect
Cd and when taken to the police sta
| ton is saiG to have admitted writing
| tile letters.
| Three uposSums have been received
| from Arkansas by the Portland Park
| Commission The animals were ship
lcd to Commissioner \. w Smith and
| We're the gift OF c. II. Boyd of Fort
| Smith. Arkansas. The opossumS are
| fins animals ana one Of them is dis
tinct freak, it being pure white. Tie
! other two are OF the common kind and
| are very large, one of them weighing
| ing in the neighborhood of 20 pounds
| When they arrived at Portland they
were very weak from their long trip.
but they soon revived under the good
care of the park commissioner and his
assistants.
Sanford firemen had occasion TO
think Il few evenings ago that they
| were either located in Il metropolitan
district or else there was a firebug
about, for in the space OF Il few hours
they We're obliged to respond to four
n no
one was still, but only in one case
was there any damage done. This was
| in connection with the first fire, which
was in the \. II. LeaVitt block on
| Washington street, where the total loss
| was something like $1,000.
! The burglar alarm at the Portland
| police station connected with the Sys-
tenn at the Fidelity Trust Cos. new
| banking institution at TIM. corner of
| Congress and rrcblc STREETS started
| in to ring early Friday evening and
the police wagon was hitched up and
several officers fastened off to SEQ
| what the trouble was all about. When
the officers reached the banking rooms
they found a force of clerks engaged
| at their work in winding up the ac-
counts for the year and all greatly
surprised at seeing the officers walk
ing in. Crossed wires Were the only
cause which the officers and clerks
could assign for the alarm going off.
4 Rockland traveller, lately in
France, ordered sardincS with his dim
ncr. naturally thinking that i'll France
the choicest variety of that delicacy
was to be found. An inspection Of the
labeled tin in which the fish We're
served disclosed the fact that the Sar-
dimes We're put up in "EGstport, Me,
IC. 5. A
over $7J in money and articles Of
food and clothing We're contributed by
the Camden Board of Trade as a
Christmas gift to those in town who
were in needy circumstances. Much
of the money was spent for fuel and
articles of wearing apparel and
} seemed to be much apprpciatpd by the