Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-04-08


April's charm is in the shadows
OF the clouds that hurry by.
She has set the hills rejoicing,
She has strewn the fields with flowers,
All the birds are blithely vocing
Praise of AprtPs happy hours.
Sunlight bright ming, sunlight fading.
Skies of blue and skies of gray;
There are tears, and here is lauehter.-
Take your choice this April day.
The report that the early potato crop
in the South had been touched by the
recent heavy frost has started a little
but welcome boom in the Aroostook
markets, the prices in various sections
ranging from Is cents to 81 per barrel
A novel and pleasing feature Of the
Newspaper Institute to be held the
third week in April at the University
of Maine will be the programs, which
will be printed on paper made by the
students Of the newspaper chemistry
department in the university's own
plant. Another pleasing number on
the program will be banquet pre-
pared and served by the students of
the QOIneSllc science course.
Mr. and Mrs William Barter Of FISH
er's hill, Boothbay now have 10 children,
the latest arriving March 20 and the
Oldest being but 16 years of age.
Merritt Holt of Norridgewock a cor
respondent writes, has cat % years OF
age. Now % years is a long time for a
cat to live. especially since 10 years Of
its life extends into the automobile era
even more trying for cats than the dog
era. Mr. Merritt, the story goes, thought
a cat SO venerable should have an ami
versary celebration and carrying his
belief into action he arranged a fitting
birthday observance for the end ami
versary. Amongst the invited guests
was ten year old daughter of mamma
guantanamo, great grandmamma, ETC.
cat. This % year old cat must have
lived at least eight of it's nine lives al
ready.
Sea faring men fear that the fivemaster
schooner. Mary W. Bowen. which left
Boston Feb. 26 for Norfolk, Va, has
been lost. Since March / when the
Bowen was reported at Vineyard Haven
she has not been heard from, and as the
trip to Norfolk usually takes but a week
or little more when the weather is bad
it is the general belief that the craft
has gone to the bottom. Her master,
Capt. Trip. was formerly in command
of the three-master Emma F. Angel
The missing vessel is owned in Taunton,
Mass, and one of the owners, Capt
Chase, was IN command of her from the
time she was launched until recently.
The Bowen was built in Bath, Maine. in
1870! by the New England Co and was
a craft Of 2153 tons.
Bath is proud Of the ships that it
builds and justly so. 1t appears from
the following editorial taken from the
Bath Times that Bath takes the great
est pride in Bath-built U. S. warships:
Bath-built warships are SO constantly
employed on the most arduous service
that it constitutes a high compliment to
the quality Of the labor and material en-
ployed IT. their construction. Within a
few weeks the Government desired a
baltleship for the Mexican service and
the Georgia was detailed. Gunboat want
ed in the same area,~ the Machias sent.
Light cruiser needed in the Levant,
Chester selected. These ships were all
built at the Bath Iron Works, the Ma
chias % years ago. and were all presum-
ably chosen for the work on distant sta
tions because Of their good condition and
dependableness.
A party Of Bangor wedding guests
would not be denied the fun of giving
the departing couple ''send-off'', even
after the couple, eluding the wedding
guests had sped to Northern Maine
junction by automobile. The wedding
guests waited at the depot for the newly
married pair to arrive. The couple did
not appear lhowever-they had taken an
automobile to Northern Maine Junction
The guests were undiscouraged and re-
sourceful. They simply boarded the
train and 50 the parting send-off with
its deluge of rice and confetti, occurred
at the Junction instead of in Bangor. 1t
was a pretty scene and pleased the pas
sengers Immensely.
A prominent citizen Of Plymouth, 1t Is
said. has recently been victimized by
a pen artist, the artist making $2s7 by
few strokes Of his pen. The story runs
thus: the Plymouth man employed a
young fellow to work about his home
and first instructed him to saw some
wood. He was employed there three days,
at the expiration Of which time his en-
ployer paid him the amount agreed upon
-, giving him check, dated March 5,
drawn on the Pittsdeld National Bank.
There was no protection on the check
and consequently It was an easy matter
for anyone to alter the figures. The
check was caShAa at the bank as 500.