Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-04-06
Maine Gossip
Spring..

Little or nothing remains unsung,
Spring Is joke too often sprung
A musty. stale review.
Not what have. but what haven't you
OF robins musical throat;
OF budding trees. and the scented breeze
That out of the woodlands float;
Of sunshine, showers and greening sod;
And more that I could quote.
You've seen the beauties of Spring, COM
plete,
March to fame on poetic feet
What else can mortal note.
I've searched the expanses of earth and
sky
For charms that have never been set
To my most intense regret,
A single thing in the nature of Spring
That hasn't had it's poetic fling,
From the crow to the violet
All can think and indite is here
Spring is the life and soul Of the year
The seasons one, best bet.
A Bangor man has recently been
through remarkable surgical expert
ence and comes out reinforced in his
frame and greatly improved in health
having had several pieces cut from the
bones of his legs and grated onto his
backbone. The operation was performed
in the Eye and Ear Infirmary, Portland,
and was very delicate piece of work.
A meeting of the Maine Hotel Proprie-
tors Association will be held today at
the Bangor House in Bangor.
The salmon refuse to take the bait cast
into the famous salmon pool at Bangor,
although the conditions are supposed to
be good. The water is only ~ feet on
the dam and salmon is worth 81 per
pound, but they simply refuse to bite
and the fishermen are justly indignant.
The 200th anniversary of the settle
ment Of Portland by Major Samuel
Moody in June 1716 will be properly
celebrated according to action taken
Tuesday evening at meeting of rep
resentative civic bodies. President C..
F. Flagg Of the State Board of Trade
presided and was empowered to ap-
point Committee OF Eleven to make
all plans for the observance.
Fifteen thousand tons of ice going to
waste is the situation at East Hampden,
where the winters harvest of the Ameri-
can Ice Co., is slowly melting under the
rays of the sum-" says the Bangor News.
mo effort was made by the company
to preserve the valuable product of the
Penobseot river. gathered at considerable
expense, the ice house having been de-
strOyed by fire few weeks ago, it will
be remembered. The house was half full
and the ice could have been saved with
out much loss by housing. but the sud
den freeze of the Hudson river in March,
after all hope had been given up of a
harvest there. apparently had decided
effect upon the plans of the company
here. Some 100000 tons of ice were har-
vested on the Kenrebec and it was
planned to gather about 10000 tons here,
was half filed"
Dover-Foxcroft April Am aeroplane
travelling at quite a high altitude passed
over the twin towns about o'clock last
night going in the direction of Bangor
The lights on the airship were distinctly
visible for long distance and were
seen by George Sanford. Harold Parker,
Lawrence Doore and other young men
in the village. The aeroplane was also
reported to have been seen by Sanger
Vile residents.
Two Bath-built clipper ships. the
A. J. Fuller and Charles E. Moody,
have been chartered by ]. J. Moore
& Co. OF Port Townsend. The Fuller
Is now loading at Everett, Wash,
and will sail for Port Prize. Austral-
Ia. next week. She is taking on
cargo Of mining timber. sx10 and
10x10 and ranging from IL to 20
feet long. A duplicate cargo Of 1,3OO,-
600 feet is to be taken by the
Moody and IL scheduled to sail May l
for Australia The Moody was built by
Goss & Sawyer in 1882 and the Fuller
In 1881 by John Mcdonald. The for
mer is a craft Of 2004 tons and the lat
ter 1S49 tons.
H. A. Lowell Of Wayne is a typical
staunch New Englander. He is aged
81 years and on Saturday last, arrived
at his home from a trip to the West
where he passed the winter. Not
fatigued by his trip home Mr.. Lowell
went to church the next day, which
was Sunday. and following the service
told his friends about his trip.
The reports are coming in from
many Of the country correspondents
that this year brings the poorest sap
season that has been known for sew
eral years. The owners Of sap trees
are proceeding in the work of tapping
the trees at the usual time of year. but