Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-22

Wild flowers on the hills.
The clouds OF gray ensulf the day.
And oVerwhelm the town,
II isn't raining rain 10 me,
It's raining roses DOWN.
Il isn't raining rain 10 me
But fields of clover bloom.
Where every buccaneerng lee
May find & pea and room,
health unto the happy.
A fig for him who frets:
1t isn't raining rain to me,
It's raining violets,
Robert LoVeman in Capper's Weekly.
Baths building boom is expected to
add about 300 houses to her taxable
property
The living Governors of Maine
are William T. Cobb, Bert NJ. Fer
maid, Frederick W. Plasted, William
T. Haines and Oakley C. Curtis.
One interesting report came to
Commissioner of Inland Fisheries and
Game Willis +. Parsons on a recent
trip through Washington county
which would seem to allay some
what at least the fears of sportsmen
that the partridge is disappearing.
Several sportsmen, and wardens as
well, stated to the commissioner that
they had seen that splendid game
bird in large numbers that appeared
to have wintered we'll.
And the report also came from
Piscataquis county that they were
plenty in many sections. Mr.. Chaplin,
cashier Of the Great Northern Paper
Company, came down Monday night,
and meeting Mr.. Parsons on the train,
told him that cartridges were very
plentiful in the Moosehead region,
that he saw 25 on one trip.
Just where these birds came from,
with such scarcity last fall, is
something of a mystery, but it is pre-
suned that instinct directs them, in
some way, to care for themselves
even in \ hard winter. Should this
prove a good brooding season the
partridges may be fairly plenty next
autumn. The matter is being watched
with considerable interest by sports
men.
During his visit to the Columbian
Exposition at Chicago in 1893 Cap
tain Thomas J. Little of Portland was
interested in looking over the Libby
prison which had been moved from
Richmond, Va, to the Windy City.
AS a souvenir he bought a metal
headed can made from a piece of the
original floor. This cane he has pre-
sented to the Maine Historical So
ciety.
OF the IS young men who were
graduated in the Bowdoin College
class of 1888, II are living and of
them IL are residents of this State:
Ernest S. Bartlett. East Stoneham:
DR.. William II. Bradford, Portland;
Charles T. Carruthers, Brunswick;
George +. Clay, Portland: James l..
Doolittle, Augusta; William T. Hall,
Bath; George II. Larrabee, Portland;
John II, Maxwell, Livermore Falls;
Albert w. Meserve, Kennebunl<;
Frank l.. Smithwick, Damariscotta;
Albert W. Tolman, Portland. At the
coming commencement this class will
observe the Goth anniversary of
graduation. Al OF the unnamed
members, with one exception, are
residents Of Massachusetts. The ex-
ception Is Howard l.. Shaw. born in
/ Cumberland. who has made his home
il Marion, Ohio, for the past IA years.
DR. Frank +. Sleeper Of Sahattus
has the distinction of being a mem
Der of the first class to graduate
from Bates College. This was in
1867. or the eight members of this
class two are living besides himself,
Rev. George s Kicker of Wachita,
kas.. and Rev. Arthur Given of Cler-
mont, Florida.
! The tax rate for the town of
Southport has come down to $3.50
on $1,000, as against S22 last year
Squirrel Islands rate will be only
$3.50. This reduction is not war
time economy. for the town is having
every Improvement it needs, SAYS the
Boothhay Register. but is due ia
great care on the part Of the town
officials
! c. Ney Holman is doing his biz
this season toward the Knox county
wheat crop which now gives promise
of being large enough to keep Mr.
Littlehale's proposed -four mill in
operation, says the Courier Gazette
Mr.. Holman has laid down five acres
! and it is already coming up album
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