Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-04-14
Maine Gossip
1t s April

| A now calf in tho red cows stall
| 4 colt beneath tho maGC"i---
| The old SOW thinks her nin' rod pigs
Arc threatened by some danger.
| And Lady brings her four white pups,
! To show our proud old Tabby
That though her kittens may be fine.
White pups are not so shabby!
The house smells clean with warm
| soap SudS
And shines with paint and varnish.
My spring hat has a gildod rose,
| Warranted not to tarniSh.
Bits pillow turns up Che sweet warm
HIS singing as e. follows.
| The hens arc hiding out thcir nests
| Down in the bottom hUlloWs.
All. life is sweet, and love is good
| And winter a forgotten mood.
| It's April.
! Farm Life.
| These cold morning we need the
vision Of the robins, as they cheer
fully sing in some of our yards.
''cheer up, cheer up"
Daylight saving time will so into
| effect in Portland on Sunday, May
and will remain in effect until
] Sunday, Sept. 9. The South Portland
7 City Council recently voted to coin
eide with Portland on these dates.
! Ralph H. Howes, President of the
| Belfast Chamber of Commerce, who
secured the Boston boat mail service,
| has already begun on his endeavors
| for the same next summer. Bust
! ness people appreciate his work in
! their behalf-The Republican Jour
| nal, Belfast.
| Floating ice in the Sansanoa
! river massed near the entrance to
Upper Hell Gates, prevented the
| motor packet, Worry, from making
| the trip from Bath to Five Islands
! Tuesday afternoon. Captain Blais-
| dell returned to Bath and remained
! there until noon Wednesday, leaving
| for Five Islands in advance of
| scheduled sailing before the tide and
! ice would be able to cut up such a
| caper on him again.
| Miss Helen Payson, class of 1923,
of Portland, has been elected cap
tain of the grass cops of Smith
| College for this season and has her
army of "a well organized for the
fra. 1t is the special duty of each
"cop" to take particular care of the
grass at the edges of the paths and
of the lawns most often used as
short cuts. The whistle of the cop
is a warnA{g to the transgressors, to
be followed yopunishment If it is
4! used more than three times on the
same person.
Summer vacation for more than
400 small children attending ST. Pc
ter's parochial school on Blake
street, Lewiston, will begin May !.
month earlier than regular closing
time. Wcrkmen employed by Pelle-
tier. Rivard and Malp, Lewiston
contractors, will start razing the
school building at that time to make
| room for the now brick school now
| under construction. Trees and the
stone wall surrounding the old
structure are already being carried
| away.
The highway is now open all the
way from Portland to Boston for
auto trucks and pleasure ears and
the travel over that road will grow
| heavier now from day to day. The
heavy trucks will have to he kept off
Maine dirt roads for 4 while longer
unless they are to suffer greater
damage than a country town can
| repair in a whole season. PhippS-
burg had several experiences of
this kind during the last two or
three years. Now it keeps them off
the highways until tho frost is out
and the ground settles.
| NJ
out of Saddlebacll Lake tEangcley
region) Bets are running high, with
everybody excited. xAll conditions
indicate that the daA viii be about
as late as any in the past >twclvc
years. Tho official table of dates for
, that term follows: 1872, May =; 1913,
April 80: 1914, May Is: 1915, April
%; 1916. May s: 1917, May Is: 1918,
April 80: 1919. May /: 1920, Nav 16:
. 1921, April IS: 1922. May .; 1923.---
However, taking an average of other
years aud calling May normal. it
seems that this year May will be
very close to the date.
Large numbers of employees in
the mills and factories in Lewiston
and Auburn are strongly opposed to
the adoption of daylight saving time
and petitions may be circulated to
protest against the shoe factories
and mills making any change from
Standard time this year. Rumlles
: that the mill workers were against
daylight saving time. persisted last
year and the change in time was
thet object of constant verbal abuse
Mills and factories of the Twin
Cities are now considering adopting