Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-04-04
Maine GOSSIP
Little sprineti.ae Lady


Tripping down tho fields and dolls,
W 18th roses in Your hair.
Winter You have stayed too long,
Time to say. good bye.
For we want to greet MISS Sprlngume,
Underneath. a smiling Sky.
Little Springtimc Lady,
Lovoliest in the land.
With wealth of sunshine in Your hair.
And flowers in Your hand,
We welcome You and greet you,
With love beyond compare,
our lovely Springtimc Lady.
With the roses in Your hair.
Waldo Ii. Bennett. Bangor. Maine.
Ralph Wyllie, a Warren milkman,
Knox county record Monday when he
visited his customers for the 123rd
consecutive day.
When Rev. r. Edward Griffith
moved from WaterVille to Mortified,
Mass, where he preached his first
sermon Sunday. he made the trip in a
freight car with his household goods
and his horse.
First signs Of the breaking up of
the Ponobscot river came Monday
when a huge field of ice from a mile
above Wintcrport struck a wharf.
carrying away about 80 feet Of piling
and throwing the buildings badly out
of line. Damage was $1,000.
Construction work may soon be
started upon new S250.000 Bangor
schoolhouse, Il modern building of
twenty class rooms with up-to- date
equipment. The City Council has al
ready voted to expend $1,000 to
purchase a 12-acre lot at French and
Broadway streets and the school
authorities arc planning to begin the
building in q few months.
Say. Mister, want to pay my dog
tax. I've got fifteen cents and will
pay the dollar later
The speaker was small boy con-
, fronting tho Rockland city Clerk at
about closing time Monday after
noon The lad was accompanied by
= lively little dog that apparently did
not worry whether his tax was paid
or not The boy was assured he
could keep his dog if he would pay
the license fec as soon as possible.
lie went away happy.
Mrs l.. NJ. McDougal' while rum
masing about her home at 6S Chest
nut street, Bath, recently came
across a framed picture of Washing
toms reception by the ladies' at
Trenton. \. j., April, 1889. on his way
to New York to be inaugurateu first
president of the United States. He
is surrounded by six mounted guards.
The picture measures - Il inches
by 10 - inches and under a drapcd
canopy of flags and flowers is this
inscriptions: "He who defended the
mothers on Dec 26. 1916, wilr protect
the daughters 1t is a pretty picture
and is cherished very highly by its
owner.
The business of the Office Of the
Portland Building Inspector for the
year ending April /, 1923, was the
largest of any year since the office
was first established, according to
| the report of Charles A. Hanson, In
Spoctor of Buildings. which was sub
mittcd to the Portland City Clerk.
THE outlook for the coming year
is very promising" says Mr.. Ham
son in tn report. plans have been
made for several large and costly
! buildings, and if the public does not
get too enthusiastic over the bright
prospect, so as to cause an advance
in prices of material and labor. l be-
lieve the coming season will be a
prosperous one
NJ. A. Cook, the>welI known Bel
fast photographer is laid up with a
dislocated bone in his neck which
a doctor has told him was probably
caused by throwing his head back
too quickly when laughing. Mr.
Cook laughs very heartily but he is
at Il loss TO remember just what the
joke was that caused him to go to
such an extreme. OF course there
is a chance that he may have in
jured himself by fall but while he
can remember laughing he can't re-
member falling. Possibly he was
laughing as some fellow falling for
laughing as some other fellow fall
ing for falls on the slippery streets
have been very common for some
months.