Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-03-21

| heard Spring call across the gray
And brokcn-clouded sky today,
And caught faint eNasivc scent.
Like some dim memory of May.
There is no least light-budded spray
OF white or green along my way
And yet on some grave message
1 heard Spring call.
7 It sounded like some thrush astray
loo early. or some wistful fay.
That. begged scrap of merriment
Through storm and cold i bidc con-
tent
Since beginning promise bHthe and
heard Spring call.
Charlotte Becker in Cartoons Maya
zine.
c. Pembroke Carter. Il. +. d. car
! rier on route ., Freedom, says. there
are some places on his route. where
he can grasp the telephone wires, by
/ standing up in his sleigh.
! The first twins in Cornish, Me. ir
% years We're born last week to Mr.
and Mrs. Walter S. Whitney. One is
boy, the other girl. and people
have been going long distances
, through storms and snow to see
them.
Rates in the kennebunk kcnnebunk-
port and Wells Water District will be
reduced July LIST 81 for the first faucet
! Since the towns took the plant from
private nagemcnt three months ago
| overhead expenses have been reduced
500. hydrant rentals have been equal
lied and are S35 year and fountains
are s12.
On logging road near Island Falls
deer was found with one leg shot
off. The deer ran as Ray Glidden
with load Of pulp approached, but
soon fell exhausted. The suffering
animal is being cared for until in
.. structions are received from the fish
and game commissioner.
The record for early vegetables is
claimed by the postmaster at Sea
Wall, near Southwest Harbor, who
| has a potato plant Is inches high
two small plants about six inches in
IIclSHl, Will ScN cI dl cluSltIS VI W Hllt
blossoms and one bean, ne-half inch
long.
| Mr.. and Mrs. S. X. Ballard of 80
South Golf street, Auburn, celebrated
their golden wedding anniversary
Monday. Owing to the illness OF
| Mrs. Ballard, however. they We're I'M
F., able to keep open house, or to make
any actual celebration of the day
! They were married in Boston, March
! 10, 1873, and went to Auburn three
years later, that city being their
home from that time to the present
Boys and girls. in Oldtown were
happy last week. Lack of funds has
caused the closing of the schools for
two weeks instead of one week before
| Easter. The action of the school
board followed~the receipt of let
ter from Mayor Weeks. in which the
| latter warned that the school appro-
priation was practically spent and
| that that no additional expenditures
would be sanctioned.
Miss Nellie Guilford of Old Orch
! ard, who mas just concluded service
as a member of the 1929 grand
! jury Of the supreme judicial court, is
the first woman in the State to serve
| on grand jury. She was chosen tc
! be clerk of the grand jury and full
| filled the duties Of the Office as eff
! GENTLY as man could. AT the con-
F, clusion of the term she was present
! cd nv the members Of tho i,Iry with a
/ gold fountain pen. Miss Guilford is
resident of Old Orchard and has
been active in church, social and club
| circles.
For the first time in the history OF
Saco a woman will serve in an i'm
portant subordinate Office of the city
during the coming year. according to
! information received on the makeup
of the slate selectad nv tho fOur Re.