Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-03-26
Maine GOSSIP

"aood-by winter-Hello springw
My overcoat feels heavy when l get
out in the sun
And the snow upon the hilltops is sure
~ on the run;
The ice that bridged the river has dis
appeared from view
And fur coats and galosheS are dis
appearing too.
There's something in the atmosphere
that makes me want to sing: 4
"Coodby Winter-Hello SPRING.
There's three new pairs of rubbers in
a row out in the hall,
The boys out in the vacant lot are
loudly playing ball:
The par1ers and the magazines are
filled with tender verse
Concerning. birds and budding trees.
and buZzing bees-and worse.
1t makes me want to shout aloud ard
hear the welkin ring
To "Goodby Winter-Hello Spring.
The anglers are getting their fishing
And dreaming DER the same old dreams
about the biggest trout;
The postman is o'erburdened with
catalogues of seeds
And the gardeners arc dreading the
summers crop of weeds.
Show me the man to whom these
words can never mean thing;
"Goodby Winter-Hello Spring.
Raymond C. Leighton.
Augusta, Maine.
Rockland will be one of the Maine
cities which will have daylight time
this year and will have it for the
same period as in Massachusetts
which commences on the daylight
schedule on April q.
Two Maine four-masted schooners,
the Robert l.. Bean and T. N. Barns
dali, both for New York, We're in
collision on Saturday last at May
port, Fla. The former had part of
forward rigging damaged, while the
Barnsdall lost her bowspirit.
DIR E. w. Peaslee of Thomaston,
has announced that he will be can
didate in the Republican primaries
for nomination for State senator. He
has served one term in the House,
and lis particularly interested in the
kennebec bridge project.
Considerable drift ice in the river
Monday morning which had come out
Of docks and creeks and possibly
some from near Merrymeeting bay
A few days more of such weather
and the ice will be coming down the
Kennebec as it getting very thin and
weak.-Bath Times.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Coombs of
Damariscotta saved a doe from being
killed by a hound Sunday while they
| were walking up the railroad track
IN, he -ioip cf he vii ,u
pursued by the hound. and appar-
| emily fast firing in the race, the deer
came bounding over the ties, almost
| colliding with Mr.. and Mrs. Coombs.
| When they spied the hound behind
| her. they drove it away with a show
err of rocks. Deer which were plenti-
full in that county, few years ago.
have almost been eXterminated by
/ dogs.
Mrs. Viola B. Quimby of Bar Har-
Dor, chosen as alternate delegate to
| the Democratic National convention,
will be there whether she has a
chance to be seated as a regular
delegate or not. She anticipates a
| delightful and interesting trip. Mrs.
| Quimby is the wife of William Quinn
by, a well-known Bar Harbor bust
ness man. and has long taken a keen
interest in politics. For two years
she has been member of the Demo-
| cratic State committee for Hancock
county and was reelected at the last
State convention. This position
| makes her county director of Demo-
| cratic Wemen's clubs for the county.
She has organized such a club in Bar
Harbor and is making plans for or
ganizing the Democratic women vot-
ers of other places in the county.
A few weeks ago somebody, re-
ferring to the large number of for
mer Eastport people residing in the
Scollay Square district Of Boston,
termed that part of the Hub Little
Passport" Now comes James A.
McFaul of Portland, and ip a COM
/ munication to the LastpoA Senti-
mel he states that If Boston is
, Little Eastport," then Portland is
| simply a suburb of the municipality
down the coast. Just to prove his
assertion he presents list of ex-
Eastporters in Portland filling more
! than quarter of column Of the
newspaper.
The first day of spring was warm,
the second warmer and the third
warmest and vet the killjoys will tell
You that there is yet no certainty
/. that March will continue lamb-like
| for the remainder of its course. Re
member the year the Portland was
lost, they say: or think of the snow
| that we got last year in the latter
portion of March. Very true, OF
course. and yet with the ice leaving
| the river and the sap running and
the snow about departed, there is