Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-03-19
MAINE GOSSIP


The spring has come to our hill,
High above the town:
Gray winter snow from southern
Has melted and run down;
The earth looks dead and soggy;
The trees look bare and dun:
But it's spring again on our hill,
For-the sap's began to run!
Chickadees still swing, heads down
From the big pine near the door;
We've not heard single robin.
And we sha'nt, for two weeks more;
The nights are clear and nipping;
OF course, we'll have snow furries
But-the sap's begun to run!
The river in the valley
Has spilled over ice-fed, free;
And meadow elms rise lonesome
From a tideless. sky-blue sea;
There's no softness in the air yet;
But-Pails Hash in the sun
Where our children tapped the ma
For the sap's begun to run.
by Katherine Sawin Cakes, in the
St. Nicholas.
ION March the twenty-first is Spring
When little birds begin to sing"
Mrs. Fannie E. Stone, who for the
last 80 years has been postmaster at
Edgecomb has been absent but two
weeks from her duties during that
time. Who else has record?
The old Anthony buoy in Casco
Bay, has been put into commission
again by the lighthouse tender Hex.
which has gone eastward with deck
load Of buoys, oils and lighthouse
supplies Of various kinds.
The making Of hooked rugs among
the islanders off the Maine coast has
been encouraged until last years out
put in value, Is estimated at over
$4,000 to the makers. The women
find a ready market for the rugs
among the summer people.
For the first time in so years, Otis
s. Smith, a taxicab driver of Belfast,
was obliged to call for the assistance
Of q doctor because of an injury to
his leg. 1t is also the first time that
injury or illness has obliged him to
lie abed.
Miss Alice NJ. Carter and Miss
Elizabeth Carter Of Portland are two
Of the sixteen Juniors at Wellesley to
receive the Wellesley College and
Durant Honor Scholarships. Miss
Katherine H. knight of Gardiner was
awarded the Wellesley College Schol-
arship.
The meat carts Of Pickering Square,
Bangor, are again in the limelight
caused by extensions built on the
carts which causes n violation Of
the city ordinance, according to
complaints received by Chief of Police
Benjamin Sproul. An investigation
has been ordered.
The steamer Maquoit OF the Casco
Bay Lines, has been placed on COM
mission, and with a party of seven
carpenters has begun the work OF
putting into condition all the
wharves and landings OF the company
The wharf at Orr's. which was con-
SlicI e1pAy udlild6Cd ny AtC hhO pcSS
winter will be attended to first.
The court room of the municipal
court at Bangor has again had some
Of its furnishings removed. This is
not the first instance and is believed
to be the work Of young hoodlums
who visit the court room at night,
easily coming down stairs from the
auditorium above, without passing the
guard room, and orders have been
issued to have new locks put on the
court room doors.
1t is interesting to note how women
are gradually working into municipal
offices since the adoption Of the nine
teenth amendment. This year in the
81 towns and three plantations Of
Oxford county IA women were elected
to the several school committees.
Eleven women We're elected town
clerk, six town treasurer, four col
lectors. In two cases a woman is both
treasurer and collector, and in
Sweden, Mrs. II. II. Merrill is treas
urer, collector and member of the
school committee.
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