Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-04-07

The morning is filled with music
From the birds in the leafiess trees;
The land is bathed in sunshine,
And kissed by the warm spring
breeze.
There are little soft gray pussies,
On the willows in yonder fen,
The crocus buds are bursting,
IT'S April, tits spring again.
The rush of the turbulent waters,
Tells us they are free again:
For God has sent the springtime,
Once more, to the State of Maine.
Iva w. Huntington.
vassalboro, Maine.
Eugene D. NORM, who for half q
century has conducted a grocery
store on Mill street, Brunswick,
retired from business, Monday. he
having sold out to Alphonse j.
Baribeau. Mr.. NORM is one of the
oldest business men in the town.
With the opening of the Saco River
Sunday morning, the first boat of
the year made a trip down river
and encountered no trouble what
ever from the few cakes of ice re-
manning. This Is the first time for
number of years that the river
has not been cleared by the first of
April.
A writer In the Portland Sunday
Telegram says the first chewingg gum
manufactured to any great extent in
this state was made by John B. Cur
tbs in Portland. This is probably
true when speaking of product due
to human Intervention, but Nature
was manufacturing chewing-gum in
Maine untold ages before Mr.. Curtis
began business, and the natural
article has never been excelled by
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Journal.
Addresses by Governor Ralph o.
Brewster, Grand Chancellor ]. Frank
tMassure of Portland, Grand Chief of
the Pythian Sisters Flora Southland
| of Pressure Isle, Mrs. Hazel Dean of
| Yarmouth, chairman of the Pythian
Sisters committee, and Mayor George
| w. Minot of South Portland Will
| feature the Western Maine Pythian
Jubilee to be held at South Portland
| high school on Monday afternoon
and evening, April 10.
Philip ]. Wiseman and Joe Martini
eau of the Wiseman- Martineau Radio
Co., Lewiston left Monday night for
Boston to confer with Mr.. holster.
Government Radio supervisor for the
| First District, regarding their broad
casting station license for Lewiston.
This matter has also been taken up
with both Congressman White and
Senator Fernald, and 1t is expected
that license will be granted and that
| the station will be operating within
a month.
A playful heifer eluded her young
master in Bangor the other day and
went galloping down Exchange street
intent upon casting the dust Of the
city from her fair feet, forever. Ar
rived at Union station, said heifer
was Immediately surrounded by an
enthusiastic group of would-be COW
! punchers-and two more daring than
! the rest secured the fleeing bovine
one by the horns and the other by the
| tail. Arrested in her progress the
wanderer was taken in hand by her
valet who arrived on the scene with
a halter in his hands.
It Is of interest to sportsmen In the
border towns to know that the fishing
seaxon in New Brunswick is open on
salmon and trout. The trout season
opened Thursday, April LIST and will
stay open till Sept. 30th. The sal
mon season opened April LIST and
continues to Sept. 10th, except on
the Restigouche River where it closes
August 18th. The nonresident IL
! cense fee is ten dollars for trout, and
| twenty five dollars for salmon. 1t Is
unlawful for anyone to catch fish
through the ice in lakes in New
Brunswick.
announced his candidacy for the
/ craftsmanship of the Democratic
! State Committee. Mr.. Fernald. who
4, is but rs years old. was elected a
member of the State comittee from
Waldo county, succeeding Ralph l..
! Cooper of Belfast at the Democratic
State Convention in Portland, March
"a. He is also q candidate for Rep
resentative to the Legislature from
his class towns. Dan w. Cony of
Augusta Is the present chairman of
the Democratic Committee, having
held that position for the past six
years. 1t Is believed that he will be
| a candidate for reelection. If so, a
lively contest is likely to develop.
The Commercial House at Winter
port, a brick structure erected in
1888, has just been sold by Guvanus
Dunton, who has been its proprietor
| for many years, to H. e. Whigam,
| formerly of New York. This i'm
portant real estate deal also included
the transfer of the Dunton block on
! the opposite corner. The Commercial
House has been the scene of many
| famous gatherings of notables in it's
early days of stage, coaches and has
! housed many illustrious personages
who were visitors to Maine. With
! the completion of the new federal
| highway the present season and
| with modern equipment, the hotel
may again reflect the glories of the
| past, according to the present
| standards of hotel service.
| Eyes, I well remember the spare
room in my old home in Oxford
| county," remarked an elderly friend
as he and the Saunterer of the Port
land Telegram were indulging in
| "reminiscences. at was a kind Of
holy of holes of hospitality. There
were rag rugs on the floor. circular
in shape and blue of color. Mothers
| famous feather bed was in that room,
! the kind of bed that you needed a
| step ladder to mount to and from
! the ladder top you could take head
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