Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-08-24

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have been secured.
The corn packing factories are being
started up.
The West Branch drive was reported as
passing Medway last Saturday, after "A run
of eight days from North Twin dam.
There il good head of water and the logs
will soon be in Penobscot boom. The
anxiety Of lumber men will then be at an
end for the season.
Ocean Park is one of the places where
SUNDAY is always remembered and it would
not have been at all surprising if school
of mackerel had taken advantage of the
fact TO put in there that day for safe har-
Dor. But they didn't, and the recent report
of such visit was all mistake The fish
arrived there in good season Saturday after
noon and that SO many got into the frying
pan was only what might have been ex-
peCted.
Fred Ware, the skilled gardener for Hon.
II. 7. Sargent, South Brewer, is irving An
experiment on a squash in Mr.. Sargcnt's
gariel. The vine grew over 4 picket fence
near the stable, AMI blossom formed some
three feet from the ground From this
blossom II squash. now weighing five or six
pounds. grew, and hangs pendant from the
vine The squash is getting heavier all the
time. and 1t is question whether it will
break It's yiae or the stem and drop. or hold
on and tipen. We wager the vine will be
strong enough for the squash to hOll its
grip and get in u condition for making.
A very pretty sight is the flower plant at
the Auburn Grand Trunk railroad station
with its background of green lawn, The
plant is circular with gigantic Gamma in
the centre surrounded BY parti colored
ph OK and eallas.
At this season every year some new sum
mcr resorts are started on Maine islands or
unoccupied land at established pleasure
grounds is cut up into lots AMI sold. One
of the most successful transactions of this
knI occurred at York Beach last week.
Twenty acres of land there had been divi-
,led dp into seventy-one lots and hotel
site and all were put up at auction, and
every lot sold Those mex. to the sea wall
brought big prices some of them selling
for thousand dollars, and the corner lots
also brought good figures. The lots farther
inland were bought at low figures for spec
ulation. The hotel site was bought by Hill
,ireth, proprietor of the Atlantic House at
York Beach The total receipts from the
sale were 0,oo0. 1t is said that several
cottages will go up at once.
Ii is said that Messrs. Henry Poor & Son
of Boston. will not rebuild their tannery at
VIM. lately destroyed by fire-at least not
in that town, as there is very little bark
left in the country above that place. In
,iueements have been made to the firm to
build "A tannery on the line of the Aroos-
took Railway. One place in particular on
the line of the new road has very heavy
growth of hemlock. and would be an excel.
lent site on which to build
The midsummer river carnival at Ken
nebunkport ON SATURDAY evening last was
a grand affair, and it is sal that an ex-
pendi,ure of SIS 600 WAS represented in
boats exclusive of the decorations which
were appropriate tn the time and place:
they were gay and resplendens in colors
and Examinations. limitations of all sorts
of fosting affairs were eIevely planned
and carried out. The drawbridge and
indeed the whole village were one dazzling
ARA, of lanterns anil oiher lights. torrhes
banners and streamer-. MANY Residences
were beautifully decorated.
The caution which one of our Biddeford
exchanges gives the people of York county
NAV be needed IN other portions of the State.
and we reproduce the following from our
contemporary ''A large number of York
,.,..vs., hax.. bstfap tks, fab ar ffo
offers of picture canvassers, claiming to
Providence. Their method has been to
canvas the city. agreeing to furnish a cray
on portal, for 50 cents. Large orders
were secured and several days after, the
eanvasser collected the money and took a
picture to be enlarged. the one giving it
wouLl receive postal requesting them TO
call and select frame. These frames are
priced at SIS up to 500. When people re-
quested the return of their pictures and
erayons, they were told they were at Port
land. Ii Is an old game and people should
watch out for them and not be pulled"
The entrance to the Georges river, along
whose upper valley the new raiiroad is to
be built. is about thirty miles to the east of
the kennebec. Although ii is one of the
smallest rivers, vet for the distance of four
teen miles from its mouth it is one of the
widest and most beautiful rivers in Maine.
II was the first river in New England to
receive an English name, rs il shown in all
the earlier mape name given it in honor
of its fret English diseoverer, George
Weymouth. II was even in the early col
onia1 times noted for its stately forest trees,
its lime and granite quarries, which for
three centuries. like the iccbergs from the
glaciers Of the North, have been annually
ssesachea from rs banks and ioated away
in the shape Of stately ships of 400 to s400
tons and huge building Of granite and lime, |
70 form the nav,es and cities Of the world. |