Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-08-14

at Peoria, Illinois. last week, is the
only encouragement that the Prohibi-
| tionists have had thus far in the cam
paign.
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In August.
oh. the boy that threw the SNOWFALL
In those happy days gone by,
\ high ball or low ball,
How I'd like to see him try
The skill | once upbraidedi
How I'd chuckle with delight!
| would have him serenaded
By the band most every night.
When the mercury is spinning
Up to ninety in the shade.
Then his antics seem so winning
| regret the fuss | made.
His pastime seems to fit me
In these days of heat intense,
And every time he hit me
l would give him fifty cents.
Washington Star.
1t was an off year for Brother Simp-
sons collection agency.
The Bath Independent publishes a
timely picture of a husking scene in
Topsham.
Not a word this summer about Grov-
er Cleveland coming to Belgrade Mills
to fish for bass.
As the result of it's Old Home week
reunion Goulds Academy expects to
see a $15, 900 endowment fund raised.
Ellsworth is going to have an indie
pendent Old Home week, a little later,
when it celebrates it's Tooth ami
versary.
Elbridge Gerry Carr, the poet of
Mexico, struck Lewiston the other day
| with 81 brand new poems in his pocket,
but to his credit none of them We're
Old Home week efforts.
What shame that the big five mas
ter, Carnegie, should sulk on the
stocks at Bath when 10000 people had
gathered to see her slide into the Ken
nebec.
The Ocean Park Chatauquans are
closing a good seasons work and will
have a trip to the White Mountains,
| tomorrow, as a reward of merit.
The Portland golfiacs talk in awed
subdued tones of the work of the great
! Vardon on their links.
A week more and the Maine political
| campaign will open with boom that
will be heard from Kittery to NADIA
waska.
Lewiston Journal. Judge Peters said
to his Bangor fellow citizens: Il love
Bangor because it's temperate, toler-
ant God fearing, generous without the
least bit of hypocrisy or sanctimoni-
ousness,' and, bless your soul, that's
why we all love Judge Peters.
Capt. Timer Johnson of East Ma
chas is exhibiting one-cent piece of
! 1891 date, taken from the stomach Of a
Goldfish caught off the "shots," last
| week. Capt. Johnson and three other
men who did the fishing threw their
| fish together and when they were be-
| ing dressed next morning the coin was
| found.
Those who work in the sardine fac
tory at Machiasport tell of an amusing
display of ambition by man who
came to the factory with a team for
| fish pomace, last week, and was told
that he could have all Ire could haul
! for a dollar. He shoveled pomace into
that cart for an hour and might have
been shoveling yet if the cart had not
collapsed under the load. He is now
bewailing the folly of avarice.
Mr. Roy e. Dunn of Poland and Miss
/, Belle G. Wright of Durham, were
married on Thursday. at 10 A. NJ. at
! the home of DR.. Wright, father of the
bride, at South West Bend, Durham
Lewiston Journal.
1t is needless to say that all the con-
CALCULATIONS We're to the effect that
Roy had done right.
Those perspiring performances by
the Maine cities were all right so far
as they went, but the true benefits of
Old Home week came from the quiet
reunions in the Maine villages and
around the old hearthstones. just wait
till You hear about the Maine schools
that receive new libraries and new en-
dowments and the Maine churches
that are built over. You may not hear
about how many mortgages on the old
farms are paid off by those who have
their hearts stirred once again by the
old scenes, but the mortgages will be
paid just the same.
Boston Journal: Any one who saw
Gen. Joshua L. Chamberlain in the
Old Home Day parade in Portland
must have been impressed by his ap-
pearance. He was every inch the ideal
veteran. Hair and moustache snow
white, complexion clear and ruddy, eye