Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-06-03
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Summum Bolr m.

How blest is he that can but love and do.
And has no skill of speech nor trick of
Wherewith to tell what faith approveth
And show for fame the treasures of his
When. wisely weak, upon the path of
duty
Divine accord has made his footing
With humble deeds he builds his life to
beauty
Strong TO achieve. and patient to endure.
But they that in the marketplace we
Each with his trumpet and his noisy
Are leakv vessels pouring on the street
its action.
And which think We. in his benign regard
Or words or deeds, shall merit the re-
Peter Macarthur in the June Atlantic
We hope Bath isn't going to follow
Augustus example in the Old Home
Week matter.
ONLY a month to the Glorious Fourth.
but the list of towns preparing to cele-
bratc is pretty short.
Washburn claims the only woman
doctor in that section of Maine, DR.
Amelia A. Dickerson who graduated
from a Chicago school. last year.
The Rridgton News retorts to the
Portland Advertiser that rural Maine
isn't half as scared over the burglars
as the coast was. in the summer Of
1898, over than phantom Spanish fleet.
There is no college baseball league.
this year, but each team has a series OF
games with the other three. and per
centages are easily figured. Thus far
Bowdo;n and Colby have had things
their own way. The test of supremacy
will come when they play each other.
June and II.
Messrs John NJ. s. Hunter of the
Pennington Chronicle. G. F. Flynt OF
the Kennebec Journal, G. w. Robbins of
the Old Town Enterprise and Chas. A..
PilIsbury of The Republican Journal
are delegates from the Maine Press
Association to the National Editorial
Association. which meets in Buffalo.
n. Y. June 1913.
We do not blame the Portland G. A.
r. men for being indignant that gaud-
lily decorated advertising carts We're
made a part Of the Memorial day
parade. 1t was most inexcusa BILE dis
play of poor taste. nothing short of a
| Vn1fvqr incyllf n tho Veterans dc:ld and
living.
Paul Castor's explanation that the
ent Rubbing Specialist" not Society
of Royal Surgeons" reminds Editor
Pillsbury of the Belfast Journal Of an
incident on Mississippi river boat In
ante bellum days. In the night there
was urgent need for a physician and
the passenger list was consulted to as
certain if there was one on board. A
name was found with the letters NJ. ID
after it. and the man was aroused from
slumber. When informed what was
wanted he exclaimed: Il amt no doc
to-, I'm mule driver"
Waterville sends out this sad tale OF
a minstrel company. Early last week
a minstrel company which had been
formed and had been rehearsing fol-
several weeks. went out on the road
for summer season. The first stand
was at North Vassalboro. The com
pany was named 1.-The S. =. Min
strels" and ontthe bills was the line:
This will be something that you will
never forget" The first night the com
pany played tn "A $2.75 business. The
company numbered Is. The members
had travelled in rain storm and had
been thoroughly drenched. The event
is probably ono that neither audience
or company will ever forget. All other
dates were cancelled.
Not for many years has there been sc
much drift stuff reported on the Maine
shores as this spring. Apart from the
bill logs. branded like the cattle on the
western plains. there are other logs
large and small. square timbers
pIanks. and more than the usual va.
riety Of small stuff. shingles. laths
edgings. butts. roots. trunks of trees
etc, etc. In some instances this drift,