Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-06-19

heart The parlOrs were decorated
with hearts ease and bleeding heart.
In the diningroom an appropriate
lunch was served. Dainty heart
shaped menu cards were arranged in u
clever fashion. Some of the dishes
We're: Lovers. spoons: always in PAIRS
cups and saucers; solace, Russian tea .
courtship. taffy: cause OF woe, cold
| tongue; cause of separation, sherbet.
The weather of the past week mas
started the rush for the summer re-
sorts.
The Bangor News says the drill hall
at the University of Maine is 10 be
decorated by Beers. The effect Will
doubtless be intoXicating.-iidd
Journal.
How do Uno but that the Beers in
question come within the three per
cent. limit Portland Advei tiser.
Our reason for thinking the Beers In
question does not come within the
three per cent. limit is that it is a Ban
gor prOduct.-Biddeford Journal.
1t is well agreed that nothing with
ness, than NORWOOD flourishes in the
Maine journalistic field.
An Augusta man of financial prOmi-
hence has just returned from trip
through the middle West and South.
where he went as the representative of
several persons who have interests in
that section of the country. He visited
many of the points where in the ia
nous investment craze OF a decade
ago. many Maine people planted their
money. never seeing il again, or even
portion of ii. He found that in a
few of the cities where investments
We're made in real estate prosperity
now reigns. and they are growing.
After the bubble burst most of the in
vestors dropped the property which
they wholly or partly owned. not car
ing to pay taxes and interest He
states that most of this real estate is
now valuable. If II had been held the
Maine owners must have emerged with
a whole skin. Some, however. did not
have the money to carry their invest
ments. and were obliged To give them
up.
The Penobscot river seems to be n
tickle jade this year. 4 few weeks
ago her floods We're taking the lum-
bermen's logs out to sea- and now
there is complaint that lack Of water IL
delaying the drives 80 that the mills
cannot be kept running. The kenne-
hoo. l. h.f ~
The De Burians-a club Of book low
ers organized in Bangor about a year
ago-issued its first publication on
juno Il. The selection Of a subject for
their first publication was well chosen
by the club. ON the l2Cth anniversary
Of the battle of Eunkcr Hill the club
issued in n Very limited edition a re-
print Of the diary of Peter Edes. son
of Benjamin EdeS. the old Revolu-
tionary printer of Boston. This diary
was kept during the time that Peter
k,des was confined a prisoner by the
British in Boston Immediately follow
ing the battle of Bunker Hill. II was
printed in pamphlet in 1896, copies of
which are now very rare. many OF the
flStpiitdl SttlttltS ana IL
braries not possessing n copy. So rare
is this first edition that a copy brought
$500 at auction in Boston not long
since. The copy from which the De
Burian edition is printed was loaned
for that purpose by a member of the
family from whom the club has re-
ceived much assistance in its work
In addition To the E.deS diary the vol
ume also contained the diary Of John
Leach. kept while a prisoner at the
same time, together with much other
historical matter relating thereto
Az important feature of the volume
will be biography of Peter Edes, who
was the first printer in Augusta and in
Bangor. who was printer in Boston
during the Revolutionary war. who
printed a newspaper at Newport, r. l..
and who was also employed on 4
newspaper in Baltimore. Md. This is
tn" first connected memoir of this
early Maine printer. that has even
been published. The volume is illus
tratcd by a dozen plates and reproduce
tons of interesting autographs.