Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-06-29

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not
The dimensions of the oklahoma
wheat crop are no small arguments
for statehood.
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Summer Song.
When June lights all her fires
Through melting mists of morn,
With roses on the brierS,
And dewdropS on the thorn,
With scents that pierce the brain with
bliss,
Blown from some sphere embracing this,
One brief, bright hour and tieeting.
Oh, then, with blind entreating,
Love in her heart is beating.
With shy. wild wings is Beating
Love in her heart is beating.
When June wakes all her choirs
Through under heavens of green,
With bursts of sweet desires
In warnings wild and keen,
When all the leafy world of June
Breaks out in blossom out in tune.
IN Joys as DleSt as HeetnS,
Oh, then, with blind entreating,
Love in her heart Is beating.
With shy, strong wings is beating.
Love in her heart is beating.
Harriet Prescott Spofford.
Coed growing weather.
No reports of frost in Maine, this
week
The early hot wave makes the sea-
shore landlords happy.
What do the present day seniors
think of the times when the college
term continued all summer, and COM
mencement was late in August?
Rumors of dogs with hydrophobia
symptoms are now more numerous
and alarming than smallpox scares.
augusta having held the honor long
enough, will now allow some other
city to stand at the bottom of the New
England League.
Biddeford Journal: Genial Nature
is making up for lost time these days.
Every Maine farmers Investment in
the soil is now drawing a rate of in
telrSt that makes the annual state
mcnts Of the Maine banks look like
final statement in insolvency pro-
ceedingS.
Everybody hopes that President
elect White of Colby is just the man
wanted ana the kind of a man who
will stay.
The ground was broken, this week,
for the Carnegie library in Lewiston.
Work will be commenced upon the
building as soon as possible. in order
that it may be completed during the
present year.
Nobody in Brunswick enjoys com
nencement week. and in life in gen
eral, for that matter more than James
II. Tibbetts. the veteran barber. who
has occupied his present shop since
1854. He is - years old, but is as
active as at 80 and does not even wear
glasses at his work. He likes to see
the old grads back, and is as popular
with the boys as when he shaved Tom
Reed in his undergraduate days.
Portland won't have to build a pest
house on House Island, for which an
appropriation of $1,000 was recently
made by the city council. The United
States government is willing to build
ard maintain a quarantine station
there if the city will furnish the land.
The committee is unanimous in favor
of recommending that the city aban-
don the island to the government for
the purpose proposed.
The intelligent cOmpositor who made
it read retiring alumni" instead of
| returning alumni could never have
seen or heard a gathering of the hun
| dreds of happy, loyal graduates, old
| and young who throng back to Bow
doin's campus during commencement
week. There is nothing retiring in the
crowd, and for that matter not much
retiring is done during the nights of
| the week.
| a letter was received one day re-
Gently from a gentleman, formerly
a resident of Dexter, who offers
! the information that he owns THE old
est wagon in all probability in Maine.
1t was manufactured in 1742 and is
, therefore 1853 years old. The owner
stated that it might form n desirable
feature for the centennial day process
siOn August IA, and that he should be
pleased to make arrangements to this
effect. The gentleman's name won't be
revealed at present as the committee is
afraid that some curio hunter will be
disposed to buy the wagon and spoil
an opportunity to obtain a feature for
the procession which will be of great
value. The wagon will undoubtedly