Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-03-14

arbiter and auditor"
Kansas is still ahead. Emporia i,
the only town in the country that ha.
had the nerve to ask Andrew Carnegi,
| FOR two Observation-Disclosures City Jour
nal
The Emporians are plainly deter
mined that the six years of famine il
Kansas" prophecied by that five.
weeks old infant, shall not include in.
tellectual food.
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Purity Soon!
Purity soon believers
You'll all fergit the snow;
| The crow will find the cornfie'
Where the larks air layin' low,
An the music of the plowman's voice
| Purity soon, believers.
The sun the sand'll heat
An the towheadsll be wadin'
An the Georgia watermelon
VIII be ripe, an red, an sweet!
Atlanta Constitution.
Old Home week will be the first
week in August.
1t Is said that some of the Maine
boys teaching in the Philippines will
soon come home.
brunswick. true to old traditions, al
ways opens it's town meeting with
prayer. How many towns do like
wise?
A Rpckland lady. for want of some
better fad, has made collection of 13a
1902 calendars.
No clam digging by non-residents on
the Freeport flats after this. The &C
ton of the town is little rough on
the summer visitors.
Hon. j. r. Bass holds to his idea of
one big State fair, held i'm alternate
years at Lewiston and Bangor, but the
Lewiston people do not see it that way
Portland's latest saloon is row.
boat manned by two girls who navi-
gate the water front and dispense the
ardent to all who have the price
Island Falls puts in a claim for the
biggest load of bark of the winter. 1t
was hauled by one pair of horses and
measured up eight and five-eighths
cords. The dimensions were "a feet
long, Is feet high and four feet wide.
The town meeting in Hermon on
Monday resulted in a most emphatic
endorsement by the voters of the
course pursued by the assessors during
the past year. Among other things
the assessors added 33 names to the
poll tax list, the most of them of men
who had been exempted at 20 years of
age, and some of them had paid no
poll tax for 10 to Is years-men of
property. too. This practice among
assessors of exempting from poll tax
for age alone, has prevailed in Her
| mon for many years, and it is sur
prise to learn that it never had any
sanction in law. Twelve more per-
sons with money at interest have been
taxed, than formerly-this and extra
polls making s373.64 additional taxes
quite an item in small country town.
The Path Enfarpri0o fn,,rau ba
when they get that electric railroad
between Wiscasset and Boothbay, it
need not be long before an extension of
the line to Woolwich and the Sagada-
hoe Ferry will give Bath people an
easier way to visit Boothbay Harbor
than by the water route. 1t wouldn't
be much of put out for Bath people
to cross the Kennebec river and take
trolley car at Sagadahoe Ferry in
Woolwich and ride to Boothbay and
the seashore. The novelty Of the idea
would be an attraction and no doubt
the ride itself, through Woolwich, Wis
casset and Bristol would be de-
light.
Ora w. Knight, of the Maine expert
ment station, writing to the March
number of Rhodora-the useful little
journal of the New England Botanical
Club, now in its fourth volume, says:
"On June Is. 1901, found Hieracium
praealtum. (known among farmers as
king-devil weed growing commonly
and in full blossom between Kendus-
keag and Corinth. 1t was in fields and
meadows by the roadside. The plant
must have been established in this To-
cality for number of years in order
to have become so abundant" To
which the editor adds the following
note: H. praealtum. characterized as
the worst weed which has recently ap-
peared in Maine. has destroyed many
hay fields in the Kennebec valley,
where H. X. Morrill, and others have
made vigorous. though usually vain
attempts TO arouse the farmers to their
obligation to check its rapid encroach-
ment. Its spread in the Penobscot
valley where the Orange hawk-weed
or Devils paint brush is already a
pest. should be scrupulously guarded
against"
Portland Press. Thero 10 M vood %,