Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-08-08

eDfate It's semi -fnllIonnlum IN Zl3Z.
The long vacation is now more than
half gone, and the youngsters are
counting the weeks before school opens
again.
That single case of smallpox at
Peaks island doesn't mean much dan
ger of an epidemic, but it does mean
very serious blow to the summer
business.
Naples didn't find it convenient to
observe Old Home week with the rest
of the State, but will have a grand re-
gust 80
Eight bushels of beans baked in a
hole in the ground! That was one i'm
portant feature of Minot's centennial
celebration, yesterday.
That missing Turner boy over whom
such fuss was made, is said to be
working in a White Mountain hotel.
1t is a pretty mean. selfish ard incon-
siderate boy who will steal off that
way and cause so much expense and
anxiety to his relatives and friends.
H ]. Wheeler of West Bowdoin, IS
years of age, was in Bath the other
day, and for the first time in his life
submitted to being shaved by a bar
Der. 1t was an odd experience. but he
knows now how it seems and he may
try it again sometime.
that clairvoyant at Old Orchard has
predicted a big fire to occur at that re-
sort before many weeks. One thing is
certain: Not even fire-trap built
according to the most approved plan
would bum very enthusiastically dur
ing such depressing weather as the
Maine coast resorts have experienced
this season.
The alumni Of Wilton academy will
have their reunion, August Is. There
will be a picnic dinner in the grove,
and in the evening exercises in the hall
with an Grafton by Prof. +. n. Whit
tier of Bowdoin college.
The last stone was placed on the
tower of the Hubbard library at Bow
6oin at 7.3O A. NJ. last Saturday. The
whistles We're blown in honor of the
completion of the work. The derricks
have beer taken away and all work
except stating the roof has been done
on the outside. The beauty of tle
building and also it's size can now be
appreciated for the first time. 1t is
without doubt one of the finest library
buildings in the country.
Prof A. L. Lane of Waterville writes
the Journal as follows: "The farmer
friend of your Waterville correspon-
dent is slightly off color in naming the
blue flower, so abundant in upper Col
lege avenue, orange hog weed; the
zoology of which name is also askew,
"hawkweed" being the name referred
TO- The blue flower so prettily adjoining
the roadside is chicory (cichorium in
tybus) and it's root is often used as a
substitute for coffee. The plant is
very harmless as compared with the
new hawkweeds, one of which (hiera-
cium floribundum) now making its
appearance in Maine, is most terri
BILE pest as it multiplies both by run
ners and by the scattering of its seeds
by the wind in the same manner as the
seeds of the dandelion are sown. Farm
ers cannot be too sharply alert in kill
ing root and branch the hawkweeds
as they constitute a most dangerous
menace to their prosperity.
The geological survey announces
that Maine is fifth in the value of stone
products among the states of the
Union Pennsylvania is first, with a
total product last year of S10.772, 2SS;
Vermont came second with a product
valued at S5.366,74 Ohio was third
| with rising S5.0OO.o00: New York was
| fourth Maine fifth and Indiana Mass
achusetts and Illinois coming after in
| the order named. The value of the
stone product in Maine was over
s.. 600 600. There has been a marked in
crease in the total of crushed stone
products, because of the building Of
good roads. Maine is one of the nine
teen states of the Union, where mica
is mined. The industry. in Maine is
Of recent origin, although mica has
been mined extensively in New Hamp-
shire for several years.
The ice trust is reported to be in a
far from prosperous condition. The
genius who was largely interested ir
its organization was Mr.. Charles w