Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-08-01
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Midsummer.
Thine is the sunny side of iangurous
Where peoples f1aunt their gorgeous SIN
en- blooms,
fumes,
Until the heart of nature softly beats
And dreamy echoes with their low re-
Grow less, and less, and sink in twilight
glooms, ,,..,
Within the silence of Pans lichened
rooms, :, .
Then rise again, where zephyrs sail their
fleets
slip by. till merged in cycles of the past,
Not wholly lost, since they have left
spell
OF tender warmth to hide the tickle ways,
And changeful moods of hours that FOL
low fast
Enough to hear thy lingering farewell.
Jennie Terrill Ruprecht, in Lippincott's.
August, the royal month of-the year.
The vacation season is now at full
tide.
Names thirG annual Old Home
week is at hand.
Yesterday was the great day of the
summer for the Hibernians and for
Maranacook.
The golden rod is unusually early
and abundant, this year.
The brown tail moth is reported il
Portland and it is a pest demanding
prompt and vigorous treatment.
Rain for August II. 10, IA and 10,
sure thing. Manager Porter is going
to hold another meeting at the Old Or
chard kite track.
According to the verdict of the cOrO-
ner's jury, no one was to blame for the
recent Old Orchard fatality. 1t just
happened" like lots CT accidents.
Maine may have been getting all that
was coming to her in the way of I'M
seasonable weather, but up to th4 pres
ent time she has fortunately escaped
the floods, tornadoeS, cyclones and
ether devastating visitations of nature
that have wrought incalculable damage
in other parts of the United States.
And the worst weather kicker N Maine
has not had word of fault to find, this
week.
With new street signs on the cor
ners and the houses all systematically
numbered, Rockland-is no longer a d.
ficult city for strangers to get about in.
Miss Vaughn, Wilton school
teacher, will start soon for the Philip
rincs where she will become the bride
of Arnold SanborE. a Maine boy and
Colby graduate, now teaching in those
Islands.
Rails for the new Fish River railroad.
which is to run from Ashland to Fort
Kent, have been laid to within a short
distance of Portage Lake, although the
ballasting has not yet been done. 1t is
expected that the road will be COM
pleted and running by Dec. l.
The business of the recruiting Office
IN Portland. now exceeds that at the
offices in Lewiston and Bangor, where
the business has dropped below the
average. The number of recruits now
required for the army is not so large as
formerly and the number accepted is
about three in eight, about % month
being the average for the three offices
| in this State An Office is to be opened
N the near future at Augusta, where z
humber of National Guardsmen may
be secured after the annual encamp-
ment of the State troops.
What is probably the largest acreage
of beans ever planted on any farm in
| Maine car be seen in Bowdoipham to-
day, OH the Blagdcn farm near Bow
| Goinham Ridge. This farm was pur-
chased by the Kendall brothers of the
| Sagadahoc Fertilizer Co. of Bowdoin-
| ham. and they use their own goods to
develop fertility in the soil. They have
| from time to time bought up number
| Of old farms ard improved them with
| Cnriching culture, ana the present il;
an enterprise of that character, show
| ing what Maine soil will dc and praC-
| tically demonstrating the worth of
their fertilizers. Forty acres of old
fashioned yellow eye beans were
planted the present season on the
| Blagdon place, e. p. Kendall manag-
| :ng the work, ana the crop is now look
! ing finely. This amount of acreage in
any one crop is n rare thing in Maine
and it is an interesting sight The
beans will be harvested by machinery.
Boston Transcript: Aroostook coun-
| ty is famed for its potatoes, of which
it produces about s4,00o,ooc worth
| yearly, but it has more attractive
| claims to the tourist in the fact that
within its limits the spinning wheel can
| be seen in operation. In Van Buren,
/ and other towns there is q considerable
| element of French people who cling to
| the olden ways and will have no mod
| ern improvements. In these places thu
French girls keep the spinning wheels
| going briskly. and as they wear. or at
least some of them do. the cid style