Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-08-16


Perfect and complete,
Ringing, rising. falling,
Soft and low and sweet
Baltimore American.
Save for shower or two this has
been about the loveliest September
week in August of which there is any
record.
The boys of the I'd regiment should
lose no time in securing the services
of the 1st regiment weather mascot.
There was touch of frost in the low
lands reported in several Maine towns,
this week. but we have not had to
shovel snow as they did up in the
White Mountains, Wednesday.
Thursday was a bad day for Eastern
Maine men in Boston. A former Ban
gor merchant shot himself at hotel;
brakeman hailins from Calais had
his foot crushed in a freight yard: and
a tramp claiming TO be from the same
city was arrested for assault and rob-
bt"y.
The third annual reunion of the
Simpson Descendants Association will
be held at Merrymeeting Park, Bruins
wick. Wednesday. August 81, to which
all descendants and their families are
cordially invited. The day will be de-
voted to social intercourse, forming
new acquaintance and renewing the
old
1t seems pretty well agreed down in
Cumberland that the prohbitionists
threw away whatever chance they had
of electing a sheriff when they put
Rev. A. S. Bisbee of Brunswick, in
nomination. Mr.. Bisbee is nice
young fellow, but he is little kIowp
outside of his town, and doubtless DIR
McAllister or Mr.. Dunn would have
polled a much larger vote.
The Democratic campaign committee
propose to submit the full dinner pail
argument in a new form, by putting
before the laborinsr men the cost of the
food in the pail. This argument may
work well before some audiences, but
it is two edged sword, capable Of cut
ting both ways. Uncle Scion Chase
can tell them that his argument en-
braced in the words, too much hog
in the dollar was fairly effectual IL
the country regions where the hogs
were raised, but was not so serviceable
in the villages and cities where the hogs
were eaten.
1t is announced that among the
Democratic orators who are to speak
Rhea of Kentucky. Perhaps the peo-
pie of Maine may be interested to
know now the lex became attached
to Mr.. Rhea's title. He was returned
as n member of the present Congress.
but it was proved that his certificate
had been issued by the Democratic
governor Of Kentucky on the basis Of a
fraudulent count. Therefore the
House unseated him, and seated the
Republican who had been rightfully
elected by the voters.
The Grand Trunk Railway Company
gives out the following statement of
the shipping receipts at Portland for
the months of May. June and July. The
receipts show again over the same
period last year: in shipments this
year is a little behind last season. The
figures for both years are as follows:
Receipts 1901. May. 554,534: June, $780,
go; July. 652,O67. Total. 1,S47,2S Ship
ments for May. S54.S95: June, 744,567:
July, s65, 7O9 Total. 2,405.1S0. Receipts.
1902, May. 945,s77; June. 645.404; July,
724.5S9. Total, 2,317.S70 Shipments,
May. 947,I22: June. 1928 July, $685.
400. Total. 2,363,692 The receipts for
this year have exceeded the three
months of last year by 47O.590 bushels
while the decrease in shipments has
been 41,4SS bushels. The reason for
the enormous grain shipments as COM
pared with the port of Boston is due to
the fact that the largest freight carry
ing boats crossing the Atlantic are
now stopping at Portland.
Kate Douglas Wiggin always goes
to Europe in the spring and stays until
midsummer. but she never fails to
spend part of the year at her Maine
country home, "Quillcote' on the Saco