Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-08-04


Granville Fernad.
Old York will celebrate it's 25Oth
birthday, tomorrow.
Bath learns that even a water carni-
val depends on dry weather to be an
| entire success.
The Rockland Opinion points with
| pride 70 the fact that it did not cost
hundreds Of dollars, as was expected,
| to repair the court house lawn after
the Bryan meeting there.
The Maine bound trains, are heavily
loaded, these days, and the August
travel promises to be a record breaker
The August moon made its debut,
yesterday. 1t is destined to see many
interesting things along the shore be-
fore it wanes, and inland, too, for that
matter.
Boston Herald: Maine is said to be
| waiting with open doors and u slightly
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army of summer visitors that has been
delayed by unfavorable weather. A
fortnight of sweltering weather would
mean many thousands of dollars to the
people of the Pine Tree State.
Some of the Pennington people do
not exactly like it that their soldier
boys are ordered to start on Sunday for
their across country march to the Au-
| gusta muster field.
One or two editors have attempted
to have a little fun with Holman F.
Day over some alleged inaccuracies
and anachronisms in his Days Work
| of a New England Farmer" in Every
bOdy's magazine for August.
The numerous other Maine electric
railroad projects are eclipsed by the
| scheme for 80 mile road from Bidde-
ford up through York, Cumberland and
oxford counties to the tall timber of
the upper New Hampshire border.
Real, genuine enjoyment is to be had
not solely among the fashionables at
the big Maine summer resorts. The
campers at the small inland waters
| manage to get considerable pleasure
out of a progressive whist party now
and then without all the fuss and
feathers" attendant upon more pre-
tentious affairs of this kind either at
home or at the swell resorts.
Are there or are there not brown tail
moths in Portland? 1t all depends on
what paper you read. One exclusive
ly" discovers them, and another lex
clusively' announces that the sus-
| picious visitors are only ordinary
caterpillars, and few in number at
that. Everybody will hope that the
latter paper is right.
Outside work on the Hubbard Ii
brary at Bowdoin is nearly finished.
The tower is completed and the CHM
neys are nearly finished. About all
that remains to be done is the Stating
on the roof. The building is a hand
some and imposing structure and COM
pletes the quadrangle. The great
square tower with it's battlements is
one of the finest things in Maine
architecture. uowdoin is not sur
passed by any college anywhere in the
beauty of it's buildings and grounds.
Many visitors from the seashore re-
sorts and neighboring towns come
daily TO see the grounds and to go
through the Art building which is open
| from 10 to IL and half past one to
every day.
w. D. Howells is spending the sum-
mer in his home at Kittery Point,
| Maine. This is said to be an in
dubitable fact. And yet the London
Sphere appears with this announce
ment: "Mr. Henry James has at this
moment an equally distinguished
guest in his fellow novelist, Mr.. w. D.
Howells. There are few American
writer's more honored in England than
Mr.. Howells; we read his novels and
we read his criticism, and we all hone
that he will have a thoroughly good
time on our Shores" The question
arises. HAS Mr.. Howells a double?"
If so. it would be interesting to know
| whether Mr.. Howells finds him a null
| VI IL COuNe some one
| wrote story not so very long ago IN
which a man employed a double very
much as most men do a secretary.
| Not only in Ellsworth are moose and
deer growing so bold, but all over Han
cock county. X. X. Thompson, keeper
of the Mt. Desert toll bridge, thinks of
petitioning the game commission for
the toll on the Mt. Desert bridge as the
animals have begun using it as a thor
oughfare. One morning this week the
man who was taking toll heard the
footballs of what he supposed was a
horse. trotting on the bridge. He
heard no vehicle but supposed that the
vehicle must be fitted with rubber
tires and started from the house to
collect the toll. Great was his aston
ishment when he reached the gate to
meet. instead of team, the largest