Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-08-06
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In the Maine Woods.
A trim old shack, with bark outside
Convenience everywhere within,
From rugs piano- Darlor suit
To cooking range and biscuit tin.
A hammock swings before the door
There's naught to want beyond doubt;
Yet with all this the summer girl
Thinks really that she's camping out!
New York Herald.
There was never lovelier day for Oid
Home celebrations than yesterday.
Falmouth is the next Maine town to
have 25oth birthday, but it will not
fall until 1865, so no plans for the cell
ebration are yet formed.
The Highland Cadets have had such
fine time that they don't want to go
back to Montreal at all, and the Port
land girls are unit in wanting them
to stay.
York, which comes at the bottom ge
geographically and alphabetically, was
also the last to hold its county conven-
ton. In most matters, however, it has
seat we'll down front.
Now that a bull moose has been
caught eating beaver, it will not be
surprising to have the story of a man
northern woods about the time that
open season begins.
The best girls will probably snug
gle up all the closer to their brave es-
corts while driving along the country
roads since the adventure which two
young Bath boys had with u tramp
yesterday.-Bath Times.
Just as if the Bath girls needed any
such excuse to induce the aforesaid
smuggling!
The attendants at the Longfellow
house in Portland are kept busy these
days with the constant stream of peo-
pie enjoying the hospitality of this
historic mansion. Last summer visit
ors from every state in the union regis
tered and this year promises to be the
same. In one hour over 60 names We're
registered in the visitors book one day
last week.
An Italian is working on the dam at
Deer Rips in Lewiston, who is willing
TO enter competition as the most in
jurcd man doing days work to-day in
the State of Maine. He has broken his
left leg three times: his right leg twice;
has lost one eye; has lost all of the
fingers on one hand; has a dozen scars
on his scalp; has his hide half full of
powder scars and last week while at
work on the dam completed the list by
falling down on a sharp rock some ten
or twelve feet, breaking one rib, start
ing another and twisting his ankle
He is at work at light work-puShing
a car weighing about four tons ten
hours q day.
The apple prospects are good in most
sections. Last year was an off year
seven months only 33,116 barrels have
been exported from Boston, whereas
in a corresponding period in 1901 the
shipment was 1880. The last week
has seen favorable reports of the apple
crop coming in from all eparts of New
England, especially Maine, and also
from Nova Scotia, although a greater
part of the latter no doubt will go by
way of Halifax. With a crop like that
of 1900 and several thousand barrels
for each of the large steamships, ship
bers may well become optimists.
The new book for boys, which will
be interesting, also, to girls, written by
Rev. W. w. Hooper, of Woodfords, is
now out. 1t is published by the Eagle
Press, Brooklyn, n. Y, in attractive
shape. containing several illustra lions,
including a good picture of the author.
| t has in it two stories one called That
Minister'S Boy" which tells of the
adventures of some Deering Lads, with
scenes largely located in Portland and
vicinity, and having in it one of the
best tributes ever paid to Elijah kel-
logg, whose name ard books are loved
by hundreds of thousands. The other
Fred Harwood", gives a bright, picture
of the best side of country life as the
hero Of it reverses the traditional
method and goes from the city to the
farm to make his fortune. This story
is located chiefly in the town of Turner,
introducing mention of the grange
there. The book will be read by the
young with great pleasure, as it is very
readable, and yet it is one which
libraries of all sorts and all parents
may well wish to place in the hands of
the boys and girls.
In eXcavating last week for the foun-
dation OF Browns new steam mill on
the Brunswick landing, two stone ovens
We're unearthed, three feet beneath the
surface, and besides them six inches of
ashes ana Goals, supposed to have been
left by the PejepScot tribe of Indians
when they were driven from their Old
camping ground near the falls. Some
forty years ago in grading down the
hill at Woodlawn avenue, two human
skeletons We're found. They were en-
closed in hemlock bark, and as lead
buttons were found among the bones. it
Was supposed they were the remains