Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-07-08


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turn East, having purchased a house
in Attleboro, Mass. Mr.. and Mrs.
Clark have just finished weeks
visit at the Pierce's.
'Summehawiss' the beautiful sum-
mer home of Coz K. w. Soule, has been
opened for six weeks, and in and
about it are all the delights of a per-
manent home. The colonel has added
to the fleet on the lake, a fine gasoline
launch.
c. B. Burleigh of the Journal has set
tied his family here for the summer.
although at present his wife is absent
at her old home in New Hampshire.
We are ali glad to greet here Mr..
Alden Sprague of Los Angeles, CAL,
formerly of the Kennebec Journal. He
is here at his cottage with his wife,
after an absence of ten years. Mr..
Sprague was the pioneer of the sum-
mer resort business on the east side of
the lake, and in 1876 bought the
beautiful pine grove of twelve acres,
and erected thereon the Swiss cottage
he now occupies before his return to
Mr.. Sprague came to the editorial con-
troll of the Journal when vital issues
We're before the country for considera-
ton, and welded an able and trenchant
pen. Mr.. C. S. Hichborn and family
have also occupied the cottage q pOr-
ton of the time.
| am panied to learn that on ac
count of i'll health, Henry c. Lewis
Of
come to their cottage, the 'Halycyon,'
at present. The indications are that
Mr.. Lewis is afflicted with cancer on
the tongue.
"Waldheim" has been occupied for
two weeks by Dea. C. G. Hunt, his wife
Anna Sargent Hunt and the mothers
Of each This beautiful home by the
lake is always the centre of great at
traction. where many callers receive
warm welcome Early on their COM
ing they We're visited by Mr.. and Mrs.
Isaac Beale of New York, and c. H
Cunningham and wife of Augusta.
Their place was the headquarters of
the Sargent Mission Band who came
out here to the number Of q to cele-
| brate the Fourth. Among the number
were Rev. DR.. Sitter and wife of
| Crosier Theological Seminary, New
York.
"Cedarhurst," the summer home OF
| G.. A. Robertson and family, is re-
| splendent with new paint. The Rob
| ertsons are great entertainers, and
| will have their cottage full of company
| later in the season.
| DR.. f. G. Kinsman and family have
been at the Glad Hand Inn" one OF
| q Il
one of the most desirable locations, off
and on since the ice melted: and long
before that, ice boating was the pas
| time The doctor is a royal entertain
| er, and his guests may be numbered
! by the score, from the Governor down
| to the humblest newspaper man.
Camp refuge has had for guests
the past week a company of young
merrymakers in the persons of Emily
6. StinsOn. Susan c. Johnson, Florence
G. Lyman, and Josephine f. Tuell'
schoolmates. who are spending some Oh
the happfest hours of their vacation on
these hospitable shores.
Mr.. George S. Rowell Of the Portland
| Advertiser, one of the best fellows III
the world with his wife, has been
spending few days at the Lanes.
I would say to the stranger within
orr courts that there are no notes
here. but an excellent boarding house
is conducted by Mrs. Phebe Foote OF
Augusta, who has leased the Iippln-
colt cottage, and serves meals to al
who come.
Congressman Burleigh looked in upor
lis on the Fourth, and all will be glac
when he moves out here permanently.
w. W. jackson of Augusta, mos1
I excellent master workman, who Is al
: expert on jobs of this kind. has rebuilt
the bridge across the creek, and 1t i
in a better condition than ever before
d. Nov let the town of Manchester take
hold and keep it in repair.
On Sunday the first regular trips o
fine electrics brought hundreds to TIT
lake side who Toasted their eyes oil
1 scenes of which before they had oni,
; had climpses. The possibilities of thi
1 section thus afforded convenien
n means of transportation, cannot b
: foretold.
2 Weather sublimely beautiful