Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-06-20

| gurdies from town.
Most of our Maine cities are furnish
| ing two or three weddings each day
| now.
The Brunswick Telegraph makes
some emphatic and wholly justified re-
! marks about those people who think
| it is 4 joke to announce engagements
which do not exist.
If the Republican majority in
| September is over $4,000 the Demo-
Gratis can know it is because they OBJ
stinatey refused to nominate DR..
| Crockett. He promised, if nominated,
to keep it down to that figure.
While some cities particularly in the
South and West are glad to negotiate
their bonds at a premium of two per
cent, Portland's credit is such that It's
| bonds command over four per cent.
| That was the premium at which the
| city disposed, this week, of refunding
bonds TO the amount of $614,OO0.
Biddeford Journal: Where are those
red sunsets that were to come as the
| result of the blowing up of Mont Pelee?
| Bangor reported one about three weeks
ago, but as Bangor is always seeing
| things, and as no confirmat ton came
| from any other part of the State, the
| phenomenon has been catalogued in
local history &c u
Already the tide of summer travel is
setting towards Maine and with in
creasing force, the prospect being that
more visitors will come into the State
than ever before. Sure it is Maine
never looked more attractive than to-
day.
A New York paper tells the romantic
tale of a Bath, Maine, w. II. Fisk, who
| has married, as the result of a matri-
monial advertisement. Troy, N. Y.
woman who has had three previous
| matrimonial experiences. The ac-
count goes on to say: ''All the resi-
dents of Round Lake, including the
| summer guests, We're at the station to
see them off. The bride of about three
| score and ten looked very youthful and
| composed in her old rose waist, large
white hat and silk raglan lined with
white. The trunks were decorated
| with numerous old shoes and labels.
| One Trojan attached Il doll to the
| trunk. The welded pair entered the
| train amid a shower of rice, the ire
pressible boys following them into the
| car. The groom is represented to be
worth $155,000, and the bride is in COM
| Portable circumstances. They go di-
rectly to the home of the groom at
Bath
+, We frequently hear dispairing COM
ments as the result of disfiguring the
rocks that line our roadways in some
| sections of our county. We think peo-
| pie generally read an advertisements in
| q newspaper with widely different feel
| ings from the one painted upon the
rock by the roadside. We well re-
member what a lady said few years
since who crossed the continent from
California to Maine. Speaking of her
journey she remarked that much OF
the way she could not look from her
car window without seeing painted in
| large letters Use - --, Stove Polish"
and she farther said if this
was the only stove polish
in the world her stove would go
without backing. Our opinion is that
this is the sentiment of many who read
the advertisements upon rocks and
trees and fences that line the roads of
this section.
Portland Advertiser: Maine should
celebrate Bunker Hill day as enthusi-
astically as does Massachusetts. So
should every other New England state.
and the whole country for that matter
Better still. Maine should celebrate
Patriots day. These holidays are not
provincial, they are general. and be-
long to the whole nation. Some day.
perhaps Governor Hill will do it next
year, hope we shall throw Fast day
to the scrap-pile where it belongs and
adopt one of those days which Massa-
chusetts enjoys, but of which she has
no monopoly.
Waterville Mail: Bowdoin is entire
ly justified in asserting her title to the
championship of the Maine colleges
, in baseball for the present season, so
far as any championship at all is in
! volved. There has been a general I'M
. Outstanding from the first that there
; were to be two games layed by each of
the four colleges with the other three,
and that these games and these only
were to count for championship hon
ors. OF these six games Bowdoin Won