Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-01

yesterday, but wait till some of those
Labor day parades get under way,
next Monday.
At the new Rumford Falls hospital
five emergency surgical cases were
treated last week and SO medical cases.
No wonder the town cannot see how it
ever got along without it.
The really great event at the State
fair will be the baby show, tomorrow.
With 1875 entries and no fewer than q
special prizes offered it is certain to be
q bowling success.
Aroostook county will harvest TO-
100000 bushels of potatoes this fall a
quantity as large as the average crop
in Ireland the chosen home of the po-
tato. Just now prices promise to rule
low but with so large a crop there
must be much money paid out to the
farmers between now and spring.
Maine writer's appear in several of
the September magazines. The Peru
Pauper Case" by Holman f. Day,
with two illustrations, appears in
Everybody's Magazine; Sewell Ford
has short story in Harper's Maya
zine, The Remuneration of Petrus,"
illustrated by Fletcher C. Ransom,
while John Preston True a son of the
late Er. N. r. True of Bethel, has an
;oIo
in Pearson's Magazine.
About 900 spick and span new duck
suits will be worn out of Rumford Falls
on Labor day by the members of the
local unions who go to Livermore Falls
to take part in the Labor day celebra-
ton there. Every branch has de-
signed a different style of costume, and
various colorings will be used in the
make up. Both the men and the Wo-
men of the unions are to take part in
the parade, and the order for the suits
includes feminine garb as we'll as the
attire for the men.
The children who have been running
wild since June and enjoying them
selves as children will, are coming
back now With tanned faces and with
stone bruises and with many signs of
having had the time of their lives.
When school opens they will be rest
less for a while, but with health and
vigor they can soon fall into the routine
of school life. finding their studies
less irksome because they have forgot
months.
Albert, the Bangor negro who shot
and killed Policeman Jordan will be
sentenced to Imprisonment for life. He
has reason to be thankful that he lives
in Maine. where it is impossible to
commit a crime so heinouS as to be
punishable by DEATH and where peo-
pie are not given to taking the law into
their own hands. A little further south
or west a mob would turn out and with
scant ceremony put to death the negro
that had killed a policeman.
Among the visitors to the Longfellow
house, the past week, was Webb G.
Is, VI L cIlioiIl, tillO, u SUI VI l.
ident Hayes. There were also those
who came from Australia Honolulu,
Japan. Arizona. New orleans and San
Francisco. The attendance up to date
has been over 44O0. The ladies of the
Women's Literary Union are still in at
tendance and receive many compli-
ments from the visitors for their cour-
tesy and attention, which are merited.
The iron roof is now being put on the
new library building and the new
structure will be soon covered in. The
early completion of the building de-
pendson the subscriptions to the fund
which are earnestly solicited by the
society for the work to be done.
1t seems that Wilton, Raymond, AL
bany and Surry are not the only Maine
towns to celebrate their centennials,
this year. The prosperous and beauti-
full town of Dxfeld also passed its
Tooth milestone, this summer but no.
body in town seemed aware of the an
niversary or bothered to mention 1t
| until Harvey Waite of Boston, ma
tive of the town and very energetic
! and public spirited old gentleman came
| down to make visit. His enthusiasm
| stirred things up and celebration was
arranged. which, though rather intor-
| NAL and impromptu, was much better
j than none at all. Last Saturday even
| ing there was a public supper at the
| Opera house and about everybody III
! town was there. Then came music ana
| speeches and the evening was maze
one to be remembered. Mr.. waite
brought with him from Boston a me
bell which he gave the town to hang on
| the engine house.
Rev. DR.. George E. Street, of Exeter,
N. H, will he the historian of Mt. Des-
ert, and under the title of mt Desert
in History, Literature and MODERN
Life he will next year publish liiieis
illustrated volume in commemorative
, of the 300th anniversary of the diseot-
cry of the island by Champlain. n.
Desert antcdates nearly oil America.
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