Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-08-08

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John e. Tabb.
August really ought to be ashamed
of it's first week.
| tomorrow morning.
| The Bangor liquor dealers are having
bad attack of nervous prostration.
Aroostook reports that there is a well
come shortage in the potato bug crop.
The grain will be ripe by the time the
farmers get through haying.
The biologists once more shatter
those dreams of possible coal mines in
| Maine.
1t will not be the fault of the D. A. r.
| if every school boy in the State isn't
familiar with the Declaration of indie
pendence. By the way, did you ever
| read it?
| 1t will be noted that Principal Bragg
and Sub-Principal Knowlton of the new
Normal School at Pressure Isle are
Maine men, although they are now in
| North Dakota and New Hampshire
respectfully.
Midsummer does hot cause any
| waning of interest among the Andro-
scoggin Oranges. At the August meet
| ing of the Pomona Grange the fifth
degree was conferred on &C. candidates.
Auburn now presents man who Is
the. living image of the new Pope. The
| Lewiston Journal says his neighbors
freely discuss the comparative merits
of the two. but doesn't state which is
| given the better of the argument. 4
According to a news item in the Ban
gor Commercial, man and his wife
have Just returned from a fishing trip
| to a Maine pond, where the man caught
| So perch and 104 hornpOuts while his
wife caught 10 perch and 173 horn
pouts The most interesting feature of
| the case is that they seem to be proud
| of their exploit.
A colored woman in Portland who
was arrested, this week, for pension
| frauds rejoiced in the name of Ruth
Matilda Love Divine Seymour Terry
| Belle Caroline Finney. Moreover, she
| claims to be the widow of man named
BleuInI' - : -. - - -Sa -.
| Portland's new "Cheer-up club" a
midsummer nights dream of the un-
| terrified local Democracy, starts off
with a membership of almost so, and
/ plans to be heard from next December
| Upward of SO,OOO000 lobster fry have
| been liberated along the Maine and
| Massachusetts coast during the season
If only one in a hundred of these and
of the millions that the fish commits
sion is putting into water from year to
year comes to maturity, there would be
| Holsters enough and to spare; but the
| lobster has many enemies to contend
with and those of them that live in it's
own element reck not of close time or
| other protective laws.
| The State fair grounds at Lewiston
have been greatly improved since last
year, and will shine anew when the
great show of 1903 opens. The fences
have been painted the secretary's office
repaired and painted, newspaper row.
has been painted, in fact everything
that is paintable, has been painted and
still improvements are being made
daily The grounds near the stock
sheds have been graded and many other
minor changes made which are very
noticeable. The race course is in splen-
did shape this year, and promises by
fall to be the fastest in it's history.
| Experienced men have been at work on
the track, rolling and smoothing it, UNI
til now it is in excellent condition and
will he still better month later.
| Lobstering at Matinicus has ceased
for two. months to comply with the
special law passed at the last session
| of the legislature regarding Matinicus.
| A petition signed by a large number of
| fishermen of that vicinity in the form
of an agreement was presented to the
| legislature asking for a close time on
Holsters during August and September
the period during which the Holsters
shed their shells. Outside of Monhegan
where their is a tacit understanding
among the fishermen not to catch
! Holsters during a certain portion of the
year, Matinicus is the only place on the
coast where the fishermen agree not to
pull traps during a certain portion of
| the year. This will give the lobster a
chance to thrive and the. fishermen
| think that their catch later will amply
reward them for the idle two months
| All of the traps have been taken up and
many of the lobstermen have gone
deep sea fishing or turned their atten-
ton to other lines of business in and
about Matincus.
What is said to be the largest shark
ever killed at Rogue Bluffs was taken
at that place this week by Charles and
Morey Watts who own and manage
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