Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-07-30
has not as yet noted any decrease in
the price of dressed meat.

has not as yet noted any decrease in
the price of dressed meat.
[EalQ6V4 Gossip
The Message from Home.
Then up from the grass comes a message
That orders the city away.
And the air, and the world and the being
Are filed with the light of a day
| .ong gone but ever respondent:
A day when the heart of lad
Beat high with the hope of a manhood
Which the promise of boyhood had
Upifted into the Supernal; q
Removed from the level of clayf
And set in the shrine of achievement ,-
Where the drea mers might come topray,
The meadow was filled with the sweetness
OF the hay that was newly mOWn, AZ,
And the future seemed filled with the
sweetness
OF the odor of hope newly blown.
Selected.
The new Bangor directory contains
11,42s Names a gain of 6O4 over the one
issued two years ago.
The Old Orchard landlords are be-
ginning to be convinced that Sheriff
Fogg means business there as elsewhere
through the county.
August IS, 10, and 20 are the dates
of Bar Harbors grand horse show and
fair.
Booth Harrington, the gentleman
from Indiana, is the latest addition to
the army OF authors who are summer
ing in Maine. He and his bride are at
Kennebunkport.
In no place in Maine are the dwelling
houses more up to date than at Rum
ford Falls, and many new ones are be-
ing built there.
Richmond is another Maine town
which once had the trading stamp fever
and is now getting bravely over it.
Many people are slow III having deeds
recorded, but few delay it so long as the
Raymond man who brought one to the
Cumberland registry, this week, which
was made out in 1850.
Reports are coming in from all parts
of the State of the great damage done
by the extremely high wind of last
Monday. Forests, orchards, shade trees.
fences, fields and gardens all show its
evil effects The oldest inha bitant
does not remember such a windy day
in July.
Rev. Mr. Sanford of Shiloh and Edi-
tor Mann of the Lisbon Enterprise do
not love each other very deeply. The
Enterprise mans latest is to figure out
that the chances of death at Shiloh
with all it's various epidemics are twice
as great as those which the modern
soldier runs in battle.
The Daughters of the American Rev
olution are much disappointed to learn
that the battleship Maine will not be
out of the navy yard in season for the
maneuvres and consequently the flag
tdu1lOt pC pltotillcd d. tlic- oeoLLCb lliiiS.
| 1t will now be uncertain just when the
battleship will come to these waters
and new arrangements will have to be
made when the opportunity presents
itself.
DIR. Frederick W. Payne who died in
Boston last week and who was recog-
nized as one of the leading occuiists
not only of the United States but of
the world, was a native of Bath and a
Bowdoin Medical school graduate. lie
was the son of a Bath physician and
was So years of age. He was much
honored abroad and such was his fame
in Europe that leading occulists of Eng
land. France and Germany often sent
patients to him in Bostin. His assist
ant for many years was Dr. l.. IL. KIM
ball, also a Bath man.
| The Brunswick Record reports the
discovery by a man digging clans in
| that vicinity, recently, of the rather I'M
usual phenomenon of two CLAIMS occu-
pying one she'll Only once before in
all his long experience with CLAIMS has
the discOverer found twins among BIZ
valves and that case was found in the
same locality. In the interests of
science this last freak was preserved
and brought to Brunswick so that it
may be studied by Prof. l.. A. Lee, who
is a leading authority in biology and
natural history
Tie Bath Independent wakes very
wroth at those who have been spread
ing the sensational rot about the
possible closing of the plants in Bath
as result of the trouble of the ship
building trust. 1t doesn't believe that
there is any occasion for the slightest
worry over the outcome of the tangle
and all Maine sincerely hopes that it is
| right.
Visitors to Togus are much interested
in the flying machine department. One
of the old soldiers of a mechanical and
inventive turn of mind has built a lit
tie Shanty on the grounds and here he
has steadily worked for more than