Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-03

sweet, airy tnlnS!
So he passes by, and she patiently is wait
| ing
| Till she may renew her youth in joyous
days of spring.
-Pittsburg Dispatch
Sidney's great town fair, today
October is also serving up blue-rib-
bon weather.
Belfast's smallpox scare was bad
enough, but it is very much worse to
have it complicated with a fire bugs
deviltry.
The Bath theatregoers have had a
feast of late, there having been % per-
formances at the Opera house in three
weeks.
The winner of the fredericksburg
series cannot claim the worlds cham
pionship without winning a series from
Waterville-or is it Fairfield?
1t will be Alfred's turn next week to
dedicate a new library, and on Tues
day the Parsons Memorial library,
donated by Hon. George Parsons of
New York, and Rev. John Parsons of
Brookline, Mass, will be formally
opened.
A Gorham man, Charles NJ. Patrick,
did not kill two birds at one shot, this
week, but he did succeed In killing a
coon and seriously wounding horse.
Miss Kate Vannah tells a Com
to her first love, the composition of
contralto songs, and that she also has
in manuscript wedding march which
will soon be published.
PROFESSIONALLY the Music Festival is
great success in both Bangor and
Portland this year, with great crowds
in attendance and everybody pleased.
And Blauvelt has a firmer hold than
ever on the Maine heart.
The presence of prominent Maine
Central officials down in Washington
county sets that section all a-flutter
the Washington county road by the
Maine Central
Il have been all over Maine" said a
travelling man in Auburn on Thursday
land these cities are the only ones
where | can't get a drink of liquor
wi III Il in nod
someone is enforcing the liquor laws in
Androscoggin as they are enforced in
but few places in the United States.'-
Lewiston Journal.
The Kennebec officials would like an
interview with this gentleman. If he
because he brought his supply of
liquor along in his trunks with his
samples.
The Salvation Army wishes to estab-
lish an industrial home in Portland.
To do this it has taken a building at
the corner of Milk and Silver streets
which is now being fitted up to ac
commodate fifty men if necessary. The
llllllIl cOSl Ol lHlS WOIk IS dDOul 3tUUU.
A new addition to the front part of
the Maine General hospital, Portland,
to be known as a "sun room for chill
dren" is being constructed and is well
toward completion. The new annex is
being put on to the right of the main
entrance and is fairly circled with win
dows. 1t will furnish the children with
a delightful room to play in and will be
of inestmable value. The addition
besides it's real usefulness will also
add much to the present appearance of
the building.
Passport reports that the catch of
sardines continues to be very small.
The receipts at that port last week
We're in the neighborhoOd of 1900 hogs
heads. While this is quite an i'm
provement over the preceding week, the
fish have run very large in size, and
but a small proportion of the catch
was suitable for packing in the oil va
riety. The tides We're very favorable.
and in ordinary years the catch
should have been more than double the
receipts as above given.
Race suicide does not appear to be a
problem in fremont. In a recent issue
of the Ellsworth American, where a
list of a dozen births We're recorded,
nine of them were from fremont, and
still the record goes on.
Bar Harbor people are quite inter-
ested in reading the accounts of the
difficulties Of the Lake Superior Con-
solidated, remembering that one of F.
H. Clergues younger financial ex-
periences was there when some 20
years ago he built and operated the
Green Mountain railroad. To the older
residents it does not seem very long
time ago that the cars were running
up and down Green Mountain but it
does not touch the recollection of the
younger generation. 1t was about 20
years ago when Mr.. Clergue came from
Bangor with his proposition which at
first took the form of railroad on the
village side of the mountain with the
cars running right down it into the