Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-09
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Progress in the Rangeleys.
There's a telephone and ping-pong up at
Grants,
And a square piano near the beavers
hauntS,
With an airy fairy tinklc.
While the rising moon and silver lake en-
chants.
There are spiral springs and linen on the
And white and soothing pillow for your
head;
There are napkins when you eat
And three dishes with the meat,
And comfortable feeling when You're
fed.
For the good old time of tent and boughs
are past,
Noisy Progress is a-coming mighty fast;
Farewell to trail and bog
And the leGn-to made of log
TracklcSS wilderness and days too good
to last!
oh, the. memories that vanished trails in
Quiet pools and jumping fish to your de-
It's the willy trout you missed
And the girl You lost, but kissed
'
fifc.
Through the woods the rafting engine
screams and pants,
From Bill Soule'S to Kennebago they ad-
And the irritating whistle
Is heard mid birch and thistle;
Soon the brakeman will hello. All out for
Grants"
Robert Bridges in Golfers Weekly.
Full moon, today. Now will it rain?
Incidentally, the forest fires mean
fewer mosquitoes to bother the fisher
men.
Lubec plans to have the biggest
Fourth of July celebration ever known
in Washington county.
In many minds the notorious
calamity is almost as bad as the
drouth and the frosts.
The Biddeford papers say that Old
Orchard expects an unprecedented
rush of business, this summer.
The effect of the new law is seen in
the increasing number of gulls along
the Maine coast.
The Madawaska valley goes in for
smallpox by the wholesale. and doesn't
get excited over it, either.
Some of the preparatory schools are
making protests quite as prominent as
playing in their baseball games.
Hon. T.. =. WinsloW of Portland, is
being nominated for president of tn"
State Board of Trade, provided Henry
Lord of Bangor declines reelection.
Calais as well as Camden will be
represented in the Zeigler polar eX-
! petition. John G. Vaughan, a mCm-
Der Of the party, was born in Calais in
| 1915 and has roughed it extensively liz
the West and in Alaska,
| Elijah Norton of Dover. has some 50
foxes at his fox farm near the village,
| several youngsters having been born
tho present season. Last winter he had
AZ but disposed of several At the pres
| ent time the London fur sales quote
fox pclts as being so per cent. higher
| than last year. Mr.. Norton says that
n good clean silver gray commands $500
| in that market today.
| Two amateur gardeners in Belfast
are getting themselves laughed at, this
summer. One attempted to put top
| dressing of phosphate on a nasturtium
/ bed. but used Portland cement i'll
| stead. When watered it made Gov
ering as herd as a rock, but the coat
| ing could be removed, while the same
| amount of phosphate would have killed
| the seeds The other gardener Watercd
Il low of sweet peas nearly two weeks
only to find that nothing was planted
| where he had been watering. the sweet
peas coming w in a row about foot
away.
Three Maine girls are in the gradual
ing class at Nassar College, this
month. Miss Whitmore of Brunswick,
Miss Wright of Portland. and Miss
Burr of Bangor.
| Equine society over in Brewer is
now absorbed in the mystery Of a hat
| pin 1t seems that a horse belonging to
Il Well-knoWn citizen refused to eat his
supper. the other night. An investiga-
| ton was made and it was found that
| in some way the animal had gotten a
| hatpn in its mouth and it was buried
| to q depth of two inches in his tongue.
SO that it WIS impossible for the horse
| to swallow food. The pin was removed
and the animal ate its supper With APP
parently no difficulty. From that time
| forth the horse has apparently suffered
| no inconvenience from the injury. The
mystery Of the whole thing is where
| the horse got the pin into his mouth.
| Did it come from the sun-bonnet worn
| by the horse or by one of his friends
With whom he got familiar. or W#S it
| lost in the hay by some fair Maud
| Muller in the good old summer time?
Recently there has been published
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