Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-10-06

Seldom have the autumn forests been
more brilliant in their tints than this
year.
The U. of M. boys gave the Harvard
footballists a most serious attack of
heartfailure.
1t will probably be step in the
march of progress, but it will seem a
pity to have the Sidney fair engulfed in
the proposed fair at Watervile.
The Rumford Falls people say that
the strike had the happy result of driv-
ing out of town a class of workmen that
it is glad to be rid of.
The flags are no longer kept flying
continuously from the turrets and tow
ers of Shiloh, as in the old days, but
their absence is far from signifyng
surrender.
Friday night, October 16, is that Sc
lected by the eight fraternities at Bow
don for the encounter Of the goat, and
the neophites.
WATERFORD reports the first fatality
of the hunting season, and though it is
some relief to know that it was not a
case Of being mistaken for a deer most
people will wonder why boys of eight
years were allowed off in the woods
with guns.
The burned spool factory is being re-
built in Dixfield and many signs of re-
lief are being breathed. 1t was one of
the towns largest industries and for
some weeks after the fire Mr.. Harlow
was undecided whether he would re-
build.
Knox county has an unenviable Gi-
| vorce record, and lived up to it at the
recent term of court when 80 couples
were freed from matrimonial bonds.
For the first time in seventeen years
the Bath policemen will omit their an
nual police ball. The reason given is
that they have 40 time to attend to the
many details.
1t is encouraging to learn Inar rnere
is to be d fair crop of Maine apples this
year in spite of the unfavorable wealth
er during u portion of the summer.
The Maine apple has come to be one OF
the standard food products of the
world, and it has made for itself
q name not only in this coun-
try but in Europe as well. A
Lewiston man who has recently
returned from u trip abroad is
authority for the statement that in
England the people have come to know
the Maine apple and ask for it in pre-
| ference to apples grown elsewhere. 1t
| is a good thing to have record for do
| ing things so we'll that the people want
| the result of your work in preference
| to all others. even though that work be
growing apples. The State of Maine
| has reason to be proud of herself and of
her apples.
Biddeford Journal: The Boston
| Transcript very graciously comedies
| that the game tales from Maine are in
no way connected with the new hunt
| ers' license law for stranger sportSmen
| from out of the State, but are the
natural result of the glorious weather
which makes the imagination grow. IF
| it is possible to place strawberries and
| lilac branches in bloom and green peas
| upon the desk of the rural editor, it is
| surely easy for such stories of big game
| to find their way into the columns of
| the county sheet" says our Boston con-
| temporary. But the best of it all is
| that there is no real need of drawing
upon the imagination in this connec-
| ton, for the plain truth appeals more
| strongly than fiction. There may be
| some eXaggeration in size and number
| of wild animals that tempt men to pack
| their rifles and their cameras and take
| to the woods, but no words that have
| vet been given a place in the diction-
| aries can overdraw the supreme beauty
and tonic excellence of these autumn
days. At the present time rural New
England in general and Maine in par
| ticular are in their glory
Portland Press: 1t will yet be possible
to travel from Boston to Bar Harbor
by trolley, if plans and projects do not
fail: more than that. it will be Dossible
in the not remote future 10 go bv
broomstick train from Eastport and
Calais all along the Maine shore 70
Portland and Boston and so on to New
York. Between this city and the
Massachusetts, capital there remains
but one gap to be filled, a stretch of
, thirty miles between Eiddoford ana
York, and this is soon TO be hniit ~