Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-03
.y3lNNyB Gossip
Greuarious.

But for us the forest silent-Joy OF peihs
. all alone!
so We floated in the sunshine and dld pat
tie with the gale,
Till one day we CHANGED by accident on
faintest kind of trail.
through their many coats OF tan.
Thered been someone here before us!
Here were traces of a man.
And we pushed our way with energy anu
wondered who and what
The fellow was who tramped the patch
white man like as not.
Long the way we had before us, but re-
warded was our tramp,
For before the day was over we had tum-
bled on his camp.
And his eyes flashed real pleasure as he
answered luSty hail
Or the. seekers after solitude, who'd 1ol-
lowed up his trail!
--Pittsburg Dispatch
The westbound trains are hauling
heavy loads, these days.
Have you been successful in bagging
a duck yet?
It is the 42d big show of the Maine
State fair
The first of the colleges to open will
be Bates, next Monday.
A Portland paper calls for a historian
to write up the late war. We suggest
Mr.. Dooley.
The burning issue Of resubmission
failed to ignite at the adjourned session
of the Legislature.
The weather clerk is proving very
and the county shows are hoping for
equal luck
Three Maine vessels have been
wrecked in three days, in two cases,
with the loss Of all or part Of the crew;
which makes the superstitious dead
sure that disasters always happen by
threes.
Perhaps the most surprised legislator
at the Capitol, this week, was the one
who read in a Portland paper, Tuesday
morning, that he had died since the
last March.
With the warm weather and the
beautiful moon which September thus
far offers, we are getting the most de-
lightful summer evenings of the year.
Library buildings are now being
built or are about to be built, in Rock |
land, Rumford Falls, Auburn, Bruins
wick, Waterville, Pittsield, Old Town,
Houlton, Pennington, Yarmouth and
Squirrel Island, and Bangor has high
hopes.
Kent's Hill leads off as usual, and
everybody is glad that the good old |
school has the customary large atten- !
dance and excellent prospects.
Post Office Inspector William Z. |
Snow, whose home is in Winterport, |
Me-, has recently been called to Wash |
ington to aid in the post office investl- |
cation. This makes four Maine men
Fourth Assistant Postmaster
General RristoW's coterie of about forty |
trusty inspectors, who have for months
been hustling on the trail of grafters.
The proportion for Maine about one
tenth of all, is pretty large. Mr.. Carter
Is. Keene, formerly Of Freeman, Me-, Is
another Of these inspectors, and one OF
the most useful men Fourth Assistant
Bristow has on the big task. Another
is o. H. Briggs, formerly of Portland.
The fourth is Mr.. c. E. Crowell, form
erly of Vassalboro.
One of the most essential things TO
Portland's future growth and prosper
ity is more houses for people to live IN.
Tenaments at highly remunerative
prices would readily find occupants.
Portland Press.
Portland is not the only Maine city
where the need Of houses is most press
ing. Augusta and Waterville are two
others where it is almost impossible to
get rents, and though the demand IS
great there seems little prospect of an
increase in the supply.
One of the biggest Holsters ever
caught down York county way was
caught by John Haley at Fortunes
Rocks last week. 1t measured just ~
inches and was perfectly formed, the
claws being as large as mans mana.
It weighed green nine pounds and two
ounces and shrank nearly two pounds
after being boiled. The big lobster was
caught in a trap and it is somewhat OF
a mystery how he got into the trap as
the hole was hardly big enough for MS
body TO say nothing of the claws winch
he had to drag in somehow.
Peonle who ever worked around the
Portland Union station ever since it
was erected said they had never seen
ANYTHING like the amount of business
handled last Monday. The regular
Monday travel was very large. The
army and navy parade drew a large
number of out of town visitors, hum
dreds of whom came in and left on the
various trains during the day. Rail-