Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-29

kNE8gl0gB Gossip 10 s;
Autumn.
Now the year is growing mellow,
And the leaves turn red and yellow,
And the dreary sunlight fingers ON the
hills and on the plains;
And the grapes with purple luster,
Hang in many tempting cluster
All along the Weedy road-SideS ana IN
pleasant country lanes.
In the woods the crows are calling,
And the butternuts are falling.
And the thicketS are so quiet one can near
the slightest sound:
And the plums that long have glinted
'MOnS the leaves, grow roSN-tinted
In the sweet autumnal sunshine That IS
brooding all around.
Now the corn, as in the olden
Days We've known, is husked in golden
Loads. and though We'll miss the song
birds and their notes of happy cheer;
Still, when We behold the trcaSurcrS
That are hoaped in such vast measures
We are glad that Summers over and that
Autumn days are here.
National Magazine.
No music lover is likely to forget that
this is Festival week.
The fair at Damariscotta is likewise
favored with ideal weather.
Fairfield laughs last and is pretty
we'll convinced that it is the best laugh,
too.
The Maine college football teams have
all won their first games, but they cam
not all win their last ones.
A Gorham man who planted six acres
of cucumbers for the pickle factory re-
ports only quarter of an average crop.
Gardiner is one of the cities which is
inclined to be envious of the new sta
lions which the Maine Central will
build at Bangor and OldtoWn.
There is q scarcity of men for the
woods, this fall and unusually high
wages are being offered.
Potato digging stories are coming
down from Aroostook. We hear one of
n Fort Fairfield man, William Burke,
who dug, picked up, sorted in good
shape and set upon the wagon 81 bar
relS Of potatoes in one day. The pOta-
toes yielded about 100 barrels to the
acre.
Fort Fairfield's eight starch-factories
more than any other enc town in
the world possesses, so far as We can
learn--are now chewing up potatoes by
the thousand barrels, and splitting out
immense mouthfuls of starch, some OF
them day and night. Thirty-five cents
q barrel is a ruling price for starch
potatoes. Some Of the poorest go for
thirty.
One Westbrook woman does not want
in that city. In arguing the case with
a neiehbor the other day, she said: Il
hone the city council will put q stop to
this settin' up poles. My husband pays
a three-dollar poll tax already; and
that's enough
This years captain of the BoWdOin
football eleven. Emery Oliver Beane of
Hallowell, weighs only 1872 pounds and
is the lshtest player that ever cap
tanned a college eleven in this state.
There is at least one entering class
which is dwindlng in dangerous fash
ion. The earliest reports said that the
new Normal school at Pressure Isle had
% pupils. Last week the papers gave
the number as IS. and a Pressure Isle
letter in yesterdays Bangor News says
the school has 16 students!
A party of sportsmen from Boston
have leased about 1000 acres near
Vanceboro and are having it fitted up
as q summer resort and hunting park,
and T. @. Dahlstrom has been engaged
by the club to take charge of the build
ing. He has already put up several
cottages, built a wharf for the landing
of boats and done considerable other
work.
Fort Fairfields ice supply has given
out. Does this mean that the Aroos-
took winters are shorter and milder
than are generally supposed, or that
Fort Fairfield people aren't really
much at cutting ice?
The Sanford Tribune calls on the vii
lage people to slick up the yards and
streets in view of the coming visit of
the Governor and his staff.
Riddeford Journal: The twin cities OF
the Androscoggin, Lewiston and Au-
burn, are dreaming dreams of future
greatness. In the magic glass they see
the time when Bangor will scoOt for
the tall timber and when the present
metropolis of the State will have to|
get up early and &C to bed late in
order to hold the foremost place
And Why not? The Androscoggin
metropolis, for Lewiston and Auburn
are one in interests, in the nature
of things can never compete with
Portland as seaport. but the loca-
ton affords unlimited possibilities for