Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-10


The Augusta caucus enrolment
figures up about 1850 Republicans, 80
Democrats and one lone and loyal
Prohibitionist. ..
The Courier-GaZette asserts that no
city in New England is so neglectful
of its cemeteries as Rockland. 1t is
not an enviable distinction.
Richmond also has Il cemetery prob
lem in the shape of an old burial
ground not used for many years which
is sadly in need of care
1t will be 100 years, next March,
since Athens became town and al
ready a centennial association has been
formed and is making plans for a fit
ting celebration during the summer OF
1904. Every town whose centennial
falls, next year, should do likewise.
How nice it would be now if that eX-
tension of the electric road We're made
from Togus to Rockland. The Wind
sor fair grounds would have to be en-
larged to hold the crowd.
Thirty-three canoes carrying wilder
ness tourists passed through the little
settlement of Chesuncook at Chesun-
cook lake, ON the West Branch OF the
Penobscot river, in one day recently,
breaking records and demonstrating
th.It the Allagash, st. Johns and Eagle
lakes trips are more popular than ever
before and showing notable increase
in the number of women. These jour
neys range from II days to two weeks
in length and pass through the princi-
pal feeding grounds of the big game
and Il strangely wild and picturesque
section of the State.
The Aroostooll Republican makes
the discovery that the Turkish disturb
ance has extended to northern Maine.
Anyway, a Caribou man, Fl. f. Ward,
has brought in from his garden Il freak
tomato or Il pair of them, grown i'll
perfect imitation of a.Turk wearing q
turban and Widc-legged trousers. The
suggestion of the Turkish situation is
the more acute as the tomato had be
gun to get rotten
Senator Beveridge of Indiana, who
has been spending most of the sum
mer in the woods OF the Rangeley
region has left for home. The senator
prp1tIy on loved bic o1Itipp hero 11l,i
he gained many pounds in weight. Fl"
has done nothing but rest and feels
well repaid. His habit was to sleep
twelve hours every day. He went to
bed at nine and got UP at eight or half
past. and after dinner he took Il nap Of
one hour. Next summer the presi-
Dental campaign will be on and he
will be doing the hardest kind of work
instead of sleeping in a hammock and
casting ilieS.
KMeo has never produced a sea Ser
pent, fact quite remarkable when il is
remembered that Moosehead lake is the
largest in New England, but George
Hughey n Jackman guide, passed
through there not long ago with q
strange tale of n stranger monster
which he says he encountered near an
old lumber camp i'm the Fish Pond
region, at the headWaters of the South
Branch. Hughey describes the animal
as three feet in length and weighing
100 pounds. 1t had a shell on its back
which extended down the side of the
body and it was fight from the tip of
re t1ninta1 tgI1 To tho end Of itc y-ioipI,c
head. He was armed only with a stout
club, and he pounded the beast with
out result for half an hour and left it
apparently, unframed. Hughey says
that every time the creatures mouth
came in contact with the club the wood
flew i'll chunks. Hughey has been q
guide and woodsman for Is years and
says he has never seen or heard of
anything like the monster and he
hasn't the remotest idea what it was.
Bath Independent: 1t has seemed to
us the past year or two as if the farm
ers all through this section We're brac-
ing up and conducting their farms with
more system and on more businesslike
principles. The farmer is really the
most independent of any class of men
and if he conducts his farm in a mod
ern and up-tO-date manner he is
bound to prosper. There's always a
good demand for his produce and in
these days of summer vacations there's
hardly a farmer in this section but what
can add considerably to his receipts bv
taking boarders during a few weeks in
the wear. We noticed statement +ba
other day in an exchange, made bv a
man prominent in one of the largest
transportation companies in New Enc
land, to the effect that every season his