Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-08-17
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It Really Doesn't Matter.
1t really doesn't matter much
III bank accounts are small;
II We have sunshine in our hearts
were rich enough for all.
1t really doesn't matter much
IL beauty knows us not;
III we have tact and intellect
Well lead the common lot.
1t really doesn't matter much
If We've no shining fame;
If we plug on; and DO the square,
Wen get there just the same.
Joe Cone.
The last half of August, and the sum-
mer is fast waning.
Yesterday was the seasons high
water mark at Old Orchard.
In only a month more the schools
will be opening again.
The Festival by the sea was a pleas
ant prelude to the big affairs later on
at Bangor and Portland.
Anyway, it is a good summer for the
man who cannot get away for a vaca-
ton.
Squirrel, filled to the limit, is pull
sating with preparations for Fete day.
next Saturday.
The horsemen are headed for Water
Vile where the new track will get it's
christening, Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday.
The regulars of Uncle Sam are
swarminG in and around Portland, but
the city will not feel that the war is
really on until the Maine troops get
there. next week.
A Brunswick man with an eight-acre
field planted to potatoes claimed to
have the biggest field outside of Aroos-
took county, but Richmond puts in a
better claim to first place with a field
of 23 acres.
The Lewiston Journal is on the trail
of a would-be humorist who gave 1t
false information by telephone, and we
hope it will catch him. Those people
who lie to newspapers with the idea
that it Is funny, are candidates for an
idiot asylum rather than for the police
court. They should not be allowed at
large for they are capable of doing
mischief far beyond their own in
dlvidual importance in the world.
The Mechanic Falls Ledger joins the
number of Maine papers which are pro-
testing against unsightly methods of
advertising which too often mar the
beauty and symmetry of an otherwise
attractive town and the slackness of
allowing unsightly objects to be main
tanned within town limits.
With the completion of the new
Catholic church at York Harbor there
are now IA church edifices in the
town of York. In addition to this,
other UNCONVENTIONAL services are
held in three other places in York,
making total of II places of worship.
Five of these are maintained only dur
ing the summer months. Surely none
can complain of lack of religious ad-
Vantages in York.
When Jethro Weeks of Sidney cele-
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few of his friends dropped in to see
him and in the party were four whose
combined ages were 316 years.
The rear drive on the Kennebec is
now pretty we'll down the river. 1t is
one of the longest drives, if not the
longest, as regards time, on record.
Old residents of Rockland are trying
to recall drowning accidents of former
days in this vicinity that furnish an
approach to a parallel with the fearful
catastrophe of August when four
young men lost their lives. Two
dimly recalled by the few now living
that can remember them, are recorded
in Faton's History. On August l. loo8
a boat containing wedding party OF
four, was capsized at the mouth of
Georges river and all were drowned.
Samuel G.. and Augustus S. Gilchrest
and Allen McNicker had gone to one OF
the islands in a new sailboat, and We're
returning with Mary A. clinton to
celebrate her marriage with one of the
party, when the accident occurred. On
September s, 1860, Amos Thompson and
wife, Miss Mary Jameson, and the
wives of DR.. Zenas Colby and Charles
Hopkins, were returning from North
port to their home in this city, when
the boat was capsized off Camden and
Mrs. Colby, Mrs. Hopkins and Miss
Jameson were drowned. Mr.. Thomp-
son and his wife were saved by the
crew of IL passing vessel. These were
tragedies that no doubt made n pro-
found sensation when they occurred.
The York Transcript hears that red