Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-04

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The Lovely World.
World of loneliness and light
Sun by day and stars at night,
Heaven forever in our sight.
JOY is not a dream that dies
Like the morning in the skies;
Songs are SWeeter for our signs.
Evermore Hope lights the way
Winter drifts to blooms of May;
And the world to Gods own day.
Frank l.. Stanton.
They are telling of two legislators
who arrived at the Capitol after the
Legislature had met and adjourned.
IIoulton's prosperity is indicated by
the fact that of the $4,000 of Houlton
Water Co. bonds issued this year all
but $4,000 have ben subscribed for by
Houlton capitalists.
Never before in their history have
blueberres brought such a fancy price
as they have this season. Eight
cents per quart was paid last week at
the Washington county factories.
In Bath, too, it has been an I'M
usually quiet summer in police circles,
and there were q fewer arrests in Au-
gust than in the same month, last year.
There were no glistening bayonets to
bar the way of the gilded staff at the
entrance to the State fair grounds, yes
terday.
One big summer hotel which makes
an assignment says that it's financial
troubles are due to the enforcement
campaign.
If the Waterville- Fairfield baseball
rivalry keeps on increasing in ardor'
they may feel that it will be more sat
isfactory to organize two elevens and
| fight it out on the gridiron.
There was rich material for poem
| by Holman F. Day in that resubmis-
sion convention at Bangor, Wednesday.
The most seasick man who has come
down from Boston, this summer, was
the fellow on the Ransom B. Fuller, the
| other night, who lost his false teeth
and did not know it until the next
day.
| The general opinion of Portland peo-
pie seems to be that, although the
weather of the present summer has not
been the best possible, the season has
| nevertheless been a. very prosperous
4 one for the hotels and transportation
| companies on land and water.
| The youngster drags himself &c
school; the football hair is growing;
the oyster makes his little bow; the
| folks are homeward going; the fairs
| are coming all around; the corn is get
ting yellow; the summer girl pesihs
| once more to love her winter fellow;
| the evening hours are sooner mere; ano
these things, we remember, are symp-
| toms of the solemn fact that we nave
reached September.
A spook, raving maniac, or what is
it," is. as the stories go, holding
forth in the woods in the grows
near Lunt's Corner on the outskirts OF
| Portland 1t seems to consist mostly
of diabolical shrieks of the most ex'
cruciating and hair raising variety as
| to cause, it is said, even the boldes'
to hold their breath and chill with ter
ror as they approach the blood curdling
| vicinity A railroad man is reported
| to have run up against the real thing
but as he was scared almost 10 death
his account in consequence is SO i'll de-
fined. so meagre. even Of the least
! dissertation. that the what is it, as II
present, promises still to oe hiys'
/ terry.
There have been completed in Maine
since Ian /. this year to date, buildings
apcregating in cost Approximately g..
as 600 about forty per cent. OF this be-
ing residential work. the hgures sho"