Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-06


Well. if Lane didn't murder Olive
Broad, who did?
The Aroostook towns seem to be hav-
ing the hardest experiences.
Millinoclket sends down word through
the smoke that it is going to celebrate
the Fourth.
In spite of numerous suggestions Of
fered, the list of nominations by Gov
ernor Hill does not contain any rain
maker.
The Maine Methodists are making
extensive plans to celebrate the 200th
anniversary of John Wesley's birth,
later in the month.
There is legion of June brides this
year, and incidentally an unusually
large crop of June bridegrooms.
Last year SO divorces were granted in
Sagadahoc county which is Il record in
| that branch of the Supreme Judicial
| court.
In such time as this carelessness is
almost as culpable as incendiarism it
self
1t is hard to conceive of the mex
cusable folly of men who have been
setting fires of late to burn over waste
lands or lots where the timber has
been cut off.
One feature of the smoky days has
the pastures. In some instances they
have bolted wildly for the woods and
been secured with great difficulty.
1t is said that some important cor
porations announce their determine
| in New Jersey and reincorporate in
| Maine because of the more liberal tax
| alton laws of the latter State.
The centennial of Wilton's incor-
| po:ation falls June %, and as that is d
| little early for the desired observance, a
day during Old Home week will be
given over to the celebration.
Lincoln county by a vote of almost
three to one has decided to be old
fashioned and allow the Wiscasset
bridge to remain toll bridge. A
toll bridge in Maine today seems like
an outworn relic of ancient days. The
cost of maintenance was what scared
the voters in this case, and county
pride did not balance regard for the
pocketbook.
Monhegan was the only place in Lin
coin where the vote was unanimous for
a free bridge at Wiscasset. No doubt,
the Monnegan people We're thinking
how nice it would be to have Il bridge
connect their island with the mainland.
And still such a bridge would not be an
| unmixed blessing.
The most rcmarka BILE feature of the
smoky Wednesday in Maine from the
standpoint of the weather observers,
WIS the extreme dryness. The humid
ity WAS only 10 per cent. This is very,
very low. In fact it exceeds anything
Portland has known in years. For Il
town on the coast such degree of
dryneSS is almost unprecedented. The
normal humidity here is about As. Last
year the dryest day in June was Al per
cent. in July it was As per cent and in
August 45 per cent. This was very
unusual. The average humidity is "a
or whereabouts and it has been at
about this figure for many years past.
The dryness would have compared well
with the high lands of Colorado or of
the arid plains of Arizona but for a
coast town 10 per cent. is getting the
moisture pretty well eliminated from
the air as it long ago was eliminated
from the farmers fields.
Miss Fannie Durham completes, this
month, 40 years of ser| ice in the public
schools of Bath. Such a long term as
teacher has seldom, if ever been eX-
celled in the schools of the State. The
Bath Times says that all her pupils
have loved and respected her, and that
the city has not a more faithful or
popular teacher. The vast influence
for good which such a woman has ex-
erted cannot be measured by the
standards of this world, and--more the
shame-only pitifully small measure
of the reward she has earned will be
given her in this life. r.
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Two big moose visited Fired Marden's
dooryard in Ellsworth, this week. They
came out of the woods back of the
house, came up into the dooryard, /
looked around for while, then went
away. In going, they had to vault a
fence--one of those wicked wire fences
that sometimes trouble men to get
through. One of them missed it's foot
ing and got tangled in the wire. Mr..
Marden, seeing the predicament it was
in, get help and went to it's assistance.
They had no trouble in laying the ami
NAL down and freeing it, whereupon it
arose and departed without thanking
anybody. This is getting to be COM