Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-11-16

Ain right here.
Washington Star.
He that ruleth his temper" etc, is
we'll illustrated in the case of John
Bromily murderer.
The football season in Maine will now
taper off with a few school and club
games until Thanksgiving brings the
end.
The Maine Woods says that the tre-
mendous forest fires of last summer are
held responsible for the quantities of
game which are being secured this seas
ON. 1t is claimed by the woodsmen that
the fire destroyed the forest growths on
which the deer and bears subsist, and
the creatures are driven to the gardens
and orchards of the farmers to obtain
food.
Bridgton complains that some miscre-
ants have been using the face of the
clock on the Methodist church for a
target for air gun practice. They show
good craftsmanship but the people
think it is high time it was stopped.
1t will be a rare year from now on
that Bowdoin College cannot celebrate
some centennial of national significance
and Importance. On Wednesday of next
commencement week the college will
celebrate the centennial of Hawthorne's
hirfI, n1nI ~ -
the most noteworthy events that has
occurred at Bowdoin for many years
and will without doubt be attended by
a large number of people from all over
the country. President Hyde has an
nounced that Bliss Perry, the editor of
the Atlantic Monthly, has accepted an
invitation to be orator on that occasion.
AS one way to induce people to get
vaccinated a series of realistic smallpox
photographs were exhibited in an Old
Town store window, this week. Over
100G people examined them the first day.
While the pictures are terrible and re-
voting enough, they are an education
in what smallpox in it's fully developed
form really is. The pictures have been
a power for good in influencing many
people to be vaccinated, who have been
misled by the belief that the disease
was not so very bad after all.
In the annual list of authors for the
coming year, the Youths Companion
places the name of Martha Baker Dunn
of Waterville, whose vivacious stories
have long been the admiration of a
large circle of readers throughout the
literary world. Major Holman F. Day
of Auburn, also appears in the list of
writer's of Companion fiction. aunt
Locke's Burglar" is the title of Mrs
Dunn's story to run in the Companion
while Jason Brickett's Nomination" is
the yarn which Major Day will tell in
his highly amusing way.
In the will of Gordon Mckay, the late
sewing machine millionaire, among his
various benefactions, ample provision is
made for bright Maine girl, Miss Mat
tie Maxim of Cambridge, Mass, former
ly of Buckfield. Me. Miss Maxim is to
receive a life annuity of $500. Mr.. Nc
Kay, besides being a great machlnlst
and inventor was skilled Violinlst,
and took great interest in the king of
Instruments, of which he owned some
valuable specimens, as his old cam
bridge neighbors we'll knew. Miss Max
i'm is master and teacher of the violin
and leader of a ladies orchestra. Mr..
Mckay was a kind hearted, benevolent
man, and it is safe to presume that Il
III = to Crn n
aid fellow violinist prompted him to
put his wish in practicable form.
A. F.. AstIe, a Houlton contractor,
who has done a great deal of work for
the Il. & A. r. r. Co., in building all
of the stations on the Fort Kent branch
and who is also the builder of the large
roundhouse in Houlton, has received
the contract to build the Log House
that is to be Names building at the st.
Louis Exposition. The lumber for this
building will be taken from Machias
township on land owned by the Pingree
heirs. The building will be built, that
is. set up in the woods where the lum-
Der is procured, and then will be taken
down and each piece marked, then be
carried to st. Louis, where it will be
again set up. Mr.. Astle will have en-
tire charge of the work, both here and
at st. Louis. and this fact alone will
assure the committee in charge that
the work will be well done. 1t will
require about eight cars to transport
the logs.
While the fact may be disputed by
those residents of Bangor whose MEM
cries reach back into the dim, dark
ages when Bangor stood first among
the lumber ports of the world, what
the lumbermen claim as the largest raft
ever down the Penobscot river at Ban
gor. passed the city shortly after noon
last Thursday. The raft was what is
known as a bag-boom raft, consisting
of logs which were not regularly RATED
at Bangor boom, but which were
thrown out and came down in that
way. There were 1900 pieces in the
raft. It took ten men to take care of
the logs on the way down and the two
tugs could Just keep them moving. A
large crew is at work at Bangor boom
at present, there being between so and
N men constantly busy rafting, run
ming and sluicing the logs there. 1t is