Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-08-28
E2H8lQ0yB Gossip
Autumn Expectation.

bout the frost.
I'm gettin kind O. weary of the perfume
and the breeze;
They're like a lazy waltz a-movin slowly |
at your ease.
I'd rather feel the blood go bubbin' gaily
through my veins,
A tryin' to keep time to more invigoratin'
strains.
Oh. the sparkle of the starlight when the
air is crisp an clear.
l tell you when there's nectar sprinkled in
the atmosphere,
There won't be any sighin for the sum-
mer days we've lost
Tune up, Tune up! Miss Katydid, an sing
about the frCst.
Washington Star.
Perhaps Bangor is no longer wide
open, but it is evident that it is still
somewhat ajar.
I.ongfellow's lines concerning 1.-The
sea fight far away" are being recalled
to Portland people, but those in the
city who want to sleep at night agree
that the fight is not quite far enough
away.
The performance of Lou Dillon is
making lot of trouble for that popular
who has argued long and strenuously
that the two-minute trotter was an I'M
possibility.
An Auburn man seeks to recover 5000
damages from neighbor whose zoos
tiers disturb his sleep in the early morn
ing hours. Lots of good people will
sympathize with him.
Two Cape Elizabeth fishermen cap
tured a swordfish, this week, Is feet in
length and weighing 900 pounds. The
fish was almost as large as the boat
which contained the fishermen, and
put up a great fight. It dressed Ash
rounds and was Il very profitable days
work.
Harry Kenney, u Pittsfield hunter,
killed a 27-pound loupcervier in the
Burnham woods, this week. 1t is q
wicked looking animal and one which
most people would make long detour
to avoid.
A black stallion named Dexter,
owned by Marion Monsoon, for Fort
Fairfield. was 3S years old last De-
cember, and is believed to be the old
est horse in New England. He was
| bred and raised by Mr.. Monsoon, so
there is no question whatever about
his age, being fOaled in Houlton, Me.
| in December, 1864. During the last
| few years Dexter has done his regu-
| lar work in the team hauling lumber
| but is now having it a little easier,
| being worked as a team horse only
part of the time, though used consider
| ably by his owner as driver.
| One of the largest trees in New Eng
| land is an elm on the farm of Fred
Stanley in Berwick. A foot from the
ground this tree, which was measured
a few days ago by William Harper
| Deering of Saco, aged 81, is 35 feet
and II inches in circumference. If
| this tree We're manufactured into cord
wood it is estimated that it would
| make a pile four feet wide, four feet
high and so feet long. There is a lady
| now living who says that her mother
set the tree out and as near as can be
| ascertained it was done in 1900.
From a reliable source comes the
information that the Atlantic shore
line between Biddeford and York will
be built next year. This will give a
continuous trolley line from Lewiston
and Bath to New York. The line will
connect with the Biddeford & Saco rail-
road at Five Points, and run through
Wells and Ogunquit, connecting with
the existing lines at York. At Wells
beach it is understood that the promot-
ers intend to build the road within
sight of the ocean, although most OF
the way between Biddeford and York
the route will be along the highway
How the summer cottagers at Ogun-
quit will view the invasion is no
! known, but it is not thought that they
will offer much objection. 1t is sale
the proposed line will offer create
natural beauties of scenery than an,
other trolley road in the State.
John F. Rice of North Waterford il
one of the few men living who drov,