Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-09-11

Still is the spirit of sweet romance.
September, thou art like lady who
Looks forward half in dread and half
resigned,
Who fancies she still is clineirg to
The joyous youth she has left behind.
Chicago Record Herald
1t looks like a case of secession for
the Maine lodges of the \. o. u. W.
The railroad men say that the Sep
TENDER travel is holding up exception
ally Well, this year, and soon the army
of sportsmen will be coming.
Few surviving soldiers of the Civil
War have reached the age of Sc years
That is the age of Thaddeus Littlefieli
of Berwick, a veteran of the 27th
Maine, who attended the recent re-
union at Cape Porpose.
The Bath school board has been
forced to cave in, and the vote to open
the High school session at y. NJ, has
been rescinded
a Columbia Falls burberry picker
saw the unusual sight, this week, cf
five full grown moose feeding close to-
gether.
The oxford bears are on the rampage.
Four or five of them, az Judged by the
tracks, raided Byron pasture, the
other night, and killed a COW and
calf
One of the youngest haymakers of the
summer was Roscoe Leonard of Car
mel: age six years, who drove the horse
to rake 30 acres and also to pitch off
all the hay 1T the barn.
1t will seem like old times to see ali
the Knox county. granite Quarries busy
again. The good luck Of the Clari.
Island Granite Works in securing con-
tracts which mean activity there for at
least two or three years will be appre-
ciated by ey everybody. 1t means many
new dollars in circulation down that
way.
Fortunate Oldtown has some 30 new
dwellings, now in process of erection.
Several other Maine cities, where the
building is not keeping pace With the
population, Augusta and Waterviile
them, wish they could say as
much.
The biggest barn in oxford county is
said to be that just completed by W.
P. Hayford of East Hartford. 1t is
46x150 feet with n cellar under the
whole. 1t is high posted and hip
rooted, thereby giving a vast space la
V hich to stow hay. Mr. Hayford has
4 large farm and cuts lots of hay. His
home is on a very slightly elevation ard
a beautiful view is gained in nearly all
directions.
From Portland to Gray by eectrica
is the latest proposition and is Il trip
in twelve month. The promoters Of
this proposed electric road have been
over the route which they intend to
take and are very much pleased With
the outlook The new line will be II
miles long.
A recent high wind made Il ruin of
one of the last landmarks in the vicin-
ity of Boothbay HarbOr of n declining
Maine industry. The great ice house at
the head of West Harbor was unrOOfed
and as it has not been used by tho
American Ice CO., its owner, for SOM
time, will probably never be repaired.
The site was ideal for the purposes OF
the plant, a deep harbor with q broad
grateWay into the Atlantic in front, and
i'll the rear Il large pond OF pure. fresh
water. But the American Ice Co. dis
courages instead of promoting the in
dustry of gathering ana storing Maine
ice, replacing the product of these
plants so far as possible with artificial
ice made in the immediate vicinity of
New York. Only on the Kcnnebec and
Penobscot rivers does the great Maine
industry Of ice-cutting continue Il
semblance of activity, and in recent
years the continuance Of the cutting
operations in these centcrs has seemed
mere or less precarious under the pol
icy Of the trust.
Judge John A. Peters, Names re-
tired chief justice, is enjoying his ripe
old age with a philosophy which would
have delighted the Immortal Roman
who was author of De Sencctute. His
life ha.; been a happy one. and he
makes his Old age happy by revivmg
the old memories on al possible occa-
sions A recent occasion illustrates
his delight in recalling Old friends and
old scenes. In the town of Dedham,
half way between Bangor and Ellis
worth, there is an ol.-f&shioncd Maine
tavern which for over half q century
from 1915 to 1861, was kept by one
man, Robert johnson. 1t was q ia
nous tavern and Robert johnson was
a famous host. Besides eminent Maine
public men like Judge Peters. Hanni-
bal Hamlin, James G. Blaine. and
Senator Hale, the tavern entertained
lack Chandler the Michigan Republi-
can leader, Howell Cobb. famous Ceor-
gian of ante-bellum days and once
Speaker of the National House. Theo-
dore Tilton of unhappy fortunes, John
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