Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-07-06
AT COBBOSSEE.
The Lake in Machine Poetry
Harry LoweIl's New Cottage.
Pro,! ect of New Hotel-Mayor
Robertson Expected.
Observation-Disclosures of the Fourth
personals.

Dear Journal-A local poet once got
a little loony, and wrote this about
Lake Cobbossee:
For steamers are plowing its crested
waves,
Waking the echoes with noisy din,
Laden with happy human freight.
Who are drinking it's wondrous
beauty in.
And summer cottages line it's shores,
Where city people, all care forgot,
Are willing away the sultry hours
Secure and safe in their sheltered spot
The looms are still sailing in stately pride
Over it's waters so bright and fair
While far beneath them the finny tribes
Are sleeping, not fearing the sports
mans snare
Shine on In your splendor, o fairy gem;
No lake can ever with you compare
Your islands. so folded in close embrace
Like children, crown you with beauty
most rare.
l have too much consideration for
our readers to quote the whole of the
poem" and l do not produce it here
IS specimen of fine writing; but be-
ause there is more truth than poetry
n it. True, steamers are not "plow-
n.y. but John Brainard was, yester-
lay, for | saw him. We have not
Nhlled away many 'sultry hours" yet,
md the looms have been conspicuous
by their absence, and we want the out
ide world to know that the islands are
lot the only things that are folded
n close embrace
In the Semi-circle of new cottages
hat have been built at the head of
Manchester ha
If the most attractive and pleasing to
he artistic eye, is that of our popular
,eWeler and optician, Harry p. Lowell
t is story and half structure with
,wo dormer windows, or "squints," the
ront roof sloping down to cover the
1iazZa. The cottage Gncluding the
Ieranda, which runs the entire lengthy
s 80 by "a feet. The veranda is 10
'eet wide, the floor and ceiling being
If hard pine. The floors throughout
he cottage are of the same material.
steps in front and at the west end lead
10 the piazza. A well lighted living
room occupies the entire front half of
the main building, with an attractive
open fireplace in the center. Leading
out of the living room Is n bed room,
10 by 1914 feet, and n kitchen Of the
same size, with WoodShed adjoining.
Every domestic appliance is here in
Guiding a refrigerator made into the
wall and fed by the ice man from the
outside, the family being fed from the
inside. There are two large and airy
sleeping rooms on the second floor, and
there is space for more if needed The
gables are painted green, shading on
A. ,o n hnI,r
name has yet been selected for the cot
tage We suggest coax Grove" from
the beautiful growth of oaks growing
near their shores. So neat and trim
is everything about the cottage that
It seems almost Il Dissertation to step
upon the veranda floor or to enter any
of the rooms.
Mr.. A. G. Pinkham, now proprietor
If Lone Pine Cottage" at Henry f..
Emery's, down the lake, has purchased
a lot in Brainard's Grove, 100 by 173
feet. and will erect thereon hotel of
fine style, containing some 30 rooms.
with spacious dining room and living
room. with veranda running the entire
length. 1t will command a superb view
of the lake, and will be close by the
Electrics. 1t will be completed for next
years business.
Having doubly redeemed his election
pledge made to Allie jerks and other
leading citizens. by furnishing Augusta
with two circuses the present season,
it is expected that Mayor Robertson
will soon move out here and occupy
his cottage We all miss him very much,
while the residents of Manchester, Win
throp and adjoining towns say that the
silence of the grave has rested upon
the eastern shore, this year
Harold Partridge and Charlie Flynt
have been having Il good time at 'the
boys camp
Charlie Kinsman. who has entered
upon the responsibilities of life by ac-
cepting n place with the Augusta Trust
Co. spends most of his nights with
his parents at Glad Hand Inn.
Or. Wellington Johnson tears him
self away occasionally from his large
practice in Augusta to drink in health
from the pines here. IL he could send
all his patients out here. they would
have no further need of n doctor.
Mrs. Wood and Mrs. George II. Bangs
each gave Il pleasant afternoon party to
their friends in the city and at the
lake, on Friday.
Mrs. Emma james of Winthrop, sis
ter of Mrs Hammond, visited the lat
ter. last week.
Prof. Goodridge does not stand on the
bridge at midnight, but he stands there
a good deal in the day time; and soon
his patience will be rewarded. as sue
cess always comes to the faithful ones.
Roberts & Ridley of Augusta, were
the builders of Capt. Smiths new sail
boat. the Helen. The craft was put
in commission. today, and Capt. Smith
and Blaine owen gave Il fine exhibition
sail. She is 20 feet long and s feet
beam. is sloop rugged, and will COM
fortably seat 10 persons. 1t is built in
such manner that it is nom sinkable
and non-c ca psiZable.
Charles S. Hichborn's new launch will
he ready for business about the first
of Anyl1St