Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-08-07
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Midsummer,

Midsummer.
n long midsummer days what JOY to lie
On messy banks, and feel the warm
winds blow
Through leaves that make a music soft
IN branches stretched between Us and
the sky,
ike that of the waters tapping drowsily
Against low shores where sunbeams
come and go
In arabesqueS of gold on green below,
And listen to the droning of the bee
seeking for sweets among late summer
flowers.
What silence of sweet sounds is every
where!
From cares that vex we find glad
release,
And dream away the still, delicious
For dreams that are not Sleeps are in
the air
AS Life lies nestled in the lap of
Peace.
-Eben e. Rexford in Home aud Flowers.
However, it is not expected that there
will be any deaths from thirst in Ban
gor.
1t isn't altogether the fear of the
hostile fleet which makes them shiver
along the shore.
Fete day at Squirrel Island, this year,
is set for Saturday, August, %.
Work has begun this week, upon the
new Curtis Memorial library in Bruins
wick
Miss Alice Roosevelt visited Portland
last Monday and not Portland paper
caught on"
The cold weather doesn't seem to affect
the summer travel. They say it is
beating all records.
The Lewiston and Auburn market
men and their friends, 800 Strong, head
their annual excursion to Portland
harbor, Wednesday.
Miss Carrie Nose of Portland broke
all the Moosehead eel records when she
landed one this week, 5 feet and 512
inches long and weighing So pounds.
+: ~ Bath girl vigorously slapped the
face OF a masher on the street, one eve
ming this week, and then, true to the
straditons- of her sex, she promptly
Me'.t frog one fainting spell to another
"a soon as she go. home.
One of the most valuable finds which
has recently come to the knowledge of
those who are collecting material for
the town history of Arson is the tax list
for the year 119S, the year the town was
Incorporated. This list is now the
property of the United States govern
ment aud at the present time is in the
custody of the historical and genealog-
ical societies of Boston. This list will
be printed in the Forthcoming town
history.
A rather sensational story about
Sandfordism is told at Lisbon Falls in
the allegation that Shiloh has practic-
ally become an adjunct of Zionism and
is now working under the millionaire
leader, John Alexander DoWie, of
Chicago.
A new Democratic club has been Or
ganized ir Portland, and the way in
which the Argus waves flags and fires
cannons indicates that great things are
expected OF il.
James r. Dill recently made the jour-
ney from East Orange, N. j.. to the
Rangeley Lakes in his automobile. On
the way he ran into several heavy
storms He had only one breakdown,
and that was the price of an escape
from Il miX-up with railroad train.
Once on Il steep mountain road he met
coach. The cowardly driver jumped
and ran like a deer, the passengers
piled out in a panic, one girl climbing
through a window, but the horses pre-
served their equanimity. In New
Hampshire a circus manager offered
him $50 to speed twice around the ring
and wasso amazed that he did not jump
at so glitterng an opportunity. MY
but YOU must be rich" said the circus
manager, 40 refuse all that money!!
Bangor has never honored any of her
educators or other prominent men by
naming after them schoolhouse in the
city. With the exception of the high
and suburban schools, most of the
buildings about the city bear the names
of the streets or squares on which they
are located. There is some agitation
now among the school authorities and
others in view to naming the buildings.
more especially the new ones, in honor
of deceased educators or prominent
men who have served the city in some
sort of a capacity. Such a system is
used in many cities. Augusta is an in
.anna in this State and the. Smith,