Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-09

week. is a Perham orchard of 5000 apple
trees. all in full bloom.
The Bangor typhoid epidemic is on the
wane, but the News says that very few
people there are taking chances with
unboiled water.
Bluehill had an earthquake, a few
days ago, which is a fertile topic of
wonder down that way. 1t reminded
some of the days of 1898 when the guns
of the Spanish fleet We're laundering off
Bar Harbor.
Caribou was little late in celebrat-
ing Arbor day but it celebrated in good
style when it got around to it. Last
week 100 shade trees We're set out in
league park, destined to be the beauty
spot of that growing village.
We apprehend that some Of the
papers opposing Mr.. Cobb would ex-
perience considerable feeling of relief
if they could bring themselves to be-
lieves in their own tables.
The hunting season is long way off,
but Washington county is reading out
the report that moose were never be-
fore SO plentiful there.
Although it is June-and a leap year
June, at that-the Bangor papers are
forced to admit that there is very little
doing in the local matrimonial market
Lubec will not have a Fourth of July
celebration this year, but as the new
soldiers monument will be erected
some time in August. there will be
a big celebration on that day.
1t is a mistake to underestimate the
intelligence of the community. Edi-
torial shouts that a candidate is
beaten have little weight when the
news columns show that he is carrying
the caucuses.
The story of an athletic Maine boy
comes from Aroostook county. In this
case he walked from Mars Hill to
Sprague's Mills, distance of 8 miles,
did his job well and then walked back
the whole miles. The task which he
undertook was to play a game of base
ball against the local nine. AS his club
won by big score, it is presumed that
the journey home was a pleasant one.
An Auburn man who OWNS an orchard
OF 800 apple trees is having trouble to
find out the cause of the strange action
of the trees this season. The leaves he
says, are turning yellow, curling up,
and appear as though dead. He finds
on inquiring that other farmers are
having similar difficulty He has
heard the same word from Turner,
Poland and Durham where there are
many fine orchards. No one seems to
account for it although one man thinks
that the roots of the trees may have
been frozen and that this has retarded
the flow of the sap.
The fact must have been apparent
has been largely in the small towns of
the State. 1t is evident that the peo-
pie are with him in this contest.
Here is the story of an incident at the
Bangor Festival which was not on the
program. "When Hans Kronold was
playing the last few measures of the
enhancing Hungarian Rhapsodie, he
had little Obligato that wasn't on the
program. 1t came from the throat of a
large, healthy rooster in Buck street.
Hans is a great man to work himself
up. That is why he is such a wizard
with cello. He had gone up, pitch
UP pitch, during that Rhapsodie, until,
at the close, he was seeing angels. His
expression was beatific. His eyes
were glowing like a couple of arc
lamps. And he was drawing walls
from his big fiddle that sent chills up
everybody's back. The audience was
hushed as death. And it was at this
awkward moment that the rooster
butted in. He let a barnyard war-cry
out of him that carried 10 miles against
the wind. Hans looked as though
somebody had jabbed pin into him.
All the angels disappeared. The
greater part of the audience didn't
catch the significance of the thing; but
those whose musical education had
been neglected it was a hard struggle
to keep from laughing outright. The
rooster kept the glad tidings going with
a persistency that was commendable; |
but he had chosen time that was any |
thing but favorable" |
A Portland family is having moving |
which is somewhat out of the ordinary. |
They are moving, house and all, from |
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