Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-02-27
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|@alQ1peG Gossip
In Brig liter Fields.
| The skies are takin' color-a brighter
SUMMER blue
There's Il bird there. in the tree top an
he wants to sing to you.
IAN a daisy's there-a whisperin its Swee
| dreams in the dew.
An Love is in the bright light of the
| Mornin'.
The rains that stormed the bright star;
from the heavens We used to know.
| But well soon be with the violets-fo
| Love will have it So
oh. Love is i'll the bright light of tn
Mornn'.
An the kind vines will be clingin' in tn,
old. familiar place;
An, like silver bells a-riugin', where H.
rude winds rave an race,
Wen hear the Thrush's music, an wei
see LifeS rOsieSt face
Where love is in the bright light of tn
Mornin'.
Frank l.. Stanton.
Winters backbone may be cracked
but it is not yet broken.
A Waldo man boasts of pung that
has been in continuous use for IS win
teis.
The question of asking the next
lie legislature for a city charter is being
agitated by many Foulton citizens.
The year 1903 was Il record maxim
year for Machias in the matter of num-
Der of births The number is largely
i'm advance of the two previous years
the number in 1901 being 45, and II
1862, ~, while. in 1908 the number wa
g..
Holman F. Day has just completed
thirty thousand word serial for tn
coming stories to appear in the Leslie
Monthly relates to Elijah Kellogg.
A South Deer Isle correspondents
writes: Jack Frost, with the aid
the wind ard snow. has played SOM
unusual pranks here this winter. One
has been to pack the stretch Of roa(
leading from the main road to tn
house of Capt. Seth Hatch so densely
that a heavy load of wood was driver
over the top OF it one day last week."
HOLSTERS are Holsters. these times.
other day, which netted him $50.
How it would cut down the fuel bills
if the warmth wasted on local polite:
could be applied to heating homes ant
places of business.
Here is a sample of how farming
can be made to pay in AroOstook
james G. Graham, of Blame, sold his
farm IL year ago. to man from New
l:runsWicl, for 5000. who cleared $l.UG
from the crop last season and sold tn,
place for 5000. Mr.. Graham purchase
4 farm at Pressure Isle for $500, las
summer he sold his crop Of is acres o
potatoes growing in the field for $1,60C
and has recently refused an offer o
81 900 for the farm.
In AroostoOk the price of pOtatoc'
has advanced to the two dollar mark
That satisfied the most of the farmers
hut some are holding for q highe'
price. One Mars Hill farmer RAISED
LOO barrels last season and has then
stored. He is quite an extensiv.
farmer. ami his potato crop is not the
only egg in his basket.
Canton has a haunted house.--al
0lI-tashioned place about two mile
from the village. located near a grave
yard ard with not another house i,
sight The ghost is that of 4 girl VIII
poisoned herself some - years ago.
after a quarrel with her lover. Weird
, stories are told of the place and ten
ants quickly move away.
The dog like the cat. usually comes
! back. Belfast man sent dog to hi:
brother in Pittsfield this week, and the
next day the dog re-appeared in Bel
fast. having walked home. a distance
of not less than 50 miles.
One of Names most prominent and
most consistent summer residents, 2
man whose name is exceedingly famil-
lar to the readers of advertisements
and who. when he speaks on matters
of health. speaks as one having au-
thOrity, has recently called attention
to the fact that shooting and fishing
10 rot constitute the whole attraction
which Maine forests exert upon people
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greater element in the states future
prosperity depends upon those who
come here for rest and recuperation
re- Their than for sport. There is plenty
of amusement to be had he contends
without the use of rod or gun. This is
the eloquent way in which he express
! ses his ideas: Every field is n land
! scape. every mountain picture and
every cloud panorama. The bewil-
dering sunsets alone are sufficient to
draw all lovers of tho hea,,tiful One