Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-04
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Whippoorwili Time.
Let down the bars, drive in the cows:
The west is dyed with burning rose,
Cnhitch the horses from the plows,
And from the car the OK that lows.
The whrpoorwill is calling.
.Whip-poor-will: whip-poor-wil.''
Where the locust Toe, blooms are falling
The sunsets rose is dying,
And the whippoorwill is crying
"Whip-poor-will whip,-poor-will;'
Soft, now Shrill
The whippoorwill is crying
Whip-poor-will. -
The moon blooms out, great white rose;
The stars wheel onward toward the
The harnyard cock wakes once and crows
The farm is wrapped in peaceful rest;
The whippoorwill is calling,
.,Whip-poor- whip poor-will.''
where the bramble blooms are falling
The moon her watch is keeping,
And the whippoorwill is weeping
"Whip,,poor-will; -poor-wiil,"
Lonely still.
The WhippOOrWill is weeping,
Madison CaWe!n, in the May Atlantic.
sunshine.
The Bangor Festival Is once more an
unqualified success.
Colby VS.. Bates at Lewiston is
| Names great baseball game, today.
Net so lively contests in the county
conventions as in 1902.
| This is the great month of the year
for the hotel men in Bangor.
The newly formed Newsboy's union
in Portland has 100 bright lads as
members.
One young lady in the Brewer High
graduating class has not one mark
against her for absence, hardness.
dismissal or department during the
four years course.
The Commercial says that the Ban
gor G.. A. r. men are talking of giving
up the usual Memorial day parade in
the future.
Eiddeford Journal: In this year of
grace it has been noticed that but two
of the Maine newspapers persist in
referring to trout as "speckled
| beauties" This striving for better
iS 70 i,,1x hn, e-i,, Of
the times.
A cooperative arrangement has
been made between the Maine State
Survey Commission and the U. S.
Geological Survey, whereby surveys
will be made and proflles taken along
the Kennebec River from it's mouth to
Caratunk and along the Penobscot
River from its mouth to Millinocket
These surveys will bring out such in
formation in regard to these rivers as
the slope. direction of their courses
and data i'm regard to the developed
and undevelOped power. The field
work will be carried on by the United
States Geological Survey, as follows:
The Topographic branch will extend
their lines of primary levels and estab-
lish bench marks along the portions of
the rivers to be investigated, and with
these levels as 4 basis, n stadia party.
under the direction of the Hydro
graphic branch. will follow up the
rivers, collecting such data in regard
| TO slopes. water power. etc, as may he
needed to complete the survey. The
general supervision of the hydro
graphic portion of the work will be
under the direction of n. c. Grover,
District photographer for New Eng
land, and it is expected that the work
will be in progress by the middle of
June. This work is Il continuation of
| like surveys made on the upper Ken
nehec during the summer of 1903.
Some Machias people who wanted to
economize on hose when the appropri-
atoms We're being made at the last
annual town meeting are now glad
that their advice was not taken 1t
was the $500 worth of new hose which
saved the village from q general con-
Migration, this week.
One of the delegates elected in Shap-
leigh York county writes us that there
is no occasion to class his town in the
doubtful list as every man at the
caucus was in favor of G. H. Prescott
for governor This is as we under
stood it. and newspapers which run
lists of delegates elected, showed in
justice to Col. Prescott place Shapleigh
to his credit.
Harry NJ. Treat of the Maine Gen.
trail is the youngest train dispatcher in
the country. He is only % years of
age and he has been holding this most
responsible position for two years at
the offices of the Maine Central in
Portland. Mr.. Treat was born in
I.ivermore Falls and graduated from
the high school Of that place when
only Is. The next year he entered the
office Of the Maine Central in that