Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-07-06

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A Summer Resort.
They're talkin' about Bar Harbor:
They're talkin' about Cape May,
An likewise Atlantic City,
An Cony Island gay.
An it's pleasant to read ABOUT EN-
With their trolleys an loop the-luop;
l picture them all
AS the shadows fall
Where l sit on the old front stoop.
An l smell the lingerin' sweetness
OF the hOneysuclSle vine,
An l wait for my friend. the nghtnn'
bug,
TO circle around an shine;
An the crickets an frogs will cheer me,
A gay, melodiOuS group,
The place that's best
For real rest.
Is cut on the old front StOOp.
So l amt packing my sachel
Nor studyin' up the maps,
Nor travclin abroad for the comforts OF
hOme;
am missin' q lot perhaps,
/ have studied the matter oyer,
An maybe I'm fancy's dupe,
But it seems to me
That the place to be
Is out on the old front stOOp.
Washington Star.
1t was fatal Fourth for Corinna.
The little firecracker got in it's work
as usual
Unity did itself proud in its centen-
NAL celebration.
Merrymeeting thinks it had 5000
people on the Fourth.
In most of Names cities it was much
like two Sundays coming together.
The rush for the Maine shore is now
on and the sea serpent is over due.
Clear skies for haying are now the
demand and the grass is still growing
finely.
The st. Louis correspondents seem to
think it worth telegraphing to the East
quietly and decorOusly.
Milo has become so prosperous and
metropolitan that it is talking about 4
system of water works. With it's three
rivers. there would seem to be an
abundant @hpply.
A Waterville lawyer accuses a pro-
fessi|nal brother in that city Of throw
incs in the marriage fee for the second
Gedling as an inducement for having
Va divorce case intrusted to his charge.
| Rome celebrated it's centennial all
| right. There We're no formal exercises
| with history and Grafton, but there
| was n get-together and good time and
| more noise than it's seven hills ever
| knew before.
| The clock on Westbrook church
took a three days rest, last week., ami
| then surprised the city by starting up
again at almost exactly the hour when
it stopped.
The record is held by an old white
hen in Damariscotta which has Matched
out 81 chicks in n nest she had stolen
naway A correspondent says that She
| iS evidently trying to offset the New
castle cat which has killed GO chickens
| for her owners neighbors.
Tn CONNECTION with the Unity centen-
NAL it is Of interest to know that one
of the masts on the famous old ship
Constitution was cut ir it's forests over
| n century ago On land now owned by
c. c. Fowler the stump is still pointed
out. where well authenticated ira
| ditions say that one of her masts once
stood, giant of the forest, towering
high above and overlooking the sur
rounding country. Crosby Fowler one
of Unity's oldest citizens. well remem-
bers hearing the old settlers describe
the tree and the manner of hauling It,
LIT took IS oxen to move it and one pair
on n separate sled to keep the rum
| along to cheer and make happy the
hearts of the men who had come by in
vitation with their oxen to help maui II
to the SebaSticOOk where 1t was landed
and afterward hoated down to tide
water on the Kennebec. The stump is
much decayed by time and defaced By
the axe of seekers after relics. But
there ia enough left to mark the place
where the noble tree once stood. The
sled on which the tree was hauled was
a huge affair made for the occasion.
with a pole 1G feet long. ten men called
tailsmen following the pole cattle SD
that in case the sled in passing over
instructions in the road should be lift
ed high above the cattles' backs. they
having hold of their tails could pull
them from under the pole. thus saving
them from injury. This tree was said
to be what is termed a 32-inch mast,
and while not as large as they fire.
uuently cut in those days was remarka-
BILE for its beauty and great length. as
well as for it's size at the top. The
tree in its falling fell top from the
landing, and many other trees had to