Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-05

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In Summer Time.
We dream in the summer
For. after the snow
We reach the green meadows
Where white daisies grow.
And hear the birds singing
just all that they know!
We dream in the summer
When earth is all bright.
And God says: It's morning."
And whispers of light,
And the red of the rainbow
Shows lilies of white.
Frank L. Stanton.
Each day row the trains and boats
bring many hundreds of summer visit
ors to Maine.
The Squirrel Islanders have engaged
the sea serpent as a special feature for
rete week, August 15-20.
Auburn's new library is more ornate
the great advantage Of being the gift
of a native son of the town.
There seems to be little doubt that
The summer business for the month of
August will be Il record breaker at the
many resorts on the Maine shore for
the influx since Saturday has been
enormous.
The nerves of Bar Harbor people
have been sadly shattered by that Egg
Rog fog trumpet which Uncle Sam has
1T last decided to silence.
The Bath National Guards boys, not
content with two weeks at Manassas,
are planning on going to st. Louis in a
body when the cruel war is over.
If we had a good old fashioned WIN
Ter what is the matter with calling this
III old fashioned summer? It's been
years since there has been such a fav-
nrable season for thin clothing as this
has been.
That Brunswick correspondent who
sent out the story of the woman who
lost two quarts of blood by the bite of
l rat while she was asleep. goes to the
head of the class.
Bath merchants are now planning for
4 big carnival late in September or
"arly in October. They might have it
when the battleship Georgia is launch
I'd and add to the Sagadahoc crowds an
excursion or two from the Empire
State of the South.
A distinguished divine in service
at Old Orchard declared, Sunday, that
that resort is more vulgar and obscene.
indecent ard demoralizing Than the
haunts of gay Paris and many other
continental resorts he has visited AS
IN advertising medium for this resort
this sort Of thing can not be beaten.
There will undoubtedly be bigger
throngs at the beach than can be
handled when this characterization
gets we'll circulated
Portland Express: We sincerely
trust that our friends and former
neighbors i'm other states will not take
umbragc because we formally dedicate
no "Old Home Week to them this
year. The latch string is always out
in Maine. as they have long ere this
discovered.
great deal is meant for Names
numbering industry by the discovery
of a way to drive hard wood logs. 1t
vas made by Manager p. S. Dorsey of
the Ellsworth Lumber Co. and proved
by the successful driving of 1000. 0OO
feet of hard wood down the Union
River to the mills. Driving hard wool
in the same way that spruce and pine
ar" driven has heretofore been con-
sidercd fmpracticable for the reason
that the logs sink before they have
been in the water long. They are cut
in the spring when the sap is running
and are not very buoyant unless the
sap is extracted. If all of the bark is
removed for this purpose, the logs
crack or CHECK" This difficulty has
made it very expensive to get Maine
hard wood to market. with the result
that MANY valuable tracts of beech
and maple have been left entirely I'M
cut. The plan upon which Mr.. Dorsey
has hit is The extra ction Of the sap by
single girdle. BY this means he sue
cessfully performed the feat to which
we have already referred and his sue
cess will result in the cutting of 1000
600 feet of hard wood next season in
the Union River district. heretofore
considered inaccessible. The idea will
undoubtedly be seized upon by the
owners of other hard wood tracts and
great impetus will be given to an in
dustry which is one of the States chief
revenue producers.
There are at present between thirteen
and fourteen thousand cabmen in Lon
don. No fewer than AZ 900 articles have
been left in cabs and conveyed to the lost
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