Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-27

N8AhU9 GOSSIP
Two Kinds Of Summer Girl.
She has twelve trunks. two carry alls.
| of bandboXes a score,
| Valises each of different size,
/ Handbags fifteen or more;
| And know we by these baggage mounds
| This maid is on her way
I'm TO the breezy mountain tops
| To spend each summer day.
Another maid she boards the train,
/ Without a single care;
She has no baggage to be checked;
| She's lively plump and fair:
| She's going to the brisk seashore
| The little bag so cute,
| That bangles at her side contains
y s'''' New York Press.
The advance guard is moving on
Bangor.
The Bates and Colby commence
mAnts, this week.
| The summers rush to the Maine
shore is almost due.
| Millinocket's latest step city-ward is
the acquisition of a merry-go-round.
] The secret orders goat is also
| pleased at the prospect of long sum-
mer vacation.
The farmers are finding it very
difficult to engage help for the haying
season.
Perhaps there is no connection be-
| tween the record-breaking number of
June weddings and the fact that this Is;
leap year.
Coburn Classical Institute. which has
| celebrated it's 18th anniversary, owes a
good share of its present prosperity to
| the fact that Principal Frank w. john
son is man of college presidential
size.
A Sargentville correspondent tells of
| a home in that town where there are
| five generations in the family-some-
thing you won't find every day. The
| names Of this family are: Mrs. o. j.
| Billings, aged seventy-three; Mrs.
| Lewis Hutchings, fifty-three; Mrs.
| Florence Wardwell, thirty-six; Mrs.
| Louise Cash. nineteen, and Regina
| Cash, nine months.
Unless he is much maligned the
| night operator of the Houlton ex-
| change is about the soundest sleeper of
all those in his business. Says the
| local paper: He sleeps the sOundest
when the fire bell clangs. The night
| that the fire occurred at the Z. & A.
station here we wanted to get Boston,
but the operators spirit evidently was
| wandering around the planet Mars.
| Saturday night while Mars Hill was
burning he was lost to the world; and
| last night he failed to answer the
ring until long after the fire bell
ceased ringing"
| Over Brewer way people are staying
in at night for fear of 4 31a foot turtle
which has escaped from captivity and
which is said to be more dangerous to
meet than a bull dog. The ugly brute
| was captured at Hines pond a week
ago and it took the united efforts of
three strong men to get him into a
| wagon without injury to themselves.
Since then he has been tied by q half
| inch rope and fed on blood suckers.
| Wednesday night the rope gave way
| to the mighty strain put upon it by the
turtle which can carry a 100 pound
man on his back without experiencing
any inconvenience, and he is now
| roaming at large although searching
parties have made every effort to locate
him. He was to have been sold to the
Forepaugh's circus in July and ex-
hibited as the largest turtle ever taken
| in Names inland waters. and it is I'M
| derstood that $50 was offered for him
by the circus people. Thus his loss is
a great misfortune.
The new library building at Squirrel
Island is completed. IT'S a beauty, the
gift of Mr.. Davenport Of Boston, the
munificent friend of that ideal summer
resort. One thousand dollars worth of
books will be put in at once and the
| reading room transferred thereto. The
post office now abSorbs the former
reading room. A battery of carpenters
are putting the cottages in order. The
| Cheney cottage has blossOmed into a
summer mansion. Both rocOcos and
open plumbing are the order of the day.
Old Squire Greenleaf, with his thumb
| worn copy Of Virgil and his antique
simplicity, never dreamed that his sOli-
| tary cabin would develop into the pre-
sent majestic proportions. Water
comes across the harbor from BoOthbay
in pipes laid under the sea. and gas
lights illumine the qualntest of libra
ries with a broad stone fireplace big
enough to roast a whole deer as well
| as ample enough for all the dears.
Cottages are opening. and on July 4th
| there will be over half thousand
people at the island. The hotel opened
Saturday.
OF the 800 or more BowdOin alumni
| who We're back at Commencement last