Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-15

| Against the sandy hills;
| a car. on rails ali RUSTY
| Drawn DER Il desert dusty
| by an ancient mule and dusty
| The pillows and the bills,
| Atlanta Constitution.
The Maine burglars are losing no
time in beginning the fall campaign
This is Old Home Week by law, but
Andover. Fhyette, Monmouth, Frye
burg and others got in their cclebra-
tons. last week.
Main" will not only have one of the
biggest contingonts in the c. A. II.
parade in Boston, this week, but it will
also have the youngest and best look
ing department commander.
The iron hand Of State taxation" 50
glibly talked about by the Waterville
candidate for Governor is not felt very
severely by the towns and cities If
| k"nncbec county. In 1903 they paid
int" the state treasury $500 and re-
ceived back from the State treasury
$92, l61. And that is about the way it
goes in all the counties.
! The Lewiston hotels are the first in
Maine to put up rates as a result of th.
meat strike in Chicago These are
great times for the vegetarans.
| In cemetery at Greenwood, this cpl
taph may be read by any passer by on
the beautiful marble headstone set for
| Cyrus NJ Buck: "C;od is nature: Bible
q humhug. written by wicked and
| vulgar priests. Death was n debt I
owed. l have paid that debt so must
you. To do good is my religion
Rear Admiral Eobley Evans, better
known as "Fiehting Bob is coming 10
Bar Harbor to make an examination
into the iniGuitirs Of the fog trumpet
on Egg Rock, AMI see what may be
done by the government to provide =
| soporific for Bar Ifarbor residents
Admiral Evans will make Il trip to Egg
| Rock accompanied by the committee
hoscn for that purpose by the board
of trade who will endcavor to SEQ that
tho admirars tympnnum is the
recipient of full blast from tn"
| trumpet.
Bangor will not have the only big
Labor Day celebration in the State
Labor day in Lewiston and Auburn
will he full of life and variety. Sports
will be held at the Fair Grounds. A
fine gold medal will be offered by the
| ,.,1 I,I,a nj, - he
4 relay team rae" open to all high
schools in Maine. There will be big
| parade.
They tell me up Katahdin Iron
Works way" said n gentleman who
has just returned from the woods,
that there WAS an enormous loss of
life among deer last winter due to the
cxtrem" cold and the heavy crust on
the SHOWS. The deer simply starved to
death. All over that country you will
find tho tops of the small trees trimmed
down by the teeth of the deer as far
AS the level of tn" snow. The guides
all say that they have found this sum-
mer the remains Of many deer that
plainly starved to death during the
morciess winter
Members Of the Maine National
Guard are interested i'm the orders
issued from the War Department for
the twtnty-third and twenty-sevcnth
batteries of field artillery and two
sqnalronS of the fifteenth cavalry sta
toned 1T Fort Ethan Allen. Vermont.
to march from that post to Manassas
Virginia. to take part i'm The manoeuvres
next month 4 distance of 700 miles II
is calculated that the trim will occupy
about five weeks. This is probably tho
longest march of United States troops
in recent times and is in the nature of
IN experiment.. The Hyde Light
Guards of Bath have the distinction Of
marching moro miles on one Journey
than any other militia company has yet
done according to reports. This was
when thew made their march of 4,
miles to Augusta.
Millinoc'lct is to have n real p1rk.
1t has been talked of ever since tho
earlier days Of the town. and now tn,
GREAT is about to happen. Teams AMI
mon have removed the unsichtly rocks
| ''''i wv ii'i'II'hl piece al SFOuni
facing the Mountain View hotel and
ar" levelling off the ground prepar-
ttory to seeding il down. Trees will
bo cot out walks laid out. and it is
whispered that tho great Northern
) Pan"r Co might erect band stand
nm there ana donate several thoucand
doliars to the band. IT Is further hint
81 that deer yard may he set off and
ho flled with good specimens from tho
woods. and also that \ fow COOL Jack
rahhits can he cantured down on tho
N"dwav road ana regular menagerfa
started
Three and \ half miles Of road IN tho
neirhborho"h Of the Rois do Rouogne
; in Paris have boon treated with tar by
the French Anti-dust League
Our Gold Dollar the Standard.
Tho gold dollar Of the United States is
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