Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-08-11

their harvest now and making up for
time lost in July.
| Congressman Littlefeld is making a
few speeches in Vermont, but will soon
be back in this State. After the Maine
/ election he will go on the stump in the
West.
| Not many little girls in Maine are so
| fortunate as Miss Blanche Florence
LivermOre the twO-years-old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs Lewis Livermore of
! Sebec, who has two grandmothers.
| four Observation-Disclosures and a great
| great grandmother.
| In reply to the many inquiries in
/ reference to a Music Festival at Old
Orchard this August, Director W. r.
! Chapman announces that none will be
given. 1t was impossible for the Camp
| Meeting association to arrange for the
Festival on the coming Saturday, and
equally impracticable to attempt
Festival that did not include that day,
! SO the plan was necessarily abandoned.
| The business at the Bath telephone
exchange has more than doubled with
| in a few months and another section
for three operators was added to the
exchange this week.
! What has become of the cyclonic
campaign which the cowboy-parson
nominated by the sSagadahoc Pro-
hibitionists for sheriff was to wage? He
started of as advertised. but seems t.
have been lost somewhere.
| The Bath Independent indorses the
suggestion of the Journal that the
carnival of the Bath merchants be ar
ranged to come on the week of the
| launching of the battleship Georgia
! No launching ever occurred in this
| State that attracted the crowd % u D
pie that this one will. and this would
| be an attraction which would cost the
merchants nothing.
| The seagull makes a splendid living
barometer. If covey of seagulls fly
seward early in the morning sailors
| and fishermen know that the day will
be fine and the wind fair, but if thu,
birds keep inland seafaring people
know that the elements will be unfav-
orable. OF weatherwise fish the
dolphin is the most remarkabl Dur
ing fierce gale or a storm at sea the
mariner knows that the end of it is
near if he can see dolphin, or a num-
| Der Of that fish, sporting on the high
sea waves.
| The Maine Federation of Women's
clubs will meet this year at Bar Har-
Dor during the third week of Septem-
Der. They are making great prepar-
| atoms and intend this to be the very
| best yet. Mrs. George Armstrong of
Lewiston, the Federation president, has
arranged the splendid program. She
has secured the newly elected General
| Federation president, Mrs. Sarah Plat
| Decker Of Colorado who Is one of the
very brightest of the western women
also Mrs. Howard Jones of Kalamazoo
Mich. who is the assistant street COM
missioner of that city. The mayor said
when he appointed her "to teach us
how to keep our beautiful but untldy
streets clean.'' She Is doing it anG at
the same time telling others how. She
Is Maine woman, a fine talker and a
very able woman.
| Here Is n North Vassalboro story told
in the Waterville Mail. A man came
to the village and secured employment
on the narrow gauge road. Requiring
tenement for his family h. proceeded
up the street in search of one. Meeting
an Irishmah he made known his
wishes. The gentleman. thinking
moment or two replied, There is a
vacant tenement near the Catholic
church which think you can either
buy or rent" But" says the
stranger II wouldn't want to live near
a Cautholfc church. He used the
word, Caut holic. as though he had a
chew of gGm in his mouth. We'll"
replied the son of Erin, You had bet
ter select b, spot in hell and bring \
farm with you. for it's the only place
that I know Of where no Catholic
churches are to be found
Inc kennebec Yacht Club Of Bath is
proposing to put on an amateur enter
tainment. this fall, which will eclipse
anything of the kind ever seen in
Maine. There is tradition down In,
the Shipping City that the Kirmess,
which was presented there by amateur
talent about dozen years ago waa
the best thing in the amusement line
that ever happened in this part of the
country. and that the Indoor Circuso.
Living Whist parties. Paradas and
other things Of the kind. which hav,
been presented in various narts ~ tha
state since then, are not n he man
| toned in COMPARISON -. !.