Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-02

Now for the Music Festival at Ban
gor.
Pennington will dedicate its soldiers
monument, June II.
A big bull moose has been calling OH
people near Fort Fairfield village, this
week, evidently looking for trouble.
w. E. Haskell of Boston, a travelling
man who is organizing an anti-profan-
ity league, says that Maine is the hard
est swearing State in the UniOn-not
very enviable distinction.
The New York Tribune will probably
be boycotted in Bangor, now that 1t
has spoken of General Miles as the
Memorial day orator in Portland.
August 1920 are the dates Of Rock
lands big celebration in honor Of Old
Home week and the semi-centennial of
the city's Incorporation.
The University of Maine will lead of
among the colleges with it's commence
1.ient, the exercises coming next week.
The Bangor News publishes a large
half tone of Miss Lemon who will sing
irr~the Maine Festival, and she doesn't
by any means look her name.
The three original counties of Maine
had good old English county names,
two, Oxford and Somerset, have been
similarly named since, all the rest
having good American appellations.
For the names of Androscoggin,
Aroostcok, Kennebec, Penobscot,
Iiscataquis and Sagadahoc, we are in
debted to the aborigines while Frank
lin, Hancock, Knox, and Washington
bear the names of distinguished Am
orleans of the white race.
OF the large class which graduates
from Mt. Holyoke College this year,
seven are daughters of Maine. They
are Misses Bessie Bell Anthoine, Bidde-
ford; Marion Lincoln Cummings, Cor
ham; Charlotte Ellen Farnham, Bath;
Alice Ethel Forsyth, Bucksport;
Emma Longfellow, Machias; Sara
Boothby Libby, Westbrook and Edith
Elizabeth Woodward, Brunswick.
Miss Forsyth is president of the Stu
dents league of the college.
Four old deeds were brought into the
Cumberland register of deeds office
last week to be recorded as follows:
1901, 1907, 1893 and 1887. In spite OF
their antiquity the ink is as bright and
clear as ever even in the cldcet wife
was written more than a century ago.
The papers have been stored away in
domestic pigeon holes all these years
and none of them have ever been "
corded. 1t was to connect and make
continuous titles to land in Windhom
that they are brought in now. Another
odd feature is the values on the land.
One parcel seems to have been OF a
high order as it brought $35 an acre
while another parcel, sold &c years
later, is valued at only S. an acre.
Turf, Farm and Home: 1t has been
w.
cannot as a rule make success run
ming a breeding farm, but we think
there is a notable exception to the rule
right here in Maine. When Pine the
Stock Farm lost A. ]. Libby. it's pro-
prietOr. it was taken for granted that
the farm would close out, but it has
done nothing of the sort. Mrs. Libby
was always a good manager and dear
lover of a good horse, and she has tax
en- up the management and the farm Is
going on with great success. She has
engaged Mr.. Z. NJ. Thayer as superin-
tendent, and q good business is being
done. Mrs. Libby still keeps good
flock of Plymouth Rocks, and last fall
added flock of sheep that have Win
tered finely and a good check was re-
ceived the other day for the wool
Nearly half a hundred lambs have
come to increase the size of the flock
Several good sales of horses have been
made of late, and others are pending
So there is as yet no signs Of failure Of
the experiment being tried at Pine Tree
Stock Farm.
Bangor News: In Maine we are still
so rich in natural scenery that small
effort has been made to conserve the
beauties which God has created and
Put up for our admiration. Still, the
time is coming when our people will
resist the encroachment of commercial
enterprises which may find profit in
pulling down the monuments which
nature has erected so lavishly in our
midst. At present our village i'm
provement societies are confiding their
efforts to prevent the painting of ledge
fronts and messy rocks with adj
vertisements of patent medicines and
other wares, to the identifying of
grounds. to the putting down of our
able and convenient sidewalks, and to
the details of general tidiness and inn
provement. Thus far the great cor
porati which wish to convert
beauty into cold cash have confined
themselves to cutting Off the big town.
ships and leaving uns1ghtly wastes
where trees had been growing. The
time is coming, however, when the pub
lie will have to seek legislative aid in
retaining many of our natural charms
which will have money values as the
not l.