Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-07-27

among the scenes VI MdlHe. VI COuEoS,
it may be that the strollers are dis
Itinguished authors who take this way
of securing character sketches. but
even they are not dangerous, though
they should be fed whenever met
abroad. for their calling gives them lit
tie enough to live upon.
Five or six new electric roads are
said to be in contemplation for con-
struction in Maine another season.
Washington county Is rejoicing In
the prospect of harvesting the biggest
crop of blueberries on record. The
cauneries are getting ready to run
overtime and the pfckers are planning
what they shall buy with the money
they earn. If family feels too poor
to go to Bar Harbor or Long Branch
this year. all the benefits Of a visit to
a fashionable summer resort can be
obtained from spending two weeks
under a canvas tent on the BURBERRY
plains. The call at the summer resort
will cost $1,000 Il week or more, while
camping out on the plains, instead OF
being an outlay, will bring in new
money. Inere Is 10 UctteI way "
combine pleasure with profit.
Mr.. T. B. Rose, of Pressure Isle, who
| has been a resident of Aroostook coun-
| ty for over fifty years. says that during
this long period he has never known
crop failure there. Few sections of the
state can show such a record as this.
Bangor News: Again the question
| comes up as to whether it pays to raise
horses in Maine. During our brief
| rides into the country this summer, we
| have seen very few colts or fillies about
the farm premises and from what we
| hear, it is inferred that farmers do not
think horse-raisnG is a profitable bust
ness. In ArOostOOk they are making
money in rearing large draft horses for
farm work and for use in the woods,
but the slim-legged and big-eyed nags
which we used to see in most every
farmyard, are no longer in evidence.
Most of this country's trotting and rae
ing stock is grown in Kentucky, where
the winters are short and where the
horses can run out at pasture for nine
months in the year.
Reports from our lakes indicate that
many of the big trout and salmon that
are Caught" still have the pernicious
habit of getting away.
The thieves who have been raiding
the flowers in the Bath cemetery, have
not been satisfied always with taking
the blossoms. The superintendent re-
ports that in some cases, they have
taken the whole plants.
The outlook is still favorable for a
good apple crop in Maine the coming
fall. Notwithstanding the fact that
they have been dropping off the trees
to a considerable extent in some sec
lions of the State
There are still few Maine towns
that have not fully complied with the
State law requiring the putting up of
sign boards at all cross roads. Towns
who neglect the plain provisions of the
statute regarding this matter are TAX
ing chances.
e. ]. Palmer. section foreman a.
Whitneyville, Maine, captured a trout
measuring nine inches in length on
Wednesday morning. He discovered
the big fellow in the ditch beside the
railroad track, and not being equipped
with rod and line, he was Obliged to
catch him in his hands. The mystery
is, how the trout came in such a place.
but his captor says there are lots more
there.
The Rockland Star tells of a sequel
to the Georgiana Powell case. The
young lady, it will be remembered.
was arrested and tried in Augusta for
forging the name of a Rockland young
woman to a registered letter receipt
and obtaining thereby $50 not intended
for her.
1t appears that the young woman to
whom this money was sent, and who
finally secured it, met, during visit
to New York year ago, good-looking
ranch owner who was very much smit-
ten with her and urged her to go West
with him as his wife, promising that
after two years he would sell his ranch
ard come East to effete civilization.
She promised him to go West after she
had Strengthened out her affairs in
| Maine and last spring while she lived
here a letter again besought her to go
| to Dakota and fill full his cup of happi-
ness. AS further inducement in the
letter which reached here June 13 was
enclosed $50 for car fare and expenses.
The young lady was Of course UNI
conscious Tat her persistent Western
lover had sent such a letter until she
received a note from Dakota asking if
she received the money. He was
doubtful he said Of it's receipt by her
as the duplicate forwarded him by the
postoffice bore her name but in a
strange handwriting. This led to the
investigation, return Of the money and
arrest of Miss Powell Complications
being thus Strengthened out the Rock
land party pOndered and decided that
her Western lover was made of the