Daily Kennebec journal., 1904-07-29

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| enthusiasm and furnishing some fine
| games.
| The spOrtsmen do not forget that the
open time on plover. sand peeps, etc.,
begins next Monday.
Rockland and Camden figure up a
total of IA devil wagons in the two
places.
| The Bath Masons will celebrate the
| centennial of Solar Lodge by grand
banquet at Merrymeeting, September
| 10.
| The town of Hope is getting ready
for it's centennial celebration, which
| will take place Aug. 10. At the next
meeting of the executive committee the
| full program will be arranged. "A. >.
| Lermond has charge of the arrange
mcnts of the military parade and all
soldiers either living in Hope, or hav-
in; formerly lived in Hope, are invited
to be present and take part. There is
| to be 4 parade of school children. MISS
| Alice l.. Cole of Hartford. Conn, form
erly of Hope, has an original poem II.
| ii. Payson is to be marshal OF the day.
Music will be furnished by the Camden
band. Speeches by a number of ora
tors will be delivered.
| An Owls Head fisherman set 1900
hooks Il few days ago and when he
pulled his lines found about a thousand
| dog fish on them. He was so incensed
| that lie labOred for hours killing them,
and taking his fishing gear home.
disgustedly abandoned fishing, but
slept soundly that night with the satis-
faction that he had ridden the seas of
| q regiment of the worst enemy fisher
| men ever encountered.
| The Rockland Star says that the dog
fish have completely driven the
shore fishermen out of business
along parts of the Maine coast.
inllicting enormous losses at this
Iseason of the year when the de-
| ra.:nd for sea food is brisk and prices
hislT, and causing besides thousands of
dollars loss in fishing gear. The
dreaded pests of the sea are here in
| larger numbers this year than ever.
They We're due early in July but did not
| make their appearance fnther East
than Seguin at that time and fishermen
hoped that they would not come till
| late in the season. Now, however, the
/ hn al hn CT nd al oil cr
| shore are alive with the dog fish. They
have destroyed the industry along the
| coast employing thousands of men who
have been forced to seek other means
of making n living. No fish except
from the deep sea fishermen are coming
into the markets and the situation is a
| desperate one.
A well known hotel man speaking OF
the danger to human life from dogtish
| related an occurrence off Moose island
near Boothbay Harbor. 80 odd years
| ago when he WAS youth. Two young
BoStonians spending the summer there
were out sailing one day when they
dropped anchor and one of them
| sprang into the ocean for a swim. He
| WAS Immediately surrounded by a
school of dog fish and in his death
| agony begged piteOusly to his COM
| FaniOn in the boat to shoot him ana
end his torture. In few minutes he
| sank. The body was never recovered
and was probably quickly eaten by
| these cannibals of the sea. At Mon
| hegan 20 years ago small boy fell
| from a boat i'm which his father sat and
before he could be rescued he had been
killed by dogfish. Instances are re-
lated in which they attack the oars OF
a boat when in use in the water and
bite slices out of them. During the
dogfish season it is dangerous for
persons when rowing to put their
hands i'm the water as is the custom of
many on hot days.
| Here is q tree story from ROckpOrt
which most readers will find pretty
hard to swallow: Twelve years ago
John Mutt of Rockport, had a willow
stick which he used for cane. He
placed it i'm the center of a flower bed
| for the flowers to trait on. It soon took
| iocl dil tOuay measures SIX Ieet SIX
inches around the trunk" A cane
which becomes tree two feet In
diameter i'm IL years is too much of Il
miracle for these days.
No writer of short stories in the
country is doing more or better work
| than our own Holman F. Day, and the
readers of the summer magazines are
getting some fine things from his pen,
all with the true Maine flavor. He has
stories in Frank Leslies for both
July and Augusta and one in the
August Ainslee's.~ The latter magazine
also announces one in it's September
also announces one in it's September
number. Other publications are also
publishing his stories ana poems.
Bangor News: If Longfellow was
born in Maine and was forced to emil
Crate to Massachusetts in order to win
his bread and butter, we can see no
great accomplishment in hustling
around and saving up the husk Of a