Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-09

guSta, Wednesday evening, Peary Will
address the Bowdon students III
Memorial hall Thursday evening.
The Bath Independent claims that 10
city of its size has SO many unlicensed
dogs at large as Bath. 1t is not an en-
via BILE distinction.
One Maine exchange CLAIMS to have
| found high school girl Tho spells the
name of the present month Mae"
No Maine college baseball team ever
| took longer trip than that of the Uni
versity of Maine which mas Just played
10 games in New Hampshire, Vermont
and Massachusetts. OF the 10 games
four were won and six lost.
Elijah Norton, the Foxcroft fox farm
proprietor. secured while in Watervillc
recon two little black foxes about
one week old. When brought home the
family cat evinced considerable interest
| in the orphans and after giving them 4
! bath carried both upstairs to her own
| HUH vi hilt'iIS. AZ ldSl ItDoIlS SIT.
| was mothering them with as much de-
votion as though they wire her own
offspring and they appeared very happy
land cOntcnted.
| Machias Union: Meddybemps will
miss the kindly face of famous old Joe
jefferson, the actor. at his camp at the
| lake, this summer. his death having Oc-
| Cured at his West Palm Beach winter
| home. He was I5 years old and con-
tracted a cold while visiting his init
| mate fishing chum, Grover Cleveland.
| Cleveland was Il guest of the JcffcrSOnS
at Meidybemps lake, two summers ago
| Both noted men said that Meddybemps
| lake tOr picturcsqucncss of scenery and
| riscatorial enjoyment was surpassed
| nowhere i'll New England.
| Bangor News: Members of the Holy
Ghost-andUs society from Shiloh are
cruising about Penobscot bay ports in
quest of sinners. If they are looking
| for genuine iniquity that is d yard
| wide. they should go to Portland. Most
Of our people are good and were born
that way. 1t is not so much Il virtue
with us as it is Il habit-SOmcthing
which We have inherited from our all
cestors. Let Rev. Sanford take Hor-
zee Grcclcy'S advice and Go West"
Maine horticulturistS report that the
gtrawbcrry vines passed through the
winter without suffering from the
| frosts, thus giving us an assurance Of
cheap strawberr ics and plenty of them
| i'll their season. AS yet the Maine
| farmers have not learned the gentle art
of lying as thoroughly as it has been
Iacquired by the peach growers in New
Jersey.
TIL" season of BURBERRY cultivation
is now beginning and from this time
| until the middle of May will be in full
blast in Washington county. The cul-
tivation of bIucberries is carried on
much differently than that of any of
the other valuable crops of Maine.
| While scientists all over the country
| have investigated the subject time af-
| ter time. the same primitive methods
are now in vogue. as were used twenty
years ago. At the conclusion Of each
and every experiment which these sci
entlstS have made the conclusion has
| been the same, that burning the barren
| land was the only true way in which
| blucbcrries could he successfully culti-
| waited. Once i'll two years it is neces-
Sary to burn over a blueberry barren
or plain. if the crop is TO be MAIN
tanned. In order that they may be
practically sure of their crops each
| year. the owners of the plains divide
| them. burning one-half this wear and
the other next. This insures an in
come from the property every year.
| The ladies Of the Bath Fortnightly
club are taking very great interest in
the matter of parkways for this city.
believing that it will be a step in the
right direction which will be appreci-
ated by the coming generations at a
time when the city expands it's present
| growth. It's members have long had
| their eyes upon that beautiful locality
at the extreme north end of the CITY
| known as ThornS Hoad. end had honcl
TO be able to create a sentiment in ia
vor of laying out a public park there
Since its members have learned Of the
danger to portion of that beautifu,
sylvan drive in North Bath known os
Lovers Retreat ana the fact that