Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-04-15

today.
Bangor is now talking more about
its Few library than about enforcement
| or the Democratic city adnninistra ton.
The enforcement commission refuses
to talk for publication. That is wise
course and should strictly be followed.
Its work will speak for it.
The South Boston News celebrates its
Goth anniversary this year. Estab-
lished in 1885 by the present owner,
John J. Merrigan, it has the distinction
of being the only weekly newspaper in
| New England that has ever enjoyed
such a long existence without a change
OF editor or proprietor.-Press ana
Printer.
| This is a claim to distinction that
cannot be sustained. 1t may be true
New England and there are many
| Maine weeklies which are published.
| today, by the same men who edited and
managed them, 20 years and more ago.
| Among them are the Belfast Journal.
ISoiiiSiSct INcpoitSi ID itstoi A>S"o .,
Rockland Opinion. Norway Advertiser,
Hallowell Register Aroostook Pioneer
| the New Age and doubtless others.
Under the caption can Interesting
| Town." the Bangor Commercial pre-
sents some facts concerning the
| early history of Machias. and then says
| of present conditions: AT its recent
! town meeting most creditable record
| of municipal management WAS pre-
| scented. The town is out of debt and
| has assets amounting to $2.6I6,39. of
which $3.50. a. in cash in the strong box.
1t has fine library building, given by
| a native son in honor of his parents,
and to the free reading room in this
| library the town appropriated the sum
of S4OO. 1t has Il village improvement
society which presented to the town
| at its last meeting artistic signs or
markers for the streets. which We're
accepted by the town. and it was voted
| that residents living on unnamed
| streets were requested to decide upon
names and send them to the selectmen
within one week that markers might be
provided for them. The selectmen
| We're also authorized to remove all ad-
| vertising signs from the town bridges.
1t appropriated $500 for bridges and
sidewalks. $1,000 for schools, $500 for
state roads, besides other generous
sums for public and municipal pur-
poses.''
The Portland papers are saying that
Colonel Daniel OConnell O'Donoughue
who recently died in Portland, was the
first Catholic elected to q school COM
mittee in this State. If they will look up
| the history of Gov. Edward Kavanagh.
corrects the Waterville Seminal. they
will learn differently for it has been
stated that he served on the Newcastle
school committee before he was COVER
| nor i'll 1S43. .ArOostook county has fur
nished several instances, for the Roman
Catholic population has always been
| large in both the north and south of
that county. Southern AroOstoOk sent
an Irish regiment to the Civil War. and
there were some Well-read men in it,
who had received their schooling in
districts where there were no inhab-
tants except Roman Catholics.
The American Newspaper Publishers
association has just issued it's annual
list of summer resorts in the different
states. mainly those in the northern
and eastern sections of our country
More than 100 Maine towns and sum-
mtr resort places are Included in this
list. with list of the hotels and board
ing houses in each place :. hich are open
{.
This list occupies more than five pages
Of the pamphlet. being one of the long
est in the work and only exceeded by
those for the states of New Hampshire
and New York. The leading summer
resort localities in Maine are York
Beach, Wells, Old Orchard the islands
Of Portland harbor, Moosthead Lake,
Mount Desert. Kenne5unk, the Range
leys, SebagO Lake, Sorrento. Castine,
Katahdln Iron Works--With scores and
scores of equally beautiful but less
known resorts by shore and lake,
mountain and forest, in the quiet rural
village and on the healthy farms in all
parts of the state.
II never saw a city with such oppor-
tunities for parks as Portland has.
The scenes to be enjoyed from each
end of the city are magnificent. With
the improvements to be made here. this
city may well be said to have the best
park system Of any in the country"
This was a statement made by H. V.
Hubbard, landscape artist from the
office of Olmstead Bros. of Boston. He
was in Portland this week and with
Mayor Baxter and Park Commissioner
A. W. Smith made a visit to the vari-
Gus parts of the town where improve
ments are contemplated. Olmstead
Bros are the ones who furnished the
plan for the Back Bay boulevard and
they are now at work on plans which
will make this part OF the city, the east
end and the west end. all part of one
great park system. The purpose of Mr..
Hubbard's visit was to make a careful
inspection Of the places where changes