Daily Kennebec journal., 1905-07-08
Maine Gossip

Maine Gossip /
Vacation Pleasures.
The glad vacation time has come,
When all the children rest
From their accustomed toll IN schooi,
Ard do their very best
To wear themselves out having fun,
At partT, hop and ball,
Instead of really resting for
The work to come next fall
They do not want the simple life
That's found upon the farm.
And going TO bed at nine o'clock
Has not the slightest charm.
So they will lead n merry life
This summer, as Il rule,
| And be as tired as they are now
When they go back to school
-Somelville Journal.
The dog daysy days are getting an
early start.
Bowdoinham is Maine; most popu-
lar town with the safe breakers.
BY and by Massachusetts will be
| able to celebrate the 3OO;h anniversary
| of its exploration ana settlement.
Fully 1900 educators from all parts of
the country will meet at Portland,
next week.
The Boston Yacht Club, escorted by
squadrDns from the clubs at Portland
and Bath. will be at Five Islands, July
1922.
| Machias, which did not indulge in
any celebration of the Fourth, is plan
ming on a three days trade carnival in
August.
| The good old town ot Harrison is
making extensive plans for the celebra- =
ton OF its centennial III August.
| 1t Is very cold sun.Iier over in
| Durham. We base tins conclusion
| upon picture which a truthful AMI
| cnterI rising Maine "onlcmp,ialy pub
| fishes i'll connection Nlth it, account of
| DurhamS special toNu II,st-tiEg. July ).
| This picture. which - labeled Com :
| to Town Meeting At south West Bend,
| Durham, Wednesday," ShoW:; the men
| clad in heavy ulste"s and caps. the
| horses blanketed. and ,ha trees leat1es5
1t is 4 remarkable July scene for
| Maine.
Holman Day is now at his summer
| camp near katahdin Iron Works. 1t is
called Camp khayyam," but it is more
| Of working den than anything in the
| way Df resting place, for Main-'s
| most popular author is putting nearly
| all his waking hours into completing
| the manuscript of his first novel, Whilh
| he is under contract to finish within a
| specified time. The first Tart of tn,
book is already in typ" and the pub
| hshels are pushing the sale with good
| success.
| During the summer a charter house
| will De built for the Kappa Sigma fra
ternity at BowdOin which will be the
eighth and last of tn" fraterrities there
| to have a house of its o"n. The soci-
ETY. has bought Il lot IONA: feet At thr
| corner Of College ana HaIpsW"ll
streets. The plans have De-. II tiraWn by
| a Portland architect and :. *. Ballard
of Auburn has the contract tn build the
house which will cost about 800.
Summer camps for : ho"l boys are
more numerous in Main each year.
| This week 4G boys. from 3 to 1G years
| of age, have arrived at c'mp Cobbos-
| see at Monmoth. Another party of
| about the same number ,liI composed
of boys of about tn. sam" age. are To-
Gated at Camp Wilinc.e It Parsons
| field. They We're in change of DR..
| Wopdman, a capable instructor and
physician. who is sent Wy the parents
Of his young charges tn continue their
education during the summer in the in
| vigOrating atmosphere of the Maine
| woods. Still another party of 20 has
gone to Camp Katah1in at Harrison
where they will devote the summer
months to study and pleasure in a
similar manner. And these are only a
few of the many summer camps.
| Rluehll is telling fish stories. TIL
good people there are prepared to be-
lieve almost anything N that line just
Inow. They have had visible evidence
that all big fish are not IN the story
teler's imagination. 1t is an open
question there yet Just What the big
fish is which was killed in Rlrehill bay
just off the wharf last Thursday by a
rifle shot by Capt. Ben Black. Som
call it a horse mackarel, some a yellow
tail. all agree that it is big. The fish
was eight feet long and weighed over
4Ub pounds.
The fates have a grudge against the
face of j. II. Rawson of Paris Hill
Early in the spring, while at work in
the orchard, he was Int by broken
branch. which inflicted i bad cut over
the left eye. This was not wholly
healed. when n slip caused a severe