Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-06-15

morning sunshine tuts ohO Souiu NV
help wishing that every day were Flag
day.
Bangor complains that the mos
quitoes are thicker than ever. this
summer, but they ar, SO rare in Au-
susta that one would hardly be recog-
niZed.
The Merchants carnival which was
talke1 UP in Biddeford seems likely to
fall through on account of lack of in
terest in the project.
The big circus will ~ in Portland
July G instead of July =. When the
application for Il lic"ns.. was made
Mayor Baxter requested the manage
ment Of the circus ID select another
date. This was at the request Of the
merchants who desir" the trade tina.
always follows "irCui and as they
will be closed on the Fourth requested
that the circus come "n another date.
1t will be =: long TIM before Sanford
famous son, Shortstop Freddie Parent.
and half a dozen of his team mates on
the Boston Americans.
Among the good things which the
Machias Improvement society has done
Of late are the gift of s25 to the local
library, the erection Of street signs and
the payment of rent and light of
hall fol the use Of the village band.
A Biddeford woman who bought 4
silk dress in a Worcester. Mass, store
Just 40 years ago visited the store last
week. and found there the same clerk
Of whom she bought the goods in 1865.
Moreover. he remembered the custom
CT and the transaction. but her attempt
to match the silk proved u failure.
Again this year the peel of bark IN
eastern Maine will be small. compared
with that of other years The cause
ascribed is over production and the low
price which has 3rtr ru,inc; for the
past year. namely 500 Il cord. The
bark industry. according to the lum-
bermen, is slowly goin., out of Maine.
A large part of the old growth mas
been cut off and tho bark of tho second
growth is not as heavy aid is more in
clined to curl, not being worth much 20
the tanncries. In addition, operators
are obliged to go further into the
woods for stock ana to- expense of
getting it out is greatly increased.
With the decline of the lark industry
has come decline in supplying tele-
graph poles and ties.
The Gorham cores pondent of a Port
land paper says that the 1905 valuation
of Gorham is ST. .591 900 co. This is a
pretty lavish use of ciphers and prob
ably the writer did not stop to count
them. Gorham is a fine cid town and
it is difficult to express It's valuation in
terms of dollars. but as compared with
other towns the correspondent is rath-
er piling 1t on.
There is a Bath lad who is a juvenile
genius. Every little while he aston
ishes people by driving through the
streets in a go-cart made from a shoe
box on a pair of wheels, with a full
grown sheep harnessed in the thils.
The boy has trained the sheep to mind
the reins and is as we'll trained as any
dog and most Shetland PONIES. 1t is
quite a sight to see the boy in his
unique rig.
They are telling story on a we'll
known resident of Abbot. He had an
idea that il he planted his cucumbsrs
on the morning of June list before sun
rise. he would be more successful and
as he was going to Harmony on bust
ness on that day he arose very early
while it was yet quite dark determined
to have his Cucumbers planted at the
correct hour, his good wife aiding by
getting the seed. His suspicious We're
aroused by the size and feeling of the
contents of the package and he in
formed his wife of the fact but she
assured him 1t was all right and to go
on, which he did. On returning to the
house he discovered he had planted
package of tablets from Monson's emf
iIcuI LII. W. IL. ELiilcISO.i.
II he raises a good crop he proposes to
hang out his shingle as Il physician.
Says q writer in the Bath Times:
Much has been said and much has
been proved in regard to the peculiar
fitness OF the State of rJaine as a ma
tional summer resort. and 1 wish to
add that without the shadow of q
doubt the lower Kenneoec Valley and
that of the New Meadows River pos
sess natural sanitary conditions. in
GLIDING climate. not % be found. else
where in this country. The large per-
centage of the people who live or this
territory who reach the average age Of
eighty-five and ninety years, with IN
stances of one hundred and over,
corroborates this statement. These
valleys extend from the ocean ten or
fifteen miles to Merrymceting Bay, a
large sheet of water of MANY square
miles absolutely free from all contami-
nation and from which tire northerly
winds course down these valleys in the
heat Of summer with tn" same refresh
ing and purifying influence that the