Daily Kennebec journal., 1905-06-16

Automobile trips are particularly
popular for Maine honeymooners, this
year.
Rcckland is another Maine city to
knock askew the vertical system Of
penmanship.
The list of players in the Trolley
League teams assures some gilt-edged
| baseball for Kennebec county people.
| this summer.
Bangor hears Il .lisnuieting rumor
is to be favored will not get so far
over east.
Portland is pleased to learn that the
| fleet to visit 1t this summer will not
be merely a collection of unimportant
auxiliary vessels. but will include three
or four battleships. the Maine probably
being one of the number.
Over 400 persons paid 10 cents each,
last Sunday for the privilege of enter
| ing the tent containing the fragments
l of the skeleton of the sea serpeAt or
| whale or whatever it was that washed
up on the beach at Ocean Park last
| week.
| When Jonesport has IN epidemic 1t
has 1t hard. When the small pox was
the fashion in May 1904 it spread like
wildfire and 800 people were at one
time quarantined with about 100 cases,
Now the measles are raging, nearly
every other family being afflicted. only
two schoolhouses are open and the
doctors are working ever time. Aga
doesn't count, the old as well as the
young being victims of this sporadic
disease.
Bath Independent: We notice that
some of our towns have commenced
work on the roads md will not have It
finished much before midsummer. 1t
is too bad that this work cannot be
done earlier in the season when it will
1
Our Maine drives are me of our great
| est attractions and We should do all
that We can to keep them SO and i'm
prove them without Inconvenience to
those who wish to use them.
| A feature Of the military carnival in
Portland will be Il grand church
parade, Sunday. June 25. when the two
| Canadian regiments will attend serv-
ices in their honor arranged by Vice
Consul Keating.
Gardiner & Son Of Machias have had
four young lady bookkeepers within
the past few years and each in turn
has left to get married. The departure
of the latest is followed by several
dozen applications for the desirable
position thus left vacant.
The Bowdoin alumni whose classes
end in "5' or "0' will be the ones. to
hold formal reunions. this year. the
classes of '55 and 80 being especially
prominent. The class of rs which
| celebrates it's 30th anniversary will do
things up in style and its president,
William J. Curtis of New York. has
hired a house on Cleveland street for
the use of its members during the
week. This class. whicl includes many
famous alumni, had As members of
whom 80 are living. Only IL of them
live in Maine.
| Pennsylvania Is to have En- Old Home
Week. This information has been re-
ceived I'm Portland with the request
that Portland give Pennsylvania some
pointers on how such an event should
be run. A letter addressed to the Old
Home Week Committee was received
at City Hall and Hon. F. E. BoothbJ
being the father Of the Old Home Week
idea in Maine, the letter was sent 20
him. The communication Is from Will
NJ. TAFT, OF Harrisburg. and he an
nounces that Old Home Week in that
state is to be held in October He also
says that this Is their first offense"
| and that as the committee is mot re
plete with ideas" regarding such an
! affair and 'if it Is not imposing on
good nature" they would like to get
/ some pointers. COj. l3oOtHpy INTENDS 10
reply to the letter Immediately and
will tell them what Maine has done in
past years celebrating OLD Home Week
and will send literature ard everything
he can find pertaining to the observ-
ance Of the event. 1t is hoped Penn
sylvania will make more Of a success
of 1t than Maine has.
The Carleton Canoe company of Old
Town has shipped to Commander
Robert E. Peary. Portland, three lum-
bermen's batteaux similar to those
used on the Penobscot river and almos.
exclusively used in handling logs.
These craft are to be steel armored and
runnered in Portland for the use of
Peary on his trip to the Arctic this
summer. While the Roosevelt was IN
der construction at Bucksport several
batteaux were sent from the Carleton
company to Bucksport thence taken by
boat to the terminal Of the new Sea-
port railroad at Stockton Springs for
use in the construction Of piers. etc.
then being built there by the railroad