Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-06-24


early and all the transportation COM
panies running into the city report a
large increase in traffic.
This week makes new record for
temperature. There was Il sensational
drop of the thermometer on Sunday
afternoon from 81 to 70 degrees, in the
space of few hours and then from
Monday morning to Tuesday afternoon,
there was a difference of only one de-
gree between the maximum and mini
evenncss in temperature Tor so many
hours was never known III Maine be-
fore, say those who watch the weather
closely.
If present plans are carried out, the
price of milk from all the men selling
it in Portland will be increased to eight
cents quart. The milkmcn of the city
have for some time been trying to get
the price to advance. hut there have
been dissenters and a lack of unity Of
action. SO the desired change could not
be brought about.
AS the time draws nearer for the
grand Weymouth celebr9 ton which
will take place in Thomaston, July 6,
there are growing plans for quite an
extensive land parade to start from
Fort wharf upon the arrival Of the
party from down river and to move up
Knox street into Main street AMI
around tho Mall he Ia 81 60
days there has been some talk of ask
ing Big Thunder Chief of the Penobscot
tribe and governor of the Old Town set
Element. to be present with his fellow
men. Big Thunder is building church
at Old Town and through his efforts
nearly enough money has been raised
to pay the bills and his presence in
ThOmaston on the above date, with a
number OF his tribe would rot only add
much to the attract vcness of the Occa-
sion but would furnish additional
financial means to aid in his worthy
object of erecting a house of Worship.
Everything concerning the celebration
is coming along nicely and it is be-
lieved that the affair Will be a grand
success.
The editor of the Gardiner Reporter
Journal unblushingly admits that he
does not know what the duties of n
hog reeve are. This leads the Bidde-
ford Journal to hope that such a frank
confession may tempt the editor of the
Lewiston Sun to admi: that possibly
there are just one Or two points in the
theory and practice Of state and ma
tional government which he does not
thoroughly comprehend.
The actual value of the little torpedo
boat has been an uncertain quantity
until the recent naval battles between
the Japs and the Russians where they
demonstrated that without doubt
they perform excellent service on the
lines for which they are designed and
1t Is quite likely that Uncle Sam will
increase the number of this STYLE craft
for his own navy. This heing the case
1t Is more than probable that the Rat,
Iron Works would build some of them
for the fact that they constructed suc.
cessfully the fastest ones ever built in
this country would have no little
weight in the matter
In the matter of leaving the bushes
beside the country roads rather than
cutting them all off and leaving tho
unsightly rocks, knobs. bitches and
fences exposed, the Gardiner Report.r
Journal agrees with this paper. AFRO.
quoting our recent editorial on tho suh.
iect the Reporter-Joarnal goes on to
say: There is god deal in tho+
argument. and it suggests that there