Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-06-28


Names best known bird-lover has been
elected superintendent of schools of
Portland.
The Samoset at ROckland opened for
the season, yesterday. Since last year
over $4,000 has been expended on the
grounds alone.
The Waterville and Fairfield baseball
enthusiasts would like TO have their
towns admitted to the Trolley league.
In the list of SanfOrd's citizens who
pay taxes of over $lo0 each, this year,
the great little shortstop OF the Boston
Americans.
The big cat contest wakes warm
down in Hancock county. The latest
claimant for the blue ribbon is Thomas
Bracket Reed, owned by Fred Robbins
OF East Sullivan ami weighing %
pounds. 1t will be hard to beat this
appropriately named heavyweight.
The hearing on the st. John river
trouble will be held July ?. though the
American parties in the dispute are
said to have preferred July 4.
They are having fun with a Winslow
man whose scarecrow made a mysteri-
GUS journey from his chicken yard to
the field of a neighbor, mile away, one
night recently.
A shoe factory ana an umbrella fac
tory are among the good things of the
near future which Mechanic Falls is
hoping for.
1t is claimed for Elisha H. Haney Of
Belfast that he is the greatest Joiner"
in Eastern Maine. He belongs to no
fewer than 10 secrAt orders. having
been at the head of six o. them and an
active worker in them all. He has
never had time to figure up the number
Of degrees he has taken.
There are row over 1900 volumes in
the Davenport Library of the Squirrel
Island. and the number increases each
moon. The shelves will accommodate
3 900 volumes. The library walls are
capable of redOublad shclf-rOom. after
the present storing capacity has been
exhausted. These cool days fOur-foot
logs blaze on the library hearth and
groups of people gladly ratronize the
reading room and the reference books.
Speaking of Squirrel 1sland. here IS
and interesting paragraph from a re-
cent letter from its shores: South
Shore is famous for trysts. 1t is said
that about half a HUNDRED engage
mentS is the annual crop on these
shores,-harvested chiefly in July and
August. This years product is likely
to exceed the normal, for June is now
in it. The street lamps which line our
ten miles Of Squirrel sidewalks do not
obtrude ther impertinent lays on the
rocks by the surf"
A new feature of instruction, which
was introduced into the Yarmouth
High School during the past year, was
a system Of correspondence between the
pupils who were studying French, and
students Of English OF the same grade
in France. This correspondence
aroused the greatest interest in the
pupils Of both countries and has led TO
many interesting incidents beside the
exchange Of views Of places of note
near which they reside. The charac-
teristics Of the French and American
scholars have been shown in these
communications and have been the
| means of teaching the different meth
DDS in use in the schools of France.
"Rosamary' at Eliot Is probably the
pioneer Fresh Air Home ir Maine for
the poor children of the big cities, and
it has led the way COR several other
| such Homes. One is about to be estab-
lished on the shore Of enc of Win
| throp's beautiful lakes. Last week,
| about 20 feeble minded and feeble
| bodied children from n private asylum
at HaddOnfield, N. J., accompanied by
p,rrSac ard attondontu r,ooha1 Dali