Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-07-20
maine Gossip
The Happy World.

The Happy World.
"How's the old world doin?''
l bet you that she'll say
II only she could answer:
I'm happy on the way!
Happy with my great hills
My meadows rich with hay
Green fields an singing rivers
I'm happy on the way!
"How's the old world dom?
The winters cold an gray.
The lonesome nights are starless
And Sunshine's left the day..
But still the brave world answers:
In winter or In May
I'm rollin' on to glory
I'm happy on the way"
Atlanta Constitution
Cool and comfortable in Maine in
comparison with what the big cities
are getting.
The hot wave has already been
marked by an earthquake and tor
nado and people are justified in won
dering what is coming next.
Portland win have a higher tax rate
this year than for many years, one
due to the transfer of the legal resi-
dence of several large property owners.
The young man whose best girl Is
particularly affected with a thirst for
summer drinks-as all best girls are
will not fail to mention casually
| that explosion of a soda tank in Rock
| land.
1t would be very proper and pleasing
if the Good Templars who hold their
international convention in Ireland
this summer, should meet next time
| in Maine. A movement TO this effect
has been started.
The enrolment at the Hampden SUR
mer school has passed the 400 mark.
showing that lots of good people are
able and willing to study in the hot
months.
Pocket peddlers in Portland are GER
tainly getting the limit when they are,
caught. Two of them have been fined
s1100 and will serve Is or Is months
/ i'm Jail. 1t is such sentences as that
which will discourage the business
here.
| The Maine yacht Clique, formerly
owned by Captain George Wiggin of
Bath and now owned by a former
Bath man. Reuben Dyer, has been
showing her heels to the fast yachts
Of the Boston club this week. She
ran to Boston and returned with the
fleet capturing several cups on the
cruise down.
Bar Harbor is entertaining the rich
est baby in the world, John Nicholas
Brown of Providence, r. l., who ar
raived last Thursday with his mother,
who is a sister of George w. Wander
bilt who with his family arrives in a
few days for the season, the first time
he has been at his villa here for any
considerable stay in several seasons.
The Brown boy is five years old and is
heir to some $4,000, 900. His brief life
has been much chronicled and illustrat-
ed in the public press.
The prize rose bush of WestbrOok Is
that on the grounds of Charles Hal
lowell, Lamb street. 1t is crimson
| rambler and it contains 40 clusters
of blossoms, each cluster having from
Is to II, the latter being the largest
| which has yet been picked, making
the total number NO clusters at an av-
erage Of IS, total of $500 roses.
The county officials in the upper
part of the State have found a new
way of making things unpleasant for
law-breakers, through the use of auto
mobiles. In the past they have had
lGifficulty in doing their work for lack
Of facilities for reaching the people
they sought. If they went by train
their movements would be noted and
warning would be given by the friends
Of the pursued. Travel by carriage
was too slow for the work to be done
but the automobile fills the bill exact
ly. There is no chance for any warn
ing to be given and the destination of
the officer can often be reached much
more quickly in this way than by rail-
road train. For catching ipOachers
ana rumSellerS IN upper Maine the au
tOmobile seems to be just the thing.
Director Chapman is enthusiastic
lover the outlook for the great festivals
in October, the Bangor festival the 9Th,
9Th, 18th, and the Portland festival the
9Th, 10th and 18th. 1T will not be "a
hours after the Emma Eames tickets
are put on sale before every one Of
them will be gone" said Professor
Chapman confidently. she has not
been in the State for IS years, and it
has taken concert tour with a guar
Ianty of 100000 to keep her out of
opera this year. We are paying her
$4,000 for singing in Maine. and she
will be heard this year from Bangor to
Portland. Oregon"
A somewhat remarkably incident
occurred recently in the town of Ell
lot where at his old home a former well
known resident appeared after an alb
sence of IS years during which his
whereabouts were entirely unknown.
JOSeph Stacy suddenly left his Eliot