Daily Kennebec journal., 1905-09-06
maine Gossip

Maine Gossip
A Great Head.
Hank Sphinx is bout the smartest man
this world IL ever see
For havin' everything work out to suit
his own idee. -,
He never plans a mortal thing beneath
the bendin' skies
But what it goes together just as nice as
hooks and eyes.
The way his projects all round up to
please him every time
Just makes you think his doin's are
never-endn' rime:
But all his sailin' seems SO smooth be-
cause he sees clear through
The everlastin' fitness o. the things he
has to do.
Now Just. to show that Hank has got a
lot o brains to spare.
Says he. one day: I'm goin' to rasin'
cats!' Says L: Hank. where?'
And never .r,t stoppin' n for to think. that man
Says he: ''I'll have my cattery at Kit
terry. up in Maine.
Thanksgiving is the next holiday.
Aroostook was never more glad to get
rainstOrm.
One days postponement cannot hurt
the Windsor fair.
The tide of travel is heavily west
ward but soon the sportsmen will
come.
There is lot of good sport yet as
sured for the baseball enthusiasts of
Augusta and Hallowell.
do vacations pay?" asks an ex-
change. Well, ask the landlords at
the Maine summer resorts.
The rain did not prevent Lewiston
day parades ever seen in Maine.
Two of Names prou1cst towns are
Belgrade and Mechanic Falls as a re-
suit of their handsome new railroad
stations.
The Biddeford Journal insists that
vaudeville has supplanted the legiti-
mate at the fall fairs in Maine, and it
does not lack proof to support its con-
tentiOn.
While there is town named Palermo
i'm Maine like the Palermo in Holman
F. Days forthcoming novel, Squire
Phin," Mr.. Day has borrowed the name
only. The real Palermo is inland in
Waldo county, but the Palermo of the
novel is near the coast.
The most important real estate trans
action of recent years at Kennebunk is
the purchase of the old Ocean Bluff
hotel site by Ruel w. Norton, proprie.
tor Of the Old Fort Inn. 1t is under
stood that a large and fine hotel will
| be built in time for next season. The
| mere fact Of the sale has created great
| interest after so many false reports
| and real estate on Cape Arundel is act
i've. Several cottages are being nego-
| tiated for a result. The Ocean Bluff
House was burned Il nurnber of years
|
The location is unexcelled, comma nding
a fine view of the coast and harbor.
Boston Transcripts: OF the thousands
of travellers who pass along the Maine
coast during the vacation season. many
hundreds tarry at Brunswick to visit
the States famous educational institu-
| ton. BowdOin collage. The eleven
buildings which constitute the college
plant. stand on rising ground. while
| the college campus. broad. level. tree
studded, has. in vacation time, an ap-
pearance Of cloistered seclusion COM
parable to oxford or Cambridge in Old
England. On one afternoon recently
more than fifty strangers registered.
This summer Hubbard Hall. as the new
| library building is named, presents the
greatest interior activity of any of the
| college buildings. Bowdoin College has
very recently been made one of the
twenty-five repositories for the WASH
| ington Congressional Library duplicate
| Card-catalogue. and Professor George
| r. Little. the Bowdoin librarian is sup
crintending the work of seven addition
II assistants employed to put these du-
plicate cards in order before the OPEN
ing OF the autumn term. Bowdoin is
| the most eastern depository of the Con-
gressional card-ca talOgue, and the only
one east of Boston.
The August issue of The Industrial
Journal is devoted to a review of Maine
building operations and is highly at
tractive and exceedingly interesting
publication. The Journal is published
in pamphlet form, and its forty pages
are filed with valuable information re-
garding the unusual building activity
| throughout the State. descriptions are
given of many Of the buildings recently
completed. now in process Of construc-
ion. or projected. and the number is
embellished with half-tone illustrations
Of a great number Of the more notable
| structures. Among the illustrations
are "Cumberland County's New Court
House at Portland" The Maine Cen
trail Railroads New Passenger Station
| at Bangor plans of Bangor's New