Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-08-04

1t is said Lewiston's rev morning
paper will begin business. September 1.
Bangor puts in a plea for the battle
ship Maine to visit it while the fleet is
in eastern waters.
1t is not true that the new owners of
Names famous cente marian schooner.
the Polly. intend to use hei in trans
atlantic racing.
1t is reported that fully 10000 bushels
of blueberries Will be canned. this year,
at the Washington COUNT factories.
The Portland board OF registration
has been revising the list and finds that
the Forest city has 1851 voters, IL loss
Of 753 since last December
a Lewiston apple buyer who has just
returned from a trip through the State,
tells the Sun that the Maire apple crop
promises to be very light this season.
The Biddeford journal IL to have a
new home and we hope it will have all
the comforts and luxuries that the
newspaper mans heart can desire.
Maine has no cleaner or Brighter paper
than the Biddeford Journal.
The wood from the Hendersons point
cofferdam will keep more than one
family warm next winter. An Eliot
man has secured rs cords and other
residents Of that town have Jared
nearly as well. The incoming tide car
ried the piling up 20 the Dover Point
bridge and it was taken from the river
when it again floated down stream.
The executive committee of the
Thomas B. Reed Memorial association
to be sent out generally in few days
to the friends and admirers of the late
speaker, asking assistance in the cree
ton of the proposed statue i'm Portland.
About $1,000 Of the $4,000 wanted has
already been subscribed.
II is told OF I. Boston man who had
n country place i'm Maine where he kept
n fine herd of cows ami INDUCED in
other things bucOlic thai on one occa-
sion he invited some city friends to his
country home and at the dining table
said to them: "Gentlenen, there is
champagne and there is Jersey milk:
you can take your choice; they cost me
just the same
The Wesley gold mine, which was
partially developed last year. the as
says running rich in gold. silver, lead
etc. is about to take another boom
which it is believed will result in fur
ther development and possibly put it
on paying basis. The present owners
have received an offer for the property
of a sum far beyond any value hereto
fore given it, it is reported and it was
made by men amply able to back their
talk with cash and expend other thou
sands on the property without fear Of
failure. It is not known that the pres
ent owners care to sell out absolutely,
but 1t is believed that terms will be
made to insure a resumption Of bust
ness at the mine and a continuance
therein until it is determined for GER
tafnty whether it will be r,aced among
the laying industries of the county, or
go down to certain failure with those
in other sections Of the state.
A five thousand acre tract lying part
ly in Beddington and partly i'm Aurora
has horne the name of THE Lords
Target" for more than lG4 years. The
term is not only applied by the resi-
dents. but it appears on maps and
drawings and in deeds and highway
descriptions. On Kings map of Han
cock county the name is changed to
Gods Bullseye." The local history Of
the name traces it back to Hate Evil
Colson. soldier of the Revolutionary
War. who settled on the Whales lack,
= steer watershed between Union and
Princeton rivers. In the spring of 1898,
when refugees from ireland were flock
ing into eastern Maine and taking I'D
farms. COlson showed them around and
helped them pick out wild lands. On
coming to the tract Colson saw that 1t
was thickly strewn with stones ana
rocks. The old soldier, who had been
boasting about the fertility of the
Maine soil. hesitated when asked il the
area in sight was a sample. 1T was
this way" said Colson. when the
Lord created the world He had broken
rocks and stones enough left over to
fence the whole earth in stone walls.
but. knowing the people would be lazy
and take to tad ways if He did all the
work for them. He concluded to throw
the rocks away. So He sat Up all nigh.
and threw stones at Beddington and
Aurora. aiming at the central point in
the two towns. His aim was good. for
nearly all the stones hit close about
horo