Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-08-22


Shone family through the closing day
tbs this my memory brings to me,
With thought of old days spent with thee
When love was young and life was sweet.
And all the world lay at our feet
TITS this l ask of fortunes store
With thee to live those days once more.
Vivian MOrdaunt in New Era.
Well, what is your theory of the
Readfield murder?
Good racing but small crowds is the
| word from the August meets.
The Waterville Sir Knights with
some from Augusta will go to Crescen:
beach, today.
The opening Of III. Opera houses is
another sign that fall is 1T hand.
Skowhcgan does not propose to hurry
any in its steps toward new town
hall.
Riddcford has over 5000 in its fund
for 4 scmi-centennll celebration in
September. .s t
Twin cucumbers ara common enough;
| but the Rocklanl Couricr-Gazctta
boasts that il has been presented with
| triplets.
| Annie Hamilton D"nI.il Of Ecnt'S
| Hill had u story i'm the July Harpers,
and two more in the August Harpers
| and the August Bazaar.
| Holman F. Days latest story is
| Brothers" is q strong tale of the
woods. in the September number of the
American, formerly I.eslieS magazine.
Joseph S. Moody Of 3iGdeford who
died. last week. at the age of Il, spent
| all his life in one house and died in the
very room where he was born.
There are more people in Maine at
the present time than there have ever
been before, according to the railroad
and hotel people. The biggest August
! for summer travel in the history of the
State Is more than half over and people
are still coming in crowds.
The Wadsworth-L ongfellow house.
| Portland, has been 4 busy place the
past week. Never nay" so many paid
admission to the house IN one week.
| Tuesday was the grtat,s1 day in the
history Of the opening OF the house:
III paid admissions. The whole num-
Der for the week was 5l4. Up to date.
| 1925 have paid admission this season.
This has been the most popular and
| prosperous year so far ard it bids fair
to continue so. The average atten-
dance of the last six days has been 152.
| This year has 442 more paid admis-
| SiCnS to the same Saturday night than
last year which was the best to that
| time.
| There have been many strange par
GELS shipped through Bath by express
but the limit came last week, when the
local managers received Il pony in Il
| crate from Boothbay HarbOr for ship
mcnt to New York. The rony weighed
| about 600 pounds and the crate nearly
IS much. The animal seemed to be
perfectly at home in the crate, evident
ly having been there before. and when
the exprcsSman here assisted by by
ISLANDERS. lifted the crate into the ex-
press wagon it gave the l.ony shaking
up which he did not seem to mind.
A little York Village boy gave his pa
rents considerable anxiety one evening
last week by his mysterious disappear.
ance. At supper time lie did not arrive
| home but no great alarm was fat until
the darkness began % fall when, ut
| the mothers urgent request searching
| parties went in various directions. only
to return and report their efforts in
| vain. No claw was offered and the ex-
| element might have continued until
morning had not the mother gone up 20
his bedroom where Il strange sight met
her eyes. The little fellow was living
asleep. fully dressed with the execution
of shoes. When awakened he ex-
plained that he had retired previous 10
| the evening meal to escape the parental
dispeasure for running away to play
| on a raft
| Here is an interesting Maine story
that comes by way o. n New York
paper: II have sold out Rockadundy,"
said Fergus MacIvor. Of Springfield.
| Maine, sold it for a song just for the
sake of keeping the memory of my an
| cestors before the people who will come
| after me. There are more than 1000
| acres in the, tract. which stretches from
| lincoln Through Lee and into Spring.
field. and which once held sixteen
Scotch families. every one Of whom
| came from the Highlands to Maine
when the bloody Duke Of Cumberland
tas AaEing-- ny peopie on the border,
fAndsde6rge n WIS Citing in his pal
| aces and making love to fat Dutch
women. They came here with cropped
ears and branded hands. feeling them
selves lucky enough to escape with
| their lives. While the timber in the
forests held out they prospered. Now
all Is changed. There are apple trees
in those old orchards. which gave fruit