Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-08-10
Maine Gossip

Maine Gossip
An August Longing.
How we disdain the simple joys
Life offered us of yore!
Now when the mercury annoys
Regrets afflict us sore.
The blessings of this earthly lot
Seem brighter as they go.
We most esteem what we have not
I'd like to shovel snow.
Golf never tempts my fancy much.
| never learned to play
The finer points / cannot touch
In tennis or croQuet
There's just one sport which I'd admire
When earth is all aglOw;
A simple yet vain desire
Id like to shovel snow
Washington Star.
This is Governors day at Camp Cobb.
With our National Guard modified.
the Canadian lumbermen must not get
fresh.
There are still several prisoners at
Thomaston who have not applied for a
pardon.
1t is next Sunday that DR.. Simpson
will gather his golden harvest at Old
Orchard.
1t is said that Watarville is spending
more money than any other Maine city
on it's ball team.
The edict has gone folth that there
is to be no more dancing in connection
with Grange meetings.
Dixfield has five automobiles which
is a pretty up-to-da,c record for a viii
lage of its size.
Owing to a conflict Of dates. the
Salvation Army will hoid its annual
Old Orchard convention III Il big ten.
instead of on the campground.
The centennial of Harrison brings nur
Inc ltCl lIldl tIle loN III HAS llstu olIiy
seven town clerks in its 100 years of m.
corporation. The present town clerk.
Howard l.. Sampson. has held the office
y years. succeeding mis- father who also
served in that capacity an unusually
long period.
Rev. DR.. Francis E Clark, who has
been recuperating at Grand Beach
during the summer, has strong hop.
of resuming his activity i'm connection
with the Christian Endeavor work in
the near future. Replying to a So
licitous question as to mis- health, Dr.
Clark said: Il am glad to tell you that
am feeling decidedly better, and be-
lieve there is prospect of continued pro-
gress toward complete recovery"
Bangor News: One never knows
what a real good time he can have by
staying right at home all through Au-
gust, until he has tried the experiment
There is such a thing as running
around and seeing too much. The way
to keep cool is to refrain from getting
heated. How can a nia ne more quie.
than when he is at home2
Says an Ellsworth correspondent:
Wherever one goes III this county. IN
converslng with it's prominent men and
women, who have tn" interests of the
place at heart, they speak of the bene-
tit Sheriff Mayo and his deputies have
hpn n, ra, be- h., Loa
iii office. and the places that have been
closed and done away with. Even i'll
Bar Harbor one hears IF 10 arrests for
drunkenness during the two summer
months just passed, rs against so or
more last year during the same period
while in Ellsworth there is practically
no drunkenness at all, and there is
such an amount Of dodglng to get any
thing to drink i'm the place that. as
one man expressed 1t: It's not worth
the price,"
A well known Portland man who is
very much interested in photography
and who during the summer time de-
votes Il good deal of his spare time To
taking pictures in Portland and vicin-
ity WAS at the back side of Cushings
island few days ago taking surf pic
lures and as he was leaving to go to
the Casco Bay Steamboat landing he
Vas interviewed by government off,
cial at Fort Levett Who suspected that
the man may have been securing
photographs Of the Qualifications. The
Portland man who understands perfect
ly the rules of the government relative
to taking pictures around government
fertilization property. assured the Off
cial that he understood the rules and
convinced the officer that none of the
pictures he had taken had anything 20
90 with sthe government property.
This little experience brought at least
one reason forcibly to his mind as to
why the government officials may hav..
been Influenced i'm their decision not to
have the peace plenipotentiarics con-
vene at the Ottawa hotel The Port
land man said that to him it seemed
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