Daily Kennebec journal., 1905-07-29

Maine Gossip /
In Blossom Town.
Here you come to Blossom Town.
Will you trample daisies down?
Think the violets o the dew
Were just scattered here for you?
Have a care. my sweet! my sweet.
In the viOlctS at your feet
1t may be that love may rest
To be lifted to your breast.
Have a clrc-have a care,
Love is here and everywhere!
In the red wrath of Il thorn
In blossom he is born,
Have a care that way you tread
Ewes on blue skies overhead.
Lest Loves heart YOU tr;lmple down
In the blooms Of Blossom Town,
Frank l.. Stanton.
You can take your choice of the Sum
day excursions.
Just surprising the four Trolley
league teams should he tied i'll August.
The soldier boys ar getting their
target practice before ,ufrng to Camp
Cobb.
There i a great boom in the souvenir
postal card business this summer.
An automobile elopement is the sem
sation at York beach. And the dear
things had known each ether only two
weeks.
Since its organization III 1890 the Viii
lage Improvement society at Bar Har-
bor has spent $4,000 in helping along
the work nature did there.
Ellsworth has given up hopes of the
satisfactory but still has faith that the
cotton yarn mill will materialize.
With 400 admissions to the theatre
one evening this week, it can hardly
be said that Merrymeeting park is a
back number.
One of the smart boys of Milo is Clar-
ence Leonard. age II. who has driven
the moving machine To ci:; 2S acres Of
grass this summer.
George Huff Of Sanford Las q curiosi-
" in the shape of an old stove which
Deacon William l.. Emer;: had in his
store when he went intO business in
1884. 1t is a cylinder "..th !, fire box III
one end and AN oven in the other This
is probably the first corm of stove that
was invented.
Speaking Of cross eyed cats. there is
eye. He is Il years Of ;.;,e. but aver
ages two mice each day. Since he is
getting fearful of rheumatics, on COM
ing i'll wet, he cries FOR a chair to be set
before the fire and therein dries him
self.
DR.. Elmer Small of Belfast is the
possessor Of large pearl found in
fresh water clam in a stream in Sears
mont. The pearl was .Irger than IN
ordinary pea and nearly round 1t is
valued at about SIS. The doctor has
the pearl set in Il ring and is very
proud of it. Several other pearls have
been found in this stream.
Bar Harbor's valua, lion has increased
s222 900 since last year, the present
valuation being s5,957970. This is more
than one third the valuation Of Han
cock county. The assessors have re-
duccd tn, tax rate to Il mills. Recent
ly there has been an acquisition to local
taxes by summer residents, who have
become voters in the town of Eden.
thus escaping large assessments of
taxes in the big cities.
An East Sullivan correspondent sug-
gests that it may be he 1essary for the
rext Legislature to enact law to per-
nit the shooting Of a moose in self
defense during close time. He writes:
"On July II two moose ami a large deer
we're on the warpath in West Goulds-
boro. Foster Bunker vas leading a
cow near the townhousa VIXEN a moose
gave battle. A vigorous rounding with
the rope drove it over the fence into
the pasture. Another moose attacked
team on the highway. The previous
Saturday large deer crossed Mr.
poyle's mowing-field. Automobiles are
not the only dangers confronting the
country people"
One of the notable Maine books of the
present year is "The Old Schoolmasters
by William Smith know!ton Of Fox1
croft, which has just been issued fpopi
the job department OF the Kennebf
Journal. For 45 years Mr.. Knowlttl
has been well-known md successnl
teacher of academies and high schols
in Maine. mainly in J'iscataauis sld
Aroostook counties, and this volun1- is
devoted largely to personal rmi-
niscences Of his varied ana intereting
experiences during tha. long TEN ot
service. Mr.. Knowlto.l is gradute of
Colby College in the class of 1850 and
during his earlier years as a tache-
he found time to study enough aw to
be admitted to the Dar. and aIs time
to devote himself to religious hatters
sufficiently to be ordained as aclergy-
man, But he has devoted hirxelf al |