Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-09-11
Maine Gossip

Well, how near the result was your
estimate?
Portland will now begin to talk city |
election for a change.
Now for the big Central Maine fair. |
II will eclipse all fair records in Maine. |
A Paris man last week ploughed out |
stone anvil, perfect in shape and
weighing 100 pounds.
1t is getting close to the time for the
tall stories of the tallest stalks of corn
raised in Maine.
Pink pond lilies are no novelty to one
Freeport man, who has a whole pond
of them. People who have seen them
say that never did they see lilies of
SUCH deep pink. These pink lilies are
perhaps more common on Cape Cod
than anywhere else, and. although their
beauty is not as great as that of their
pure white sisters. yet their novelty
lends them enchantment.
A young Portland athlete has been
getting in training for the football sea-
son by walking to Mt. Washington and
return. The tramp occupied 10 days.
Mr.. Joseph Fenton Of Sorrento. who
is 90 years old. is one of the snlartest
men of his. age down that way. A Few
days ago he went out and picked eight
quarts of blackbarries in very short
time Mr.. Fenton also took part in the
haying and gardening this year.
A petition is before the postal author
tiles for an office at Burnt Land Rips.
The name of the office will be East Mil
linocket.
II. c. Tobcy, who has been editor and
| business manager of the Guilford Rec
ord since the paper was established
| eight years ago, has sold his stock in
| the company and a new editor and
manager will be elected.
Three thousand young pine trees are
| being set out upon the property of the
late William II. Goodwin at Gerrish Is
| land, off Kittery. About 90 per cent. OF
| the trees. it is expected. will live, II the
| average is maintained. The trees are
planted about five feet apart. An equal
| number of trees set out a year ago have
| developed good average.
! William d. Smith of Bangor has re-
| ceived the contract at Portsmouth. n.
| H., for cutting all the logs on the strip
known as the Thornton gore in New
| Hampshire. owned by the Publishers
| Faper Company of New York. The
| contract amounts to about 100000 and
entails the cutting of some 75.OOO.G0o
| feet Of logs. 1t is the largest lumber
ing contract that has been let in New
| England in recent years and Will re-
ouire five or six years for it's compile
| ton.
An interesting fact is noted in con-
nection with the dedication Of the Eli
| iah Kellogg monument at Harpswell
| Center last week. On the platform was
the old Windsor chair that Mr.. Kellogg
| always used. 1t was the old Deacon
| Eaton chair When Mr.. Kellogg came
| to Harpswell, he at first lived at the
| t,atons'. This chair had a peculiar fas-
cinatiOn for him and he always occu-
pied it while at the house. Another
man who was very fond of the chair
| was the father Of Hon. James Mckeen
Of New York, and throughout the dedi-
catory exercises James McKecn. one or
the speakers, occupied that chair.
John w. Hart, who has lived in South
| Atkinson nearly all the 20 years of his
life, says that he never rode on the
| steam-cars, never on steamboat,
| never in electrics but twice, never was
| out of the State, never was in but TWO
cities and only four counties, never
silent at a hotel and lives within four
miles of steam-cars and five of cleo
tries. Who can beat that?
He was an old-timer of %. who had
once lived at Diamond Island. ard then
moved TO Peaks, where he had been
for many years. This season 1t oc-
curred to the old man that he would
like to revisit the scenes of his youth,
and gaze once more upon the home
where so much of his early life had
been passed. When he had dwelt at
Diamond, it had gone by the old-fash-
oned name of Hog Island. and on ac-
count of the crystals found in the Vlcin-
ity. the mere effective title of Diamond
had afterward been substituted the
old settler did not tarry long at Dia-
| p,ond. When he returned to Peaks, 1t
was with great satisfaction that ne
hurried from the boat and up To that
familiar haunt where his cronies await
ed him. How'd we like" questioned
lone anxiously. Don't think o leaving
us. do ye?" The traveller shifted dis
eustedly. leave nothing" he cried
Never want to see the tarnal place
again. All did was to step on the
grass near the old place. thought I'd
like to feel it growing there once more
and along came a man who roared and
beloved for me to get off his lawn
Well. I got, after stayed as longs
wanted to, but made up my nina that
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