Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-10-08

Maine aess'p /
Tahiti.
Over the rim of the " orld,
Sunk II, the dawn of day,
There lie for you and for me
The Isles of the Far Away.
Haste we back to find them?
Ii needs but you to say,
Make sail and lay our course
For the Isles of Far Away!
Lagoon and shore and bending palm
Whv must il be nay?
Youth and love are calling
From the Isles OF Ear Away.
Lloyd Osbourne.
The musical center Of Maine is now
transferred from Bangor to Portland.
Phillips is having quite diphtheria
scare and the schools and churches are
closed.
Most children will envy that Birch
Harbor baby which arrived last week
and which has six grandmothers and
four grandfathers.
With enforcement deputies enforcing
the liquor law and the water company
turning off the water supply Bath has
certainly been very dry town of late.
A young man at one Of the boys
schools in Massachusetts sent to his
grandma in Maine a postcard on which
was a representation of a portion of the
Atlantic ocean by moonlight The boy
wrote these words across the picture:
Dear Grandma: wish you were here"
And she is real good, kind, we'll mean
ing grandma, too,
Rangor'S public library will reach
new stage this week. 1t is to be taken
up at the present term of the supreme
court in PenobScot county 1t NAV be,
that long about the twenty-fifth cen
tury, Bangor will get that new library
and Portland that Reed monument. By
the way, the biography of Reed is near
ly completed.
In these days when the boot Of the
horn and the odor of gasoline is
everywhere abroad in the land, the
horse that is not "automobile- broke"
is worth hardly more than half
price. Farmers who have an oppor-
tunity to give their horses a course of
treatment to familiariZe them with
automobiles and thus render them
immune should take this fact into
consideration.
Pollock are very plentiful along the
shores of the neighbOring island Of
CampobellO is the word which comes
from PASSPORT and the Canadian fisher
men have been making good money
during the last few days. Nearly 1000
fish We're taken in two days, while one
run Of tide yielded the men upwards of
1000. Quite percentage of the catch
is cured on the island but large pro-
portion comes over to PASSPORT and
Luhec curing establishments.
The fall run of smelts is now on and
the Zig boys and the little boys can be
seen at every tide on the different
wharves. casting their lines and land
ing the speckled beauties. says a Calais
| correspondent. Some enjoy the sport
| for the pleasure there is in it. others for
| tn" money that they can get by selling
their catches to the markets. or to the
housewife, thereby earning quite n good
sum of money!
Speaker Cannon skipped through
Maine at n pretty lively rate in his re-
cent spellbinding invasion, but his
Maine campaign was slow compared
with the strenuous life he is leading
| jnst now. Here is one days itinerary
| for seventy years old man, which
Uncle Joe covered last Tuesday: Left
Kansas City in the morning; received a
committee Of citizens at Atchison,
Kan: received another committee of
admirers at I.eavenWorth: arrived at
St Joseph. Mo. spoke to 1000 pcOpl" for
two hours: toured st. Joseph in an
automobile; visited the Benton Club
and met citizens; rode forty miles to
Cameron: made another two hours
speech: boarlcd the train at night and
started for iowa"
The Bangor & ArOostook Railroad
Company's side of the potato blockade
| OF Aroostook has been heard from. One
of its prominent officials says that in
his opinion the potatoes WOnld be
| taken care of and without any los3 to
the farmers. The railroad was doing
everything in its power to help out
Aroostook county and every car that