Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-16

maine Gossip
Summer Fever.
am tired Of thought and of labor,
Of the task that is set me To do.
l am tired OF seeing my neighbor,
(He looks tired oil seeing me, tOo)
am weary of struggling and straining,
This unccasing work doesn't pay,
lind myself daily complaining,
And it's growing worse day AFTER day.
| wonder what can be the reason
That | feel all the time out Of tune,
Can it be-yCS, it must be the season,
This is May-and next week will be
June.
1t is time to go off on vacation
To be careless. mtrammeled. and free.
To enjoy Il few weeks realisation
And that's whats the matter with me-
-Somerville Journal.
June is half gone and soon the days
will be getting shorter.
The Mt. Kineo house will open for the
season next Tuesday, June -.
Today's big ball game in Maine is
that at Waterville between Bowdoin
| and Colby.
Portland entertained the veterans SO
we'll that it tiatters itself they will meet
| there yearly in the future.
The season at beautiful Mrrrymeet-
| ing Park opens next Monday, but the
big Casino will again remain closed
| this summer.
There may be something besides
| baseball going on down III Biddrford,
but you would hardly guess il from the
| Bddcford papers.
Next week will bring another big
| batch Of high school and academy
graduations. The college commence
ments will occur the last week in June.
| The Portland papers say that down
that way some of the farmers have
been tempted by the long grass to start
| in to gather an early crop. possibly
| getting an extra crop of Tn. season Tor
| their trouble. Most Maine farmers
hang to the old-fashiOned idea of be
ginning haying about Fourth of July.
| Tie Eagle is going to scream at rat
ten the coming July 4. "A little louder
than ever before. Purses amounting
to 5000 are offered, and all the holiday
| sports will receive careful attention.
Fur, dust, records and things are
pretty likely to fly when the racing be
| gins, as well planned and costly prep
aratiuns have been made to that end.
| 1t is a sad fact that kittery Point as
Il summer resort is deterioating. OF
the four hotels in the place, but two are
still in use, one of the others having
been closed for the past few years for
no particular reason apparently, ana
the other having been spoiled by hay
ing a fort built under its very nose.
The cottages however, continue 10 be
| well filled.
The Sanford Tribune says: IF the
lapple trees were as scarce as lndSnoiiiS
we should prize their beauty laden
boughs at something like their real
worth Just now, the countryside is
bursting into bloom, the many-hued
flowers surprising us with their lowell
ness and fragrance" This recalls the
expression of a poetic Nova Scotia edi-
tor whose home was in the fair and
fertile Annapolis valley. Looking from
an eminence on the thousa ndS of apple
trees in full bloom he said they resem-
cream
The old English tramp steamer
Amethyst, discharging railroad ties at
Portland has an interesting history.
She was built in England % years ago
and for time the British flag waved
lover her, but she was sold to Spain and
used as Il blockade runner in the
the name of Isle de Cuba. She WITS
captured by American warshipS dur
ing the war but is now o"neI by the
| British subjects and her original name
has been replaced on her bow and
; stern. The steamer brought about 20
600 railroad ties and a swarm of men
are busily unloading her. The law re-
and it will readily he seen thar tine
custom house inspector who does the
work has no easy job.