Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-05-08

| N then / knew. because The "1nd WAS
| T knew that it would rain n rain. n
| rain. n ram all day.
the rain was d-ippin Vet,
! Pit, pit, pattcr on the pane;
N ] looked thru the curtain out at all
the Sh!nin' wet,
N | heard the storm wind calm once
again,
" then ! said when Daddy came n
carried in the light
Its goin' to rain n rain, Dad, n rain
n rain all night.
The Independent.
day orator. Admiral Cochlan. IL. is a
worthy successor Of Admiral Schley,
Gen Miles and Gen. Wheeler.
Parkhurst claims the tallest boy in
Maine. He is under 20. but is feet
inches tall and is still growing. There's
nothing like that ArOostOok soil.
Couples who celebrated their golden
weddings must seem like honeymonners
| to Mr. and Mrs r.. ID. Prescott of
Phillips who celebrated the 6Sth
week.
The Civic League announces that
| Rev. Clinton N Howard Of Rochester.
n. Y, the great anti-salonn orator. will
| be in Maine in late August and early
| September to take part III the cam
| paien.
Governor Alonzo Glrcelon. still
actively in the practice Of medicine.
celebrated his 93d birthday. Sunday.
| He was born in Lewiston which has
always been lis home. He Sradua ted
from Bowdon in 1886 ana is the oldest
| living graduate Of the college.
| On September IS. l? and % the state
| conference Of the Congregational
| churches will be held at the Pine
| street Congr. gational church, Lewis
| ton, ana the pastor and committees
| are already busy on the arrangements
Plans have been definitely arranged
| Pressure Isle on a big scale Among
| the features will bt. one Of the best
track exhibitions Pressure Isle has ever
had, $500 being offered in purses.
| There will be- four races, two $25U purse
| races and two 800 matinee races. The
| classes will be announced later. There
| Will be-. two games of baseball. one in
the forenoon and one in the afternoon
| There will be one Of the biggest and
| best trades professions ever gotten up
in the county, the whole celebration to
wind up with q grand disploy Of fire
works in the evening. The celebration
| is in charge OF the local committee the
| members If which have, pledged indi-
| vidually snilicirnt sum IL cover all
possible contingencies arising from bad
| weather.
| An important feature of the first
trip Of the battirship Georgia when
she goes from Bath t. Boston this,
| week to prepare for her official trial
off the isorkland course. Will br the
feeding Of the big crew. The craft viii
be away from Bath over 10 days. and
Will carry crew Of over 400 men. The
| Iron Works. by special arrangement
with the Fall River Line. has secured
the services Of one Of the lines leading
chefs. six cooks ana Il corps of thirty
| walters. ANA The menu for every meal
will be first class. The officials of the
IRON Works are going to leave nothing
un'lone in their efforts to give the crew
the best there is during the trip. The
most If the crew will be Bath men.
| l,b n ~,
western Hancock county is the BRAY
house was held the first town meeting
Years ago and now owned and occu-
pied by Sewall D. Tapley In this
house was held the first twon meeting
in BrorkSville. after its Incorporation
as the 222d town in Maine, June Is, 1877
The meeting was held Monday NOV.
10, 1877. Th. old house IS in a good
state of preservation. and bids fair to
stand for several futur. generations as
enc of the finest specimens Of the old
tim" New England architecture az lie
more prctentioUS kind
Lewiston has been having an unusual
experience with brown-tail moths.
some weeks ago the city fathers Of
fel"d a reward of five cents for each
| broWn-tail moth nest which was
Brought To the police department and
| destroyed. Some Of the people thought
they saw 4 good thing il this offer and
50 began to bring in the nests. The
police department was worked over
| time in counting the nests ana many
| wer" the vouchers which We're given
tor money from the city treasury. All
at once some one discovered that the
| most of the nests being brought in
We're not those of brown-tail moths
hut Of tn" army caterpillar. The re-
ward was stopped but not the trouble
These who had brought in nests and
received vouchers demanded their "a,
which was refused. 1t is claimed that
the city is liable. The nests have
been destroyed ana the people who col
lccted them have vouchers which are
duly signed saying that they are en-
titled to 50 much money as reward
The Interested parties have place.
| their claims in the hands of Judg.
Harry ManSnr of Auburn for collec-
5 ton. Judge Mansur says these claims
: can be collected and other good Law.