Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-09
Maine Gossip

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A Thankful Soul.
When the storm and thunder cease,
Thankful for one DAY of peace;
Havin' done your daily task.
Peace and rest amt much to ask!
Time is flynn,
And you're dyin-
Can't spend all your life in sighin.
Thankful on the stormy way
For the quiet of one day.
For the peace of every minute.
Though it took long years to win 1t.
Time is fyn,
And you're dyin'-
Can't spend all your life in sighin:
Atlanta Constitution.
A month more of the State cam
paign.
The Maine grocers are assembled in
convention at Old Orchard.
Four years ago this week York was
celebrating its 25Oth anniversary.
Not for years has the lightning done
such damage in Maine as this summer.
Somehow not much credence is put
i'm that tramp's confession" regarding
Readfield's murder mystery.
The convention season closed with
the convention of the York county
Republicans at Alfred. Wednesday.
Next Sunday will be the day of DR..
Simpsons great annual missionary
collection at Old Orchard.
If you do not appreciate what
blessing it is to be in Maine in summer.
just read those stories of death.
prostration and madness due to the
heat in the great cities.
One of the funniest features of the
Maine campaign is the crawfish act of
the Biddeford Record on the matter Of
the "open saloons of Biddeford. The
crawl is very abject and complete.
The girls at BuckspOrt and Verona
are all a-futter over the rumor that
soldier boys will be stationed ut Fort
Knox over here in kennebec county
the girls have surrendered uncon-
ditionally to the guardsmen in khaki.
Many Maine people are interested in
the announcement Of the approaching
marriage in Bath of Miss Mary f.
Pendexter, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
W. w. Pendexter. to DR.. Nor
timer Warren Of New York.
The ceremony will take place
at Central church. Aug. %. wit
messed only by members of the two
families and the brides and groom's
most intimate friends. Miss Pendexter
was formerly one of Baths most pop
ular young ladies' and student of the
Bath High school. Seven years ago
she left Bath to become a trained nurse
at Bellevue Hospital where she gradu-
ated four years ago since which time.
she has diligently pursued her profess
sional work in New York. Dr. Warren
is the son of S. d. Warren of West
brook, well known as one of the largest
| manufacturers of high grade paper i'm
this country and one of the pioneers
of this great industry. He graduated
from Rowdoin in the class of '96 and
| from The Johns Hopkins Medical school
| in 1900. The doctor has large prac-
tice in the City of New York and is
also one Of the staff of lecturers at
at Columbia University. His office b
on East Goth street.
| II. N. Wakefield. the Bar Harbor
fish dealer had on exhibition last Sat
urday. the largest lobster that has been
seen around there in some time, 1t
weighed IL pounds and was caught on
the outside of the trap, it being too
large to get in where the bait is put.
| At West Gouldsboro a fair is being
ARRANGED for the goth of this month in
aid of the new library building fund.
1t is expected that work on the build
ing will be begun this year, with the
money on hand, and that the summer
residents will aid the project consid-
| erably. The building is to be of native
stone. quarried nearby. A committee
or association, with Charles III. Wood
of Bar Harbor as president. has been
interested in the building of library
for some time. Meetings have been
theld and plans made for the structure.
A total of go entries have been re-
cived by the Bar Harbor Bench Show
Association and a bumper Dog show is
lassured for Bar Harbor on Aug. 16, II
and IS. The breed which shows uI
strongest is Boston Terriers, 81 entries
of this popular dog alone having beer
made. The entries are in most par
from outside the state OF Maine, no