Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-27


circus has finally decided to show in
Portland, and Biddeford is left out in
the cold.
With three college commandments
and not less than IS political conven-
tons this promises to be banner
week for railroad travel.
Names newest trust" is located at
Ellsworth, where the public carriage
drivers have Joined forces and in
creased rates.
Rockland High which graduated
class of 40 last week, the largest num-
Der in the history of the school, will
do an even greater stunt in 1907, when
there will be about so graduates.
Bar Harbor will have a visit from
the warships much earlier during the
summer than was expected. 1t has
been known for some time that the
ships would be there on Sept. and
would stay long enough to coal at La
moline and nothing further was expect
ed this year but this week word was
received there that the third division
Of the North Atlantic Squadron under
the command of Admiral Bradford will
be here on the 10Th of July and that the
Des Moines will come in some five days
earlier This is most welcome news to
the merchants of that town as the
Jackies always leave "a large amount of
money when they are there. and bust
ness is vc:y brisk for the time, with
plenty OF fun and excitement.
pamariscotta Herald: The horrid
weather has brought some changes i'm
ga dcning hereabout. In many gardens
lifs saving stations have been erected.
Hills Of beans are marked by buoyS.
Potatoes are to be harvested with ell
81 ears Punt.S and oil clothes are as
necessary farming implements as hoes
ana spades. One man whose garden
is under very deep water purposes get
ting som. fry from the lobster hatch
cry ana raising Holsters. instead of
beans and peas.
one Limerick woman is undoubtedly
blessed with an abundance of courage.
While driving the other day she came
across a black snake. Jumping from
the carriage she dispatched the snake
in short order. Upon being measured
the snake was found to be fivc feet ana
two inches in length.
Biddeford journal: Did you ever
stop to think what might happen if the
investigators should turn their eyes in
the direction Of the Maine sardine'
Maybe here's chance for Mr.. WATSON.
author of THE Green Shay who
claims to know a thing or two about
Maine i'm general and the Maine coast
in particular, to emulate Mr.. Sinclair
in his Jungle stories.
30, mamma you ought to see n lot
of pretty worms brother has picked up
i'm the back yard" exclaimed little
Saco girl to her mother few days
ago. The mother made an investiga-
ton with the result that she found
that her son had collected enough
brown tail moth caterpillars to nearly
x.
200 of the pretty little worms" The
boy and the box parted company
quickly. That night the mother spent
several hours attending to the small
boy who was afflicted with n severe
case Of the brown tail rash.
Things have changed in Gardiner
within the past few years comments
the Reporter journal. Four or five
cabs are now doing a good business
where one had hard living. AS
many more restaurants are furnishing
meals where there We're none doing
strictly vctualng business, and six or
| more city express teams are busy
" hen for years there was but one.
The womens exchange ana home
bakeries are selling large quantities of
bread and cakes, which is business
| that is entirely new to Gardiner with
| in a few years.
1t is the custom in many Maine
| towns and cities to publish at the end
of each term the names of the pupils of
| the public schools who have not been
absent one-half day. This custom is
| also followed in Westbrook. and has
resulted in making one small boy of
| that city most faithful in his school at
| tendance. The boy in question is AL
bert Pare, son of Officer Pare, and he
| will sacrifice everything to be present
at every session in order that his name
may appear in the paper at the end
of the term. He has had to sacrince
| many things that other boys would
have been very reluctant to give up, in
order to succeed in this but there have
been only a very few times since he
| started to attend school that his name
has not appeared. On the last day
| of this spring term the little fellow
started for school happy with the
| thought that he had not missed one
! session and that on the next day his
name would appear in the paper. At