Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-08-08

y Maine Gossip (
Down BY the Sea.
Oh. what are the wild waves saving!
They wonder how links can afford
The thirty per week he is PAYING Iof d
seven by nine and his board.
They own that young widow is pretty, put
wonder whore she gets her bicach.
Docs she have the stuff sent frofu inc CITY
or buy il right here at the Dcicn:
oh. what are the wild waves saying?
They say it's II sin and q crime
The game that Miss Flirty is playing, en-
gagged to six men at a time.
Thc,- say that TanQue'S wife is nome
walking the floor while he guZzles and
soalis
In blIcf, the wild waves do their talking
quite after the manner Of folks.
Washington Herald.
Good for Bath! The whole State is
proud of it.
Will that dollar fine keep the auto
mobiles off Bar Harbor's streets?
New Sharon reioiccs in the prospect
of electric lights in the near future.
1t was no joke for Bath to have its
water supply cut off in the greatest
week of it's history.
Wednesday, August Il, will be the
day OF a hundred years over in Jcffer-
son and the good old town is making
extensive plans for the celebration.
With 400 trunks piled off the train
at Old Orchard in single day. break
ing all records. there must be some
thing doing at the famous beach.
All this Maine League hullabaloo
and fizzle was worth while. if only for
the columns of squeals and yawpS
with which those BiddefOrd journalists
have added to the gaiety Of the silly
season.
South Windham is glad enough to
welcome new industries, but it is
naturally little nervous at the propO-
sition to build a dynamite factory and
to store hundreds of tons of explosives
within mile of the village.
Gorham may we'll be happy at the
gift of $4,000 library building by its
honored son. Hon. James p. Baxter of
Portland, to he built on the site of his
birthplace That kind of library is
ryt1 11y (snrnnDIn
Baseball interest is reaching the
midsummer pitch down at the shore.
Boothbay Harbor won the first two
games of the championship series with
Squirrel Island. and now the island
team. with its "amateur" team rein
forced by three or four Maine League
players, has won two games and
evened up the score.
That Old Home Week poet who tells
about the daisies and lilacs nodding a
welcome in the dooryard as the wan
dering son comes back to the old
homestead late in the summer. should
| take a short course in botany
Bath, which has many shipping
events in which to take pride. this
| memorable week, has the added dis
tinction Of having in operation, in the
Lincoln National bank, an institution
which is the oldest bank in the state
, of Maine. 1t was started as a State
bank in 1913, was incorporated as a
national bank in 1864. and has con-
Quoted g continuous business in that
| city for almost century.
| Married only once and yet married in
three counties was the unique expert
ence of a Palmyra couple this week.
To escape the kind friends. the fear OF
whose FRANKS is enough to scare any
couple out of matrimony. these two
young people boarded the train at
| Fitsficld. taking a minister along with
| them. As the train sped through the
towns Of Pittsfcld. Burnham and Clin-
ton, in the counties Of Somerset, Waldo
and Kennebcc, the knot was tied and
| the happy couple continued on their
| wedding journey unmolested.
Even doctors make mistakes-for
particulars. consult the death statistics
land so other people find little grim
satisfaction in contemplating case
| where a doctor was the victim of his
fellow physicians. 1t happened dowr
in Camden, according to the Rockland
Courier Gazette. q Massachusetts med
ical man who was visiting there being
operated on for appendicitis some two
l~mcnths ago, the operation seeming tf
be a perfect success. Since then MS
health has been so poor that 1t wa!
thought necessary to operate again
when to the surprise of doctors ant
nurses they found that one OF the
spongcs used in the operation was Tor
gotten and left inside, causing grea
distress and pain.