Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-08-26
Maine Gossip

\ Maine Gossip I
The Campmeeting Kind.
Old-t;me religion, people is the kind that
suits me hest -
Now and then a tempest on Jorlan'S
stormy banks,
But all of us enlisted in the hallelulah
ranks!
Old-timc religion, people. made flowers in
Wiutrv ways,
An life moved to the music OF the Old
camp meetin' GAYS:
TWAS then the brighter country was
bcamin' Oh tie sight
''Sv ect fields ;Iray'd in llVln green, an
rivers Of delight
Old-timc religion, people, is what l want
to know
To sprinkle With the fire of faith the new
religions snow
An when this life is over, with its sor-
rows and it's signs
The old-time religion to light me to the
skies,
Atlanta Constitutions.
Perhaps September will serve up
some of the August weather of which
we are now getting so little.
The days are growing shorter. but
the beautiful moonlight nights afford a
happy compensation.
This week brings the big Bangor
fair, the end of August and the turn
ing of the tide at the shore resorts.
Among other mysteries of the Old
Orchard fire not yet solved is the
identity of the girl who started the
fire while curling her hair.
Only a week to Labor day, and that
is reminder to lots of vacationless
people that it has been long time
since the last holiday.
The only cloud on the horizon of
Houlton's happiness last week was the
fact that the home team lost BOTH its
games-and each was played before
crowd of $500 people Caribou won
the first l to O. and Fort Fairfield the
second to 0.
Leslie n. Littlehale, the new owner
of the Rockland Star, is well-known
and wealthy business man Of Rock
land. He is Democrat in politics
and is the present alderman from his
ward. The ownership of the Star plant
for which he paid $4,000 is his first ex-
pcrience in the newspaper business.
There is every prospect of war be-
tween two of Names newspaper
naturalists--far be it from us to call
either of them nature takers. The
Bangor Commercial man says that no
wild pigeons have been seen in Maine
for 40 years. and the Biddeford Journal
man retorts that he has seen lot of
them within 20 years. Let us have
peace.
former Eastport boy, S. c. Wal
Lace, now in far Spitsbcrgen. writes
to the Eastport Citizen that he has
placed a copy of that paper under the
flooring of the arship in which Walter
Wellman is expecting to sail through
the northern skies to the Pole itself.
Miss NJ. Z. Penney, the heroine Of
Wash, arrived recently at her fathers
home in Clifton Miss Penney received
| her professional training at the Port
| land. Maine General hospital. a little
| less than two years ago she went to
| California, where She has remained
until now. She expects to stay In
Maine for few months, after which
she will return to California.
The fence at the new station in
Bangor is nearly all up, and is proving
a great boon for those who handle the
crowds. Tho whole problem is gradual
| ly working itself out, and within a
| few weeks everything ought to be
working smoothly. 1t will never be
what IS called a handy" station, and
some day will probably have to be
| enlarged. Tut things don't look near
ly as dismal as they did at first.
| Skowhcgan Reporter: Agriculture
and manufactures are SO closely inter-
| tWined that to prosper in agriculture
| the State must prosper in manufac-
lures The farmer produces the num-
| berlosS articles of food necessary to
sustain a population. and the busy
| factories and mills supply large part
| of the population to consume them
| The most prosperous and active com
munities ill Maine are not those given
up wholly to manufactures or aSricui-
ture but where there is happy COM
binalion of both, one surplemehtihs
the other. The intelligent farmers are
| very quick to see this, and to appre-
| ciatn the fact that a market at thcir
doors. and ready money Tor theh
| goods. is better for them. lnfiniteiy'
than one far away. with all contlns"hl
| expenses involved. Any legislatl"h'
| or class of legislation. that would m
| lure the manufacturer would lnJurc
the farmer, also.
In the first half Of the nineteenth
century Harpswel was hamlet
literally STEPPED in the superstitlons