Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-07-27
Maine Gossip

y Maine Gossip 4
A Twilight Reminder.
| Oh. dc bull frog out on de waters edge
| 5insin' de lonesome song.
De screech owl hollerin' f'om de hedge I
| VIII Il note SO sad an long s;u
Whah de daylight singers loved 10 tr .iiI;
You hears de note Of de whippoorwili
Singin' dat lonesome song.
| So hush-a-by, honey, an don't Jlne IN
A-singin' dat lonesome song; st.
But &c to sleep as quick as you Kill
| Cause dcy dOcsn' mean no wrong.
| A hard-,uck story don never win
| Much interest frum yoh friends ror KIN;
ley les gifts drowsy when you stahts Ill
A-singin' dat lonesome song, Star
| Another interesting chapter in the
story of Lewiston's Sunday closing
| war promises to be written tomorrow.
If that army of pickpockets descends
on Old Orchard again tomorrow they
are likely to have things made more
interesting for them.
| Brunswick's famous old steamer
| Niagara will be taken up to Boston
next week to participate in the ire
| mems muster which will be feature
| Of the Old Home celebration.
A grand conference of the temper
ance workers of Maine and other states
will be held at Old Orchard on Tues
day. Wednesday and Thursday of next
| week.
This week has not furnished many
hours of sunshine or of moonlight, but
there is no abatement of the influx OF
summer visitors and every cottage
| and every hotel room is engaged for
August
Boston Journal: Bangor is very
proud of it's new railroad station; Il
has cause to be. For years the
ramshackle affair that has served
there would have disgraced country
village.
There was never summer that en-
phasiAcd like this one the need of
learning to swim, and yet in some of
the drowning tragedies that have
filled the papers. as that of the two
Bowdoin boys lost in a squall of Sc
gum. the best of swimmers could
hardly have saved their lives.
The first four-masted schooner ever
luilt in the district of Portland will be
launched from the yard of the Casco
Shipbuilding Company on August ID.
The schooner. which is built for the
Southern lumber trade. is 40 feet keel.
EOS feet over all, 37k feet beam and
49, feet depth of hold. She is of
about 700 net tonnage.
A Maine fisherman believing that
there are just as many Holsters as ever
set his pots away out on Cash's banks
in the path of ocean steamships and
when he hauled them found $500 splen-
did specimens. none less than 10 inches
and most of them nearer Is and 20. 1t
is his theory that various causes may
have driven the crustaceans away from
the shore but that there are still plenty
of them if one can ascertain their
whereabouts His views will undoubt-
edly prompt other fishermen to act
along similar lines in setting their
pots and it is to be hoped that the
pessimistic views SO frequently ex-
pressed of late will be disproven
Two Bath schoOners have been in
serious trouble within week. The
Henry Q. Barrett. Boothbay for Balti-
more with ice put into Boston last
week leaking. having struck an OBJ
struction near Boothbay. Another
Bath schooner to meet disaster last
week was the May V. Neville. which
was run into at Boston by the new
steamer Boothbay. cut down to the
waters edge and nearly sunk.
On Thursday the Atlantic Shore
Line formally celebrated the opening of
its "missing link" by extending invita-
tiOns to an inspection of the new line to
many prominent men of that locality.
The party met at Kennebunk at A.
NJ. taking a trip over the new line to
York Beach and returning to Cape
Porpoise. where splendid dinner was
served at the Casino. In the afternoon
the party returned, voting the affair
a very enjoyable occasion. About IS
persons were in the party, which in
cluded Gov. William T. Cobb. ex-Gov.
John +. Hill, the officials of the Allan
tic Shore Line and number of large
stockholders in the road from New
York.
Springfield Republican,: AS result
of an extreme difference in freight
rates. Fairfield. Me, has been deprived
| of one of it's largest industries. The
kcyes pulp plate mandatory, which
| annually turns out millions of wooden
plates, has decided to move to New
York. because freight rates upon the