Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-07-20
tinue to look upon it as the silly season
in the sense in which the word silly Is
usually employed.
Maine Gossip

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Joys Of Summer.
Woodland passes,
Moss and grasses,
BUttercupS that vie With gold,
Red the rose,
Its fragrance sweet,
Goods in all things l behold.
Birds a-sineing,
Song of thrush
Greets my ear with welcome sound;
Aye, tits good,
IT'S good to be
Where so much of JOY Is found.
Swaying grasses,
Woodland passes,
DAISIES. white. nod everywhere'
Should you stay,
Stay forever, $3.50
Would you seem to me as fair!
Boston Transcript.
ANYWAY. some Of the churches will
be open tomorrow.
Maine never before had such sum-
mer for drowning accidents.
Biddeford is no longer worried about
it's bali team being too fast for the
other Maine teams.
Six excursions to Old Orchard to-
morrow, and hogsheads of sand will be
carried away in pockets and shoes.
Up goes the price of those famous
shore dinners at New Meadows, but it
is not anticipated that the place will
be wholly deserted on that account.
In the Aroostook League they claim
t. be having as fast baseball as in the
Maine League. and they are having no
trouble with the financial end OF the
proposition.
1t is little difficult just now to get
interested in the fall fairs, but the
managers are beginning to cOnfide to
the newspapers the great attractions
that will be offered.
Things are humming along the new
lines that will close the links in the
electric road system from Lewiston to
Waterville by way of Gardiner and
Augusta
Stamped envelopes are higher, but
the price Of stamps remains the same
and allows the same margin of profit
to the druggist who carries them as a
side line-
That 500 robbery of prosperous
farmer in Charleston proves to have
been a fake and the man who went
out to the barn at A. M. and pound
ed his own head with a baseball bat
has now taken to the woods to escape
his creditors
Tourists are talking about the de-
lightful climate of the Maine coast,
and the letters which go back to the
sweltering cities are full of praise
for our situation and the comfortable
weather conditions of our summers. If
you hear anybody finding fault with
the weather you may be sure it is
native. who has not had opportunity
to compare conditions here with those
existing elsewhere.
There promises to be all kinds of
overcrOwding in the Portland schools
when they open in September In the
High school there will be nearly 100
more pupils than last year and also
large increases in many of the lower
grades.
That Skowhegan man who, thought
he had caught lobster in stream in
Moscow has been showing his prize to
the scientists and they tell him that
1t is some variety of crawfish Thus
fadeth vision of Somerset county re-
Inducements for the vanishing supply
of the great coast luxury.
The great grandchildren Of the late
Major William Cunningham, eighty in
number and many Of whom live in
Maine. have after more than 100 years
at last recovered damages for the good
ship Polly. which was confiscated
about 1900 by the French. The Polly
was built in Belfast and was engaged
in carrying freight between the United
States and England. She was cap
tured by French privateer. with other
United States vessels, for which
claims We're made by this government
ana allowed when the Louisiana pur-
chase was made of France in 1904
Because the wiremen for the Allan
tic Shore electric road were to cut
the limb off a tree on her propertv
Mrs. George Bragdon Of Wells
wrapped the tree in the United States
cOlOrS and draned a nnu frn.,, H.