Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-10
Maine Gossip
Fathers and Sons.


Seq pa to me in solemn tones:
such things [ don't enjoy;
I greatly gricve that you should fight
That notcl little boy.
For ne is good and does what's right,
And lie is Just and fair,
And | would have You initiate
His virtues great AMI rare.
Their pa nc licked ne good and hard,
And let it 80 ut that.
And went off to the baseball game
Where all the blcachcrS sat.
And when that just fair man cried
Foul
Pa rose w with the host
And hollcrcd with his might and main
10 lyLCh him on Il post.
Are there any Maine towns planning
to do any Old Home Week business
this year?
The now summer timetable goes int"
effect today, and the wise man Will
plan not to get left.
The town Of Wells had one of the
most famous Memorial Day orators of
the year, though the fact has escaped
Bangs who has Il summer home at
Ogunquit.
We haven't noticed any devastation
as vet this year from the broWn-tail
moths but perhaps they have been
| frozen out ny the cold spring or they
| may he waiting for the leaves to set of
sufficient size to destroy.
Shad have not been plentiful this sea
| son IL CathanCc waters, where usually
some of the best and largest fish are
caught. All along the Kenucbec this
absence Of this favCrite Maine fish is
nnticcahlc, and it is thought by some
| that this is due to the pulp mills.
| Rath is PLANNING on entertaining the
city fathers Of Chester. Penn. when
| trc cruiser Chester is launched June 26.
| At 4 bargain sale at Rumford Falls
| last week the first customers to arrive
| were pressed into service as temporary
| a. .rI>s and stood bY their posts ike
| veterans until the rush WAS over.
| \ letter has been received at Bar 1iar-
| Dor FROM one of the officers Of thc
| North Atlantic Squadron stating tEat
+ war ships will visit Bar Harbor this
| summer The letter says that alter
| leaving jamestown the ships VIII 70 70
| FrcnChmanS Bay for an indefinite
stay. arriving some time in July. rms
| is good news "a Bar Harbor. The COM
| ing Of the fleet means a great deal I"
| the prosperity of all the st"re-keeperS
| of the toHn.
if aupcars as though Bangor's shook
| shipments to the Mediterranean can be
| figured as lost The Italian bark
| Jeanne, chartered to take orange and
| lemon boxes To Sicily. is loading at
| Stockton instead of at Bangor as hero
| tnforc. This change makes one haul
| from the mills on the line of the Ban
| gor ard ArorStoOk railroad to the sea
! port tcrminal at stockton. Coming to
| Eansor, there is an additional charge
| for handling ny the Maine Central rail-
! road While these shipments are not
| very extensive or valuable. they cOnSti-
| tute a large proportion of the exports
/ Of the port.
| Fl. w. Russell Of GoffStOWn, \. H.,
a blind musician credited with having
accumulated fortune of from $4,000
| to $4,000 by playing on the streets OF
| Springfield, Mass, is a familiar figure
! at Old Orchard beach every summer.
| For years he has been seen on the pier
! ut the station and along the beach at
| OLD Orchard playing his flute. The
soft impeachment as to his having ac-
| cumulated 81. 900 nc denies. hut he does
| acknowledge that he has lluted some
| S5N0 from various sources and to own
! ing his cottage at Goffstown. He
| spends his summers as the beach and
| His winters at Goffstown. He will ar
rive at the beach shortly or as soon as
the season opens where he will en-
deavor t. coax the coins with his little
| instrument.
! The curious phenomenon Cf "a RlaZ-
| ira Beach. noted at Kittery Point in
! 1905. is recalled t. Maine neonle with
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