Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-07-19

y M.;es Gossip (
A Jingle Of Cool Weather.
You growled about the weather when
just a bit below,
But how'd you like to be now where
they have perpetual SNOW
| Where the polar hear is dancing, anu
| the iceberEs never go?
| Oh. you're envying those explorers who
| are cracking ice each day
| And hunting for the north pole where
the flag can fly away
| Where tho ice men cease from troubling
and they're hollcrin' "Hooray
Atlantic Constitution
Great growing weather! Don't kick!
| Keep cool,
A great week for the yacht.;men
along the Maine shore.
The summer landlords are wearing
| their most expansive smile OF welcome.
| positions of the teams in the Maine
League ought to be enough to keep up
the interest.
The frequent drowning Of small boys
| in Lewiston has started that city on a
| campaign to raise $4,000 for the con-
struction of swimming pool.
The principal of one of the Maine
Normal schools recently stated that
over 200 of his graduates are now
teaching i'm the public schools of
| Massachusetts,.
Ground has been broken for the
new Sanford town building by Con-
tractors Woodbury. and Leighton, Bos-
ton. The building will be of brick
with slate roof and will cost about
$4,000. onc-half of which will be paid
by the town and the balance by pri-
vate parties. The building will be
119 feet by 60.
Saco is once more to have a hotel
The Wallace hotel, which has been
moved to a new location, is to be
remodeled and known at the Thornton
Inn.
Monmouth. so far as known, is the
first country town in Maine to catch
the fresh air. spirit. Two Lewiston
children have been there over week
lea e..
now a letter ha.; been sent to Lewiston
saying that Is more will be taken for
two or three weeks. This good work is
done through the agency of the w. c.
Z. l..
Bangor is making another effort to
get pure water for drinking purposes.
Rangers water is taken from the
Penobscot and the supply has long been
Tar from satisfactory, and various ex-
penSlve filtration schemes have been
tried without satisfactory results.
Now the city proposes to build an
immense sedimentary basin to hold q
100000 gallons and thoroughly to re-
build its filtration plant, the whole plan
for the Improvement of the plant to
be completed next year at a cost Of
about 100000.
The first native blueberries of the
season which have found their way to
this office were sent this week by
Master Patrick A. Leighton of Alma,
large and lucious specimens which are
duly appreciated. In an ordinary year
TINS would not be early for blueberries,
nut all berries are very late this
season.
Wished l had time to go out and
get my hair cut" remarked a we'll
Known Bangor barber as he removed
part of the lather from the customers
lips with a napkin. Thine to go out
and get it cut?" repeated the man in
the chair. with the emphasis on "out."
Are you like the man that won't eat
In his own restaurant? Aren't you
willing to trust one of your own men
to cut your hair?' "Oh. I'd trust them
all right" said the barber. 1T isn't
that. but you hardly ever see a barber
getting his hair cut in his own Mace.
me other BARRIERS all like to go home
p'''hPeiy at tlf1le and II of
us gets work done during the day there
Is sure to be rush about that time.
ana 1t makes a customer sore if he
has to wait with two BARRIERS right hero
and not waiting on him He doesn't
like tn wait around while one barber
cuts another BARRIERS hair"
The urgent necessity of making more
heroic attempt to hold the gypsy moth
under control in Maine becomes palmer
with each day that passes as the I'M
successful fight goes on i'm Massa
chusetts where a million dollars a wear
Is being spent without appreciable
success in staying the extension of this
pest. 1T is now recognized that no
general success can come EXCEPT
through natural parasitic enemies of
the moth and to that end the energies
OF the expert entomologists are being
directed. A crumb of comfort comes
from recent Investigations in northern
Europe where it appears that in the
h"rthernmost parts of Norway and
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