Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-09-02
Maine Gossip
At the Siqn of the Tree.

| Meadow Imisls and rced-ripe streams
| Round the hill Of phloN and iisler,
Then the berry patch and pasture,
| Roll me. coachlnan. tC the door
OF the green inn of the poor.
On The torches / shall meet,
| None to grovel ut my feet;
| None with tie sycophantic grin
| Meet the guests of the green inn
| But the katydid Is there,
| And fat bunny keeps his lair. 80,
Squirrel and partridge linScr sun,
| And the mOurnful whIppoOrw1ll.
| Murmuring inSect-VoCes keep
| Measure to the beat of sleep,
| W here, with brown leaves on heI breast,
Sun mer folds her blooms in rest!
| Baltimore Sun.
| This is Labor Day when nobody la
| bors.
| 1t will be hard to get back to work
| Tuscdy morning.
| All roads in Maine now lead to the
Lewiston fair grounds.
The baseball season in this State
has reached the last half of the ninth
inning.
Saco's new-ands only-hotel. the
Thornton Inn, opened for business
| Saturday.
Sanford has SO automobiles, which
# believes to be more than any other
town of its size can boast OF.
The Portland Advertiser remarks
| that the time is fast approaching
when the summer girl will stop put
ting on airs and begin putting on
| clothes.
The first car of potatoes of the crop
Of 1907 out of Aroostook for Boston
was loaded at Cary's Mills last
Wednesday.
Frederick G. Fassctt, formerly edi
tor of the Portland Sunday Times and
of late with the Publicity Bureau of
Boston, is to return to take an edi-
torial position on the Portland Adver-
tiScr.
If September will only serve up as
good September weather as prevailed
during August there will be no COM
plant from. the most fastiditious.
Popham people are much indebted
to the summer residents at Popham
| for their efforts in securing funds for
the establishment of free library
there for the benefit of the permanent
residents.
No doubt those AroostOok baseball
enthusiasts will cool down somewhat
| when winter comes on, but just now
| no Pressure Isle man darcs to visit
| H0ulton by daylight. The Aroostook
| Republican had two column post
inortcm last week from the Caribou
| point of view.
| Bath Independent: 1t is unfortunate
that the Popham colony didn't land
have been better able to Withstand the
| severe winter but coming as late as
| the latter part of August the cold
| weather must have struck them before
/ they could have been prepared to meet
! it. Had they landed in June their his
tory might have been more Interesting
and their stay permanent.
ON the very same day that the
! newspaper dispatches announced that
| the tennis championship of the State
| in doubles had been won at Bar Har-
Dor by Il Boston man and New York
| cr; the Portland Country club an
| n0unccd that a tennis tournament for
l,n h4lI on
their courts September A. This is Pc
culiar situation. and the question nat
| urally arises who has the right to hold
the state championship anyway. 1t
would naturally seem that native
club combining the entries to residents
of the State had better right than Il
club composed of the smart set
players of Boston and New York, who
| are merely summer visitors.
James Wight of Rockland, received
last week, letter plainly postmarkcd
Hell" 1t was something new to him
as it will be to the reader, that the
| place indicated is within the jurisdic-
| ton of the Postal Union, and he mad
| some curiosity as to the geographical
location of it, The letter did not smell
of birthstone nor was there anything
uncanny about it save the postmark
| Opening it, Mr.. Wight found that the
letter was written by Il friend VINO
was an assistant surgeon in the I. :,
navy on one of the war-ships that VS.
tied Rockland some time since. when
the acquaintance was formcd,>and was
written ut ana mailed from MS native
village in Norway. In tn" Norwegian
language, there is nothing Internal
about He'll. and it probably never oc-
| ours to the residents that the name
Iappcaring as a postmark on letter t.
English speaking countries might be a
bit startling.
Originally the capital stock of the
Pullman company was s1.25o.oo0. 1t ha!
! II, nl NJ x-arjOllS times unit