Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-27

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| James WhitcOmh Riley.
| The last gun OF the 1907 Commence
ment season in Maine will be fired to
day.
| 1t is now two or three days since the
Maine state League was recognized
and lis schedule revised.
| There We're many boys among the
So pupils in the graduating class at
Bangor High, but sad to relate the
first 10 in rank are all girls.
| That clOudburSt over the AndoVer
hills the other afternoon was the most
strenuous occasion of the kind in the
| memory of the oldest inhabitants up
| that way. In less than 30 minutes
| the water rose 10 feet in Sawyer notch,
| carrying away everything in its path.
| Eight bridges We're swept away and
| hundreds of acres of land and crops
injured. Families living on the low
| land We're obliged To take to the upper
story, and some We're conveyed to their
| houses iii boats. No fatalities yet are
| repUrt-d, hut the damage can hardly
be estimated at this time: it will reach
/ thousands of dollars.
They are planning on a safe and sane
Fourth in Portland, although the small
boys may upset the program. Six
band concerts will be- the extent Of the
| celebration and Chambers. the Ameri-
can Cadet, the Artillery, and the Deer
| ing bands viii be engaged 10 furnish
! the music. The concerts will take
place on the Eastern promenade. the
W""trrn promenade. Deerng Oaks ana
| at Woodfords.
| Lightning played some queer pranlkS
| at kittery point in the electrical storm
Of last week, according to the York
| TRANSCRIPT. "DrSpatcher Judson q.
| Irish was twice thrown across the Of
fee by little stray juice which came
| through the telephone receiver" Three
| times ANA out. After two such jultS
Mr.. irish thought it prudent to stay
away from the telephone. Three
buildings were struck, the First Chris
tian church, the Hotel Champer-
npwne ana barn. the latter being
| burned with contents. "A queer fea-
| ture of the Kittrry point disaster was
| that al three Of the buildings struck
had previously suffered in the same
way. A house on the site of Rice'S
| barn was struck and burned a few
y"als ago. the First Christian church
has twice been destroyed by lightning
1 m, 40 Ia In,
destroyed" All of which goes to dis
prove the old tradition that lightning
never strikes twice in the same place.
Colby is Justly proud Of the fact that
the Supreme bench within the past
year Associate Justice Cornish is a
graduate of Colby in 1S1G and has long
| been one Of the trustees of the inStitu-
| tom. The new appointee, ArnO w.
| King, ESQ. of Ellsworth, was in the
| class Of 1882 ut Colby, but left college
after one year and entered upon the
study of law. Both of them, as well as
| Associate Justice Whitehouse, the 9TH
CT Colby man now on the bench, are
members Of the Colby chapter Of the
Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.
Why has Allen fame Weston.
magazine writer 4 Augustine, Fla,
| formerly of New York, abandoned his
beautiful summer home. Mousehorn. on
| the shore of Lake WaSSOkcag and per-
mittrd it to fan into a state of decay?
| This question is frequently asked by
people Of Dexter on their way up and
| down the lake. 1t is also supplement-
ed frequently by one as to what the
| people of the town could have done to
| offend the author and camp owner. To
| both there is no answer, 50 far as DcX-
! ter is concerned. In every way the
people there sought to make his sum
| mer outings events of joy in his life.
Mocschorn camp is a large log affair,
| splendidly furnished. and located on a
beautiful site on the eastern shore of
| the lake. 1t was built several years
ago by Mr.. Weston, and the grounds
were cleared and improved until the
place was easily the best on the lake
| The camp alone cost in the nciShbnr-
hood uG 81. 800. while the lot and i'm
provements must have used up another
| thousand Mr.. Weston also had q fine
steam launch 20 feet long. built and
| brought to the lake. This he used to
go from camp down 10 Dexter and in
his trips about the lake. The boat
was built on speed lines and could
travel very rapidly. About four years
ago Arthur Weston closed the camp,
hauled the boat out upon the shore.
covered it roughly with boards, and
then went to New York. Since then
Moosehorn, WasSokeag AMI Dexter
have seen him not. Neither has a
word been heard from him as to
whether he would ever return. The
camp is falling into decay. ana tho
boat is settling into Il state of rotten
useleSsnesS.