Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-08-29
Maine Gossip

\ Maine Gossip \
The Shores Of Signing.
I reach the shores of signing,
[ filter in the strife;
OH dear lips seek me diving,
And kiss me back to life!
Oh, let the dark be riven.
Whose shadow dims my brow!
Let thy dear eyes. like heaven,
Shine as my morning now.
Then shall the bells be ringing
RaSt for the souls that roam,
And the solemn seas he singing
Where the storm-tossed ships san home.
Frank l.. Stanton.
Bcal weather over at Bangor.
The corn canning shops are starting
up.
This is the day of 800 years at Pop
ham.
Lewiston hopes for this kind of
weather next week.
There are several Maine cities where
every stranger is suspected of being a
Sturgs deputy.
A sign of fall is that group of boys
kicking football out in the street.
The pine tree blight" which SCENT
lists are investigating has no reference
to the tail end team in the Maine
league.
One cider mill is reported to have
started up. but that Is forcing the sea-
son little. October is the new cider
month.
The annual tennis tournament for
the championship of Maine will be held
on the grounds of the Portland Coun-
try club. Sept. 4, 5, 6 and Z.
Those pharmacy examinations are
pretty stiff. Out of 81 candidates be-
fore the state board at its August
session only four passed.
There are likely to be four Maine
boys with the Boston Americans next
year. Parent, who has been star
of the team for several years, and
Lord, Chadbournc and Carrigan who
have been reserved.
The boys" of the Sth company at
Fort Prcble. who not long ago came
up from the South, were initiated yes
terday into the mysteries of a clam
bake and their eyes opened widely
when the scawced was removed and
the steaming clans. Holsters, green
corn and all the fixins bobbed serene.y
up.
The Observer Publishing company
has purchased the printing plant and
subscription lists of the Recorder Pub
fishing company of Guilford. The Re
cordcr will hereafter be printed at the
Observer office but the job office will
be maintained at Guilford
Newell Bear the famous Indian of
the Aroostook, was in Houlton last
week and was without doubt one of
the most interesting pcrsOnages at-
tending the centennial celebration. He
is 1O1 years old and years and years
ago furnished the garrison with meat
by killing moose and his recollections
of many interesting events in the times
gone by are very valuable.
A South Paris party who were on an
automobile trip the other day had
chugged merrily along without break
in the enjoyment for about fifteen
miles, until in going up a short, sharp
pitch, a wheel went into a washout and
struck a stone. and the chain snapped.
The machine ran back short distance
and turned toward the ditch before the
brake brought it to a standstill. The
party jumped out and pro-
ceeded to make repairs, when
from the megaphone Of a
photograph, pointed at them through
the open window of house at the foot
of the hill, came the strains of that re-
cent popular song. You'll have to get
off and walk"
You must get up just before day
light if you want to see the Daniels
comet, which is now attracting more
| or less attention, with it's head as
bright as the pole star and tail more
than twenty degrees long. The comet
| is worth looking at. for it is about the
largest and brightest one that has APP
peared on view in this latitude for
twenty-five years or more.
The Old Orchard Mirror gives YER
| sion of the fatal explosion at that place
| during the great fire, which we do not
remember to have seen elsewhere i'll
print. 1t has been generally under
stood that it was soda water tank in
| a drug store that burst from the heat,
| causing the death of three persons and
the injury of others, but it appeai
| that this was not 50. At the time of
| the fire the druggist had two tubes
| charged with gas in the basement. On
| examination of these tubes after the
| fire they Worp fOun5 tn no intact There