Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-10-01

Underneath the sky's wide dome?
Was it hills or oceans foam?
Neither one. l stayed at home.
New York Times.
The year 1907 is on its last quarter.
Pcrilous times now begin in the
northern woods.
No complaint is heard of the lack of
fall rains.
Only a week to Topsham fair, the
last of the big ones.
Old Katahdin has put on the winter
robes which it will wear until next
June.
Bangor, October 3, 4, and 5 and
Portland. October :, s and 9 are the
Festival dates as no Maine music
lover is likely to forget.
However. if anybody, is disappointed
that the annual excursion to the State
prison is given up. he should remember
that there are still ways open of visit
ing the institution
Another electric road dream is that
of a line from the Lewiston, Augusta
& Waterville line in New Auburn,
down the river road to Durham, and
thence through Durham and Pownal
to connect with the Portland L.
BrunsW lex road at Yarmouth. The
length of this proposed road would be
Il miles, and would reduce the dis
lance by trolley from Lewiston TO
Portland to % miles.
A Belfast man was the recipient of a
remarkable bouquet last week. 1t was
Il bunch of five-leaved clovers large
enough to fill an ordinary tumbler, IS
in number by actual count.
SiXty-One years of continuous buSi-
ness life in one store is the remarkable
record of one of Bangor's most prom
inent citizens and business men, Edwin
+. Dillingham;. In 1S47, when he was
IA years old, he began to sweep out the
store Of David Bugbee, on kenduskeag
DTluSt, anu HAS Dtt'n ever since,
for many years Il member of the firm
and now sole owner. Mr.. Dillingham;
is the oldest active merchant in the
city.
1t is said that a syndicate Of Bidde-
ford men has bought the land at Old
Orchard where the Hotel Emerson
stood before the big fire of Aug IS. It
is understood that $25,0O0 was the
price paid. The syndicate has plenty
of financial backing, and will use the
land for amusement purposes, con-
structing midway and small park to
be run in connection with the steel
pier.
Craftsmen at the Bath Iron Works
are already beginning their work on the
plans for the two torpedo boat dcs-
troyers to be built in that city, and as
soon as the material arrives active
work will be commenced upon the two
naval craft. Coming as they did at
the very beginning of cold weather,
the contracts are a great boon to the
business interests of the city and
promise lively winter in trade con-
ditions. Upwards of 1000 or 1900 mon
will be given employment, and with
business fairly good at the wood.m
shipbuilding industries the outlook for
the next year is extremely good.
Among the 40 young men in the
freshman class at Bowd"in this fall is
Il colorcd boy, Herman s. Drccar of
Washington, d. c. Only once before
in the history of the college has there
been similar instance and that was
close to Il century ago John Rrown
RuSSWorm of the class of 1926 was :,
colored boy. a native of Jamaica. and
after graduation he Went to Africa
where he became governor of Mary
land in Liberia where he died in 1851.
There have since been one or two
colorcd students in the medical school.
but not in the college itself until this
fall Asia as we'll as Africa is repre-
sented among the new students at
Bowdnin. for among the dozen or more
students from other institutions VINO
enter the upper classes is a native of
India. Arrand s. Hiwale. who
graduated from the Bangor Theologf-
cal Seminary last spring.
The work of deepening and widening
the channel in the upper Hell Gate in
the Sasanoa river is progressing very
satisfactorily at present, and last week
a big charge of dynamite was fired for
the purpose of blowing off a piece of
the big ledge which has heretofore
made navigation there dangerous
proceeding. The navigation of this
river is constantly on the increase. and
1T has become necessary for the
government to improve it for the deep
draft vessels which are multiplying
every year. This work will be con-
tlnued for year or more and when
completed. one-half the present danger
of plotting vessels through the narrow
and treacherous place will be obviated
Shipments of potatoes from Aroos-
took county to the Stockton terminal
commenced last week, and several
trainloadS have already been dis
charged into the great potato house on
Cape Jellison pier. No shipments have
been made from Stockton as yet. but
movements will commence in short
time. 1t has been practically settled