Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-29
Maine Gossip
The Ball Game.

| The Ball Game.
Father had some business Which would
| make Lin rather late,
| lie told the folks to so ahead with
| dinner and not wait.
Uncle Jim. he said the Office wasn't
| going right.
He rcckoncd he'd lie busy too, until
twas nearly night.
And Brother Fob. he said they needn't
| mind him much that day.
! He had to go down to the train and sc
Il friend away.
I had to get my nerve and take my
chances, cause, you see.
| They'd used al the excuses There
vas rot much left for me.
In tie grand stand father WAS a-yell-
| ii.r aouc that dlv.
| And ITncl" Jim ana Brothcr lob. they
were not far away.
Ana was in tho bcachers. and they
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Gcntlemen's affairs.
Washington Star
In closing June has managed to
serve up quite number Of those ia
nous rare days.
From all sections the returns con-
tinue to come in telling of the damage
done 10y the terrific thunder showers of
the past week
Now make your plans for the
Fourth. There will be lot of lively
celebrations in Maine cities and towns.
and also a few safe and quiet spots in
the deep woods.
Colby made its distinguished son
Holman +. Day,a Doctor of Laws this
week, but nc will rot allow himself to
put on frills or get too dignfied on that
account.
The ship Aryan, built at Bath in
1899, and the last wooden full rugged
ship built in this country. has been
bought by New York parties and will
probably be converted into coal
barge. She is Of ,939 tons and was
one Of the Sewall fleet.
Fred BcaI Of South Pcnobscot. cap
tuned young seal down the bay. and
brought it W to the wharf and let it
so. The seal evidently liked the So
cicty Of human beings 50 well that he
refuses To 80 away. and when any one
goes to the shore he comes swimming
up expecting to re fed. His favurite
dish is milk from q bottle, although
other nicely prepared bits arc very ac-
Ceptablc.
nd NJ.
Washington will spend the summer ut
York Ilarbor, where they have a cot
taEc. Another distinguished author
who will spend the summer at the
same resort will be Finley Peter
punne, the creator of Mr.. Dooiey. Bar
IiH'hor ana adjacent resorts will have
quite a galaxy of literary lights
Among them will be Dr. S. Weir Nit
Ch"ll Of Philadelphia. the noted author
"f Hugh Wynn". ana many other
novels; DR.. Henry Van Dyke of
Princeton: Arthur Train nr New
York, assistant district attorney. ana a
well known writer of current fiction;
President Charles w. Eliot of IIar-
ward ami cX-Mayor Seth Low Of New
York, both Of whom arc we'll known in
tn" literary world: Mrs Burton Harri-
son. tn" well known novelist. ana
James Ford Rhoades, a historian of
national reputation.
Because Of an unpluggcd gap Of less
than 20 feet in width 4nO acres of tho
finest hay land in Washington county
is rendered valueIcsS The story of
now railroad engineers and other en-
glncers have craprled with that gan is
interesting, not to say graphic. The
n@ht, which has now been given IN
mas cost the railroad company more
thitn $ln,OoO in money and three lives
nave he'n lost. over 40 years ago
men owning land along Middle river
realizing that some Of the best hay
fields of the section were inundated nv
the waters Of the river decided t.
build a dyke across the mouth of the
river, at its junction with the Machias
river. The necessary money was
raised and the work begun 1t is
estimated that the loss to the farmers
Of Machias will bc 81 900 a year. Once.
s25 would have mcnded the gap.
mere VIII ne TWO new professors on
til" Rowdoin faculty when the term
opens next September. Kenneth c.
NJ. SillS will succeed Prof Houghton
who has occupied the chair Of Latin
for the past L. years. Prof Stills
graduated from Rnwdoin in 1901 at the
hcod Of class Of s. men and later
did graduate work at Harvard and
Columbia. For two years he has been
an assistant at Bowdoin and no man
on the faculty is more popular with
the boys. The other new professor is
Prof. Brown of Clark University who
will succeed Prof. Ham who goe, to
Trinity after six years at Bowdoin.
He comes very highly recommended.