Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-08-03

Bath over next weeks program.
Hone celebrated it's centennial i'll
1868, but it was u small affair In COM
harrison with Uncle Abner nunton's
"party" this week in honor of Ii Is Tooth
birthday.
kennebunk's Old Home Week cele-
bration which was such success, was
first suggested by Mrs. Annie J. Credi-
ford, editor of the Kepncbunk Enter
prise. ana She was "a leading factor i'll
carrying out the plans.
Brunswick's nine O'Clock bell, which
has been rung for generations, has not
been heard for several months simply
because the janitor of the Town hall
has OF his own accord neglected To
ring it. The citizens are making
kick through the columns of the Rec
ord.
The Portland and Rumford Falls
line did not run Sunday excursions, but
now mat il is under the control OF the
the excursions are regularly scheduled
In reply to all protests the Maine
Central management replies that 1t
will run Sunday excursions over that
line as over others as long as people
patroriZc them enough to make them
pay.
The Kennebec Journal says OF the
HJ.,in Ia 81
by the Strout agency, that not one was
sold for d summer residence but al 10
farmers who will occupy and work
them the year around. If Mr.. Hutchlns
tells the Journal that nonsense, ne Is
talking through his hat. A large
humber of the places purchased in this
vicinity are for summer residences, and
are closed from fall until the next sum-
mer-Waldoboro correspondence Of the
Rockland Opinion.
Nh. Hutchns knew what he was
talking about and there is certainly no
occasion to doubt his word in this mat
ter or any other. He was simply
speaking about the Maine farms sold
last year through the agency which he
represents. That agency does Dig
business, but by no means claims TO
handle all the farms sold in Maine.
There are no doubt farms sold in Wal
ooboro and vicinity for summer resi-
dences. and in many other parts OF
tho State, for that matter. What Mr..
Hutchins said was that of the $40
farms sold in Maine last year by his
agency, %: were sold to men outside of
Maine who We're coming here to make
a business of farming in Maine. Not
one was sold as a summer residence,
bit they were all to be occupied the
wear round by men from other states
who are drawn to Maine by the grow
ing recognition of this as one of the
best farming states of the Union.
Bowdoinham rejoices that the Ken
dali brothers are to rebuild their
burned grain mill. This mill, together
with the fertilizer factory owned by
the same firm. is run by tide power.
and these are said to be the only mills
in the country run in this manner The
device was invented by the late j. M.
Kendall father of the present owners.
yhe kcndalls do big business
throughout the United States. The
firm consists of w. &. Kendall, the
present Bowdoinham representative to
Legislature, and his brother, Z. T.
Kendall. Their business Is one of the
principal industries of the town and
they employ many men I'm their mills
This is the third fire within seven
wears that has affected the business in
terests of Bowdoinham. The first was
in December. 1908. when the greater
part of lower Main street was
destroyed by fire; the second occurred
in March of thc following year. when
the upper section of the business sec
ton of the town burned.
In these later days it is very rare in
deed to hear of a pastor remaining
with one church for over 80 years, but
that is the record just made by Rev. A.
J. Padclford. D. D., of the Baptist
church at Calais. Says the lions Ad-
vocate regarding this instance: cal
most full generation. Few are they
who attain in these degenerate days
to such distinction. Both pastor and
people are to be congratulated on the
memorable record. What close assO- |
Citations have been formed in those
thirty years! How well they must
know each other. those two parties to
the loving compact and union. How
strange it would seem to the one to
look into the faces of another congre- !
CATION, and to the other to see ¬her
face in the pulpit! May the sTange-
less of it be far off from BOTH
Fears are being entertained for the
safety of Aroostook county's potato
crop. The continual rains throughout
the season have soaked the rich soil Of
the county with an r-abundance of
moisture and if the rains continue
there is grave danger that the crop will
lie seriously damaged. The harvest |
time of the great wealth of Aroostook |
soil is not much more than month |
away now and such condition of az
fairs at this critical period is not con-
duciye to cheerfulness on the part Of |