Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-08-21

home Towns today.
The first of the fairs and camp
meetings are scheduled for this week.
Pretty fair samples of September
Weather have been handed out of late.
Old Orchard is getting the midsum-
mer crowds-SO,O 900 people last Sunday
but not the midsummer money.
The complaint comes from Arnos-
took that some Of the teams in that
rcd-Eot league are stretching the sal
airy limit and breaking the agreement
about outside players. 1t was ever
thus.
Kate Douglas WigSin is to give an
authors heading at her country home
at Hollis, on August -, for the bcne-
fit of the funds of the local church
Mrs. Niggin is to publish Il new book
this autumn entitled 1.-The Old Pea
body Pew"
As fast as Il big gang of wrcckerS is
any - dI'olIi'liDii INC NoIk, tlc olu
Bangor railroad station is being de-
molshcd. and in another week one of
the most famous railroad structures in
Maine will be completely cnaccd
Probably no man III central Maine
than George W. Sanford of Guilford,
who is Il horscshocr and edge tool
worker when not a musician. He has
lived in Guilford since 1850. In carly
year; his home was in Manchester
| and he worked for the Halowcll Gran
| lite Company Mr.. Sanford's son Lee
has inherited his musical ability and
| is now a member of the Cowboy band
| at the jamestown Exposition as a
trombone s"loist. Last winter Lee
was q member of the band at ToSus.
Two of oxford county's leading
young lawyers have announced them
| selves as candidates for the Republican
| nomination for county attorney to sue
| coed County Attorney RarncS when his
term shall have expired. They are
Frederick r. Dyer Of Ruckficd and
Ralph II. Parker Of Itumford Falls. Mr..
| Dyer represented the PariS-BuCkfieid
| district in the last Legislature. Mr..
Parlp. is the junior member of tn"
| w"Il-kuown law firm of Eishcc *
| Parker. Both candidates have had
| Scvral years experience in law.
| 1t is said that there is a strong pos
Sibiity that within two years. for a
| guess, the Maine Central trains run
ming out Of Bangor to the Mt Desert
and Eucksport divisions will cross the
Pcn"hscot over a new steel bridge.
Coincidcnt with this is more talk to
| the effect that the Bangor Railway Il
Electric Co. viii take the present rail-
| read hi idgc to run its cars between
| Bangor ami Brewer. The Bangor
| Railway and Electric Co. has been dc
sirous of doing this for Il long time.
| There Young men from Midtown, near
| Calais. went out into the country dis
| tricts recently to spend the day and LETT
| their old horse standing under the
| shade of the Whispering pines
whilst they communcd with nature
some little distance away, They
we're startled by the neiShing and
| Snortng of their Stced an up
on reaching the spot whore the animal
was tied they witnessed an exciting
loucnrntrr Ictwccn 4 bun moose ana the
horse. The monarch of the forest just
HAPPENED along and found the horse
cncrnaching upon his domain and very
naturally resented the intrusion. He
made Il run for the unfortunate Stced
ana Il hoW-on collision was almost q
sure thing when the old horses Tight
| ing blood got mp and. instead Of waiting
to be rammcd like fishing boat in
fog he stood upon his hind legs ana
caught the bull moose a swat fair up
| on the nose with both fOrcfect. Roth
animals sat down suddenly to think
tho matter over, the moose from the
surprise of the shock and the horse be-
cause he lost his balance. and it would
doubtless have gone hard with the lat
ter which was encountered with the
harness and rigging had not the young
men set upon the forest king with yellS
inst as he was about to resume the at
| tack upon his helpless adversary. Any
one who remembers the noise which q
Midtown man is capable of making
when cut for good time will pardon
| the moose for his sudden and undigui-
| fed retreat.
A Belfast man who was a passen-
ser on the steamer City of Rocklend
on n recent trip from Boston tells of
an unusual incident IF the voyage. He
was standing near the pilot house and
noticed an unusual commotion among
the passengers and soon the CRY Of
man over board was heard. and he
saw man swimming toward small
schooner. nearby. The man was seen
| from tn" schooner. which lowered her
boat. 3nl the steamer was stopped
and swung around in the direction of