Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-08-19
Maine Gossip
Breezes-Very Gentle.

Breezes-very Gentle.
l can feel the breezes blowing, briskly
| blowing al lday long,
| Though there is no streafnlet .lo"Ile
| past me with ceaseless sohS
| Cheerless walls all rise about me where
| l have to struggle on
| Where mankind could do without me
| and not know that l WaS gone
l can feel the hreezes swishing past my
brow ard through my halr.
| Though / set here Vain!y oWlshlnS II
| Toll by stream somewhere;
| All day long l hear the huninlhS ana
| toll as best l can
| In the hot breeze that keeps coming
| from green electric IAN.
Chicago Record-Herald
No lack of attractions for the Sun
day excursion crowd at Old Orchard,
but it was a heartbreaking sight.
| That Old Orchard fire was the worst
Maine has experienced since the Port
land fire of 1866
| The last half of August finds the tide
Of the summer business at high-wate1
| mark all along the shore.
This is Fete week at artistocratic
Squirrel island and an unusually clab-
crate program has been prepared.
The good old town of jefferson is in
| the ranks of the centcnarians and its
celebration next Wednesday promises
to be worthy of the occasion.
HOulton's celebration, "Wednesday
and Thursday. is not in honor of the
Tooth anniversary of its incorporation,
as is frequently stated. but the Tooth
| anniversary of it's settlement 1t was
not Incorporated until 1881
The regimental reunions are thick
| these August days. Aside from Me-
mortal day no day of the year is so
sacred to the veterans as those on
which these gatherings of comrades
are held.
Very few of the city church bells are
pcaling on these Sunday mornings Of
| midsummer, but the noses of the city
| bellies at the seashore are peeling on
all days of the week.
No paper did SO good a job in hand
ling the great fire at Old Orchard as
the Biddeford Journal Its 90 col
| umnS of reading matter with numerous
large pictures, some of them five col
| umns in width, made up story which
| for accuracy, completeness of detail,
| vividness Of description and general
arrangement was a model of it's kind.
| Editor w. o. Fuller, Jr., of the Rock
land Courier Gazette is at home again
from an eight weeks automobile tour
of Europe and though his writing
wrist was sprained by an automobile
| accident in England he is now giving
his readers some very bright and IN
| tcresting articles on his trip.
Here is a Is story from Eiddeford.
On Tuesday. the 18th of the month,
son was born to Willie Nadeau and
wife VINO live at Is Gooch street,
weighing IL pounds and being the
| 18th child born to them all of whom
are living. Mr.. and Mrs. Nadeall
were married on the 18th day of the
month and this last child was born II
months after the last preceding birth
in the family.
| Kenncbcc and Pcnobscot ports are
| ma turally enough interested in the
| question now under discussion, whether
the American Ice Co. is trying to raise
the price of ice or lower the Price of
| freignts by shipping 50 little ice from
| these rivers this season. AS Maine is
| interested to a large extent i'll both the
| ice and coaSting trade industries 1t
| naturally causes much wonderment as
to what the real proposition ls.
| Bath Independent: The subject of
| using tide power is one to which tho
people of Maine can now turn their
attention with good effect. Once the
secret of Harvesting the tides so as to
get continual power is discovered then
the future of many Maine coast towns
will be made and we are of the
! opinion that the date is not far distant
either. There will be millions in it
and il is up to someone of great in
ventile genius to learn the trick and
the general public will do the rest.
Last week Capt. Henry y. Fair
banks of Bangor celebrated his 10th
anniversary in the life insurance bust
ness. No man in Maine and probably
few in any part of the country, can
claim so long a service, and Capt
Fairbanks is justly proud Of his long
and successful career. Capt. Fair
banks is one Of Bangor's leading citi-
zens and has many friends all over
Maine.
Thomaston has a fleet of big fore.
and-afters which is equalled by thai
of no town of the size on the coast
This week there were three Thomastor
vessels at Portsmouth, all fOur-mast
ers: the Henry J. Smith. Margare