Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-09-04

y Maine Gossip \
The Chorus Girl.
The chorus girl
| Will soon be here
To fill the heart
| OF us with cheer.
| She'll sayly trip
Upon the stage
| And be SC great
| a local rage
| That chappes in
The town will think
1t worth life
To her wink
And smile bit
| And oGle. too.
Although the trick
Is nothing new.
| -BirmnGham Age Herald!
| II is mighty tough on the Lewiston
| fair, hut the rest of the State welcomed
the rain.
| The west-bound trains are loaded
| this week. and the annual exodus OF
summer visitors is at it's height
The days are growing shorter-the
shortness being especially noticeable to
those Youngsters who dread the OPEN
| ing of school.
The Lawrence knights Templar and
selections of places for their Labor Day
outings.
Kittery is saying a few mildly sar-
castle things about the Portsmouth
celebration of the second anniversary
of the signing of the peace treaty at
Kittery.
1t is great year for the grasshop-
pcrs in some sections of the State.
They have not been so numerous since
the famous "Grasshopper year of a
generation ago, when they routed the
tiocks of turkeys which went out into
the dcvasta fields to feast upon
them.
Skowhcgan's Labor Day celebration
was not scheduled. but it was the live
licst in Maine after it started. 1t was
q bad fire for Il village that has had
more than it's share of trouble of this
nature of late.
The championship of the Maine
League was handsomely won by Ban
grr after Biddcford had been lurcd
along nj summer with golden prospects
If victory. The Bangor team WAS just
lying low ana as the end approached
it struck a pace that left Biddef"rd Tar
in the rear. Bangor earned the victory
fairly. 1t was in the league from the
start and its total of games won was
as large as the total played by Bidde-
ford.
The 18th Maine will have its reunion
Sept. IS and 10 AT Skowhegan. the home
of Gen. Isaac Dyer. the old commander
of the regiment. who is now close to
his S-th birthday. II. a. ShOrey OF the
Rrideton News. the faithful secretary
If the association. has issued a very
attractive booklet of 40 pages telling
the full story of the 1906 reunion at
Bangor and giving roster OF the rcsl-
ncnt's survivors with complete necrol-
ogy appended. The booklet is model
of its kind and will be invaluable to the
"old boys"
a REGULAR accident happened to Ed
win Moore while moving load of
goods from Lincoln's Mills to st. Al
bans. After he had gone short dis
lance he looked around and saw ms
load Of goods afire. He quickly drove
for help and soon the fire was put out,
but not until considerable damage was
done the goods. A feather bed and two
husk beds were badly burned: u cham
Der set bedStead was completely spniicu
and an organ was scorched.
Students in all the Maine colleges VIII
lie shocked to learn of the terrlple
death of George A. Bosworth. the we'll
known distance runner of Bates. re
was leaning from the door OF oaS
oacn car. on which he was WORKING oi'
q Rhode Island trolley line, "ioi '
bcad struck a pole. crushing MS shui'
tJe has been the leading memcer vi III"
ND
rates track team for three years anu
for the past two years has won tine
two-mile run at the Maine intercourse
,+o fold day. At last spring Hieet 81
y,-,ter,.illc he not only won 'he lace
easilv. but established new record In
this event.
Whom the announcement was made
loo. month that &c young men mad
,,.sod the Maine bar examinations. 1t
was said that two Of them had exceiicd
the others with a rank of 81 per cent
,rhoir names were not given, nut inns
Genre was stated as the highest rank
,ttaincd. 1t seems that this statement
was an error. for the highest rank
among the &c was awarded Emery vi
YER Bcanc Hallowell boy, WIN
mark of o. per cent The bright young
man to gain this distinction comes OF
a family of successful lawyers. as MS
cr,,dfather was for over sixty years