Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-14
Maine Gossip

J Maine Gossip q
July.
Nov doth sweet summer dream her
sweetest dream
With ful-frnged lips half closed
against the sun
And thirsting lips, she mods beside the
stream
Within whose silent bed no waters run
Full YEARLY she stretcheth now her
limbs;
Anon her breast is stirred with lansuid
signs;
Lulled BY the mul1nur of slow forest
hymns,
She draws the shadows with her drows-
ing eyes.
And. all above, her busy hands nave
made
A woven covert of green boughs that
Keep
The semblance of a painted arch whose
Falls on the ground like an enchanted
metropolitan Magazine.
The forest fire situation is getting to
be an extremely serious one.
| The Wild West show is visiting
few favored cities, but does not favor
them with any parade.
| The Fort Fairfield Review thinks the
Aroostook potato acreage is from to
Is per cent. smaller than last year.
| Thara is paffino RI ha a SORT OF, grim
humor in the Keep off the Grass
signs or the sunburnt areas Of the
public parks.
Zeal estate is booming at Rumford
! Falls as result of the vote to build
new bridge over the river at a cost of
about $4,000.
Every day agout so people go to the
Brunswick plains near Pejepscot and
gather the raspberries which are now
in their prime.
| Parties representing, 1t is under
stood, the Portland & Rumford Falls
Railroad company, have purchased
land at Rangeley on which it is said a
mig hotel will be erected the coming
| season.
| George H. Boardman. formerly of
Calais but for many years resident
of Tacoma, Wash, was elected depart
ment commander of the Washington
| and Alaska G. A. r., at the recent an
nual encampment.
In spite of the fact that the weather
prophets are continually slipping a
cog, the optimistic editor of the Bidde-
reflection that every day now brings
| us nearer to the time when the droutE
will be broken.
Prom the Foothills of Song is the
title of a dainty volume Of verse by
| Miss Charlotte Melen Packard OF
Brunswick The book is issued by the
Gorham Press of Boston.
1t was on the Commodore E. c. Ben.
edicts yacht that the famous company
actors and writer's made that three
weeks visit to the coast of Maine ir
1856, stores of which continue to fine
their way into literary "reminiscences
as may easily be understood wher
such men as Booth, Barrett, Hutton
Bispham. Aldrich and others made W
the ships company. One OF these sto-
ries that has never yet got into print
was related by Commodore Benedict tc
a representative Of the Rockland Cou-
rier- Gazette
1--WE ran into the harbor of Booth
bay" said the commodore None OF
us had ever been there before. and Ed
win Booth. calling over the rail to 6
boy in a rowboat, said:
"'What place is this, sonny"
"'Roothbay,' answered the boy.
"Boothbay turned to Aldrich and
said Hear the boy chatting me" He
thought in his innocence that the ma
tive, recognizing him, had given hin
the answer in fun. But an incident
more tragic occurred before we got
away Booth was feeling i'll. and
went ashore with him in search OF
some medicine. We found little shop
where among a quaint general stock
of merchandise a few drugs were kept
and while the lanky proprietor in
shirt sleeves was hunting over the
shelves for the desired medicine, Ed
win said
lean YOU tell me. sir, what was the
origin of the name of this town"
1.-The shop-keeper replied, We'll,
believe it was named for an old fellel
that used to live here years ago--but he
want no relation of that d-rascal that
shot President Lincoln
1T was another Of those awful ex-
periences that Edwin Booth had Otter
to undergo in the years following the
tragedy of his brother John Wilkes. He
gasped slightly as he turned away, an(
l knew how the blow had staggered
him. but he uttered no word.
ut was in Boothbay harbor," said the
commodore, ION the deck OF the Oneida
| tbot wa FORMED tho now famnuS pl9V