Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-20

M299s GOSSIP !
A Rain Song.
Tinkle, tinkle,
Lightly fall
| On the peach buds, pink and small;
| Tip the tiny grass. and twinkle
On the willows green and tall.
Tinkle, tinkle-
Faster now,
Little rairdrops, smile and sprinkle
Cherry bloom aud applc-bough!
Pelt the elms and show them how
You can dash!
And splash. splash. splash,
| While the thunder rolls and muttcrs, and
the lightnings flash and flash.
| Then eddy into culls
OF a million misty sWirlS,
| And thread the air with silver and en-
broider it with pearls.
This week will see the end of haying
on most farms.
The trolly League has been formed
but it is in Knox and not in kenne-
bee.
The rain helped out wonderfully,
especially where the forest fires have
been raging.
Rockland is sending out Old Home
Week invitations for the week of Au
gust ?-15.
Those Bowdoinham youngsters are
still paying fines for their over-cele-
braton of the glorious Fourth.
The enterprising correspondent who
sent the Boston papers q story about
Senator Frye as a fire fighter in the
woods near Eangeley should have Sc
lected some other day as the time of
the incident than that on which Mr..
Frye was enjoying a shore dinner at
New Meadows with party of friends.
1t has Lccn practically decided that
all of the meetings of tine Republican
State committee during the campaign
will be held at New Meadows Inn. The
place is very easy of access, ana the
meetings can be held in the middle of
the day so that the members can leave
for their homes on the early evening
trains.
The Gliddcn tourists in half hum
drcd big cars will go from Boston to
Poland Spring today. and on Tuesday
they will proceed to Rangcly by cir
cuitous route through Auburn, Lewis
ton, Green, North Monmouth, Win
throp, Augusta, Nassalborn, Water
Vile, Fairfield. Norridgewock, Mercer,
New Sharon, Harrington, Strong, Phil
lips and Madrid. Give them plenty of
road
The biggest surprise that Brunswick
society has received for a long time
was the announcement last week that
popular belle of the town was married
as long ago as June -, 1907, to a young
man who had just graduated from
Bowdoin and who is now studying law.
The happy bride who thus fooled her
many friends is Miss Sara J. Hall,
strlkingly handsome girl who has been
for several years a leading figure in
town and college affairs and who has
been in California with her parents
since last winter. The fortunate groom
is Elmer Perry, a Portland boy, who
graduated from Bowdoin in 1906.
The residents of Peaks Island
thought that they We're in the midst of
another war game last week when the
50 yachts of the Boston Yacht club ~
ing off the Forest City landing, began
to boom their small but noisy cannon
in "a fusilade which lasted for more
than half an hour. There seemed to
he sharp competition aboard the
yachts which We're equipped with guns
to see which could load and fire in the
quickest succession and as they parked
at one another without let-up crowd
of interested spectators gathered along
the shore front.
The launching of the foucmasted
schooner Jessie A. Bishop st Cobb,
Butler L COS yard in Rockland last
Thursday directed public attention to
| the busiest industrial locality in knox
county. Before that handsome craft
| took her maiden ulp the dSSclnDlcu
crowd had an opportunity to winess
sight which we believe never no have
been equalled in a Rockland 'hipyard
before--thc spectacle Of four sailing
vessels under construction at ore time.
The novelty of the affair was all the
more pronounced in view of the great
decline which shipping has experienced
in recent years, and the further fact
that this is the only shipyard in Knox
county which is today in active opera
ton.
The RockIand Courier-GaZette pre-
sents a picture which represents re-
markable Rockland family, the con-
ponents of which are Capt. and Mrs.
Frank +. Awkward, their seven sons and
two daughters, one son-ln law, tour
MISUNDERSTANDING and six grand chill
dren. The % members of this group
are not only all residents of the city,
but reside within a few minutes walk
of each others homes. Six of the Ayi-
wards are voters in Ward 6. and one of
them, Charles L. Awkward, represents