Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-19
Maine Gossip


| cious fruit.
| And squirrels stalk the rustling earth 10
| gather Autmnns loot.
/ Upon the rivers giinting breast leai -
floating frce--
A sonber craft from timterland upon a
| Sparkling sea,
| Tie sunlight fla shes fieck the crest Of eff
| feryescing wave,
And diamond sails Of phantasy are racing
with the lave
! A feet If fairy jubilee that laughs in
cooirg giee,
A suil-klssed iharsody Of FAN that pnls
| in ecstasy.
| The dave # consurrmation, with the sum
| rner glinting out,
| Are tpuii.is III rapture and If glories all
abOut-
Are days when God has answered every
promise Of the soil
And heap@d the Tins with yellow grain
| IL rrcompensc for toll.
| Al. golden. rosy days Of Fail. l love thy
waning best.
y hen "ve-y field and every wood is blend
ID HltH the west:
Is blended with the hue Of sun asleep
1it.or the Iils-
Tie western SIM, the sunset sun that
g!oirIos tie hills,
Byron Williams
Tho FIRST Of the football games today
It has teen great season for the
corn packers.
Mllin"chet feels that it is getting
big and bad enough for night watch
man
With 1900 people present On ;he
closing day the Gorham fair plainly
ranks among The big ones.
ErtWecn The smoke and the dust the
sun IS pretty we'll out of commission
these days.
Even thus early in the game some
Of our esteemed contemporaries are re-
ferring tp this glorious Indian sum
incr weather" There is such a thing
as being TOO previous.
Mines smallest newspaper, the
Clinton Advertiser. is offered for sale
by Publisher w Il. Tracy.
Some If the cattle shows IN Maine
this year have really had few cattle
principles cannot have failed to be
drawing card.
Seal cove boasts Of two snar* young
berry pickers. Jennie Walls, aged II
Years, and Arthur. aged II, have picked
during tlIe berry season 80 quarts Of
berries.
Fort Fairfield Review: A good 300
barrels a day of potatoes are now ar
irving in the Fort Fairfield market.
Mountains bring 81 10 to 81 10, and Cob
blcrs 81. . to 81 40. The stock is as good
rs can well be imagined.
Boat owners on Lake Auburn are
considerably exercised at the way the
lake has been lowered the past two
weeks t" give the mills more water. 1t
is Impossible to get many of the boats
to their houses and they are anchored
| IT, moorir2 bucys in open water. where
they will probably remain until they
are hauled up in October.
No little interest was aroused alrong
the fishermen at Portland Wednesday
when the herring catchers brought in
& pD1ly quantities OF so-callcd spike
mackcrcl which are said to be the first
caught along this coast for some few
years. ,.'hc spike mIckerel are smaller
than the tinkcrs which are most lesira
bic for packing purposes. The smaller
fish is claimed to be the most preferred
tai b. tiCI h1, he,
found mixed in the schools of herring
making into the small bay; and inlet3
of the lower bag and this is also con
+idcred strange \ lot Of 40 pounds
was found in the catch of one Of the
herring craft that arrived in Portland
Wednesday afternoon from the lower
bay. The little fish We're in good de-
nand at fair prices.
IN its report Of the reunion of the
18th Maine the Portland Express has
this mention Of an Augusta veteran
"AnOthcr Of the veterans returning to-
day, who stands pre-emincnt among
the others for very different sort of
service To his regiment was Fred
Brown, the only colored man in the
association. Brown was one OF the
servants on the staff Of the commits
stoned officers, and after the war he
was for II years cOachman for James
G.. Blaine. Major Shorey Of Brighton
was the first to introduce Brown to
Company Il Of the regiment in the
year lS62. He was with the regiment
until 1861, and although he carried no
musket during all his campaigning. he
returned from the war with a wound
which he received in the Red River
campaign of 1863. 1t was in the form
of rebel bullet, which was tucked
under In" skin on the left side of his
jaw. and here the bullet remains to
this day, showing noticeable lump i'm
!he wounded place. In 1864 the reei-
n"nt returned to Augusta for fur
Tough and Brown came with the others
He took up his residence in Augusta
at that time and after the war was
coachinan for Blaine for n period of IA
years. Since Blaine's death he has
been night Waterman in the State
House. position which he has held for
~ years General O. O. Howard
brought colored woman from the