Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-08-04

An spread itself in hurl icane.
But now it goes-an it don't complain
Jes' idlin along.
feels like dem when dats muffin seems
70 be turnin out wrong
An de hours go pasSin' like pleasant
les idin' along.
Some time, l pose, l mus grab d knife
Or Il shovel an hustle an jine de strife;
But de mostes joy dat 1 sees in life
Is idlir' along.
washington Star.
This is circus day at Waterville.
Each day has strenuous program at
Camp Cobb.
Many Maine Pythians are in Boston
this week.
Greeks and Syrians are the chief fig
ures in that horrible murder mystery
at Livermore Falls
Baseball interest is at the top notch
in Bidd.ford and over 1000 persons saw
Saturdays State League game there.
The Sunday evening entertainment
at Merrymeeting park being forbidden,
the management cheerfully valves the
admission and has bigger crowd than
ever.
From president indications it looks
as if the Belfast school board will re-
turn to the old idea of a double session
in the High school. For some years
there has been but one session.
Bath is to have a girls band. Prof.
Tesla who started a boys band several
weeks ago has decided, after numer-
Gus applications from the girls. to give
them similar organization. The boys
band with it's % members is making
rapid strides.
The recent sale of the stallion Bingen
is interesting to the people of Maine,
as Bingen was at one time the property
Of E. H. Greedy of Ellsworth Accord
ing to the report the new owner of Bin
ben, William Bradley of New York paid
$4,000 for him.
Miss FRITZ Scheff is at present the
reigning attraction at York Harbor. At
the beach, the country club or the tea
house she always creates a furore of
excitement. Miss Scheff is being enter
tanned by Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Dunno of
New York. Mr.. Dunno is the famous
Mr.. Dooley."
William Dean Howells is now at his
summer home at kittery Point. Here
| Mr.. Howells has a famous garden and
orchards, and in the midst of them a
roomy old barn, which is his library.
One of his literary neighbors is George
5. WATSON, who has &C permanent home
at the Point. kittery Point is one of
the most beautiful spots on the coast of
Maine. being at once part of the open
seashore and of the deep, beautiful
country.
Major Holman F. Day, the we'll
| known author of Maine stories, is at
his summer home at Indian Rest on
| the picturesque New Meadows river.
He has just finished correcting the
proofs Of his latest story 1.-THE Eagle
Badge" which will be brought out by
Harper & Bros. this fall He has also
| been collecting valuable material for a
series Of Maine coast stories which
will be used by the Harpers' in their
various publications. The major says
there is no place in the world like the
New Meadows river for work and in
SEPARATION and in appearance he is as
brown as an autumn nut. Mrs. Day
| is also enjoying the summer with her
husband and takes great delight in
their cruises in their handsome power
boat, the lola.
cannon-ball, no doubt a relic of the
lively times back in 1914 when the
| British fleet sailed up the Penobscot
| blazing away promiscuously. was
brought to light a short time ago by
carpenters who were repairing an old
house ne3r the river at North Bucks
| port. owned by Capt. George w. Reed.
The ball was found imbedded in the
sill and was no doubt fired from a
British gun at the house which pre-
sentcd an easy mark upon the shore
The POlanders of Lewiston are soon
to have a place of their own in which
to worship, unless their present plans
fail. A committee of some of the lead
ing Polanders of the city was appoint
ed to take steps to secure a church, or
suitable place for worship, that they
could call their own. The committee
has looked over the property of the
Hammond Street NJ e. Church with a
view to buying the same. At the pres
ent time there are about 500 Polanders
in Lewiston, all of whom arc Catholics
AS soon as church can be secured a
priest will be sent there to take charge
of the proposed new parish
MAINE EDITORIAL COMMENT.
The Grange Vote.
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