Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-05-14

The steeples swan in amethyst,
The news like squirrels ran
The hills united their hornets,
The hobolink began,
Then l said softly to my self.
Chat must have been the sun.
But how he set I know not
There seemed a purple stile
Which little yellow boys and girls
We're climbing all the while.
Till when he reached the other side,
A dominic IN gray
Put gently up the evening bars
And led the flock away.
Emily Dickinson. in Buffalo News.
1t will be long time before Lewis
ton forgets that Second District con-
vcntion.
Perhaps Bath will now be able to
ge. it, mind on that proposed midsum-
mer carnival.
Hereafter Rumford Falls is to be
known as Rumford, and the village OF
Rrmford will be called Rumford Cor
ner.
SlitiI iCS vi IAoNhiih iio''
5000 feet of sweet peas planted, about
400 feet mere than he had last year.
There is no doubt but that Mr. Spear
is the sweet pea king in that section
of the State.
It is common enough to name ships
for persons, but Bath has case
where a newly arrived youngster has
been named "Chester" in honor of the
scout cruiser recently built in that
city.
The Biddeford Journal suggests that
as the bottom seems to have dropped
out of their taxation of wild lands and
State extravaganza arguments, il
would be a good idea for the Maine
Democrats to make their coming cam
paign on the short lobster issue.
There are three Maine boys among
the POI in the class which will gradu-
ate from Annapolis next month. They
are Worral r. Carter of Bath, Jabez
S. Lowell of Bangor and Edmund r.
Norton of Portland. Mr.. Norton has
the very high honor of ranking second
in this large class. The leader in
rank it a Michigan boy. OF the POI
in the class, Il are from New England.
Few school superintendent in Maine
have seen such long service in one
place as Royal E. Gould of Biddeford
who, according to the Record of that
city, will resign at the close of the
present school year. Mr.. Gould has
held his present position for % years
and has been very popular and sue
cessful. He is a native of BiddefOrd
and a graduate of Bowdoin in the
class of 1873.
Athletic interest in the Maine col
leges is now centered in the field day
sports to he held on Whittier field,
Brunswick, next Saturday. This will
be the 14th annual meet of the kind
and the rivalry is very keen. OF the
Is preceding meets, Bowdoin has Won
10 and u. of NJ. has won three. Last
years meet was held at Waterville
and U. Of M. was the winner, the
p''ltltS DVIIls5 ulNluCu DIS IOiioWS. u VI
NJ 4o12, Bowdoin 451a, Bates 49, Colby
II.
Mrs. f. E. Teape and her daughter,
Mrs. Vera Mckelvie of Sand Point,
Idaho, who are to undertake to make
an automobile trip from Portland, Me,
to Portland, Oregon, begun Tuesday
their 1900 mile journey across the con-
tinent. The trip from coast to coast
has been made before but not with
Portland as starting point and never
by women unaccompanied. In all the
history of motoring the American con-
tinent has not been crossed more than
a dozen times. Then the task fell to
men accustomed to fatigue and to
roughing it. Never has the trip been
attempted by women, even as pas
Senger in one of the cars. But Mrs
Teape and her daughter are Western
women accustomed to roughing it and
they have no fears for the long jour
ney.
The town of Orrington is likely to
experience a gold mining boom if the
plans OF Bangor capitalists do not
miccarry. On the Orrington bank of
the PenobscOt. almost directly across
from Dorothea Dix park. a white
quartz vein, about eight feet wide on
the shore and two feet wide near the
top of the bank. has been discovered
and on being assayed by Prof. Ora w.
Knight has been found to run as high
as $50 ton. This vein, which is pure
fissurc vein. has been traced for some
distance from the river bank and
specimen picked up in East Orrington
assayed IS to the ton. The quartz
vein runs under the Penobscot and
into the ground under Dorothea Dix
park. Traces of the vein have been
discovered number of miles away
from the Hampden bank of the river,
but in most cases it has been 50 deep
ly imbedded in the soil that it would
not be profitable to operate. Assays
here have run as high as 500 a ton.