Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-18


An blossoms nod as you pass by
An temps you fob to take ych ease.
| De stream come singin' FUN de hill
An mock dem clouds dat tries in vain
| To StahI thunderstorm an fill
| DE air wifi tremhlin' drops O. rain.
An den de evenin' shadows creep
De night win sing de lam to sleep
On, Lazy day. wEar is you gone?
Washington Star
Everybody in Maine except the fair
managers wants few days of rain.
Not all the big potato fields are in
northern Maine. Over in Hebron
there is one of % acres, the largest
field ever planted to single crop in
Oxford county.
Not all the seashore romances are
confined to gay youths and giddy girls.
AS the result of York Harbor sum-
mer acquaintance Philadelphia,
aged 81, and Boston woman aged ~,
were married at the York Harbor
church this week.
The Shiloh colony is often on the
rocks, and this week the Shiloh bark
entine Kingdom got on the rocks in
Casco bay near Eagle island A tug
pulled off the craft without serious
damage and probably it will next be
heard from at Joppa or Yokohama.
The greatest amount of grain was
probably shipped from Portland last
month that has ever been exported
from that port during any August.
According to figures which have been
compiled, about 1.250,OOO bushels were
shipped in the various tramp steam
ships which came here None of this
went out in regular liners, as the Do
minion Line Liverpool service was
suspended during the month.
Biddeford Journal:-The body of
large shark. that is, large for this vi
entity, was cast up by the tide some
time Saturday night on Hendricks
marsh,s Saco, near Laurel Hill ceme-
terry. There was a very high tide Sat
urday night and it is supposed that
the monster got stranded accidentally.
The fish measures almost nine feet in
length and must weigh from 400 to
500 pounds. They are not uncommon
in these waters outside but seldom are
they found in the rivers. He was prob
ably providing UP the river in search
of food and got mixed on his way
back to the sea. Large sturgeon often
get stranded up the upper river es
pecally in the channel between the
mills.
Boston capitalists have visited the
island of Westport the past season
and have decided to erect a large
summer hotel on the east side about
two miles above Goose Rock and will
commence the construction next sea-
son. The hotel is to be a modern
structure with all conveniences and
It is understood will be one of the
finest along the Maine coast, catering
to the fashionable and wealthy class.
It is not expected the hotel will be
ready to open until the season of
1910, thus giving plenty of time to
advertise it's charms and beauties and
give the management the opportunity
of booking it's guests ahead. The
location is ideal, giving a beautiful
view UP dllu uoN IL tIIC CiSVpoeOI IVA
and away out to sea where the pass
ing vessels cause q constant pan
Drama and fascinate city bred folks.
Androscoggin county need not go to
putting on airs over its big cucumbers,
for Kennebec is something in that
line The Boston Post recently had
the story of Auburn's prize cucumber,
even publishing d picture of its owner
holding it in his arms. 1t was q fair
ly szeabe cucumber, 1875 inches long.
10 inches in circumference and weigh
ing exactly 3 pounds But here in the
Kennebec Journal office we have a Gu
cumber from the garden of George W.
Vickery of this city which beats it.
Our cucumber is 1874 inches long. IL
inches in circumference and weighs )
pounds and ounces.
The programs of the Maine Musical
Festivals in October are fully up to
the splendid standard that has been
maintained in the past. We have
become so accustomed to the magnifi-
cent triumphs that have been attained
by our festivals that possibly we do
not entirely realize what tncy nave
done and are doing for the cause. of
music in our State. Twelve years ago
| the first musical festivals we're given
| and it was freely prophesied that the
undertaking was Of too great nagni~
| tude and would fail of success. The
| Promoters however, were not to be
| discouraged and pcrsevered in spite
! Of enormous difficulties. eventually
scoring a remarkable triumph. Year by
year we have seen the festivals grow
| in Importance and have heard man:
of the greatest soloists of the country
including Nordica, Sernbrich. Bauvelt
Ciadski, Maconda, Schumann-Helnk
Calve. Eames. Campanari. Williams
Miles Francon Davies and Bispham
supported by a chorus of thousand
trained voices. We have II
Bangor a vast Auditorium thoroughly
adapted to the purpose for which it i:
used, with remarkable acoustic proper
ties and best of all free from debt
Thus every year is given to the people
of Eastern Maine the opportunity O.
hearing some superb concerts given il
a building. the property of the associa'
s., but acf