Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-29
Maine Gossip

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The World at Play.
When the days go drifting by,
Leaving June to seek July,
Then this old world stops to play;
Every days holiday!
Builds Il flower with cunning care;
ScatterS it upon the air.
1t can build another one
And it does it, Just for fun!
Every days a holiday,
Skies of blue or skies of gray.
Summer smile or summer shower,
Each the fancy of the hour.
inSed creatures course the air
Here and there aud every where.
Out through space. with sorrow done,
Earth keeps whilring, Just Tor fun.
washington Star.
This is the week when Bridgton
Academy celebrates it's centennial.
The army of delegates and rooters
moves on to Bangor today.
The August encampment of the Ma
encampment since 1897.
Few High school teachers have held
one position longer than Principal H.
f. Cole who has just closed his 25th
year as head of Bath High.
With the graGuatiOnS over and the
h,, l,,-;,,
the real beginning of the summer sea
son at the Maine resorts
Sagadahoc Republicans once more
renominated popular John W. Balou
as their candidate for sheriff and as
usual he will be elected by good big
majority.
Portland Advertiser-Considerin the
fact that Gen. Chamberlain is not a
candidate for the presidency and
doesn't come anywhere near weighing
325 pounds, the Chamberlain demon
stration at Bowdoin Thursday was
quite as notable as the Taft demCnstra-
ton at Yale earlier in the week.
Rockland Opinion-Horace Elliott
has a handsome shGg cat which he
would not sell for love or money and
which is quite curiosity. She was
never known to catch rat or mouse
or anything else, and Mr. f. has re-
Gently found out what the trouble is.
You, of course, have heard of cross
eyed cats. Well. this one is so much
that way that when she attempts to
catch anything she jumps in the oppo-
site direction.
DR.. and Mrs. S. Weir Mitchell of
Philadelphia have arrived at Bar Har-
Dor for the summer months, and will
be at Far Nicnte on West street, as
for many seasons. DR.. Mitchell uSu-
ally makes a busy summer of his va
cation, and is almost invariable en-
gagged IN the manuscript of some work.
A large number of his best known nov
els have been turned out during his
summer at Bar Harbor, and he will be
hard ut work during the coming sum-
mcr. He is all enthusiastic member
of the Village Improvement Associa-
ton, and is especially interested in the
development of the woodland paths.
He is an interchangeable walker, and has
covered practically every foot Of land
on the island in the course of his ram
bles.
One of tine distinguished graduates
of the Bath High school who will at
tend the Alumni Association banquet
and reunion at the Morse High next
Monday evening will be Mrs George
Moulton of that city. 1t will be the
fifteth anniversary of her class. Eight
Of her children are graduates of the
Bath High school and they are all liv-
ing.
Bangor has seen it's first sheath
skirt and the News tells about it and
the sensation it caused, as follows:
Not since the Indians burned a
missionary at the stake on the site of
the present Maine Central station at
the foot of Exchange street in that
general vicinity has there been such
excitement as occurred Thursday
morning few minutes after the ar
rival of the New York train. A woman
of stunning presence came dcmurcly
from one of the State-room cars, for Il
brief promenade on the platforn-and
she was wearing Il directoire gown
with sheath skirt. 1t was the real
thing, slit up the side and all 1t was
an entire suit of CcrIse, and fitted like
tight glove. An enormous picture
nat, with waving ostrich plumeS,
topped the habit" And according to
the News train men, depot men, tray
cling men, everybody within sight.
fell into i trance and it was not until
long after the train and the woman had
gone that Bangor resumed normal
conditions
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