Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-06

ton Yacht club next week
AS a result of the recent school of in
struction there will be lot more eff
Gent work done when the soldier boys
gather at Camp Cobb in August.
The Maine Democrats are watching
the work of the national convention at
Denver this week with mingled emo
tions, among which it is hard to find
any trace of joy.
Brewer was not content with one
day celebration such as other places
INDUCED i'll, but made threc-day af-
fair of it under the name Of street fair
and carnival"
This is the Monday aftcr the Fourth
and according to all traditions haying
begins today. The unusually wet May
made the prospects of a big hay crop
very bright but the excessive dryneSa
Of June has given another color to the
outlook end it is expected that the crop
will be considerably below the average
throughout Maine.
Fred Small on his farm in SWanVlilG
mas a very successful method Of scar
ing crows from his corn-field, having
bantam rooster in wire cage with
nest attached, and as everybody knows
the cocl1ercl is a very early riser and
starts in growing at once, which Keeps
| the crows from interfering with the
corn.
| Guy Murchic, who has just been pro-
NOTED from the rank Of captain to that
| Of major on the staff Of Governor Guild
| of Massachusetts, is a Maine boy. being
| d member of the well known Murchlc
| family of Calais. He is now a lawyer
| in Boston where he has won & high
| place in his profession. Mr.. Murchle
! is a Harvard graduate and while in
college was active in athletics. Later
| he was with the Rough Riders in Cuba
| and is q close personal friend OF Presl-
| dent Roosevelt.
! This is the week Of the excursion of
the Maine Press association to Aroos-
| took and it is to be hoped that large
DulnbcG members anu lIcli
will be able to participate. A trip to
| Aroostooll at this season Of the year is
| an experience to be remembered. That
section has several times entertained
| the Press people, always proving them
selves highly hospitable and giving the
! visitors the time of their lives. Those
who can go on the excursion this year
will be much envied by their less fortu-
| nate brethren who have to remain at
| home.
| Donald b. Mcmillan, a teacher at
| Worcester Academy who has started
northward with Pcary on his cXpedi-
| ton in search of the pole, is Maine
| boy and is made of just the stuff need
| ed by a man who is going to accom-
| pany the great Arctic explorer Nc
| MILAN is a Frceport boy and graduated
| at HoWdoin in 1897 where he Is still re-
lnembered for his activity in athletics
| and for his daring feat in climbing TO
| the top Of the north spire of KING
| chapel where he fastened 10 the top OF
| the lightning rod banner bearing the
| numerals of his class. This feat has
| been four times performed at BoWdoln
| and Mcmillan was the latest to 10 it.
| Although king Chapel was buiit over
| 60 years ago, it is not on record that
any daring student took his life in his
| hands to the extent of seeking fame by
sealing to the dizzy apex OF one Of its
| towers, 80 feet above the earth, until
the feat was accomplished by Fresh
man named jonathan Prince Cillcy, Jr.,
in the fall Of 1883. Young Cillcy came Of
the kind of Maine stock that is used
to accomplishing things and is not
easily to lie daunted. His father and
grandfather, both Of whom We're Bow
doin mcn, are ranked among the most
distinguished sons Of the State, his
father being General Cillcy Of Civil
War fame, and his grandfather
Congressman Cillcy, who was shot
in a duel with a southern mem
Der of congress in 1898. One night
in the fall of 1888 young Cillcy, by
means of the lightning rod, placed his
class flag at the apex Of the north
spire of the chapel and returned to ter
ra tirma with no worse injuries than
badly lacerated hands. 1t was chal-
lenge which the Sophomores simply
had to meet and night or two later
George 3. Chandler Of the class Of 80,
|
to the spire, took down the 81 Gag and
placed 80 flag in it's stead, and more
over, left the traditional Sopholnoric
tall hat impaled upon the top Of the
lightning rod. 1t was half dozen
years before there was any more spile
climbing INDUCED in. In the fall Of
1894 Charlie Moulton member Of the
class of '9S, a Bath boy who had been
used to shipping all his life, duplicated
the feat Of Cilley and Chandler and
placed 'aS flag at the apex Of the
north spire. Again the Sophomores
had in their class a champion to accept
he challenge and young Mcmillan did
for 81 what Chandler had done for 80.
In each Of these four instances the
deed was done in the darkness Of night
with only a few classmates at hand.
The risk involved was something terri
, bic to contemplate and it is little less
than mir acle that no lives We're lost