Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-23


The summer theatres are opening
this week.
1t was about time for another crop
of Shiloh runors and denials.
There are AZ boys and As girls who
graduate from Bates College this week.
Portland people are feeling pretty
well satisfied with the appraisal of the
| water system.
The Houlton Grange store took in
cash to the grand total of $l26,260 for
the year ending june Is.
| While cleaning u Goldfish recently
Fish Warden +. A. Townsend of Calais
found ring il the stomach of the fish.
The ring looks to be a gold plated sill
Yer ring of the serpent variety, the
| head of the serpent set with Il large
emerald which is said to be an excel
lent stone Notwithstanding the fact of
its rather cheap setting.
| ~
that the increase in the number of
summer sojourners will approximate at
least 20 per cent. above the record
breaking traffic of 1907 and the arrange
ments for the 1908 service have been
made with the idea that many more
| Vacationists than has ever before been
the case will visit the numerous sum-
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| New Hampshire and Vermont.
Though very unromantic in appear
ance the chimney of the Great North
ern Paper Co., that towers high into
the air at Millinocket, was at one time
| the scene of d very romantic happen
| ing. 1t was in the early history OF this
| place that a young couple decided TO
get married. They We're of an original
turn of mind and it so happened that
| the big chimney of the mill was just
nearing completion. After thinking
and talking the matter over they decid-
| ed to be married on the top of the
stack and it was on this lofty perch,
| among the breezes from grand old Ka-
| tahdin, that the magic words We're said
|
| Unfortunately no artist was present
| to photograph the happy pair on the
chimney's top, but the scene remains
clear in the minds of many of Milli-
nocket., carly citizens.
Jas. II. Howard writing to the Dam
ariscotta Herald, explains the famous
deposit Of oyster shells in that town,
| in this wise. During the glacial period
| an ice field came down the valley scrap
| ing the river bed clean and pushing the
| oysters ahead of it till it reached that
point where for some unknown reason
the ice foot broke up and parted and
showed the shells to either side" The
editor of the Herald is not convinced
He says: "The above is certainly ngen-
ious but fails to stand up and meet GER
tain conditions. DEPOSITS of soil arc
found between layers of shell and ashes
vegetable remains, bones, human and
otherwise, and stone implements, frag
ments of pottery are found through the
mass. This seems to dispose Of his
contention We must assume that all
these evidences of human agency were
placed in the hidden by human hands.
Indians probably did not distribute
them on Tie bottom of the river previ-
Gus to the scrapinS up process and it
is equally improbable that the noble
red men buried them afterwards. More
over we know that the glacial ice foot
| extended many miles beyond this point
far out into the Atlantic ocean. Neither
could ice pressure be depended on to
push the shells just To the rivers edge
and leave them there. When the gla-
cicr got at work it carried mountains
off their bases and dumped them hum
dreds of miles away. Nothing so frag-
lie as an oyster shell could stand the
prodigiOuS crushing of glacial influence
The glacier never piled the shells up in
the orderly way they are found.
Says the parkhurst correspondent of
the Pressure Isle Star-Herald 1T
seems but yesterday that the roads
were long lines of mud, the meadows
were brown and bare, the fields frozen
few inches below the surface, the
dumb animals were bumped and shiv-
ering with the cold, fires had to be kept
up in the dwelling houses and winter
clothing was a necessity. Many of our
citizens were talking Of going to a
warm climate, weather prophets were
mapping out a cold. frosty summer,
and a few creed bound mortals were
quoting scripture to prove that the end
of the world was close at hand. But
the goddess of spring suddenly awoke
from her nap and waved her wand
over the fields and forests of beautiful
Aroostooll and how quick d marvellous
change appears. The grass fields, those
broad fertile arces that we all thought
were winter killed and ruined are now
covered with a rich, heavy, dark green
carpet, grain appeared to come up in a
night, and many fields of wheat and
oats cover the ground, the leaves have
burst gu. on the trees, the swallows
are twittering. COW bells are tinkling.
wild flowers are blooming, the planters
are clicking, straw hats and summer
clothing have taken the place of flannel
garments and the roads are again dry
and dusty. ca west if you choose but
for me the garden of New England.
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