Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-11-05

| or sweetheart that loved you
| Now so long ago
Comes with rosy faces
| Red lips that you know!
| Fire is sinsin'-singin':
IN a dreams control
Reap again the roses
In the summer of the soul.
| Frank l.. Stanton.
Maine certainty did its part we'll al
| ~, sdays election.
Now Portland will get interested in
| municipal. politics.
Faith is taking definite steps at.last
toward that city hospital.
Three weeks from today to Thanks
giving. the real Old Home DAY OF New
England
The Sanford school board has decided
to use t:le bequost of $1,000 left uncondi-
t:onally b. the late Joseph Eollinake,
tor the teaching of manuael training
and domestic science.
Those burglars at Richmond Corner
who hiirtled and manned faithful
watch dog deserves lot worse punish
meat than they are likely ever to
receive.
Byron Stevens, known far and wide
It's long as the proprietor of the College
Bookstore in Brunswick. sailed this
week for Porto Rico where he is chief
owner of a large fruit plantation.
A curiosity in the form of q minia
ture cottage was made by common
pocket knife by Fred Bulley Of Port
age The main part of the building
is IL inches in height, size 3Nl0; ell II
;ncnes in height, size 6XS. 1t contains
five windows and two doors. There
are just 1000 pieces, which We're all put
together without nails or glue OF any
sort
4 railroad from Bancroft to Houlton
is again agitating the minds of some OF
Houltons business men and financiers
This is distance of 80 miles and would
:s'Ne Il run I'll ~ IlllltS ltSS " ih'Sool
making a distance of 10 miles insteod
Of 14O. This question is being talked up
and Will doubtless be brought before
the next legislature.
Levcre Howard who is we'll known
in Knox county, started from South
Hope beftre Gay5reak the other morn
ing with load of fruit and garden
truck. Coming through Rockville it
became light enough for him to family
distinguish Objects and he saw that he
had some kind OF "a strange seatmate.
Reaching to ascertain what it was he
Vas startled by a squwk and men flew
past his face into the bushes. TIE bid
dy had followed him all the way from
the farm sitting on the seat with all
the patience of a hen that is hard 70
break up" Mr.. Howard sometimes
Lrings poultry to the market but
heretofore he has made Il custom of
dressing it first.
Charles Dana Gibson, the famous az
list, who leads the simple life during
six months of the year, at his delight
ful country place, on Seven Hundred
Acre island, has decided that the life
is too simple out SO far at sea and that
a telephone is not a luxury but ncces-
sity. He will therefore at his own eA
,ense lay a cable from Dark Harbor
to his island, Il distance of about one
mile after which he will become a sub
SC. her Of the Dark Harbor exchange,
in the New Eng. Tel. & Tel. Co The
cable has been ordered and is OIL the
way and will be laid within Il Few
weeks Miss Rose Cleveland, sister of
The late oN-pre5ident Grover Cleveland
also has summer place on Seven
Hundred Acre Island.
Miss Ella Mathews Bangs, Il writer
Of short Stories many having appeared
from time to time in several of che
leading magazines, has written a book.
ard, moreover, 1t was accepted by the
we'll knoWn book publishers, c. NJ
Clark Company of Boston, during the
early sumner months and now the
dainty volume in it's attractive covers
OF Copenhagen blue with gold decora-
tions and lettering has just appeared
fresh from the press, bearing the un-
| sual title The Kings Mark" Upon
the cover is design of a Colonial door
way outlined in gold and white, tiny
arrows adjoining the top, while the
knocker upon the door is of the same
design. During colonial days all prop
critics belonging to the crown We're
marked with the broad arrow. This
was called the Kings mark. Thus
from the arrow head is carried out the
the attractive cover design of The
Kings Mark Inspired by a love and
pride in The beautiful town that is
seated by the sea- Miss Bangs has
written story of colonial days in
Portland, Me, fragrant with love and
romance, and aglow with the lndescri-
liable charm Of "ye olden days" The
special interest centers in five young
people % striking personalities. and
the strange crossings and re-crossIngs
of the strands of Fate in their lives.
The author is past master of the kaack
of suspense, and the supreme surprise
OF plCt. full of surprises is reserved
Tor the final chapter Novella, the
heroine of the story. is drawn from real
life, a niece of Miss Bangs and of I'M