Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-03

Round the ColeStldI line
That marks it's course is far too great
For plain arithmetic,
And no policeman lies in wait
To play heartless trick.
1t has no need of gasoline:
No number it displays;
1t travels swiftly, yet serene.
Secure 'gainst all delays.
Yet, as the milky way CLEANS out.
You find you cannot rid
Your mind of one Overwhelming doubt
Surprising we should skid!
washington Star.
The Maine hay crop bids fair to be
a bumper one this year.
The publication of various college
and preparatory school programmes re-
minds us that commencement week is
at hand.
The hearty reception given Governor
Fernald by the people of Livermore
Falls, where he delivered the Memorial
Day address, was fitting expression of
his merited popularity with the people
OF Maine.
Electric roads to connect Skowhegan
with Athens and Waterville, are now
under consideration, and would make
valuable addition to Names trolley
system.
Smile and hustle is the sign which
hangs in the door of a Lewiston drug
store 1t is a motto that suggests the
two principal elements in successful
business career.
The 1O6th anniversary Of the Port
land Light infantry will be observed at
Long Island on Saturday, June 5. The
committee in charge have arranged a
program of sports, consisting of base
ball, 100 yard dash, three-legged, sack
ana pOtatoe races for suitable prizes
Louis Cormier and wife celebrated
their diamond wedding this week at
their home in Grand Isle, over 80 of
their friends calling to congratulate
them. They arrived in big team loads
and were fortified by -four fidlers" and
dancing was in order. Mr. Cor-mier is
smart and in full possession of all their
faculties. Mr.. Cormier, has served his
state and country notably, having been
interpreter for the land commissioners
of Massachusetts in 1894, postmaster
in Grand Isle for niue years and a JUS
tice of peace and trial justice for over
so years.
,xo oiv,~ To no
front to fill in the lull in the fishing
season.
The lime kiln industry at Thomaston
is booming ]. A. Creighton & Co,
have four kilns afire and are making
ready to start more. Mr.. Creighton
has bought seven draft horses which
will be used in hauling rock. The COM
pany is not able to fill all its orders,
which is certainly better news than as
if there We're no orders to fill. A. J. Bird
of Rockland is busy at his Thomaston
plant. The ROckland Rockport Lime
Company also has four kilns on fire,
having opened the Pulling Mill quarry.
large pine tree which has stood for
ages back of the Burrage cottage at
York village has at last been felled to
the ground. This act was deemed ad-
visable because of the weak condition
of the tree and the danger to passers-
by from falling limbs. The tree was
one of the oldest landmarks of the viii
lage and could be seen from almost any
point from miles around. The tree
was ordered cut down by the board of
selectmen after several complaints had
been lodged. Those living in the i'm
mediate neighborhood have been espec-
tally strenuous in urging that the tree
be cut, as they were afraid that the
tree might fall and hurt someone while
passing, or else huge limbs be blown in
a storm upon adjoining houses. When
the tree was brought to the ground it
was found that the huge trunk was al
most completely hollow. only thin
shell remaining.
Nelson Sanborn of Hiram is one Of
the leading muskrat trappers of
Maine. He has secured no less than
1875 the present spring for which he
received $685.
The members of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemcn and Engineers
are preparing for the union meeting
OF the Maine branches which will be
at Bangor June 3 and 10.
| There will be special communica-
ton of the Grand Lodge of Masons at
Island Falls on Wednesday, June 16
at P. NJ, for the purpose of dedicat-
| ing the new Masonic Hall of Island
Falls lodge, 206. The ceremony will be
performed by the Grand Master and he
will be pleased to have the aid of the
grand officers.
| Mrs. Dennis Brooks of Arson has a
genuine freak in the shape of a crazy
hen. The hen will wander off several
miles from home picking absently a,
the air. When food is placed nearby
the hen refuses to touch it but will
neck at a .rrindStOne or some Other