Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-17

Calais. Midtown and Woodland are
wrestling with an epidemic of diph-
iberia.
Lewiston manages to keep in the
limeight by having a murder and sui
eide.
| Maine dealers in cameras and camera
supplies report a record breaking sea-
son.
The Maine fairs start soon and they
will be cleaner and better fairs than
ever before.
The Portland Yacht Club reports one
of the most successful seasons in its
history.
The presence of the New York Yacht
Club at Bar Harbor Sunday gave that
beautiful resort a holiday appearance
Someone has brought forward a bill
providing for a broad highway to ex-
tend from Maine to Washington, d. c.
Maine needs rain. 1t has been many
years since she needed it more than
at the present time.
Old Orchard appears to have recov
cred it's od-time grip upon the affec-
| lions of the summer visitors.
| of
South Penobscot Christian Endeavor
Union will be held at Charleston, Au-
gust 10.
| The Portland man who sat on the
| ca" track while waiting for a car, got
his ride all right, but it was in an am
bulance.
Are your boys grooming pair
of prize steers for the fairs" Many
farmers have come to the conclusion
that oxen are still paying propositions
OH Maine farm.
| Bangor exhibits it's lack of metro
politan experience by getting excited
over a Syrian wedding. Revolvers and
knives figured in the festivities, but
no one was hurt
| The Maine rifle team at Camp Perry,
Ohio, will have to shoot exceedingly
well to make as good a showing as
did the 1905 team, but the personnel
of the team is a guarantee that they
will give good account of themselves.
| The inter urban trolley lines are de-
veloping Maine so rapidly that few
realize the great growth now going on.
The farmers friend and the poor mans
salvation is a well and fairly managed
trolley line.
The Portland newsgatherer who fell
overheard while officiating as heavy
! looker-on at rescue from drowning
lis busy explaining the details to the
other members of the fraternity.
Maine people cannot afford to he
careless with fire at this season of the
year. There are more and more far
|
of forbidding smoking about their
buildings.
Standlsh could do worse than elect
Franklin r. Sanborn road commission
err for three years. He was the first
man in that section to recognize the
value of the split log road drag and
| a sterling Of
Portland has a 15-year-old swimmer
who swan from the Eastern promenade
to Peaks Island in Portland Harbor,
a swim of three miles through exceed
| ingly rough water. 1t is a feat of
which he may we'll be proud.
The summer visitors at Ban Harbor
are looking forward to q gala time at
the coming horse show week. A num-
Der of distinguished visitors have sig
nified their intention of being present.
1t appears to be very generally
agreed that not in many years has
the fishing been so uniformly good in
Maine waters as it has been the pres
ent season.
Samuel D. Lincoln, the Portland In
spector of Buildings, is quoted as say
ing that the building operations now
under way in that city will call for
an expenditure of S224O,OOO.
sturgeon are reported more plenti-
full in the Penobscot river than for sew
eral years and a number of the big
fish have been captured by the down
river fishermen while they have beer
seen frequently by canoeists and pow
| er boat parties. The fish are shipped
directly to New York and bring a good
price -