Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-22

interest in trap shooting.
Is the souvenir post card business on
the wane? Reports from the Portland
posto:fice, one of the largest summer
there is marked falling off from the
figures of last summer.
People who live on the new Washing
ton rural free delivery route are re-
joicing in the fact that &C of the boxes
have already arrived and that the
route will be working within short
time.
Reginald Dekoven, the great COM
poser has arrived at Bar Harbor with
Mrs. DeKoven and daughter. They will
pass the vacation weeks there.
The report comes from Bar Harbor
that Joseph Pulitzer and family of New
York will pass the summer in cruising
along the Norway coast, instead of oc-
cupying the Pulitzer villa at Bar Har-
Dor.
The Portland veteran firemen will
take the old James w. Plaisted engine
to the big playout in Lawrence which
is to be held August 10.
Harry Cochrane, the Monmouth ar
fist is experimenting the decoration of
the interior of Memorial Hall in Fort
Fairfield.
Is that Woodstock, N. B., band Vio-
lating the provisions of the contract
labor law when it plays at Houlton's
merchants day celebration?
Leslie c. Homer of Bucksport, the
veteran truckman who died a short
time ago was a great friend of the
children and it was a common sight to
see him driving along the street with
his wagon filled to overlooking with
the happy youngsters.
Anstrians may drive Maine box
shook manufacturers out of the bust
ness by their insistence that unless
fruit passing through that country be
packed in Austrian boxes it must pay a
high duty.
The little Italian boy who was badly
injured through his propensity to view
the bear at too close range is doubtless
the hero of his Portland playmates.
TNSr
story
Promoters of the great Magalloway
dam have organized for the cOnstruc-
ton work and digging will be begun
within a short time
Charles S. Hamlin of Boston, assis-
President Cleveland, will be a speaker
at the unwilling of the Hamlin memo
rial tablet at Paris Hill, August q.
Cumberland county Sportsmen have
formed the Cumberland Fish Club to
take over the property of the Casco
Bay Fish Culture and Angling Asso-
citation, situated at South Freeport. The
preserves will be conducted as a gentle
mems private park. The property is
one OF the most beautiful, in point of
natural advantages, on the coast and
the first association erected first class
hatchery.
The latest trolley road rumor is that
one will be built from Brunswick to
Potts Point, South Harpswell The
road would open up a beautiful shore
resort neighborhood and make South
Farpswell accessible to many people
who cannot now spare the time to
make the journey by team or by boat.
The new road would connect with the
Lewiston, Augusta and Waterville at
Brunswick.
People who have visited the Cape
Elizabeth shore as far as the Two
Lights will be interested to know that
one does not have to make the Journey
from Cape Cottage by team any lon
ger The new electric road was COM
pleted as far as Pond Cove recently
anu IL 10 comparatively snort walk
from that point to the Two Light. The
road will ultimately go beyond that
point
A Portland man who attempted to
eXtricate cat from a sheet of sticky
fly paper soon found himself in a worse
condition than the cat was when he
started and it was only after some 90
minutes work that he was able to sep
arate pussy and the fly paper from his
person at ltNn and the sauna time