Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-16

Heaven amt dom right by me-
What I wanted wuz middlin' sort O
| weather.
Then the deacon prayed for dry,
An the fire fell from the SKY, :,
| NAn' the people saw the crops an all
An they said: "Old Satan knows him,
An these firebrands he throws him."
An they rid him out o town upon a
rail-
| Atlanta Constitution.
Boom Maine. She is worthy of it.
Charles Follen Mckim, who designed
| the Walker Art Museum, is dead.
| Work has begun on the improve
ments to the railroad property at Dan
Vile Junction.
This is the season when the farmer
who misses a few ears of corn can
make up his mind that the young folks
Ienjoyed corn roast the night before.
| Lewiston has new superintendent
been serving in a similar capacity at
Brookfield, r. I.
Freeport isn't going to be forgotten
in this pole finding business. The old
town is preparing to give Donald E.
Macmillan a royal welcome.
| The possibility of a steamship ser
vice connecting Boston with Bar Har-
Dor direct, is a source of qualification
to the residents of that town.
Moses Schwartz, the New York for
ger who jumped his bail at Portland
| has gone to hunt for Leon Ling and
Clyde Bruhm.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howell Hansel of
| Boston are cruising along the Maine
| coast in their yacht the Yankiana, Mr..
| Hansel will star in a new production
| this season..
Leon G. Paine, who has been elected
| principal of Fort Fairfield High school,
! was born in Standish, fitted for college
| at Westbrook Seminary and was grad
uated from Bates in 1905.
South Portland is proud of a couple
| who have been married 60 years. Mr.
| and Mrs. Nathaniel j. Dyer did not
| hold a formal celebration but they re-
| ceivad the congratulations OF d host OF
| friends.
Portland bids fair to become known
as a "Womans City" In addition to
awarding the contract for the collec-
ton of garbage to a woman, the posi-
ton of superintendent of schools is
now filled by one of the sex.
Sidney Toler, well known as leading
man in various Portland summer
stock companies during the last ten
years, has purchased a large lot at
Birch Knobs, Cape Elizabeth, and will
I.build an all the year round house
thereon.
The water supply for Fort Levett on
Cushings Island, Portland IIarLcr, has
failed and the government is purchas-
ing water of hotel corporation. The
government supply came from artesl-
an wells.
Agent Pages statement that the
mills of New England are organized to
prevent loss from strikes, through an
arrangement by which the orders of
the idle mill are filled by others, is
significant.
\ party of friends gathered at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs George Higgins
of Readfield Monday evening to watch
the opening of night blooming cere-
Gus, the blossom measuring ten inches
across. Mrs. Higgins has great sue
cess with this rare plant.
Mrs. Newman Felt of Whitefield has
a house hydrangea which is said to be
the largest of the kind in the State. 1t
has one hundred and seventy-eigh,
pink blossoms and has been in bloom
since the first of July
Old Town declares that it is the first
Maine city where Peary will stop and
that Bangor has been making false
claims to the distinction. The station
will be decorated and the citizens of
Old Town will gather to demonstrate
their joy because of his success
Bangor News: w. 7. Holbrook for
several years of the light at Burnt
island has been transferred to Bug
light, Portland harbor, and Keeper
Stetson who has been at the break
water light the past year has gone to
Burnt island where he was stationed
for several years. Mr.. Holbrook for
| merly lived in Portland
The coasting schooner Kate L. Pray
which has been engaged in carrying
| coal to the lighthouses along the Maine
| coast, sailed eastward on her last trip
for the season, having delivered in all
| over 1000 tons, making nearly so differ
ent stops. At many of the stations the
| coal has to be landed in snall boats