Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-09

| Afar from the din an the rattle,
| An the dust that is curlin on high,
Like the smoke of terrible battle
| That covers the blue, shinin sky,
In the place where the birds help the
I A wonderful story to tell,
Contentment I'll seek, as the time, week
Is told off by the meetin' house bell.
| Washington Star
| Admiral Merry is at his summer
home in Edgecomb for the season.
| For the first time in ten years the big
porgy factory at Boothbay Harbor will
be started up shortly. This is due to
the great swarm of porgies reported
| headed this way.
The Maine Central has already be-
gun the double-tracking of it's line
from Etna to Hermon pond-a dis
lance of eight miles and a half-and
| the job entails change of location
and lessening of the grade in Carmel
for a distance of 90 miles.
York Transcript: One of the prettiest
sights in town is the strawberry field
of our friend Benjamin Lucas at
Raynes' Neck The dark green foliage
of the plants, with the luscious red ber-
ries peeping through the leaves just
makes q ''dribDle at de mouf," as In
Gle Remus says. Ben is an authority
on the cultivation of strawberries and
a success at his business.
The resignation was announced Sat
urday night of F.. S. j. Morse, who for
26 years has been agent of the Eastern
Steamship Company at Bar Harbor, to
take effect July Z, or when his successor
has been appointed. Failing strength
is the cause of his resignation, as dur
ing the 26 years he has never had a va
cation, or taken holiday.
A reminder of Names past glory in
pine production is to be seen in the
town OF Phillips near the Nehemiah
Haines place in the form of a stump
having a diameter of considerably over
six feet. This tree was felled by rela-
lions of Augustus Vining and from it
they shaved $4,000 shingles and sawed
1000 feet of boards. Before the sap
wood decayed, this stump had a dame
ter of more than seven feet
The contract for the general work of
constructing the new wing at the East
ern Maine Insane Hospital at Bangor
will be awarded to F. w. Cunningham
of Portland, the lowest bidder. Work
of next week, and the wing will be
closed in by Jan. 1. AS $175,G0O was ap-
propriated for the work, the Cunning
ham bid Of $685. 4O leaves conlforta-
BILE working margin. 's'
Aroostook Pioneer-Well, what do
you think! Some one attempted to rob
the Pioneer strong box, Sunday night.
Did you ever before hear tell of any
one with presumption enough to as
sumo that money or anything else of
value was ever found in a newspaper
Office safe? 1t tiCkles us beyond the
degree of expression to think that any
one has locked upon our safe with en-
Wy. 1t is merely a receptacle for keys,
pocket handkerchiefs and other bric-a-
| brac that have been picked up on the
street and left here for the owner to
claim. If by any chance a dollar bill
should find it's way into the box it
would be a shock to the safe. If the
| novice who attempted the act should
| wish to repeat the raid and will kind
ly inform us we will leave the safe open
for his convenience.
The Rangeley church adopted a novel
method for raising money this year.
They put up signs all over town that
read as follows. $500 in six days. This
got everybody to enquiring what was
meant by $500 in six days. The eX-
plar alton was that the church needed
$3.50 more for the years expenses and
they proposed to raise it in six
days times. This novel plan for raising
money was the town talk in a very
short tirIe. In addition TO the signs a
big painted clock face with hands on it
was put mp over the main church door
| Above this was placed an electric light
| ard every day the hands of the clock
were moved to indicate how much had
! been subscribed. tho understanding be-
quarter was raised, at nalf past a half
was raised, at quarter of twelve three
quarters and at twelve o'clock the
whole amount was to be at hand. The
clock struck -, so to speak in four days
after the collecting began, so the origi-
| majors OF the plan felt it was a great
success.
Benjamin Cousins, janitor at the Bar
Harbor. library, has just passed his
S0th birthday and is still active and
| vigorous. He bears scars of seven bull
let wounds received in battle. Mr. Cou-
sins is native of Hull, England, and
| came to this country prior to the Civil
war. lie enlisted in the First Maine
Heavy Artillery (the 18th Maine) and
was with his regiment continuously
| until wounded in front of Petersburg,
| June Is, 1864. In that famous charge in
which the regiment was nearly annihi-
lated, Cousins received from one VOL
ley, seven bullets. three buckshot and
a chunk of railroad iron, and has the
scars on his body to prove his story.