Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-21


The Twenty first Maine Regimentul
Association will meet in reunion at
Grand Army hall, Bath, Maine, on Fri
day, September 10th, A. d. 1909, at 10
o'clock A. M.
Another Maine decision has just
been affirmed in the United States Cir
cult court at Boston. 1t is compare
lively rarely that Maine decision is
upset in the higher courts of the land,
an ever recurring testimonial to the
wisdom of the judiciary of Maine.
There are still a few old time river
men who can remember when there
was a steamer on the upper waters of
the ST. John. 1t was one Of these
older residents who testified before the
international commission this week.
Bangor News: Admah MOrey caught
of porpoises or putting pigs, sometimes
called sea pigs, two of them weighing
about 200 pounds each, the other was
baby pig and weighed about 40
pounds He had them on exhibition
for a couple of days. While chasing
herring they swan into his fish trap
and became tangled in the netting and
quickly drowned The porpoise being
obliged to come to the surface col
breathe.
Stephen Bogrette has relinquished
the management of one moving pic
ture theatre in Bangor and taken up
the management Of another. For sew
eral seasons Mr. Bogrette was adj
vance agent for road companies dur
ing the regular seasons and press
agent for a summer theatre in Port
land during the summers. Recently
he took the management of a theatre
at Lewiston and from that city went
to Bangor. He is very popular among
the neWspapermen of the State.
Steeple Jack Pierre Boulanger of
Biddeford recently replaced crown
on tine spire of st. Mary's church in
that city. The crown had been re-
moved that new coat of gold leaf
might be applied
Henry Kingsbury, Jr., of Five
Islands is sincerely grateful to George
Curtis and Hon. Harold M. Sewall of
Bath for their kindness in stalking him
to a new outfit after he lost his fishing
smack and all it contained in a squall
off Little Small Point. Kingsbury
had fine fare of fish and was head
ed for port when the squall struck and
he was driven ashore. He landed in
Bath in an exhausted condition. but
soon found that he had fallen among
friends. The two gentleman furnished
him with clothes and cash. Mr.
klnSsbury, who is the father of five
children, lost a five ton schooner, but
his courage is good and he will make
another start at once.
M. j. Hynes, formerly chief train
dispatcher of the Worcester, Nashua
& Portland division of the Boston &
Maine railroad, who is now superin-
tendent of the Panama railroad, has
persuaded several of the men who for
merly worked with him i'm Maine to try
their luck on the Isthmus The lates.
to go is j. e. Boright, a telegraph
operator.
Correspondents from Pittsfield re-
port that men in saw mill in that
town have struck because they were
denied the privilege of smoking in
and about the mill during the exceed
ingIy dry weather. II that is the sole
grievance the men will find little SYM
pathy.
Maine Farmer: The report of
singular find comes from the home of
Mrs. I.avina Holman of Dixficld who
is the posscssor of petrifed frog per
feet in every part, which she found in
q ton of COAL
The Pilgrim Fathers of Maine are
enjoying their annual outing at Frost
Park in Lisbon today. They have
chosen one of the prettiest spots in
Maine.
Members of the French-American
societies in the cities and towns Of
Maine are making arrangements TO
descend on the college town of Bruins
wick in October. During that month
the Cause National will be in CONVEX
ton there.
VOICES OF THE PRESS.
Remarkable--and Isolated.
cleveland Plain Dealer)
Those night riders who continue TO
| Hog girls and women are remarkable
| examples of Southern chivalry.
Another Large Order.
ATLANTA Constitution
Speaker Cannons determination to
die with his boots on makes the un-
| initiated fear that he would be a dam
| gerous subject to put to bed
| No Place for Dreamer.
| (Boston JOurnal)
| Edwin Markham seems to think that
| New York is all right for the man with
the hoe, but a poor camp for the man
with the poetical fountain pen.
| Doomed to Failure.