Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-31

All the oweather's over
Bait your hook an line!
Amt the world in clover
When the fishin'S swift an nne: .
Frank l.. Stanton in the Atlanta Const-
tuition.
The hunter will be with us soon.
Get down YOUR fish and game laws
those of 19O9-and see what you can
do and what you can't do-wlthous
getting into trouble.
Boost the fair in your section boost
it by word of mouth. Boost it with
your pocketbook. Boost it by exhibit
ing the best product of your farm.
Ell Gallo is on the card at Readville
and Maine horsemen are interested IN
the performance of this horse in fast
company.
A cigar carelessly thrown into some
rubbish at Riverton Park nearly
robbed Portland of one of her most
beautiful places of amusement, Satur-
day.
The theatrical season will open
soon. Maine, as usual, will see as
many of the first class productions as
the attendance warrants.
Names woods have often excused
Boston police officers from working.
Bridgton is proud Of her 125 years
old church.
Senator Joseph B. Foraker of Ohio
and Congressman Flynn of Oklahoma
are in the Belgrade Lakes region.
A York resident urges that brown
tail moth nests should be sprayed in
the fall of the year when the cater
pillar is still small.
The potato diggers will settle the
controversy over the size of the 1909
crop within a few weeks. Until then
it is safe to take it for granted that we
have an average crop.
tertainment in her festival" is the YER
dict of a Massachusetts young woman,
who has studied music and knows
whereof she speaks.
Col James H. Taylor of South Port
land vouches for the truth of story
to the effect that he has seen Holsters
trained to walk a tight wire and do
the giant swing over a knitting needle.
Mrs. Mary (Tebbetts) Johnson Of
Bauneg Beg Mills, near Sanford, will be
100 years of age Feb. 26, 1910. Hard
work and never worry" constitute her
recipe for longevity and proper preser-
walton.
William H Norton of Alaska, for
mely of Dover and Foxcroft has been
visiting in his old home lately after
an absence of eleven years.
Ashland is to have electric lights
again. Citizens of the town have ac-
quired a water power in the vicinity
and will take up the work of supplying
the townspeople with light and power.
Limestone has a school house in
tested with snakes. This is vouched
for by citizens of unboubted sobriety
and verocity.
George S. Fairbanks of Monmouth,
| who is "a years of age, is jeWeler by
trade and is still actively engaged in
| watch and jewelry repairing. 1t is be-
Iieved that he is the Oldest jeweler in
| New England if not in the country.
| The Vannah family of PASSPORT have
recently received word that fortune
has been left them in Mexico by a
brother who left here more than 40
been lost for many years. The bulk
of the fortune left is said to be $250.0OO
to be shared equally between seven
| heirs.
| Maine WOOdS.-Gifford PinchOt, com
missioner of forests for the United
States. who is staying at Bar Harbor
says that Maine is in the front rank Of
| states in this country in all that per-
tains to conservation of forest growth
Very little has been accomplished in
that direction, SO far, but Maine, he
says has taken the lead in what has
been done. He mentions the Coe
properties and the immense tracts
owned by the Great Northern Paper
company as lands that are being