Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-21

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Biddeford Pool is rejoicing in the
fact that it is quite certain to entertain
President Taft before the summer
action of Congress.
1t becomes necessary to notify the
rest of the country, from time to time,
that Portsmouth Navy yard is a part
of Maine.
Houlton is whooping er up for big
merchants carnival, that is, she's get
ting ready for it. That means that
Houlton is going to make the other
Aroostook towns sit up and take no
tice Aug. H.
The Pressure Isle folks say that if
some of those folks who are writing
stuff about horses being things Of the
past could see 'em go on the track some
Saturday afternoon they wouldn't
think horses were out of the running
yet awhile.
The Bath crew of the New England
Tel. & Tel. Co. have been at work since
last Saturday repairing the submarine
cable across the Kennebec. The cable
was burned cut in the shower which
occurred Saturday afternoon.
Bath is telling story to the effect
that one of her residents collected
enough hail stones to freeze a lot Of
ice cream, last week. The Bath Times
very properly adds this COMMENT
This sounds like a fairy tale, but it is
vouched for by reliable parties.
East Harpswell correspondent of
Bath Times:-While raking hay on
Monday we ran into litter of skunks
that were gathering Strawberries. They
at once issued many scents that I'M
doubtedly were meant for payment for
the berries but we declined to accept
payment and parted in friendly way.
They would weigh about one and one
half pounds each. ~
Skipper Reuben X. Dyer of the Port
Boston Yacht Club from Gloucester to
the Isle of Shoals Sunday. Commo-
dore Dyer has led the Boston cracks so
many times that they expect it now.
Fred Rankin, the Kennebunkport
man who was found beside the road
locked in q deathgrip with his house,
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charged with manslaughter.
Reports of more or less serious
pranks cut up by lightning do not tend
to quiet the nerves of timid women
when dark cloud gathers.
A clairvoyant has predicted a great
future for Biddeford. There is just one
way for Biddeford people to be sure
that the clairvoyant's prediction will be
fulfilled and that is to hustle.
The trustees of Gorham academy
have voted to restore the academy bull
dings' and grounds to their former con-
dition and lease the property to the
Western Maine Normal School, The
new property will make the Gorham
Normal school one of the best equipped
in the State.
Saco has found an Absent Minded
Abner in one of her leading physicians
who hitched his horse in front of a
bank and after doing some business in
the vicinity, took an electric car to his
summer home, leaving the poor steed
standing there. Friends put the horse
into the doctors stable and are now
reminding him of his omission.
Somebody INDUCED in target practice
at Houlton recently, using the tele-
phone cable for target. Trouble with
the lines sent the linemen out on still
hunt and it was found that nearly all
the wires in the cable had been sew
cred.
The coast of Maine seems to be a
perfect Mecca for authors and literary
folks this summer. Seal Harbor has
Winston Churchill and James Ford
Rhodes. Northeast Harbor has James
Bryce, the British ambassador and au-
thor of The American Commonwealth,
President Eliot of Harvard, Seth Low,
another college president and author;
Bishop Breer, also known as an author,
and Bishop Doane, a well-known writer
of religious works. Bar Harbor num-
bers Mrs. Burton Harrison and Arthur
e. Train. well known as writer's of
short fiction. William Dean Howells has
opened his cottage at Kittery Point. At
York Harbor is Thomas Nelson Page.
At Kennebunkport are John Kendrick
Bangs. Margaret Deland and Meredith
Nicholson; Clara Louise Burnham
summers at Bailey's Island. Another
addition to the writer's on philosophical
subjects is President Nicholas Murray
Butler of Columbia. who summers at
Bar Harbor this year for the first time,
while President Hyde of Bowdoin
college who usually spends his sum-
mers at Hancock Point is another no.
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