Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-16

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A Boarding House Plunge.
You dump into the tub some salt
That's finely ground,
And then into the tub you vault
And splash around.
It's like an ocean bath, one finds.
Although it lacks the melon rinds.
The water isn't quite so rough
as ocean waves,
Yet fills the picture well enough,
And money saves.
And other boarderS at the door
Will initiate the surfS loud roar.
Kansas City Journal.
The Longfellow house in Portland
will be opened for the season June Il.
1t looks now as if the proposed elec-
trio road between Lewiston and Port
land would be built this season.
The annual meeting of the Maine
Historical Society will be held in
Brunswick Tuesday, June %.
Prof. w. G. Mallett of Pennington
has been unanimously chosen by the
board of trustees as principal or the
Pennington State Normal school to
succeed the late George c. burlington.
President Taft will be invited to
come to Portland August IA to attend
the meeting of the Fat Mems Associa-
ton. This club has 600 members, each
one weighing 200 pounds or more.
The new Masonic hall at Kendus-
keag will be dedicated Monday, June
p. The grand master and several of
the grand officers will be present on
that occasion.
1t certainly is to be hoped that the
recent rains in Aroostook county have
resulted in thoroughly extinguishing
the big forest fires that have wrought
so much devastation in that county.
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Portland is to have a new vaudeville
and moving picture theatre. The plans
have already been drawn and it is ex-
pected that the building will be COM
pleted in September. 1t will have
seating capacity of 1000.
Saco's oldest resident, Mrs. Susan
Pillsbury. died last week at the age of
SO. Mrs. Pillsbury was a remarkable
woman for her age and retained her
faculties up to the time of her death.
She could talk very entertainingly of
the early days and customs OF our
fOrefatherS.
There are several people in
Mechanic Falls who have recently
celebrated their goth birthday. among
them being Dennis Perkins, Miss Eliza
A. Milliken, l.. II. Allen. Mrs. Dolly,
Wallace and Mrs. John Winslow.
The Brunswick Bean Company has
planted six acres of yelloweyed beans
at the owen McManus place on the
Mere Point road. Major Berry who
has charge of this work has been sue
cessful with smaller fields Of beans.
The experiment will be watched with
great interest because there is large
demand for this variety of beans and
the prices are usually higher than for
other varieties.
The question of dividing the Somer-
set Pomona has come UP lately. At the
oranges, comprising 4,S00 grangers.
Because of the size of the county, the
large number Of grangers, etc, certain
of the oranges in the eastern part of
the county have petitioned for a sep
arate pomona. After careful delihera-
ton it was voted to grant the request.
This action having been. taken, it is
now a matter for STATE Master Stetson
to handle. 1t is understood that his
views are in harmony with the action
of the Pomona.
'UncIe Abner" Dunton, who was 101
years old the first day of last August,
is still active, and seems perfectly well,
takes his daily walks He recently
went with Charles Payson on his fish
route of about fifteen miles. through
Searsmont and Lincolnville. He says
he goes to sleep soon after sunset and
does not awake until daylight. 1t
looks as though he may celebrate his
one hundred and second birthday.
A noticeable tribute from an I'M
looked for quarter was paid to a group
of G. A. r. veterans who were at the
Union station at Portland one day last
week to take a train home after the
department encampment Six of them
were seated on one OF the benches in
the train shed and a number of
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