Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-12

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No Escape.
Once very nervous chap
To cross the street did try;
An auto handed him tap
And sent him to the sky.
And ere he could descend again
He got an awful Whack;
Somebody's whiZZng aeroplane-
Just tapped him on the back.
He shot down to the lake below.
He tried to keep aflOat.
Alas he fell a victim to
Chicago News.
A. V. Wilson, the Bar Harbor
aeronaut. was in the city Monday
making arrangements for his appear
ance at the Eastern Maine fair. Mr..
Wilson says that he is now at work on
a machine that he will use at the fair
rather than the one in which he has
to make a fight of from 1000 to 5000
feet at the fair, and will also have his
fying machine on exhibition there.
A. Lawrence Lowell, the new presl-
dent of Harvard University, and Mrs.
Lowell are among the summer visitors
at Northeast Harbor.
Mrs. Jane Carew, widow of Capt. d.
L. Carver, who died at her home in
Vinalhaven last week, went to sea with
her husband for many years. In 1886,
the captain and mate both being sick,
she took charge and brought the ship
into San Francisco, Cal.
Al young lady, who is boarding at
Lake View Farm, Rangeley, while on
trip to Kennebago, Wednesday, got
lost in the woods. After wandering
around for long time she finally came
across trail, which she followed for
about seven miles, coming out of the
woods at the "Totman Farm" Dead
River, ten miles from Rangeley,
Thursday morning She is none the
worse IOT Her experience, anu Setlu siIC
slept some during the night.
Maine people will be glad to well
come home Chief Justice Emery, who
has returned from a very pleasant
trip abroad, much benefited by the
change.
The annual entertainment for the |
benefit of the Bar Harbor Medical and |
Surgical hospital this year is to take a |
different form than the conventional |
vaudeville entertainment, which has |
been given at the Casino for several |
seasons with so much success. The af- |
fair will be under the direction of Mrs. |
Albert Clifford Barney of Washington, |
the leading spirit in former years in |
the hospital entertainment, who has |
returned to Bar Harbor after an alb |
sence of several years. Outdoor plays
seem to be popular this year, and this |
will take the form of a Greek Pastoral, |
to be given at the Building of Arts on |
Thursday, Aug. 26.
This is "blueberry time" in Wash |
ington county. Throughout the $780,.
900 acres of "blueberry barrens are |
hundreds of persons engaged in pick |
ing the berries, to whom the season |
means a revenue of about 100000 |
With many this is one of the factors |
of their annual existence. An aver
age of 500 is gained by each Of the |
800 persons occupied, who work on
a percentage basis. Much of the |
product of their toll is turned over to |
the canning factories. One of these
factories has daily capacity of 700 |
bushels. Most of the land developed |
to BURBERRY raising in Maine is IN |
Washington county. Here nearly $50 |
square miles of foothills and plains are |
covered with the little shrubs. From |
all over the county the variegated |
army of pickers comes. Entire fami |
lies give over a fortnight to the work. |
While much of the berries are turned |
over to the Gamers, quantity is |
packed for sale in the markets Of the |
large cities.
The friends of Miss Inez Allen, for
merly of Lewiston, will be interested |
to learn of her success in journalism
in the West. Some time ago she went
to Colorado Springs and took up news |
paper work. Then she went to Denver |
and Joined the staff of the Times. Her
work there has been of the strenuous
variety but she has succeeded and her
position seems to be assured Among |
her assignments was balloon trip
when she went 1000 feet above the sea
level in company with man and
woman. The trip was an extremely |
hazardous one and the descent was
made with some trouble and peril to |
the aeronauts. Another of her as
signments was to meet Weston when
that famous walker came to Denver
and walk into the city with him She
also attended an out of doors wrestling
match attended by about 10000 people. |
Her story was from a womans view
point and was the only one used bv |