Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-17

| crimson rambler rose bush now in full
bloom which it is estimated, has some
1900 blossoms.
Strange how the pedestrians plan to
walk through Maine. The latest is an
Austrian and he could not leave
Maine cut of $4,000 mile schedule
Portland Union station, the railroad
gateway to Maine, is to be extensively
improved, according to the plans OF
Gen. Manager Morris Mcdonald.
| Maine schools will receive state aid
to the amount of 1859, 1873 this year,
29,262.19 more than in 1908. OF this
amount Kennebec county gets S66, 367 .63
Old Orchard is skittish when she
hears a firm alarm, but she has reason
| to be. A million dollar contiagration
| is a serious blow to any community
| Eden has voted to exclude the auto
mobiles from the streets of the town.
| If the other towns on Mt Desert take
similar action, Mt. Desert will surely
| be horse paradise
Sam Haynes and Harry Thaw offer
splendid examples of perseverance,
| Haynes is after a pardon for the sixth
| time and Thaw has tried to regain his
| liberty so many times that the rest of
| the world has lost count
Press reports state that the visiting
Massachusetts yachtsmen fingered
along the coast until the last minute
1t is good wager that they didn't
want to return, even when the time
was IN.
The city council voted to go ahead
and build the City Hall. We think the
city council did the right thing. Now
lets talk about something else-Port-
land Advertiser.
Yes-let's.
How's this for strict attention to
business. Six carpenters kept right on
working in a Deering shop while the
roof burned.
If that torpedo boat "O'Brien" named
in honor of Jerry O'Brien, the COM
mander of the American forces in the
first naval battle Of the Revolution,
liveS up to the reputation of it's name
sake, it will be a terror to enemies of
Uncle Sam.
C. 4. Harrington of Bath, in a letter
to the Bath Times expresses pleasure
at having been personally acquainted
with the late Simon Newcomb and
states that the great astronomer in
herited his great gifts from father
and grandfather, both scholarly men.
Somebody has invented a whistle to
warn person at whom a gun may be
pointed that he is about to be shot.
Il is claimed that the whistle does not
brighten deer. If man is going to be
shot it is difficult to see why it is
! necessary to warn him beforehand.
He would only have it to think about.
Maine has contributed one life to
the toy pistol death roll. Harold Pitts,
the only son of Mr.. and Mrs. William
Pitts of Skowhegan died from blood
| poisoning resulting from a wound in
his right hand.
Textile training for the boys living
in the cotton and wooden centers, chem
| istry and kindred training for the
paper making towns, mechanical draw
| Ing and practical mechanics for the
railroad centers and practical agri-
| culture for the rural towns is what
| Maine needs.
Madame Ncrdica, the Maine song
stress, is reputed to have been paid
500 guineas ($2,625) for her services at
a dinner recently rendered to King Ed
ward and Queen Alexandra of England
By Ambassador and Mrs Whitelaw
Reid. Maine has contributed to the
rest of the world all out of proportion
to her size and advantages
| The Lewiston Board OF Health has
used eviction to clean up a tenement
in that city. There is room enough
in Maine for everyone to live in clean,
healthful surroundings and if few per-
slst in living under conditions which
are a menace not only to themselves,
but to others. the board of health ought
to evict them and the general public
VIII support such health officers in
their action.
President John S. Hyde of the Bath