Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-08-19

He went the pace that kills,
He went that pace for years,
But he is living yet
Strange as the fact appears.
He was a chauffeur bold,
For years, day after day,
He went the pace that kills
Those who get in the way.
Chicago Record Herald.
Employees OF the Portland Gas
Company recently unearthed piling
fully a century old on the shore in the
rear of the colnpany's plant.
Mackerel are appearing along the
coast and the fear that the season
would be a complete failure has been
dissipated.
Justice Mills came to Maine to for
get it. but the former countess of Var
mouth proved good slayer and fol-
lowed him to Big Island.
Hornets have been branded as pests
by those who raise berries as the in
sects have become 50 numerous that
they are destroying the crop.
Tbe Annual Reunion of the 9th
Maine Regiment Association will be
holden at Farmers Club Hall, kenne-
bunkport, on August 9th, 1909.
Sanford, York county's hustling
town, is to have new business block.
The building will be erected for the
Sycamore Insurance Company and will
be so by 1875 feet.
The Eastern Steamship Company's
Camden was the scene of wedding
last Sunday evening when Brockton
Young people were married during the
trip from Boston to Bangor.
There is more or less remote pos
sibility that the erection of bridge
across the Kennebec at Waterville
may not only accommodate the electric
roads but it may be made to solve the
problem of the Waterville, Wiscasset
and Pennington road.
Herbert Harris, an organist Of Port
land, has been designated as a delegate
to the fifth International Esperanto
congress which is to occur at Barcel-
ona, Spain, in September. Mr.. Harris
attended the congress held in England
two years ago.
4 day or two ago granddaughter
of John Dyer, 10 years old, who lives
with him at his home near Biddeford
Pool declared she had seen moose in
the woods a short distance from the
house. Mr. Dyer questioned the little
girl believing what she had seen was
a deer but as she gave an accurate de-
scription of the animal she convinced
her gradfather that it was in reality a
moose she had seen.
w. r. Phinney of Portland has a
very old copy of the "Declaration of
Independence" fac-simile of the origin
al document in the handwriting of
Thomas Jefferson. He also has two
copies of the Boston Gazette" one
being dated Monday, November 18th,
1901, the other bearing the date Mon
day, February Sth, 1902 A few years
ago a fac-simile of the Declaration of
independence was sold for 800; there
fore it is readily seen that Mr.. Phin-
ncy's possession is a valuable one.
The West Bath correspondent of
the Bath Times writes the following
incident:
A man riding in an automobile last
week did careless trick. He lighted a
cigar from one he had been smoking
and then threw the latter into the
bushes by the roadside. A small blaze
started from it but was luckily put out
before it had gained any Roadway by Il
man who noticed the careless trick
when it was done There cannot be too
much care taken when everything is to
dry and fires are started so easily
Such carelessness is criminal
Francis J. Holder has been chosen
to succeed the late Prof. Hugh Ross
Hatch as head of the department of
in Colby College. He
comes from the University of Wyoming,
where he has been principal of the
school of commerce and full profess
sor in the university. Mr.. Holder was
graduated from the National Normal
Lebanon (Ohio) in 1896, and
from Massey's business college of
Jacksonville, Fla, in 1901. From 1903
to 1908 he was a student at Yale uni
versity taking his masters degree in
1905 and in 1908 his teachers degree in
Mr. Holder has an eX-
celent record as teacher III school
and college and brings to Colby a fund
of practical experience as an educator
that gives sure promise of success.
Bangor mmorcial-Charles L. Os-
wald of Erie, Pa, has been elected to
the head of the manual training de-
partment of the public schools of this
city to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Everett E. Goodell. The
school board has taken action on the
matter and Mr.. Oswald will begin his
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