Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-09-04
Maine Gossip


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| A Poor Day.
Count that day lost
Which to it's end goes pokin'
| And sees no aviation
| Record broken.
Houston Post.
Sanford's yachts are on the marine
railway at Camden
Maine railroad men are busy learn
ing the Standard rules.
The people of Maine interested in
charities and corrections will meet at
Bangor Oct. 1919.
| Nathan T. Swan, for many years
conductor on the Bangor and Piscata-
quis railroad, is dead at Bangor.
| Bangor High school expects to put
a fast football team into he field this
fall.
Clifford c. Little, native of Bucks
port, was married recently in Cali
fornia.
Aroostook county is enjoying great
| baseball race. with the season almost
over and the teams punched.
Calais is to have free delivery as soon
as the new post office building is ready
and PASSPORT is anxiously waiting the
advent of a similar convenience.
Mrs Cook, wife of DR.. Cook who has
discovered the pole, has brought more
fame to Maine.
Eel Gallo, the Maine horse in the
Readfield pacing Derby, finished in
18th position.
Portland thinks it entertained Clyde
Bruhm Monday night.
Portland has strike on between the
furniture movers and their employees.
Just suppose it had happened in the
spring!
When 10000 people attend Waterville
fair in a rain storm it is safe to as
sumo that the exhibition is worth see
ing.
Portland fish buyers are competing
so successfully with Gloucester and
Boston middlemen that the contest as
sumes the proportions of fish war
If the Portland men are in earnest
they will make Gloucester hustle.
John Hays Hammonds yacht Ar
trues, which has been cruising along
the Maine coast, has sailed for New
York where she will so into winter
quarters.
W. F. Sweetser of East Madrid re-
Gently plowed UP a breast pin made
of silver quarter. On the pin were
the letters S. f. NJ. It proved to be
the property of Miss Sarah E. Moulton
who lost the pin 80 years ago.
Bar Harbor cottagers are putting up
the shutters and returning to the big
cities for the winter. If they realized
that the autumn is the most beautiful
part of the year they would stay long
er.
The remarkable story comes from
Buxton that Mrs. Samuel Dunn, who
has been almost blind 16 years, has
recovered her sight so that she can
distinguish colors and objects as small
t1l Tvs c
old.
Chicago critics stamp Hard Times
the comedy character in the play writ
ten from Holman Days Squire Phln
as the comedy hit of several seasons
The character is modelled after man
who was familiar to Lewiston resi-
dents for many years.
The Partisan Club of Lewiston anu
Auburn is composed Of ten men who
determine ton to go to Paris in three
years. The dues are $3.50 per week
and the money thus obtained is de-
posted in a Lewiston bank with the
provision that no money shall be with
drawn without the consent of all the.
members The fund is now $4,000 and
it is hoped to make it $4,000 by June III,
1910
Two newsboys, who tarricd too long
on the Gov. Cobb, were given a free
ride half way to Portland harbor en-
trance the other day. The steamer,
which was bound from st. John to
Boston via Portland, was tied up at
her dock in Portland when the boys
went on board to sell their papers.
They were badly frightened when they
found that the boat was on its way
to sea. A passing tug took them back
to land.
The Somerset County Veterans and