Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-26
Maine Gossip

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Dreams and the Man.
Shimmering in fair green
Gayly calling, Come. be free! -
Plunge in water crystalline
That's sea.
Smiling, f1ower-carpeted,
Whispering it's pretty plea
'Hither!-h me tread!'
That's lea.
Humming, humming everywhere
Through the realm he holds in fee
Sip with me this fragrance rare"
That's bee.
Softly murmuring above:
"Phyllis-Strephon-ca you see,
I'm the trysting place for lover
That's tree.
Broiling in an Office hot
mercury at ninety -three);
Muttering what l should not,
That's me!
From the New York Times.
The Cliff Island youth who was
kicked off the piazza by the father of
the girl he was counting had papa ar
rested. 1t seems that the funny Sec
ton of the Sunday papers didn't tell it
all.
Portland is facing an expenditure of
a million dollars for new water main
she sadly needs.
Senator Baxter seems to have raised
a hornets nest in his effort to get cleo
trio railway Accommodations for his fer
ry boat.
TIE trustees of the Maine Institution
for the Blind state that the new build
ings at Portland will be ready for OCT
cupancy Oct. 1.
The late Sarah Orne Jewett's one
public bequest is to Maine institution,
Berwick academy.
The State gave Old orchard permis-
sion to incur debts for park system
and also gave them little nest egg to
start with. Now Old Orchard is un-
grateful enough to turn it down.
Now it is reported that the Bangor &
Aroostook will run a steamer service
from Stockton to Boston and New
York
When you hear some of the other
states Dragging about their growth.
Just remind them that since last season
we have built $500 sumner cottages and
have built and enlarged summer hotels
at cost of s65o.0O0.
Old Town reports most peculiar
lightning freak. A bolt struck barn
on the place owned by Mrs. Lucy A.
Judkins, passed through the four sides.
knocked down two men and three hors-
es and then passed through the hay
NOW without setting the building on
fire.
William F. Jude of Ellsworth has
been elected principal of Corinna
Academy for the coming year. Mr..
Jude is a graduate of Bowdoin and is
an attendant at the University of
Maine law school. .Ee
Rumford is actively at work prepar-
ing for the erecting of 100000 bridge
across the Androsciggin.
Portland Press-Mrs. Kate Douglas
Wiggin is busy woman these days
before the annual bazaar and lawn par
ty given by the Dorcas society at her
country place in Hollis. In fact the
Quillcote family and all their neighbors
are engaged in strenuous labors for the
good cause. Mrs. Wiggin and her Sis
ter Miss Nora Smith spent an hour a
day in autographing books for the sale
of these specially inscribed volumes
has naturally become very large. Miss
Evelyn Fogg and Miss Harriet Mera
will assist in the famous five cent barn
concerts. There will be dances on the
green by the Junior Decreases and Miss
Moreau's Ladies' orchestra will play
on the piazza during the afternoon. In
case the afternoon of Thursday, Aug
5 should be rainy the bazaar will be
postponed to the first pleasant day
thereafter.
Tomorrow the Hebrews of Maine will
join with those in the rest of the world
in commenorating the fall of Jerusalem
with "a hours of fasting and mourning
Artisans are at work erecting the
cook houses and other temporary build
ings which will be used by the First
Regiment. N G. S. NJ. in the To-day
tour of duty at the Portland forts.
Lewiston Sun.-A Lewiston man who
is more or less familiar with the cleo
trio road of Maine, predicts that be-
fore very long all of the roads will bs
merged into one system, and that sale
merger will prove a good thing for al
concerned. He believes the roads could
be not only more economically man.
aged. but that it would be possible tt
greatly improve the service.