Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-18

d Maine Gossip :
A Brief Effort.
| The poet MARBLES of the strand,
The sandy dune.
There are not many rhymes at hand
| For June.
| He can't produce wordy lay
| Or lengthy rune.
There are not many rhymes today
| For June.
| And so the poet curbS betimeS
| His little tune.
Alas. there are not many rhymes
| kansas City Journal
The school census of Portland shows
a gain of 544 pupils over last year.
Tomorrow is circus day in Biddeford.
The Frank A. Robbins show is billed
to appear there.
The fourth annual session of the
Maine Dental society will be held in
Portland, June "a, 25 and rs.
| William Dean Howells has arrived
at Kittery Point and is getting his
cottage ready for the summer. His
family will come later.
| A pocupine slowly making it's way
the other day in the parkway which
borders the Androscoggin in Rumford
attracted much attention, the sight be-
ing unprecedented on the chief resi-
dental street of the town. The animal
was killed and his quilts distributed as
souvenirs.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph M. Light cele-
hrated their Goth wedding anniversary
last week at their home in Burkettvllle.
About 25 of their nearest relatives were
present Mr.. Light is 81 years of age
and Mrs. Light is II. Both are in eX-
ceIlcnt health and in possession of all
their faculties, except that Mrs. Light
is nearly blind. They have lived for
Sc years in the same house.
There seems to be a prospect that
Rev. ]. Wilbur Chapman, the noted
evangelist, whose meetings last win
| ter in Boston stirred the city as it had
never been moved before by evangelis-
tic meetings, may hold q series OF
meetings for the whole State of Maine
next season. The plans are not known
| Just at present, but it is believed that
there will be two campaigns. one for
| the eastern part of the State and one
| for the western, with headquarters
first at Portland and then at Bangor.
One of the largest apple trees in West
Harpswell is in Mrs. Eleanor Merri-
mans field The tree is seven feet and
six inches in circumference. The tree
| is over so years old and was given to
her husband, the late Capt. Charles
Merrirnan, by a friend. 1t has borne
fruit nearly every season.
Patrick II. Dunn, citizen of Brewer
and real estate agent of Bangor, is
enthusiastic over the muck deposits
| near McGann bog in Orrington as a
| place for raising early onions cheaply
and producing large crops to the rod
| or the acre. He claims that onion
| farming and celery farming are IN
| their infancy in Maine, and that Nc
Gam bog is an excellent place to be-
gin.
| An automobile party came near hav-
ing a serious accident at East Linn
ington last Saturday afternoon. There
| were four men in the party and they
had lust crossed Hamlins Bridge, go
ing toward Portland. when the auto
| mobile went over a bank from 10 to
Is feet deep. They had the good for
| tune not to tip over or break the ma
chine and got out of their trouble
| without calling for help.
Portland Press: 1.-The Maine sheriffs
ask the protection of the State in the
lawsuit brought against them by Bos-
! ton rumsellers on ground Of illegal
seizure of liquors under the national
pure food and drug act. Certainly the
sheriffs should have what they ask.
| They have been about the States bust
| ness in this matter and it is not their
/
venience and expense for doing what
| they considered their duty. The State
will defend them of course, and it
should reimburse them for whatever
| loss OF time and extra expenses they
have incurred
These arc busy times within the
walls of the ThOmaston State Prison
| these days when the foundation for
! the new harness shop and repository
us reaching completion. Surmounting
| that basement will be a stone structure
| two stories high 1875 feet long and A.
feet wide, made as nearly as possible
fircproof. 1t occupies the site of the
| present harness shop which will be
torn down, and will contain in addition
| to the harness shop repository and
store room. Warden Norton hopes to
have the new building completed by