Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-07-23
Maine Gossip

Life.
Life is-a summer morning. breathing
OF roses. white and crimson. all ALLOW;
And then-a low'ring heaven. wild with
storms
world wrapped in winding sheet of
snow.
Life i;s,.osomebody's step-somebody's
Somebody's voice to answer when we
call;
And then-a fresh heaped mound of
earth. Ger which
me fa,i yew-tree's melancholy shadows
Adelaide Y Mitcham in Boston Trans
cript.
President Taft is the fifth President
| to visit Bangor, his predecessors hav
ing been Grant, Arthur, Harrison and
| Roosevelt
Engineers and the International
Commission are busy on the St. Johns
| river.
Skowhegan is selecting its new post
Office site for which the last Congress
gave $4,000.
The Aroostook Valley Railroad COM
i
pany is erecting a pavilion and band
stand at it's park about six miles up the
| line The pavilion will be 40x5O feet
with good floor for dancing. Arrange
ments have been made for moving
picture performance throughout tne
season, says the Bangor Commercial
Band concerts and dances will also De
features of the entertainment 70 De
given there. The grounds ana pullo-
ings will be profusely lighted with cleo
| !ricity.
At Pressure Isle Wednesday they mad
a wedding and runaway, --"hici
| reads in headlines more sedately thah
a runaway and wedding. 1t was morse
! that ran away.
| Bar Harbor's latest is Country
Club.
The red squirrel is not popularity sup
posed to be an expert swimmer on
| serves Maine Woods, but it seems ti1at
he is. One little red" was seen TINS
summer in the act of swimming across
Hunter Cove, Rangeley Lake. span oi
a quarter of a mile. The parties tEat
saw him followed, much to the alarm
of the squirrel and he soon got tlreo.
An oar was held out in convenient
Mace and the squirrel scrambled upon
| it with his sides heaving and took
good long rest. Then he started on ana
finished his Journey landing on the far-
Their shore without the need of any more
assistance.
| Thursdays and Fridays showers
made the Kennebec Valley shine.
! While out in his 25-foot gasolene
launch last Tuesday, Alfred Pye of
Small Point was given great surprise
by seeing shark several feet longer
than the boat, and having perfectly
enormous fin, come up almost alongside
his little craft. He at once threw his
wheel over to get out of the way of the
monster fish before the latter should
thresh the water with his tail for he
Twas so large that Mr.. Pye feared his
boat might be damaged Mr.. Pye
watched the fish until he suddenly
went down deep into the water, MAX
ing q tremendous splash.
The new concrete mill building for
Phillips toothpick factory is rapidly be-
ling constructed Sixteen Italians are
at work on foundations for the main
factory building 144 by As feet and two
stories high. Besides there are Kiln
dry house q by 80 feet and store house
100 by so feet nearly finished. The new
ltoOthpick factory will employ LOO names
and be the largest in the world
John Mains of Phippsburg who has
some of the finest looking potatoes IN
the country has used good deal of sea-
weed for dressing on his land and
thinks in many ways it beats fertilizer
A couple of young foxes come ou'
and frolc in the corn patch. near the
home of d. F. Hodges over in West
Phillips Master Donald Hodges goes
up there and takes his friends 10 the
lee side of the field where they can OBJ
serve the foxes at play without being
seen by them. People have been within
20 feet OF them.
| A handsome oil painting of the late
hon Arthur Sewall is hung in Baths
National Bank, which was opened fol
business Thursday the first deposition
being Davis Hatch. The painting was
lexecuted by VIM. F. Warden of Paris
and was presented the bank by VIM. d
son of Arthur Sewall and president OF
the bank. Mr.. Warden is the son OF
the late Clarence Warden whose father
was the Paris representative of A. Il
Stewart. New Yorks old time mer-
Ichant prince. The new Bath bank
building is of Southern Colonial archi-
lecture and suggests Richmond Va. Of
Philadelphia. 1t is of black and rec
bricks with interior finish of plate
glass. mahogany and marble. 1t is q
beautiful bank structure and a credit
to Bath.
i Uncle" Abner Dunton of Hope viii
be 103 wears old Aug l. If there is a