Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-07-11
Maine Gossip

! Maine Gossip s.
Oh. how thy worth with manners may l
When thou art all the better part of
me?
What ss can s1 mine own praise to mine own
And What isn't but mine own when !
Even for this let us divided live,
And our dear love lose name of single
That by this separation may give
That due to thee which thou deserv'st
o absence! What a torment would'st
thou prove.
Were it not thy soul leisure gave sweet
leave
To entertain the time with thoughts SO
sWeetly doth deceive.
And that thou teachest how to make
one twain,
BY praising him here who doth hence re.
main.
Shakespeare
Black ducks in increasing numbers
A jolly crowd of Boston telephone
and typewriting girls are passing their
vacation in Dresden
The West as well as Maine had a
cold spring and corn is behind hand in
the Western fields.
A Sagadahoc farmer is successfully |
raising peanuts. watermelons and to-
bacco, all in one field.
Maine wool this season brought |
sheep are @enriching Maine farmers.
Forepaugh's circus which Thursday |
night entertained big tentful of peo-
pie in Augusta, Friday showed in the |
Shipping City.
The Liberty. Joseph PulitZer's yacht |
is at Bar Harbor and the owner is at !
his summer home Chatwold. The |
Liberty is big fellow, is steamer |
and has crew of 60 men.
Leon F. Timberlake of Portland |
and Bowdoin 'O9, has charge of the |
boys department Of the Chicago N.
Y, Y. NJ. C. A, central association. |
Since graduating Mr.. Undertake has |
done similar work in the Buffalo Y. NJ. |
c. A.
Bears are bothering ByrOn-not the |
distinguished chairman of the Repub-
lican State Committee who fears |
neither bears nor lions and who en-
joys the Democratic bulls but the |
good town of northern Maine where |
bruin is reducing the supply of native |
mutton chops. en-
George w. Spratt of Bangor, one of
the oldtime stage drivers of Maine, |
recently celebrated his SSth birthday |
and is still in vigorous health 1t was
on Mr.. Spratt's stage that jefferson
Davis afterward President of the
Southern Confederacy visited Calais in
1860. At that time Mr.. Davis was
States. ".
The motor boats Yo Ho and the
Saturday for New York The Yo Ho|
will return 10 Bath and is expected tOl
take part in the motor boat race from
Marblehead to Bay Ridge, which starts |
on July 16. The Eronel II will be found
in Gravesend Bay, N. Y, after arrival,
as her owner, Samuel Cochrane, is vice
commodore, of the Bensonhurst Yacht
Club.
Some are having fine success in
raising here" writes the
North Brooklin correspondent of the
Ellsworth American. 'Erastus Cand-
age put fifteen eggs under hen,
which recently Matched out seventeen
chickens. This hen was partitioned
off from the other hens, and the only
explanation that can be given is that
she laid two eggs when she first be-
gan to set
That hen was bound to eggs cel
II President Taft visits Bath on his |
vacation yachting cruise to the coast |
of Maine, he may recall that on his |
last visit to the Shipping City he re-
ceved his first public nomination for |
the presidency in the speech of Hon |
Harold M. Sewall introducing the dis
tinguished visitor to the large audi |
ence of Bath citizens gathered in the |
old Alameda. 1t was from the Ala
medals stage that evening also that |
evening that the to-be President first |
publicly outlined some of the policies |
he has since put into effect.
r.. w. Haggett, the rural free deliV- /:
cry carrier for the Bath Route No. /.
who recently began using an auto |
mobile in making his rounds covers
the 25-mile route in about half the
time it used to take with horse.
The route has grown from 60 to $50 |
boxes and the amount of collections
and deliveries has doubled. William
Oliver of the Phippsburg- Small Point
stage route is considering the pur
chase of an automobile for his route
of 32 miles. including five postoffices
and "a collection boxes.
The Ellsworth public library has the
rare good fortune of possessing a gen.
uine Murillo Madonna. a bequest from