Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-08-22

Here the bones of birth have cried.
Though gods they were' as men they
Here are sands. ignoble things.
Dropt from the ruined sides of kings:
Here's world of pomp and state
Buried in dust, once dead by fate.
Francis Beaumont.
Yellow is Maine with golden rod.
Southwark flying teal hint winters
early approach.
Maine tourmalines grow increasingly
fashionable.
Bangor's Shoe Co. is prosperous.
Get your apple barrels of the correct
size.
Penobscot County has now on the
docket 379 liquor cases on hand.
Portland's new Sacred Heart church
has three marble statues on its front.
James Donohue, commissioner of
sea and shore fisheries, plans to begin
the work of planting oysters on certain
parts of the Maine coast this week.
The plant will not be large, as it is in
the nature of an experiment 1t may
be interesting to Maine people to know
that last year over so bushels of oysters
were dredged on the beds in this State.
In Central Maine, states the SkoWhe-
gan independent Reporter. widow
and her three boys on a half acre lot
earned SASS raising strawberries.
The fine old Percy homestead on 1.-The
Ridge" at Plnppsburg Center was
thrown open to the public last FRIDAY
week for the benefit of the church.
Mrs. j. r.. Walker of Thomaston and
Mr.. and Mrs. Percy were ably assisted
by the ladies of the society. says the
Bath Times most delicious supper
was served from six until eight O'Clock
and from $50 until $50 fine musicale
was given by local talent, assisted by
the Haydn quartette of Bath who were
most generous with their selections.
The affair was 4 great success socially
and financially. Mrs. Walker and Mr..
Percy have the thanks of the people
for giving their house for the occasion.
The past week mas been a strenuous
one 1T the old LCngfeilow house. Port
land. 1856 persons visiting the house
during the week. with 226 paid admis-
sions in one day. Two mornings 50
went into the house the first hour. The
total now for this season is 4.032. Three
visitors registered from London, Eng
land, and one in the place for his resi-
dence wrote There's Reason" They
have come from all over this country
and Canada and all were pleased with
what they saw. The indications are
though fer an average season, because
it seems quite evident that there are
not as many visitors to Maine this year
as for several years.
Question around Portland is: will
Uncle Sam buy and dynamite Pump
kin Knob near Peaks Island to get a
better range for Fort Mckinleys
guns?"
While Charles A. Stewart of Cherry
field accompanied by his wife and child,
boy of six years. says the Calais Ad-
vertiser. was returning from ride in
a Ford Runabout closely followed by
motor car with five passengers. two
men and three women, the big auto in
taking the lead crashed into the Stew
art car with such force that Mrs. Stew
art was hurled to the outside of the
ditch while the boy as if shot from a
catapult was plugged headlong under
the plank covering of the ditch and ex-
tricated by being dug out. Mrs. Stew
art was found to have sustained bad
injuries about the head and face.
Strange to say. the boy came out unin-
jured and was soon mingled with the
crowd that had begun to gather. The
telephone was Immediately put into
service to intercept the party held re-
sponsble for the collision which was
speeding on the way west, the number
of the car having been noted down as it
hurried by passed on without hating to
ascertain the outcome of the disaster.
and they were arrested at Ellsworth.
A. K. Ridley, King of Merrymeeting
Bay. finished dandy cunning float
lately, which will have its trial trip
on Sept. |. in the Bay. The craft is one
designed and constructed by it's owner
who is one of the most successful hunt
ers in this vicinity. 1t is fifteen feet
long, three feet and eleven inches wide
on the outside and sixteen inches deep.
and will be christend Rival" Merry
meeting guides quite generally are skill
full in boat building and make their
own boats and floats.
Miss Leah Winslow. the celebrated
actress who has been visiting her mo-
Their. Mrs. Brooks in Bath. has re-
turned to Philadelphia. Miss Winsow
came to Bath on account of her voice
and she was much improved by the
pure Maine air
AL Ridley. King of Merrymeeting
Bay, saw a flock of about 50 black
ducks in the bay and discovered also
that teal are beginning to arrive. He
saw one flock of green wings. Some
poacher cut loose at the ducks the
other day and Farmer Willis, the game
warden. is after him.
The elusive mackerel continue to
play hide-and- go-seek with coast fish
ermen