Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-27
Maine Gossip
Whsre We Miss It.

Where We Miss 1t.
We're weepin' Ger the sorrow
Or still it leaves us dumb.
But we fail to count our blessings
When the
Good
Times
Come!
We waste the golden minutes
As our solemn ills we sum-
But we DO not count the suhpeams
When the
Good
Times
Come,
Bath figures to obtain some of its
electric power from the plant at
Damarscotta Mills.
If these showers keep a coming
summer tourists in Maine will navi-
gate the country roads in skiffs in
stead of autos.
Names able insurance Commits
sioner, Hon. Beecher Putnam of
ArOostook. is another Maine man who
believes in walking. He takes
daily stroll to Hallowell and back as
a constitutional
A Maine man is never too old to
learn and rarely too old to walk. M.
H. Bracket and George w. Clark,
both SO years old, this week hiked
from Union Station, Portland, to
Portsmouth, n. H., just for summer
vacation ramble. over one night they
stopped in Wells. Neither felt
fatigued but returned to Portland by
trolley.
Quite a novel sight. says the Bangor
Commercial, and one not witnessed
every day was seen on Wednesday
morning by the early risers when a
COW and bull moose wendell their way
from the direction of High street
They visited a number of gardens
along their path and crossed many
lawns. 1t was a sight worth seeing
Albert H. Sampson, for II years
caretaker of Robe hail. Gorham. who
resigned recently, was presented by
the faculty Of the Normal school and
the students at the hall with a hand
some seal leather pocketbook, con-
tanning a substantial sum of money.
Accompanying the gift was card of
explanation, which left no doubt in
Mr.. SIMPSONS mind concerning the
identity of the donors or of their APP
probation of his faithful services.
Boothbay Harbor, one of the gems
of the necklace that is stretched
along the Maine coast has a right to
shine and shine at night as well as by
day. Now it will for the Harbor was
lighted up in brilliant style, Wednes
day night. with electric lights for the
first time, the power being furnished
and transmitted by the Portland
Power & Developing Co. from their
new power station at Damariscotta
Mills.
Fort Mckinley is now one of the
best supplied Notifications on the
coast. During the past few days,
case after case of powder has been
taken down until fully J. 1000 cases
have been sent to the fort and placed
in the magazines. 1t is expected that
these will be used for naval manoeu
vres if any are held during the sum
mer.
To have been within earshot of the
guns that hurled death into the ranks
of the English troops at the battle of
Balaklava, in the Crimean war. and
to have been a personal friend of one
of the 80 survivors of the 600 who
rushed into that awful gap. and later
to have enlisted in a Massachusetts
regiment and served in the Civil War
is the unusual record of a Bangor
man. Edwin Boultbee is his name
and he is IS years old, yet still hale
and hearty.
Five sugar barrels filed with lob
sters, packed 81 to the barrel, arrived
from Nova Scotia. OF the ordinary
size it requires 80 to 100 Holsters to
fill sugar barrel. These big chaps
weighed each from IA to Is pounds
The meat of these big fellows is OF
coarser grain than in those of smaller
size but they are Holsters and bring
the same price.
If Bangor youngsters, who are saw
ing their pennies for the Fourth, think
they are going to keep the old folks
awake this year they are destined to
be mistaken, says the Portland Press.
All of the firms wholesaling fireworks
in that city have taken stand in
the safe and sane" Fourth idea and
will not sell crackers which measure
much over az or inches in length
In Bath likewise the crackers the
dealers have to sell are limited by city
government order to reasonable
A South Brewer business man who
is also something of garden expert
in modest way, whose defiance of a
gardener in Old Town in the raising
Of green peas created something like
interest in a race to see who should
have the first real mess of real green
peas for the season, held up his rival
when, on Wednesday.
the apficipatod diSh was served in all