Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-08-16

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To bear me to the heaven OF my desire;
Like him. from skies too glowing, am
hurled.
Now, for day. those broken plumes Of
Faded and scorched by loves divinest
fire,
The winds of Fate shall blow about the
Susan MARI spauldins.
Names Fair season now begins.
Names raspberry crop was partial
failure owing 70 the raspberry beetle.
ArOstook's potato crop of 1909 mas
now been cleaned up, so far as ship
n.ents are concerned, S,124 bushels hay
ing gone forward in July over the b. &
A. This makes a total shipment OF
8 1862, s42 bushels over the B. & A. from
Aug. 81 1909, to July is, 1910.
Gardiner hears that the contract for
its new depot is soon to- be let out ana
that The structure will be a handsome
one located Just north of the present
station.
A Main street man had recently rath-
er an exciting encounter with rat
during which his hand was quite badly
bitten. writes Gorham correspondent
of the Argus. Seeing the rodent rum
ming around the garden the pet cat
was called but by the time she APP
peared on the scene the elusive rat had
sought refuge under a board. Think
ing to assist Tabby a little. the man
. II, ard fri
it was thea that the unexpected oc-
CURED, as the rat darted out and quick
er than a fash ran up the inside of the
mans trousers leg A strong right
hand grasped him by the time he had
reached the hip pocket, and it was in
an attempt to gain freedom that the
rat bit the mans hand. A visitor on
the premises. seeing the mans predica-
ment, ran to his assistance and after
the excitement had subsidized. the two
had hearty laugh over the rather nn-
usual happening.
Thirteen has 40 terrors for the prac-
teal county officials of Maine. At Wis
casset Thursday last the annual con-
Vention of the county commissioners of
Maine was brought to a close with a
brief morning session at which Frank
l. Carney of Newcastle was elected
president and A. M Pcnley OF Auburn
secretary. Thirteen commissioners
were in attendance. The principal sub
Ject discussed by the commissioners
was Good Roads, regarding which an
address was delivered by State High
way Commissioner Paul D. Sargent
The steam lighter Leviathan arrived
in Bath last Week and Friday com
n.enced work of raising the o0O-ton
lighter Aeushnet owned by Morse
Brothers, which has been under water
at the North End for the past year.
The lighter will probably be repaired
for lumber carrying on the Kennabec
River The Laviathan will aftervard
load d consignment of machinery at
the Bath Iron Works for Boston.
Edward B. Mclean, owner of the
Washington Post has flock of Ne
vada sheep on his Bar Harbor estate
which We're brought across the CONT
nent in a box car attached to a passen-
ger express to crafty his WifeS mo-
Their Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh widow of
the late Nevada multimilliOnaire, who
i'll, thought she would get well if she
could get out to Nevada and watch the
sheep out there.
On account of an accident to the ma
chinery in the pulp rlill at Chisholm,
last week, one OF the paper machines in
the mill of the International Paper
Company was shut down. The belt
slipped from tn governor and the gen.
orator ran furiously. smashing por-
ton of the cement floor and throw ing
one piece of machinery through the
roof No one was hurt in the accident.
/ Names centenarians continue to in
crease. Mrs. Eliza Wentworth Merrill
of Gray will, if she lives celebrate her
Tooth birthday. Dec 81, 1910. She also
remembers Gen. Peleg Wadsworth,
who served in Washingtons army,
calling to see her father She remem-
'bers. too, that the year of 1910 was
called the year without a summer,
by reason of it's being so cold that the
crops could not mature. which made
great scarcity of food
The current worm continues to de-
vastate Names currant bushes.
One section, 5h miles in all. of the
proposed trunk line of good roads
through Maine, is being built between
Rockland to Rockport this summer
A of in,