Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-07-20
Maine Gossip
The Wood Call.

he answered the tone OF my heart from
A silver baptism of benson song.
There Beauty unfurled the delights of
her world;
Like banner soft floating it cleaned
on my eyes,
From Claytonia that lays like pink stars
- Ger my way.
bient skies.
Oh, I've been away in the woods all the
l have eaten the lotus of dreams, and
That the wild note that blew where the
r., grape blossom grew
was the musical pipe from which Pan
used to blow
-Lppincotts
At Bar Harbor President Taft will
be entertained by the Kebo Valley
Club.
Bangor is desperate and demands
more paris green for potatoes and
other crops
Well-dressed woman is believed to
De chief of the Old Orchard burglars
that have recently been operating
there.
The L. A. and w. Ry is spending
$4,000 in improvements, large por-
tons Of this money going into work in
Lewiston and Bath
.Kennebec log drive reached Indian
Pond last week and Penobscot's East
Branch drive of 100000 arrived at
Penohscot boom Friday.
The Bath Iron Works is building one
of it's famous Scotch boilers for the
traWier Foam, sister of the Spray,
now under construction at Quincy.
americans pay more than $4,000, COG
for peanuts, millions of bushels of
which in the South fatten hogs and
hens The peanut will and does grow
well in Maine
AT Lewiston improvements are still
IN progress in the city park and a crew
OF men is now preparing to lay new
concrete walk on the Pine street side
tc go the entire length of the. North
side of the park
Wilbur G. oliver, Republican city
committee chairman in Bath. who
with party of three other Bath Elks
rode in his car to Detroit for the Elks'
Grand Lodge meeting, arrived home
tuesday with his party
Among Names visitors this sum-
mer is Howard NJ. Breen, a Portland
boy, now New York banker and bro
ker. Mr.. Breen since boy in Maine
mas been busy in New York and Phila-
uelphla newspaper work. He eStab-
ilsiled the New York Telegraph, has
peen on the Sun and Herald there and
Doomed the Metropolitan Magazine
for time.
on MS trip from Auburn, Me, to
Havana by way of New Orleans = G..
True met Maine men in every place
where he stopped This is interesting
out hardly SO strange as the expert
ence of Robert Silsby of Bath who
wrecked on the Falkland Islands in
snip John r. Kelley, was greeted by
Bath. Me-. man among the villagers
OF Port Stanley who came to the pier
to welcome the boat load of rescued
sailors from the ship.
The North Jay White Granite Com
pany of Portland have purchased the
quarry and plant of the American
Stone Company of North Jay. embrace
ing 20 acres and equipped with all
kinds Of modern machinery for quar-
rylng. dressing and handling granite,
including steel derrick with a capaci-
ty Of IS tons-said to be the largest
derrick in New England-and mile of
standard guage railroad from the
quarry to the Maine Central. The
property was owned by y. S. Senator
William A. Clark of Montana and was
opened and operated for the purpose of
furnishing stone for his s7.000,000 New
York residence, recently completed
with an additional cost of Sc, 100000 for
furnishings. The new company is COM
posed of substantially the same inter-
eStS and has the same offices as the
well-known Maine and New Hamp-
shire Granite Company of Portland.
operating quarries and finishing works
at North Jay and Redstone, N. II.
They will operate the Clark quarry in
dependently. however. making a spe-
ciality of furnishing rough stock to
dealers. line of business which the al
lied company has been unable to nan
die. as their plant is taxed to fun ca
pacity on finished work.
Torpedo boat destroyer Reid and
Flusser are now at the Bath Iron
Works for minor repairs. The tackles
of these two crafts are very much at
tached to their respective boats and
are proud that they hold all the speed
records of the American navy. Uncle
Sam uses the boys fine and dandy"
as they say as is indicated by the fol-
lowing incident Monday the Bos'
W. Albright, Bos'n w. TRIGGER. Fire
man Thompson, ]. C. Clark, gunner
mate. r. Diltdot, yeoman. and X. J.
Mallen, oiler, all of the Flusser, left
the ship in a whaleboat equipped with
cooking utensils and provisions for "a
days outing and rowed down to West
port Junction on the Sasanoa river for
a clambake. They bucked the tide
through both upper and lower He'll
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