Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-16

Viewing so clean abroad. at home sees
nothing;
But like mole in earth busy and blind
Works all her folly up. and casts it out
To the worlds open view.
Dryden, 1859.
The above written 221 years ago is
suggested by some of the events of the
state Democratic Convention.
The Maine summer has surely ar
rived for last night the first night
moth of the year flew into the Ken
nebec journal office, a beautiful crea-
ture of nile green picked out in brown
with white body and golden antennae
and jet black limbs. 1t measured three
inches from tip to tip of wings.
S. w. Rowell of Topsham possesses
an heirloom pocket piece for which he
has refused an offer by coin col
lector of $500 although it is a penny.
1t is Franklin copper cent bearing
- rings Joined in an endless chain
representing the 10 original states of
| the Confederation. Within this IS a
SSNCi'Ns
United States" and in a fourth of
an inch circle eve are one" Upon
! the face of the coin is the Latin verb
"Fugio'' and an engraved rising sun
| at the bottom bearing the inscription
| mind your own business" news
paper item descriptive of Mr.. Rowells
pocket piece copied in various papers
has brought that gentleman large
| number of newspaper clippings dis
| cussing the Franklin penny and so
personal letters from other owners of
| like pennies, alike valued as he.rlooms.
| the possessors of these coins living in
| almost every state of the Union.
Today the New England Cemetery
| Association arrives in Bath for its an
nual field day. From 40 to 80 ceme-
| terry officials with ladies are the
guests of Horace Ward, Superintendent
of the Bath Cemeteries and Park. as
sisted by the Cemetery and Park
| Board of that city. They will inspect
| the Bath Iron Works, afterwards en-
| joying car rides about town and sub
| urbs. look over the cemeteries and
| park. ride by special car to New
| Meadows where they dine at the Inn
| and in the afternoon are given by
| Commodore T.. w. HYDE d boat ride
| on his line of teamers down the river
| to Birch Pit The association includes
| majority of the superintendents of
New England's cemeteries and they
meet to exchange views. news and
gather the latest ideas in landscape
| work, gardening and cemetery inn
provement. Bath has elaborate land
Scapc work in it's cities of the dead
| and very wisely is each year adding
parks and lawns to them to dispel 50
| far as possible the gloom of death.
When. September, 1775 General
| Benedict Arnold with 100 men arrived
at the mouth Of the Kennebec river
and anchored near Popham, on his ex
petition to Canada. a Parker's Flats
parson accompanied by deacon of
his church went on board General Ar
nolds ship and on it's deck held relig
ious services. In those days the
cIergymen prayed fervently and long.
On this historic visit the prayer was
one and three fourths of an hour in
duration. 1t was Il truly gigantic
prayer but apropos. for there were
giants attached to that expedition.
The deacon returning home mentioned
among other great men he had seen
Colonel Daniel Morgan nearly seven
feet in height and of enormous
strength. On the COIonelS cooked hat
was embroidered Patrick Henry's Lib
erty or Death"
Down on the Cathance the men of
the Mccormick lumber camp have made
pets of the gray and flying squirrels.
yellow hammer brood. d nest of rab
bits. the cooks pig. some young coons
and even a lot of green snakes.
Bath man in SacO cemetery
halted before a neat headstone en-
graved with this inscription "She is
dead but not forgotten" The mound
was covered with grass and weeds.
Commenting on the inconsistency ot
inscription with the ill-kept lot to the
overseer o. the ward. the result was
an interview with the family of the
deceased and an arrangement for per-
petual care.
Between $4,000 and $1,000 in the Ken
nebec fisheries have been Melted by
sturgeon alone during the two months
ending with Wednesday of the present
week. as the Journal Gossiper is in
formed by leading river fishermen.
one sturgeon for instance netted Ken
ny rdgecomb s74 in his returns from
New York. The lowest price for the
roe of which caviar is made has been
S1.25 per pound and the highest prices
paid for the article s1.75 and $500. The
dressed meat last week brought 16R
cents per pound which was the lowest
of the season.
Sturgeon. thanks to the wise laws
OF Maine. this year have been more
abundant in the kennebeC than for
quarter century back. Close time is
now on and as the government hatch
cries have been unable to produce
new supply of the fish. the law making
June Is begin close time was few
years ago passed with the result OBJ
served this season. During the sum
mers the young fish are given
chance to grow to the legal size,
five feet in length. During the