Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-09-26

Nor is the day of love forever dead.
When young enchantment and romance
are gone;
The veil is drawn, but all the future dread
Is lightened by the finger of the dawn.
Love moves with life along darker way,
They cast shadow and they call II
death;
But rich is the fulfillment of their day;
The purer passion and the firmer faith.
George Meredith.
Sidney P. Stockbridge of Ellsworth
claims the Hancock county champion
ship for big sunfowers. He brought
into the office of the Ellsworth Amer
lean a few mornings ago a sunfiower
measuring Is inches in diameter, As in
circumference and weighing 61a
pounds The stock on which 1t grew
was 10 feet tall Mr.. Stockbridge
states that he had another one about
the same size and two measuring only
one inch less in diameter.
The Paulding is to be the flagship
of the new destroyer division. This is
an honor which the Bath built flyer
seems signally to have earned, says
the Bath Times.
John Francis Murphy, who has car
ried the primaries in Washington
state for prosecuting attorney on an
insurgent Republican ticket is
Maine man by birth and the son of
Thomas Murphy Of Lewiston. He was
secretary to Senator Frye while he
attended the Georgetown University
Law school. He has been in the West
about five years.
The Bridgton corn crop is having
one of the best corn packs for many
years. The corn is coming in rapidly
and in excellent condition. The cam
merry gives employment to a consider
able number of people, but of course
not nearly as many as in the old days
when the cutting, which is now done
by machinery, was all done by hand.
A petition is being circulated in Bar
Harbor for the signatures of those
who favor appealing to the incoming
Legislature for repeal of the act of
the 74th Legislature excluding auto
mobiles from the highways of the
town of Eden in which Bar Harbor is
included. This act was accepted by
the town of Eden but there is now
said to be quite a number of people
who favor its repeal and it is report
ed that the petitions are being quite
readily signed in certain sections of
the town.
Hon. Prentiss Cummings of Brook
line, Mass, who has just published a
translation of the Had of Homer in
the meter of the original is a native
OF oxford county and a summer resi-
dent of Paris Hill. Mr.. Cummings
has been at work upon this transla-
ton for more than 20 years and it's
accomplishment is matter of mo-
ment
York county's most successful and
enterprising woman in trade is I'M
doubleday Mrs. Sarah Worth Cousens
of Biddeford. She has been in bust
ness In that city continuously for "a
years and is now the owner and pro
prletress of one of the largest milli-
merry stores on the main street of that
city.
The kennebec Baptist Associatior
DIT us recent session at China hands
out rather uncomfortable proposition
10 the Democratic party in the follow
rpCOl1ltjGnc inI
unanimously at the close of the meet
ing: In view of the practical GER
talnty of the resubmission of the pro-
hlbltory amendment to the people by
the Maine Legislature and of the
equal certainty that the organi1p! uIi-
q"or interests of the country with I'M
limited wealth will seize the oppor-
tunlty offered to destroy our prohibi-
tory law and secure legal standing and
legal protection for their business in
our state, therefore. Resolved That
we. the representatives of the Ken
nebec Baptist Association deem it to
be OF first Importance that among the
matters of our concern that all forces
OF righteousness promptly and thor
oughly organize to meet the inveteratt
Zoe of our homes. our churches and
every worthy institution"
An amusing sight was seen few
days ago when the Rumford Falls
Power Co. drew the upper and lower
canal at Rumford for the purpose of
setting light poles for the transmits
sion of power to the oxford Paper Co
This was the catching of cells by the
Polish people of that town. These
cells, which appeared in considerable
numbers when the canaks were drawn
are very slippery and the Polanders
would first grasp them in their hands
and then in order to keep them from
slipping would seize the heads of the
eels in their mouths and thus lift them
to the shore.
A Maine woman, Mrs. Perry. wife Of
the famous Arctic explorer, is said to
be the only woman, who ever took part
in a walrus hunt. Commander Peary
on one of his expeditions on which his
wife accompanied him left her behind
with the ESkimoS at winter quarters
while he and his followers went off to
explore and map out the Northern
shores of the country. The Eskimos