Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-08-19

Not. like bud or building bird.
Come when April comes again;
Scarcely have | learned a word
OF the language of the rain.
Swift the summer glides away,
Not one lesson learned Alright:
Soon comes round the longest day
All. how soon the longest night.
Richard LIE Gallienne, in Harper's
Monthly
Wednesdays glad gathering of Re-
publican leaders of Kennebec indi-
Gates great victory September II.
Surviving members of the First
Battalion, Maine Infantry, will meet in
reunion with Captain William E.
Leighton, at his camp on Leighton's
Point, Pembroke on Wednesday, Au
gust "a.
Large shipments of sardines are be-
ing made regularly from Eastport by
the steamers of the Eastern Steamship
Company to Boston and other Western
points. The warehouses of the sar-
dine companies along Sea street con-
tain many thousand cases of the newly
packed fish awaiting shipment
The 21st Me. Regiment will hold it's
reunion September 9. at Fairfield.
Among veterans of this regiment is
ALT Perkins the efficient superintendent
of elevators at the Capitol.
Gus Spencer. of the steel construc-
ton crew on Portlands city hall job.
told reporter of the Press after
coming in from swinging in bos'n's
chair 100 feet above the court, I'm
not even nervous when I'm 100 feet or
higher in the air, but sometimes I'm d
little timid when only 40 feet above
ground. If you fall 100 or more feet.
you are only killed but if you fall 40
feet or so you get hurt
Mrs. Phylona r. Jenkins of Bruins
wick. who died Sunday at the age of
80 years, is survived by four children,
20 grandchildren and 20 great grand
children.
Supt. F. E. Bisbee of the Auburn
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stone implement while excavating for
d water main. 1t is gouge used
| in making the old Indian canoes and
| it is about nine inches in length.
Mr. Bisbee says that there are thou
sands of Indian implements belonging
| to the prehistoric age in and around
Auburn, if they could only be found.
| This was one of the most famous re-
sorts of the Indians, and here, on
Laurel street, was enc of their largest
villages. There was fought one of
the great battles Of the Indian wars
| and the massacre was the worst in the
history of the Androscoggin valley.
Richard Parr, widely known as the
man who exposed the stealings of the
Sugar Trust and who received a large
sum from the government for his SER
vices, is visiting at the home of his
wife's parents, at West PenobscOt He
married daughter of Capt Charles
Clement.
The Goth annual reunion of the de-
scendants of Benjamin and Theodate
was lclu last WEEK On lHc
grounds and site of the ancestral
homestead on Mt. Ephriam in Sears
port. About 80 descendants. with
| their husbands and wives and children
were present.
Rockland rejoices over the opening
of new sardine plant. the finest in
the world. 61x2O1 feet in size and two
stories high.
Charles B. Nicoson. editor of the
Detroit Free Press. accompanied by
| Mrs. Nicolson, arrived in Portland last
evening for a fortnights stay. Mr..
Nicolson. who was formerly a we'll
| known newspaper worker in Portland
went to Grand Rapids, Mich. few
years since as city editor of a daily
paper there About three years ago
he accepted the editorship of the De-
| troit Free Press
Rev Chester Gore Miller and fam
| lily. who left South Paris two weeks
ago. arrived safely at their destina
ton at Huntley. Montana. in good
health and spirits. Also it is worth
mentioning that the chickens arrived
in equal safety and good condition.
During the summer Mr.. Miller had
| done quite a business in raising
| chickens and when it was decided
that they should go to Montana. he
had some over 1870 of the fowls which
he did not want to leave behind. Ac
cordingly he made arrangements to
have them sent by express, starting
a little ahead of the family, and they
| made the trip without the loss of a
chicken.
In Aroostook new potatoes are sell
ing for $175 per bag of two bushels.
Several additions have recently
been made to the board of directors of
the recently organized Bar Harbor
Country Club, and the complete board
is now composed of Philip Livingston,
Arthur d. Addison Edward Morrell.