Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-25

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The beasts that under the warm hedges
slept,
And weathered out the cold bleak night
are up;
-, pastures. raise
Their voice. and bid their fellow brutes
good-morrow.
The cheerful birds. too. on the tops of
trees.
Assemble all in choirs, and with their
notes
Salute and welcome up the rising sun.
Lee 1883
Deer are invading the streets of
Westhrook.
new Cleaves Soldiers Monument
weighs II tons.
razor bill aux from Labrador was
recently shot in Maranacook BY Carl
Norcross of Winthrop.
Belfast is proud that she has
over 1909. 1t is Belfast's greatest
gain in 30 years.
Ex-Gov John D. Long from Massa-
chusetts will make his annual visit
this week to attend the graduation of
Hebron Academy which he attended
as a boy.
Don's soothe your souls with the
statement so frequently made that
Names cold wet spring destroyed the
brCwh tails. 1t may have killed a few
| million but the Gossiper this week has
| seen them crawling on the trees
Watch your shade trees trunks and
tops.
LeWston'S water supply pumps 116
gallons per capita. 4,5OoOOo gallons be-
| ing pumped each day by it's huge
Deane and Worthngton pumps a large
| amount for a city the size of Lewiston.
| Quite a quantity of the daily supply is
used in the running of Lewiston's ele-
vatOrs.
All over Maine since the arrival of
the hot wave you have heard kicks
because the weather was too warm.
For weeks they kicked because it was
| too wet. It suggests that we may all
| find settled weather, by and by,
where at any rate, according to gen
| era belief it is never too wet.
Edward Hamlin. Superintendent of
Boothbay's Fish Hatcheries has plant
! ed 100000 lobster fry near Biddeford
Nv
is on a trip to York Harbor. Cape Por-
poise and other ports this week in
search of seed Holsters. The Gannett
since May has collected and planted
200, 100000 lobster fry along the Maine
| coast from York Harbor to Eastport.
Two candidates from Maine We're
successful in the associateship exam
nations of the American Guild of Or
gansts held in May. They were Miss
Helen f.. Hill. organist of the Main
street Baptist church. Saco. and
Arthur Bartlett Hague. organist of
the First Parish church. Gorham. both
pupils of DR.. Latham True. Until
this time Maine has not been repre-
scented in the guild by any associates
Rockland Courier Gazette: Ernest
Lamb of Utica. ~ Y, who was here
in the work of the coast survey last
summer has arrived from the Uni
versity of Maine where he recently
graduated as class orator. The sur
vey work this season will be in the
vicinity of Tenants Harbor. and Mr..
Lamb will again be a member of the
staff as will Maurice Bird. who has
also arrived from the University of
Maine for the summer
The run of alewives in Wcolwich
was very disappointing this year
says the Bath Independent. and so
light that the revenue will be com
paratively small for the town. Last
year there were about 300 barrels
taken at Nequasset and this meant
considerable but this year there were
only about half that number caught.
Mr. Dodge who has charge of the
work was looking for better catch
when the season first opened but the
dull weather was not favorable to the
schooling of the fish and they did not
run in the numbers that they do
some years.
There is a general desire on the
part of the timberland owners of
Maine that the railroads use oil burn
ing engines on the divisions through
the woodland territories. In this con-
nection it is interesting to note that
the Grand Trunk is contemplating the
use of powerful electric locomotives
to haul the trains of it's new line from
Montreal to ST John through the vir
gin forests of New Brunswick. The
source of power for these machines.
if they are adopted. will be the great
water power at Grand Falls or gas
generated electricity made at the
great coal deposits of Grand lake.
Mr.. J. w. Maxim of Newcastle. In
diana has been the guest of his nephew
F. B. Norris of Taylor street. Auburn.
On the arrival of his family they will
open their cottage at Wayne Pond for
the summer. Mr.. Maxim is the silent
partner in the shovel factory of this
city where Mr.. Norris is the general
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