Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-07-27

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Nature.
II thou art worn and hard beset
With sorrows that thou wouldst forget,
IT thou wouldst read a lesson that will
keep
Thy heart from fainting and thy soul
Go to the woods and hills, No tears
Dim the sweet look that Nature wears.
-Longfellow.
The Presumpscot river is justly
called the Little Giant of power.
streams. Nowhere else in this coun-
try has stream of its size and po-
tential horse power been so highly
developed for manufacturing pur-
poses. Its total length from the gate
way where it leaves Sebago Lake basin
the dam at Presumpscot lower falls
into Casco bay is a tritie less than 20
miles; and in this distance it develops
an energy of 10000 horse power for
the turning of wheels and the gener-
ating of electricity.
August bids for Uncle Sans new
torpedo boat destroyers will be opened.
Assistant Secretary of the Navy N.
E. Mason has notified Secretary j. w.
Thomas of the Rockland Board of
Trade that the cruisers Tennessee,
North Carolina and Montana will
tarry several days in that harbor at
the expiration of the target practice
cruise. Rockland is one of the few
ports that will be favored.
A Saco professional man has found
a new use for the vacuum cleaner.
He cleans his horses with it and says
the scheme works first rate.
Aroostook is exhorted by the Fort
Fairfield Review to raise seed potatoes
Of yet higher grade and So make more
out of Murphies.
E,astport gets its baseball returns by
wireless. Each night the local station
of the United Wireless Telegraph Co.,
picks up the reports of the big league
games as they are flashed out to the
ocean liners and in turn gives them
to the local stores to be posted for
the benefit of The fans.
The Italian bark Vesuvio recently
arrived in Portland with $500 tons of
salt, the largest cargo Of this mineral
that has ever been brought into this
port Not only that, but the bark
made a quick voyage from Trepani
for tine distance from that port to
Portland was covered in 81 days.
Charles Lockrey of the engineer
staff of the Bath Iron Works Sunday
morning gathered 300 pond lilies out
of Lemont's Creek and presented them
to the City hospital
Among this weeks events at New
Meadows Inn will be the annual meet
ing of directors of Worumbo Mill, Ses
sion of chairmen of the Republican
town committees of Sagadahoc coun-
ty and, Saturday, the Twin City,
Lewiston and Auburn Commercial
Travellers Club, are there for din
ner.
The biggest tWo-masted schooner in
the world, which has been on the
marine railway at the New England
yard since May IA, says the Bath
Times of Saturday, absolutely refuses
to sail again on the waters of the
Kennebec, or the high seas. Re
peated attempts to pull her off have
proved fruitless. Saturday the stunt
was again advertised to take place,
the car ferry Ferdinando Gorges and
the big ocean tug Cumberland being
assigned to help the Ames off the
railway. The anchor chain of the
schooner was made into a bride and
steel hawser carried to the car ferry.
The tug Cumberland pulled on big
Manila haWSer. Both craft parted the
lines and the attempt had to be given
up. The oliver Ames still sits ma
jeStically in the cradle and defies all
attempts to get her to move. The N.
f. S. B. Co. should rock the cradle
and tip the schooner out.
Biddeford's drinking fountains, those
intended for the use of human beings,
have been condemned by DR.. d. A.
Mentally, secretary of the board of
health. who declares they are unsani-
tary and menace to the public health.
and he has ordered the fountains re-
moved. It's the drinking cups that
are dangerous.
Canton will celebrate the dedication
of it's Soldiers monument around
August Is with a picnic and speeches
by Gov. Fernald. Congressman Swasey
and others.
The first machine in the newly re-
fitted shoe factory in Bangor. was
started Friday and it is expected that
all the machinery will be installed in
time to have the entire factory in OPP
Grafton in about two weeks. Every
one Will be glad to see the old factory
running once more as it means much
to hundreds of Bangor people and
general increase of activity in bust
ness circles.