Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-07-08

We raise, as on we glide,
Our banks the brightest bubbles fling
For ever from the prow:-
Then let US gaily sail and sing
The happiest time is now
Samuel Lover
Sing hey! We robust lawmakers of
Maine.
Many perch and pickerel in the ponds
near Waterville.
Kennebeckers filled Augusta, Thurs
day and saw the big show.
The tall grass has gone down all over
Kennebec county during the fine hay
making weather of the week
The Capital dome is being construct
ed of concrete as well as steel.
On all Names improved State roads
the automobile tourists are enjoying
the fair weather and beautiful scenery
stopping at night at Names improved
hotels and forest and lake camps
Among naval commanders recently
retired under the navy personnel act is
Commander f. c. Bowers formerly an
inspector at the Bath Iron Works.
Blneberries are coming in ali over
Maine for the luscious pies Maine
mothers make
Harold Webster and Archie Snow OF
West Paris have earned Sl26 thus fan
this summer picking berries
A Bath girl telephoned a friend
Monday evening that she heard that
the game at Reno was won by John
son. in the fifteenth inning"
A Maine river driver drove a single
log across Hell Gate in New York as
tOnishing the Gothamites
Former President Theodore Roose
welt may visit Commander Robert F.
Peary al the latter's summer home in
Casco Bay during the summer
Indians with the Wild West Show
enjoyed the beautiful falls more than
they did Lewiston. The manager had
to drag them away from West Pitch
rocks out on which they had crawled
They remarked of the falls, rocks and
river, Ugh. Heap fine!"
Hayden II. Hawthorne, son of Col f
w. Hawthorne of Bath, an editor of this
New York Commercial Advertiser and
graduate of the Stevens Institute OF
Technology is now an engineer with
the American Bridge co. The young
engineers dad was 80 years ago no.
ted wit of Maine, a member of Cover
nor GarcelOn's staff.
Portland has opened for its city
bound boys three summer Fairgrounds
one of these at the North school mas
been maintained several years. Thou
sands of the children of Portland en-
JOY the Fairgrounds and vie for prizes
for proficiency in out door sports. Let
all Maine cities initiate the examples
of Portland and Bath, both of which
cities wisely provide for the health and
pleasure of it's youth in summer ath-
letic fields
Maurice Nelson. bos'n's mate on
l.. S. Cruiser South Carolina, is visit
ing his adopted mother Mrs H. F.
Farrow of Belmont. Bos'n Nelson
captained the gunnerS crew that
beat the worlds record with -four
shots and four hits in 81 seconds.
The New England Fish Co has
elected A. l.. Hager a director Mr..
Hager recently completed the Ketchi-
kan $250,000 cold storage plant on the
Pacific coast, steered the company
through serious strike and acquired
the steamers Of the Canadian Fishing
Co. Ltd. Mr.. Hager is an active bust
ness man of Seattle. His sister is
Mrs. Genevieve Hager Zane of Port
land.
Frank Ham, A. c. Coombs and
Warren Richards at East Boothbay
have completed the fancy painting on
the new battleship yacht Friendship
TX owned by Harry Field of Boston.
The craft was built by l. H. Adams t&
Son and is one of the finest craft ever
bull by that firm. She is finished in
nah ogany. and is an exact miniature
of battleship model.
U. $. Consul at Havre, France,
James F.. Dunning formerly an able
Bangor newspaper man has been or
dered no me by Secretary Knox for two
months Especial duty in State Depart
ment at Washington Consul Jim
will come to Maine to shake hands all
around. With his family he has
sailed from Havre
The Skowhegan Town Improvement
society offers the villagers the fol-
lowing prizes for the summer Of
1910: 500. first prize. for the most
tasteful home grounds or home
yard 500 to be- divided at the dis
erection of the judges for second
and third prizes; 1915, first prize for the
best vegetable garden; SIS to be
divided at the discretion of the judges
for the best flower, bed or border