Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-22
Maine Gossip

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| The Lark.
| The lark now leaves his watery nest.
| And climbing shakes his dewy wings:
! He takes this window for the east.
| And to implore your light. he sings:
awake. awake, the moon VIII never rise.
| Till she can dress her beauty at your
eyes!
The merchant bows unto the seaman's
| star.
| The ploughman from the sun his sea-
son takes:
But still the lover wonders what they are
Who look for day before his mistress
Awake. awake. break through your wells
Then draw your curtains. and begin the
dawn.
| Davenant 1859.
Automobilists courage begins to
revive
| This year Maine June brides had to
trip between showers into matrimony.
| Augusta will give warm welcome
to the Third District Convention dele
gates.
| This week Names smart boy and
pretty girl grads are dancing like but
terfiies into real life.
The rainy weather and bad roads re-
sulting have made a vast difference to
Maine this month in the amount of au-
two ~
month of June which should have seen
a largely increased volume of business
from greater number of touring cars
on the Maine roads has seen a falling
Off of travel far below the motor car
record of April and May.
The supreme court of the. State of
| Maine. sitting as a court of law, will
hold the June term in the new county
| courthouse in Portland beginning on
the fourth Tuesday of June. which will
be the 2Sth day of the month. This will
be the first time the law court has ever
convened in the supreme court room
The court will be composed of six of
the justices. Chief Justice Emery. and
Justices Savage, Peabody. Spear, Cor
nish and King.
! John A. Fuller the famous old fisher
man of Tenants Harbor, character
original and unique of the Maine coast
and life saver with record of nine
| saved lives to his credit. attributes the
| nigh cost of Holsters not to the scar
city OF the crustaceanS but to the
| larger number of men engaged in
| catching them. He claims that the
time is near when Holsters will cost
| $l00 apiece.
| A. B. Dolbier of Pennington received
from one shipper last week the large
number of 1647 muskrat skins. Mr.
| Dolbier. says this shipment will amount
to quite little over $1,000. The skins
| were all first-class ones and in very
| good condition.
| Orlando E. Wardwell. a son of Tur-
nor. Me-. is now in this State for his
vacation. He plays first trombone, has
crossed the Atlantic six times, played
| before the crowned heads of Europe
and all over the Union as member of
/
| of the pieasantest evenings of his life
was that when as "a player with Sou
sa's artists he took part in an enter
| tainment before King Edward and
| Queen Alexandra, the Prince and Prin-
cess of Wales at Sandringham Mr..
Wardwell is loyal to his native state
| to whose comfort and beauty he hopes
| to retire He would not exchange a
New England life for that of Berlin or
Paris.
The firm of Cyr Brothers Watervile
have been awarded the contest to build
concrete dam for the Newport Wool
er company. They started for New
port last week with crew of men and
work has now begun.
No mere Sunday baseball at Fort
ment in response to protests of Port
land people.
The lobster business on Monhegan
island he's been good this Year Be
tween January Is and May 20. the fish
er,oen of that place caught $500 lob
sters. which brought them $3.50. The
average per man was $466.
C. Harry Holland a Portland toaso-
rial operator recently went a fishing
and from d Cumberland county brook
caught AZ trout in 51a hours.
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The rains this month prevented for.
est fires, added glorious beauty to-
trims vines and ShrlIhhery and gave