Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-08

When mighty thunderS roll ana CldSnt =
love the grandeur of the dark
That disslpates and leaves no mark
love the burning. tiny star,
That softly CLEANS on high, afaT,
/ love these features none can buy
The moving pictures of the sky
John Smith. in Buffalo Express.
The Eastern Yacht Club fleet Is
racing off the Maine coast.
The Wild West show at Bangor
Thursday was enlivened by a genuine
Western tornado. but the people in
attendance would have preferred to
have the performance little less of
a root raiser. -
The selectmen of Yarmouth have
posted notice on the bridge be-
tween Cousins and Litt$johh's is
lands. stating that the bridge is I'M
safe for use and advising those who
pass over 1t that il is at their own
risk. The islanders protest against
this condition and claim that during
the last 10 years the tax value N the
islands has more than charlottesville
that of the rest of the town. j@s in
creased but little u a.
1t looks likasa milk famine in Bid
deford Mifk dealers who have roa6es
in Biddeford and Saco are unable to
secure nearly enough milk to supply
their customers. The farmers claim
that it is impossible to provide the
dealers with milk as the cows are
rapidly growing dry. The tesr1fic
heat of the last few days is believed
to have much to do with the drying
up of the COWS.
The Bath Times says that Spfhney
Bros. have had crew of four men ca
gagged in peeling hemlock bark from
1000 trees on the George Mckinney
lot in Wiscasset for the past six
weeks. They finished the work this
week and will have about -. cords
of bark. which they will ship21o par
ties in Woburn, Mass. for UEin a
tannery. The bark is worth SIS a.wrd,
delivered on the car. The W. of
stripping the bark from. the He&rsock
trees can only be done during Jupe
and July and the early part of A$al
gust. 60.
The Salmon Falls library va
opened Wednesday. Almost so bers
sons. notwithstanding the exsE1f
heat. responded to the invitation OF
the Quillcote family to attend thet
opening and spent delightful hour
in looking about the rooms and gfMet
ing friends and acquaintance. MES;d
Riggs (kate Douglass Wiggm NH3
Miss Nora A. Smith received the Wiz
itors. Mrs, Riggs spoke entertainingly1
of tho purchase of the house in which
the library was located and how the
project of turning it into a library
came to her.
The hot wave of the present week
has brought visitors from the cities
into Maine by the thousands and it is
reported that hotels are turning away
applications for room and board dur
ing certain periods in July and Au- /
gust Trains on the Maine Central |
are running some DAYS in three ssc-l
tons to accommodate the rush to |
Maine.
Hon. Job H Montgomery of Cam |
den has been endorsed by the Waldo |
county bar for the next vacancy on the |
supreme bench. Mr.. Montgomery. |
VINO represented the Camden class in !
the 74th Legislature although resi- |
dent of Knox county has practiced |
in Waldo county and is d |
native of the town of Prospect. He |
l.,
of Belfast. This endorsement by the |
Waldo bar was taken. it is under |
stood. without any solicitation or sug /
gestion upon his part.
Among the 4th of July incidents thatf
have received but little notice was the
of the barn of A. j. Bern |
stein of Portland at Falmouth Fore
side The bolt made wild work and
there was brisk fire for short time. |
A bucket brigade was formed and a /
bevy of college girls on a vacation at
the Foreside passed the water to the]
men on the roof. and the building was
saved with loss of less than $500.
Il don't believe that the Portland fire
department could have fought the fire
more successfully" said Mr. Bern
stein in discussing the incident. !
The complaint is made that people I
coming to Brunswick to work have diff
fculty in finding suitable places for
board and rooms. The situation has
been taken up BY the board of trade
of that town.
A piece of lumber cut over so years
ago from Maine pine tree was re- /
Gently received by Carroll Pencil of
Brunswick from his brother-in-law,
A. w. Simpson of Stockton, Cal. The
piece of timber was hewn on White
island in Casco bay, loaded at Bath
on the brig, Eagle, Capt. Barstow of
Brunswick, and came direct to Stock
ton, arriving there in the spring of
1850. 1t was put into a frame build
ing and for 30 years after the build