Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-26


Haunt me, and most of all dreams of
their shade.
There the high MONDAY sun straight
overhead
Seeketh in vain unto this aisle to pierce;
only its shadows sun-fecked, wanly led,
Penetrate from that heat meridian
fierce.
Here all day long the falling waters. dim.
Chant to the forest as they hurry by
Their neVer-ceaSing, neyer-res!ing hymn,
Only by tempest may the trees reply.
Thoughts of cool waters dreams of for
eStS deep,
Hover all night about weary brain
Until awakened, peace files with the
Day in the city's binding heats agafn
Pail Mall Gazette
Saturday evening. just at nightfall, a
moose walked leisurely down the lane
along which the COWS are accustomed
To return from the pasture to the harm
belonging to ole Hanson, in Winslow,
Me. Here, he was driven beneath the
barn and secured. and at last accounts
was being cared for with the same So
licitude the farm cattle have expert
eneed. pending the return of Deputy
.PHtI IN II lcG - 1luiJSbIl, dS referee. III
the question. What can legally be
done with this moose. since the big
game season is not yet Gomez"
Phippsburg is now being explored to
discover IA coal mine which, for thirty
or forty years. Dame Rumor has
claimed exists there. If it is found
the feasibility of working it will be the
next question taken up by that town.
Since the celebration at Pemaquid
Aug. a. and %, the soil in that vicin-
ity has been thoroughly turned over
by residents and visitors. to secure If
possible, further relics to add TO the
collection recently found there. The
searchers have unearthed a faced wall
extending from the shore westward in
the direction of the terrace which fac
es the north. toward the tan-pit from
which, within a few years, bits of
leather have been taken. a perfect
axe has also been discovered with an
eye for the handle (unlike that of mod
efn aVes) fitted like the eyes for hoe
handle. Bits of blue crockery, glass,
and tiles for house roofs have been
taken from the soil. An effort will be
made to learn the date when these eN-
cavated relics We're used.
OF 1928 accidental drownings in New
England during the past year, Maine
had II victims, being outranked by
Massachus only with 139 drowning
facilities.
George b. Ridley. of Topsham. has
pro, ed that peaches can be raised in
Maine, and has produced from one tree
100 peaches which are as fine as are
grown anywhere The fruit is large
of good flavor and color, and the
peaches weigh nearly a third of a
pound
An out-of-the- season pig race took
place in Milford, the other day. UNI
heralded. unadvertised but neverthe-
less highly appreciated. for the resi-
dents are still chuckling over the re-
membrane of the amusement IL occa
stoned. In this race We're involved two
enterprising residents, all their neigh
bors, and, ere the finish. the services
of an expert swimmer Two young
Milford men, while rafting logs at the
Nebraska boom, holding the same be-
lief that did the famous Charles Lamb
about the edibility, and therefore de-
STABILITY. of Young porkers, bought a
young pig, and upon their return home
placed it in a pen which they hoped
would make an acceptable home for it.
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former residence in Greenbush. in
some manner escaped from it's pur
chasers and started for it's former
home. En- route, it was overtaken by
some of its pursuers whom the owners
| had enlisted in the chase, but these
We're unable to retain their hold upon
their slippery prey. which finally took
J to the river and swan TO an island in
| the midst of the stream, where it re-
couped energies for another night
while pursuer on raft started for
| the island. When he arrived piggy
took another swim. but the raft driv-
or, who could also swim, followed, and
finally captured the plucily little pig.
| The turbine steamers Camden and
| Belfast are 10 undergo a thorough
iovcrhauling. this fall, at Bath, looking
toward their best possible condition
for safety and comfort of passengers
| next season.
/ 4 @1-ouacc Pippin is a center Of at
traction in Biddeford. The rest Of the
attraction consists of four other apples
Of the same variety. The combined
weight of the five apples is five pounds.
\ generous fund has been placed at
the disposal of "A resident of Camden
10 be used in scholarships for residents
lof Knox county who desire a musical
ieducation the money TO be available
in October. That this is beginning
which ought to spread through every
county in Maine is the belief of one
who has noted the universal love Of
music which Maine people evinee. and
the scarcity OF melody here compared
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