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

August.
It's the time of merry crickets
Piping up their sprightly song
In the fields beyond the thckets
When the golden days are long;
Time of tempting harvest apples,
' Growing in country lane,
I Where the summer sunshine dapples
Fields of erSCWhile golden grain
August, matron of the seasons,
J Round and ample, fun of breast,
Gives her rofnping children reasons
For repose and dreamful rest
August nights are nights of vision
August days are days of ease
I Where the soul in fields Elysian
| Wanders under lotus trees,
New York Evening Telegram.
| The town of Eddngton is observing
its Tooth anniversary. this week. The
town was Incorporated Feb. q. 1911.
Falmouth Foreside residents fortified
their homes against Yeggs, a few
mornings ago, after several breaks
made in that vicinity.
! The election of three police commis-
sioners for the city of Biddeford rs the
present subject of all absorbing inter-
est in that municipality. The special
election for their choice will be held
Monday, Aug IA.
The suggestion that Bush Island in
! the New Meadows river which is the
propertv of the State. be turned over
To the Malaga people. is, according to
people who are acquainted with the
property, unrea soma BILE. as the island Is
not large enough for a colony the size
of the Malaga delegation. The island
| is practically barren and little If any
! ga rdening could be done. 1t is also
| growing smaller every year by the
steady washing away of its sandy
shores. Jerry Murphy, the so-called
| King of Malaga, strongly faVors
Bush island as a location for the Mala-
ga unfertunates. in spite OF the objee-
lions mentioned.
| The steamer Old Colony on trip
| last week to Portland ran across big
school of whales. Fully 100 of the
mammals were seen in the water,
jumping. shouting and diving, as the
steamer passed along in the vicinity of
Boon Island. The biggest sight of all
however, was IA gigantic thrashef
shark among the whales. The big
loGg-tailed fellow was trying his best
| to kill the whales and the sound Of the
conflict could be heard by the passen-
gers. long after the steam passed out
| of sight.
| Edward S. Everett has been digging
al Frenchmans island for Indian relics
Irecently, with the result that he found
| in the soil the skull of another tribe
| from the Indian About this skull he
| says: This skull was found under
three feet of clam shells and soil on
the Northern end of Frenchman's is
land From conditions, it must have
been left there by Indians not less than
100 years age. probably the head Of
some foe brought 8 trophy from the
main land"
Frank Stuart of Northfield has been
hoisting and piling logs. The device is
for use more particularly around mills
and pulp concerns where they take the
| logs out of the water during the sum
mer sea son and pile them along the
IriVer banks for use during the winter.
Next month will see the opening of
| a new academy for girls at Houlton.
Several of the Sisters of Mercy of
Portland have gone to Houlton to make
Arrangements for the opening of the
| fall term of the new school, which is
to be called, st. Mary's Academy. 1t is
to be a boarding school for Catholic
land Protestant pupils
A Central Maine clergyman, whose
residence is at the single hotel, which
the city boasts in which he has his
charge, had a peculiar experience
short time ago, which he has since re-
lated to a number of his friends. 1t
seems that he ordered a typewriter
and had the same shipped to him at
the hotel. 1t arrived when the clergy
man was absent and the hotel pro-
prietor, always thoughtful for the
welfare of his guests, took the case
containing the typewriter, which 10
him appeared much like a case con-
| tanning something else, and placed il
| upon the ice When the clergyman
ARRIVED at noon his landlord took him
Imysteriously back of the counter and
| said to him in stage whisper: That
case of yours is out on the ice. Par
son. think it will be all right by din
ner time
The Portland Argus reports the
| queerest fog in and around Portland,
Sunday, that has been seen in years.
Part of the time it was over every
thing and then at other times there
We're wide clear stretches. The entire
city was envelOped in fog blanket as
early as A. NJ, but later on when