Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-08-01

world.
Fourteen Is a long way off.
-Winifred Bryher, in Poetry.
Here's a chance to buy an island.
Outer Heron Island, consisting Of 100
acres, is to be sold at public auction
on August 5, at the rooms Of the
Boothbay Harbor Board Of Trade.
The sites Of two Maine post Offices
have been moved to new locations
according to an announcement that
has just been made. At Great Works
in Penobscot County, the Office has
been moved 500 feet east of it's former
location, while the post Office at Paris
in Oxford County has been removed
to a point 81 feet north of it's previ-
Gus stand. Both changes became eff
fective as of July %.
Another muster under the auspices
of the Maine State Hand Engine
League is to be held at Boothbay
Harbor, on Saturday, August Is, and
committees have been appointed by
the Minnehaha Veteran Firemen's
Association to make arrangements
has purchased the Tiger hand tub at
Warren and has brought it here on
truck.
The fact that William Cogswell, of
Portland, remained in his cell at the
York Village lookup recently and
made no attempt to participate in the
escape of two men who, like himself,
faced rum charges. mitigated in his
favor later in the day. Taken to
Portland, he was discharged by Fed
eral Commissioner George F. Gould
as a man who had no actual knowl-
edge of the presence Of rum in ma
chine in which he and the missing
couple were found.
The discontinuance of the Maine
Farmer page Of the Sunday Portland
Press Herald marks the passing of
the first agricultural paper in the
State Of Maine after nearly a hun
bred years existence. This sturdy
sheet began its career in Winthrop.
Maine, Jan. 81, 1888, as the Kennebec
Farmer and Journal of the Useful
Arts, E. Holmes, Editor, William
Z =.
being DR.. Ezekiel Holmes whose
tural interests led to the naming of
Holmes Hall at the University of
Maine. In fact, almost the last act
of DIR. Holmes life was the fathering
of a bill in the State Legislature for
a State College Of Agriculture.
The first number of DIR. Holmes
ambitious little paper contains re-
port Of the Cattle Show and Fair of
the Kennebec County Agricultural
Society. various articles on agricul-
tural pursuits, a summary of national
news, Maine legislature proceedings,
marriage and death notices, notice of
q sheriff's sale, advertisements of
Dubious roots, and of a wonder
full vegetable medicine which pre-
serves health and prolongs life" and
on the back page Ladies' Depart
ment containing a single article on
Maternal Influence by Mrs. Sigour-
ney. We wonder If Mrs. E. Holmes
clamored for such department.
In his editorial DR.. Holmes an
nounces his object as the mutual i'm
provement Of the Farmers and the
Mechanics, particularly in the pecu-
liar needs of the State Of Maine, clos
ing with tribute to the husbandman
who engaged in his peaceful occu-
patton remote from the allurements
of political ambition, his mind I'M
tainted by sordid desires and his soul
expanded with gratitude to his
Maker, will become more and more
devoted to his home, his country and
his brother man."
A poem which we believe to be
from DR.. Holmes pen, called ITO
Coming Evenings" graces this first
edition, and gives us a hint of the
domestic content which belonged to
the farmer Of 1893.
I'm content, and never sigh
Nor fly from home some bliss to
find;
And Jane is pleased as well as
1t so completely feasts her mind
To sit her down to knit by night
And hear me read by candle light"
This happy scene and the reception
of the "Kennebec Farmer" by DR.
| Holmes cronies in Winthrop will
| form one Of the episodes Of a histor-
ical pageant of Winthrop, Maine
which is being written by Dorothy
Newman Webb of that town, as her
thesis for the Master of Arts degree
at Boston University.
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