Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-07-24
A TOWN THAT CLIMBS.
The Prosperity OF Beautiful Up River
Village.


SKowHEGAS, July %. 1889.
| Editors Of the Kenne5ee journal;
Il is but two whistles and a puff from
Waterville here and any man with no
particular business at the last mentioned
place, better secure seat on the shady side
Of the one car especially detailed for the
use of the travelling public and slip up 10
Skowhegsn rather than search for new
business under the scorching sun of these
July days.
The repre- sentatives Of Hotel Coburn the
Hesselton or Skow he gan Houses will spread
themselves promiscuously around your one
| little dilapitated grip-sack, and when secured
give ii an exultant ding into the Furthermore
| recesses Of 'free coach" causing the
| gizzard of US to twitter painfully as we see
| in imagination demolished walls of different
| remedial agents and other liquids which
| were brought from Boston by express and
useful in case Of sunstroke, or other ills to
| which flesh might be heir to in the solitary
forests beyond.
The Coburn with its wide veranda, cool
| curiously cornered rooms and close proximi-
| " to our commercial interest here-caught
us-and catered to the cravings of robust
constitution with increasing gravity. The
| walters endeavore with only partial success
to supply the demand-getting there in the
end lust the same Such is the atmospheric
influence of this region on the appetite.
Right here we wish to suggest change in
the furniture of the modern dining room or
beg for an uninterrupted and everlasting fur
Tough from the requirements of select socie-
ty. To eat comfortably, elegantly and sue
cessfully with fork, requires some consid-
cradle practice. The fact Of the case being
~, rs ~
red and seventy. five became experts after
years of hard and constant labor with "la
forchette" Now then let them furnish you
with food receptacle, vulgary called
plate that is a fiat "a the proverbal flap
Jack that touches the table all around as il
hammered for that purpose, so fiat you look
! twice and then try it 10 determine which side
up it really belongs. and an average man
needs the patience of Job to secure his
| ''chuck" with anything like desirable rapidi-
| ty where the fork is the only weapon allow
ed.
| The idea of a full grown provision des-
| troyer chasing morsel of food, with four
| tined imp cement from one side of the plate
| to the other in the vain epdeavor to secure
| it. then back to the very edge, spasmodc
thrust, fancied success, then disappointment
| as we close our half open and expectant face
with a snap and set our teeth for another
trial. If the knife is brought into use in
order to save live, we are at once spotted,
fall from grace, and become as common
people.
Skowhesan is on the climb. Nobody
claims a "boom" but everybody swears by
Skowhegan and her future. Everybody is
busy numerous buildings are in process of
construction; stone church. public library
and couple of dozen of dwellings, speak
louder than words of Skowhegan's prosperity
The people of this town are naturally of
a very forgiving disposition, but not all put
up with such continued abuse as Frenchman
of which we heard, and in his case as in
others it was the last straw that done it. I'll
let him. (Joe--I forget his posterior name +,
tell the story
you see dat naber o mine, Ben Smit,
leeves clos my place-him ben my naber
tree year, more too. Bout one years ago
him git mad my CONAN an ben pull his hiar
knock him down an strike him too mooch
He ben hurt my wife like don't ben
| say me och bout dat. l let him go cause he's
| ben my naber and ben comdate me too many
| time. Den bout tree mont ago dat Ben Smit
| he lick my leetle boy so hims ben seek mos
five week. and | don't say too mooch bout
| dat. cause | don't want some .roub. l let
| him Qo-don't say noting. But what you
tink, he, , Las night him XIII my keefie dog
d heem!" JAY EFF BEE.