Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-07-30
MAIZE GOSSIP

Bangor Commercial: Maine 10 learning
10 take care of her health % she should.
The Secretary Of The State Board Of Health
says sna. Maine cities and towns are paying
more attention than ever 70 sanitary matters,
and q Q consequence there 10 . marked
dscresse Of diphtheria, scarlet fever and
typhoid cases. Bat to be permanently
relax Eternal vigilance 10 the price Of
health ~ well - Of liberty.
The Eve mssted schooner Gov. Ames had
hard luck on her first voyage and has never
besn Q success. Five m ists seem to be one
too many. There 10 limit to all good
things. The Gov. Ames 10 nov in San
Francisco a1d they are altering her to 9
barkentine.
A member Of one Maine firm that will
handle thirty. seven million Of spruce this
season says, FOR the next ten years" he
says, "ihe bulk Of the spruce timber IN
Maine will be made into pulp. Spruce
makes tougher paper than poplar and we
have lots Of il growing in the State. Yes,
pulp will be the lesding product Of Maine
for the next ten years
The outlook for Q good year for the far
msrs 10 encouraging - crops OF all kinds
are now growing finely. The hay 10 about
all in the barns, the most Of it In the best
Of condition and in large qusutity, and the
grain 10 very heavy. Vegetables are COM
log right along, and it looks - II the pota
to crop might be good one. Surely far
msrs have no reason to complain With the
season and the crops thus hr. Notvith-
st4uding the fact III It the season started in
r ther cold and backward the present out
box 10 the most favorable for years.
New York Tribune Bangor, bv fur
nishing her summer stay with the
9 pectacle of 9 large deer crossing swiftly
through her streets, clearly initiates the
metropolis which only fev days ago Sc
cured . bit Of rus in urbe" in the shape
Of q wild possum pendant from telegraph
wire. But, after all, Chicago with big
.airie fires in the heart OF the city, can
afford TO smile at this feeble rivalry.
The Annual Re. union of the 22d Maine
Volunteer Infantry. will be held 1t Dexter
August 20. The Dexter comrades will
give reception and dinner to the sssocia-
ii IN. Comrades are invited to bring their
wives.
A Library Association has been organic ed
at Hiram, and committees appointed to
engage in the work Of raising funds for the
purchase Of books and putting the library
in operation. Meetings are held at Green's
Hall once In two weeks on Thursday even
IL ~, ct which music and literary exercises
form part of the programme. The officers
are: DR.. G. E. Wilson, President; L. A.
wadsworth, Secretary; Clifton Evans,
Librarian; Miss Minnie Rankin, pianist.
man who was running . moving ma
chine at North Boothbay last week, thought
he saw something in the grass just ahead OF
him. Being . careful man he went to in
vestigste and it was lucky he did so, for he
foun1 four-year-old boy fast asleep in the
clover.
Farmers in Leeds and vicinity, which is
one Of the greatest fruit regions in Mains,
complain that their apple crop will be .
comparative fsilure this year. Various
excuses are assigned Is the cause.
There are but eleven papers published 10
Maine today that were alive fifty years SGD
W hen the State bsssted Of 80 weeklies and
three dailias. These are the Portland Ad-
vertiser. the Eastern Argus, Christian Mir
ror, lions Advocate, Portland Transcript,
Bangor Wing and Courier, Kennebec
JOURNAL. Gospel Banner. Maine Farmer,
Republican journal and Eastport Sentinel.
Somerset only had one paper fifty years
sgo, the Somersat Journal, published in
Norridgewock. Plscatsquis had only one,
the Piscataquis Herald. The dsv Of cheap
literature had not dawned on Maine fifty
years ago.
Fair field Journal: Gardiner and Skowhe-
san should bring their steam fire engines
tc gether and see which one could throw the
e nest spray for watering gardens. At pres-
ent Skowhegan seems to be ahead but the
Gardiner boys seem to think they have OF
had a fair chance. Both parties should
have q chance to show their superiority for
the world is anxious to know which is in the
van.
One Of the attractions Of 9 Bangor drug
store window is one Off largest tsfantulas
ever seen there which escaped from q
bunch of bananas in fruit store and 10 q
dash xcross the street nesrly distanced the
clerk who considers himself quite 4 sprinter.
The spider was cap ured snd placed in a
large bottle ard is now surrounded by q
small million Of tsrsrIula kids which are
about the siz. of common spider.
Bath Times: Brunswick wont get thai
coveted depot till next year for even the
euterprising Maize Central cans do ever,
thing at once. But the town Is promised Z
neat and spacious one next year and all the
State is interested Of course.
There is strong talk Of holding 3 Rife
Tournament In Maehss sometime in Au-
gust by the several rife teams in Washing
ton county.
Ths Christian EndeAvor State Convea.
ton will be held in the Congregations
church. Saco, on Wednesday and Thurs.
day, August &c and 81.