Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-08-10


A Belfast young lady and clerk in >
ievelry store are friends no longer She
called al the store to take home an xIarA
clock which had been repaired and the fien-
dish clerk slyIy wound and set the alarm
before %eiiverinx the time pierre. A. re-
suit the alarm did its deadly work just ss
she had reached the most frequented part
of the street and everybody stared her ont
of couu,enance. while the clerk conh be
.een nj a distance grinning and trying to APP
pear sstonished at the embarrassing occur
renee
Bangor Commercial Hon l. c. Libby.
one Of the moss indefsfigabie Of Names
business Ileu. was in town Saturday. the
first time for several weeks. His western
Operations tn which he has made two visits
since spring. condensed milk and other
business. has partially ruled him out Of cat
tie trade. r. l.. Libby, one of Mr.. Libty's
Younger sons, ca rries on the business He
purchased in one day and will ship from
Bangor forty coxs and calves. all to be sold
on Brighton market. Ia will be
pleasing 10 all exhibitors at the
Eastern Name FAIR to know that Hon. l.
Y
to &C. as one of the judges upon live stock
at the coming Eastern Maine State Fair,
This will give satisfaction TO the public and
all the exhibitors for it has long been well
established fact that what /. e. Libby
doesn't know about this class of live stock
isn't worth knowing.
4 good story is related of the landlady
of Bangor boarding house which is
patronized quite extensively by laboring
men who one morning informed her patrons
that the price. of board would be increased
30 cents a week. Patrick, recent conner,
was the only one who objected. He said
Why. Mrs NJ We eat all We can at 81,
and now van want " TO eat 30 cents worth
more, is it,"
The twenty-iirst annual reunion of the
Eleventh Maine Regimental Association
will be held at Portland on "Wednesday
August IL. Business meeting at Reception
Hall, City building, at O'Clock A NJ.
Dinner At Portland Club House, Great
Diamond Island Headquarters will be
opened at the Preble House on the 18th.
Maine girl has had her hair burned of
bv lightning BARRIERS say that il does the
hair good TO ,inge il, hut people generally
would object to having il singed that way.
General Manager Payson Tucker, of the
Maine Central, il chairman of the commit
tee upon invitations for the grand coaching
parade at North Conway, August 3Oth
They are being handsomely engraved and
are TO be sent to President and Mrs. Harri-
son. Mr. and Mrs. Grover Cleveland and all
the governors of Maine. North Conway
was very lucky town when it got General
Manager Tucker for one of its summer
soiourners.
The girl. who is in the habit of screaming
whenever asinouse indicates his presence.
ought TO profit by the display of courage of
Miss Louise Payson of Hopedale. She was
spending an evening entirely alone last
week When she heard the robins making
distressed sound and took her lamp out in
the orchard where they had a nest, to learn
the cause, and found large adder in the
the nest She found pole, and still hold
ing her lamp with one hand she managed to
pull him out with the other, but not until he
had made a supper of the young birds.
Common sparrows have built nest and
raised family undisturbed in the globe of
one of the electric street lights in Bidde-
ford and the trimmer who has carefully
from disturbing them, declares
that every cold night the two birds and their
Young gather around the edge of the globe
and hold their feet up to the light to be
WARMED.
A vase on exhibition in the Maine Histori
cal rooms, Portland, was found on the
plantation of 5. Z. Mayberry in North
Carolina. supposed to have been made by
the mound builders who were in these parts
of the nited States 3 900 years ago. 1t is
a fine specimen. there being none better in
any collection in the nited States. The
Smithsonian Institution was anxious to Sc
cure it.
Lewiston journal The State of Maine is
fairly Uutdoing herself this year in industrial
progress There seldom has been a time in
the history of the state when many gigan-
tie enterprises were being pushed to com
pletion at once. With the Aroostook Rail
road the immense operations at Rumford
Falls. the enlargement of three Lewiston
mills, the big shoe factory extensions in
Auburn. the condensed milk business, each
OF when represents numerous or tnonsanus
of dollars and our enormous summer traf-
tir, We can present a much more substantial
showing than some of the western states
can with their wild cat Blooms We are
ready TO compare Lewiston and Auburn,
which are literally all torn up with new
enterprises, with any two western cities of
their size, today.
The late drives on the west branch of the
Peuobscot are coming down in good shape.
The Aroostook railroad contractor says
he never struck such an easy line east of
the Missouri river. and that the whole road