Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-12-13

not know untii began 10 FAah'ih1 mas"
.cripts in Libraries and public archives
Nav, however. my separate sheets OF paper
can he added TO at pleasure and pouini rhen
choose IL any professional scrap BOOK
make. Who may read this, still purchase s
those rather fancifully bound volumes pre-
pared for the purpose, let him once Try
using stout folio sheets such as dry goods
dealers use and think he will never adopt
any other method
The follawiug Maine towns have already
sent in essays 10 competition for the prize
NJ $1,000 offered by the United States Ia
yestor. Boston, Mass, for the best essays
descriptive OF the advantages and merits OF
the cities and towns in the United States
viz, Norway, Pemaquid Belfast and WIN
tbrop. Each essay is TO deal with the
merits of the city OF town chosen as Its sub
iect, either A. desirable place OF
residence; a. affording opportunities
for Investment as place of pecu-
liar location; az place of I'M
usual rapid growth; as place in winch
An unusually large amount Of capital and
labor is employed in any particular indus
try; A. place possessed of great unde-
welcomed resources, such a. water power,
coal and iron, etc, which is peculiar be-
cause il has long escaped attention; as
place of great historical interest; or as pos
sessing any other claim to unique interest
or special distinction. Hon. Henry Cabot
| Lodge il chairman of the awarding COM
mittee.
This is the way the hustling Maine town
Of Sanford sees its population increase In
| $50. population, 273i in $3.50, f2o2 IN
1892, 5000. of course it needs an electric
street railway.
| A writer in Pemaquid Messenger urges
/ that the toll bridge at Sheepscot, which has
| been chartered one hundred years, be made
| free. He saws: Take a county map and
| for a starting point Damariscotta bridge,
over which comes all the travel from Wal
doboro, Nobleboro, Bremen, Bristol and
| Damoriscotta to New Castle and all the
| towns west of the Damariscotta river to the
| Kennebec river, YOU will see nearly direct
route from Damariseotta to Sheepscot
bridge, less than four miles and from
| Sheepecot bridge to Richmond ferry about
nine miles. well remember when there
were phree toll bridges to cross in going
| from Damarscotta to the kennebec river,
now but one and it is this one We ask the
assistance of all the people TO make free.
! so that the great highway from east to the
| kennebee river through our county may be
uninterrupted by toll bridges,
| The Sacarrappa Methodist society, West
| brook propose TO celebrate the third ami
versary of re opening of the beautiful church
edifice and the removal of the last OF the
church debt "Wednesday evening, Dec. II,
| in the large vestries of the church with a
supper, after which addresses. intersperseti
with music will be enjoyed.
A small boy in Bangor was dreadfully
sick the other day, so sick in fact, that he
could not 20 to school and took TO his bed,
seriously alarming the family, for when
they could not get him to eat all day they
thought il must be a sure case of danger.
| Conditions seemed desperate until late in
the evening when his voice was heard to
ring out soundly from his chamber, Marin,
! get me some of that turnip sauce and stuiin,
will YOU" 1t is needless to add that he was
completely recovered.
The Listener of the Boston Evening
Transcript tells the following story
Though Of course YOU woull never in the
world suspect Maine men of having an es-
peeiallv fine sense of humor thermometers.
now, are SO much funnier , some of the
best stories that the Listener hears have
come up from Maine. Perhaps this one will
deserve to rank somewhere with the rest.
II seems that down in the kennebec valley,
or tow ard that way, there lives a gentleman
of the old school. in a handsome old home
stead that stands mile or more from the
nearest village and railroad station.
This gentleman is of convivial turn
of mind, and for a long time found it
necessary 10 go to Portland at frequent
intervals-sometime as often as two or
three times a week. From every one of
these JOURNEYS he returned on the latest
train that he could get, and this was one
that invariably landed him at his station as
! late as eleven O'Clock. As he was not in
the least in a conditiont to walk home, it was
| necessary every night for the local livery
stable keeper to harness horse and take
| him home. This went on until the livery
! stable keeper resolved that the man must
| be demonstrated with. Therefore, the
| gentleman havieg arrived one night
| from Portland at the usual hour and
in the usual condition, and the horse having
| been put into the conveyance, and the man
loaded in as usual, the livery stable keeper
turned to bis passenger and remarked
shrewdly-"Look here, Square If you
don't quit this kind o. business pretty soon,
there1l be singin' down to your house some
| ,lsv. and begad YOU won't hear word of
| III" Something about this admonition--tbe
| grim pie,uresaueness of it, perhaps-csused
it to sink into the mans mind and he left
off his trips to Portland for some time.
I'll, l;sfanar h,l,ayps that tho ssinuin has
not taken place yet.
The following good story is told of a
Richmond man, and. we believe. has never
appeared in print. Some time since meet
ing of local parish was held to consider
the matter of callines pastor. A well known
ci,izea. prominent in church affairs. being
present took occasion to remark on the ap-
parent Indifference of church members in
the object for which the meeting had been
called He had hoped. he said. to see the
church membership fully represented but it
was with much regret that he noted their alb
seuce. At the conclusion of the gentleman's
remarks simid female in the congregation,
who had grown uneasy under his criticism,
ventured to suggest that there was a fair
representation of the ecclesiatial body
present. indicating by wave of her hand
several church members occupying seats in
different parts of the house. For moment
ii looked like knock out in favor Of the
female. but the gentleman was equal to the
occasion and Strengthening up he remarked
with his usual gravity .'It may be that our
members look and appear so much like the
worlds people that | did not recognize
them