Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-04-16

Rumford - prosperous Town ara IS 60
ing to run ia debt for 4 seven thousand
dollar schoolhouse but n mighty mean man
lives there if the su.picions of a Rusnford
man are correct. The latt r snapped horses
with man in Rumford last week getting a
barrel Of i Ter to boot, which he took home
and put in his cellar. The next morning
when he went to tap it he found it had all
all been drawn out ard spirited away during
the night
won in an atjoiuing fosn to Hebron
told her husband ard son to let her manage
and they need not pay ajax on their dog
A little chap was boarding tn re accustomed
to suffering. When she saw the 'elettmen
sppros Ching she started the boy off with the
dog t. Hing him to stay at a certain Nigh
bor's one hour. hen tn y wonl be gone and
not tax the dog. When the question was
asked it was promptly sns1ered in the
negative. However, the m,n did not take
the usual route when they came to the turn
Of the road, but went tn rcai the boy was
told to take, and soon III t him returning
with HI. dog We will call the owner of
said dog Billy Bunker. On M citing they
asked the boy whose dog he had with him.
He answered ''B 3 Bill BIB Bunker's. The
s-selectm- men were com-coming and the old
old wo-wo-womin started IN, off SO they
shouldn't t-t-t-ax him" How that boy hate d
himself when his m 1ther found out.
Rockland wants local history written
We would advise them not to have it gotten
up by outside parties who care nothing for
accuracy and completeness and everything
for the dollars.
Orrington's town hall is to be decorated
Tuesday night and custom that has been
in vogue for quarter century will be brok
en-. When the hall was dedicated the
townspeople voted that no dance should be
held there and this has been rigidly OBJ
served until now when grand ball is on
the taps.
Hallowell Register-Who says we are
not an industrious people? Refer him to the
young man at Loudon Hill. working like
beehive on patch quilt.
Rocklsnd has literary club, each mem
Der of which is by the rules compelled to
read half hour each day or pay fine of
five cents. This doesn't seem of much
consequence until one learns that the reading
of novels is tabooed
It's been quite number of years since
there has been such elbow" along the
Maine coast as visited it last week. Nor
for six years, including both winter and
summer. has the Portland and Boston toat
been storm bound so long.
The theorists who have 50 much to say
about the cheap living Democratic tariff
would bring to US, are respectfully refer
red 70 few facts. Here is one from that
good Democratic newspaper, tie Belfast
Age "One Of our leading grocers was look
Jog over his books recently and comparing
the price Of goois today with that of twenty
years ago. He found the bill of one Gus.
toner who has traded with him during that
time t, be less than half for last month than
hat 1t was for March 1874, for the same
quantity of the same goods. For instance, a
barrel Of -four which sold for 50 so then
can be bought for 81 so, and other goods
are proportionately low
Camden has her hills and ocean scenery
but still is unsat'sfied. She wants a fair
ext fsll and it woul int be surprising if