Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-07-30
MAINE eRssIP.

One of the inmates of the Rockland poor
house has q genuine grievance. He com
the table has twisted doughnuts every day
while he has to content himself with round
ones.
OF one thing Surry can boast, and that il
of her big minister, who weighs 357 pounds
and can preach according to his weight
Belfast boasts of her big policemen-Edge
6 feet incher, and Knight 203, feet and
ii inches.
Buckboards are more popular than ever
this season at the Maine summer resorts.
Forty years ago q Portland woman,
enterprising, energetic and farseeing WAS
the first to begin the sale of wild berries in
the city of Portland. She had many dis
couraging things to overcome, but in the
last seventeen years she has sold in the city
an average of from 100 to 800 quarts daily
during the season.
Minister Thomas will be in demand this
winter by all who wish to hear fascinat-
ing and instructing lecture on Sweden. He
is now engaged in writing it and he calls his
new lecture Sweden and the Swedes."
Gardiner doesn't know whether to feel
pride or sorrow in the fact that the city
clerks books show no record during July
of deaths, marriages, births or marriage in
tentions
The farmer who saved his old potatoes
for a higher price is now using them in
stead of rocks to "shoo"his neighbours hens
out of the garden That is if he's wise.
Some not so wise are endeavoring to have
the family eat them up when they might
have good new potatoes instead.
An East Bucksport farmer has dog that
treads hay for his master. Hope that dogs
licensed. He deserves to live. ..:
Bangor Commercial With all the hay
that is being cut in Penobscot county it is
somewhat surprising to see how the farm
ers hang to big price. Today they were
asking $l2 ton for old hay, but the pur-
chasers were not very plenty. Eight and
ten dollars will be the prevailing Price this
winter.
A correspondent of the Bath Enterprise,
who visited Georgetown lately, BELIEVES he
has found the cause for the late scarcity of
shad in that region. While at Ind IN
Point he saw five steamers seining porgies
in the mouth of the Kennebec and one day
visited one of these, and discovered that
the hold of the vessel was filled with-not
porgies but shad. As the hold was 30
by Is feet and the mass of shad was
three feet deep, he says this would make,
in the one haul of the seine that he wit
messed, more shad than were caught by all
the fishermen about Merrymeeting Bay in
the whole of the last fishing season. The
captain of this steamer told him that two
other steamers had made hauls of shad, one
five hundred and the other six hundred bar
rels, each holding hundred or more fish.
These three lots would be double the whole
catch of the Keunebec this year.
The semi-annual dividend to the employ
es of the S. D. Warren and Company plant
was declared last week. The sum receiv-
ed was 1-2 per cent. of the amount of the
employees earnings for the past six months,
and was slight increase over the amount
received last January. The per cent was
very satisfactory to the help and was larger
than was expected. This cooperative plan is
greatly appreciated by the employees of this
immense plant, and its receipt will help
brighten up things in that city, which is
somewhat depressed by the announced shut
down of the Westbrook Manufacturing
Company's plant. ..*:"
Some 700 men and 70 spans of horses
cutting path through on the fourteen-mile
division of the Bangor & Aroostook rail-
road ending at Fort Fairfield, don't indicate
bard times. T.. .:
Wholesale grocers claim that Maine now
produces the finest cheese in the country,
while ten years ago her reputation for this
product was very poor.
There hasn't been a fire alarm at Port
land for month. The fates must have a
confisgration in store for the town.
| 1t requires more than the cunning of a
fox to outwit the Houlton police. One rey-
nard came in to reconnoitre the town the
other day when policeman captured him
and put him in the lookup.
| The Maine Rannhlican Platform.