Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-08-09

rush that makes them giddy.
The music of the very best hand organ
isn't to be compared to the merry jingle Of
the outside money that is falling into the
till of the Maine summer resort owner these
sultry days.
Notwithstanding the opportunity for
everybody to work at present, says the
Rockland Courier Gazette, hundreds Of
great able bodied men are tramping through
| Maine living on the resources of the coun-
try, with no thought or wish for work. The
| officers should set them 10 breaking rock
| and the State would soon be rid of them.
These gentry have no use for work.
The men who are to do the horseback
part of the coming State muster, are put
ting in some tall practice these summer
nights.
The Bath Times thinks that there is an
excellent chance for a first class hotel in
that thriving city. 1t says: 1--WE are in,
formed that there is scarcely day, at this
season, that our two very excellent but all
too small hostelries, do not turn away PEG
pie for lack of ROOM Such business
opportunity certainly ought not to 90 I'M
improved.
The bicycle craze is making wonderful
strides. The little town of Gray reports
two thousand dollars worth of wheels among
its taxable property.
Rockport declares that she doesn't envy
any sister resort the presence of English
lords. She admits frankly that she has had
no such visitations, and declares that she
has no use for them, "dont yer know"
We are not biased id this matter but it
strikes US, off hand, that the money of an
English lord is about as good as that of an
American sovereign. If English lords
desire to hop about in the health giving
breezes of our Maine summer resorts, and
chirp, and grow young again we are glad to
extend them cordial welcome-at regular
prices.
Notwithstanding the fact that the War
rem town hearse has been newly painted
and vanished the Rockland Courier Ga
zette declares that no one is anxious to ride
in it.
Not only is there a pressing need of more
guide boards in the good State of Maine !;
but many Of our country roads are sadly
deficient in watering places.
Fairfield people resent the idea that their
town has been special sufferer from the
hard times. The Journal says The saw
mills, except Lawrence, NewhaI & Co. are
shut down only temporarily, and a. the
water is low, it gives the lumbermen .
chance to make some needed repairs. They
all have logs. and say they expect to saw
them. Then our furniture manufacturers are
not 90 very much discouraged as the writer
would have one think. The Fairfield Fur
piture Company tell US they employ fifty
per cent. more men than formerly, have
been running all summer, and expect to
keep on. J. A. Cilley & Co. are running
and not without orders. for our men don't
work for fun. The Maine Manufactur-
ing Co., one of the largest Industries
here, are about to enlarge their plant
to do their work. Lawrence, Newhall &
Co.'S mill is running full capacity with pay
roll Of about $4,000 month. While the
selectmen found the number of farm stock
to be less, they also found it to be of a
much better quality. The working people
of this town are in as good and prosper
| GUS condition as any town or village of this
size, good number Of men, have, and are
building neat aud pretty houses in our vii
| lage this season. Wages on this dam only
average about cents day less than last
year, while the cost Of living 10 greatly re-
duced.
The directors of the proposed Hamp len
and Winterport Railroad are. enthusiastic
over the prospect Of building their road, OF
large part of it the coming autumn.
Everything is ready to build. The right Of
way has been secured and laid out through
the various towns from Bangor through
Frankfort to Prospect and Is soon as the
bonds are placed the work will be com.
menced. 1t is intended to build a. far az
Frankfort this fall. The matter of raising
the building funds is in the hands of com.
petent hnanciers and they apprehend no
difficulty whatever in getting all the money
they want. The road can be built very
cheaply this fall. Material is as low as Il
has been for years or as it will be for some
time to come and help can be obtained as
low as at any time.
The Liberty correspondent of the Belfast
Journal has the following: From child
hoods earliest days we have heard the won
derful story of Jack and the beanstalk; but
we have been skeptio, doubter. In fact
an unbeliever. Now we have become con-
WINGED that until this year we have not seen
the right kind Of bean. Anything that any
one can say relative to the growth of bean
stalk will be readily believed by US in the
future. Walter Clouoh of thia villa uo v,ro