Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-07-29

Mr. Reeds district ard made speeches tr
him. aud was also principal spoke IN
his wheel in his first contest for the
leadership, the contest III y hich he was
iie Gated, and have always helped him 10
the extent of my power in all his contests.
Mr. Reed is man of brilliant lntellect
and great force, and would receive In MS
canvass the hearty support OF the Maine
senators, as a matter of pride II for no
other reason. Personally should prefer
Mr.. Reed to Mr.. Mckinley. If one couio
take the two men and shake them up TO-
gether he would produce the ideal c. n
didate. but of the two 1 much prefer
Reed He added that he believed the
New England delegation would be sol d
for Mr.. Reed and that he believed Sena-
circumstances to be vice president, a POSI-
ton uncongenial to man of Mr.. Chand-
ler's temperament.
Lewistons "peeping" Tom peeped into
the wrong house and as result had his
"peepers" closed.
Ellsworth American: 1t seems now 1t
is not question of violation of the liquor
law that is troubling Bar Harbor Just at
present, but the problem is how to regu-
late the law breakers so that it may be
done with becoming respectability.
Rockland Star: Hon. F. NJ. Simpson and
wife of Carmel and John NJ Oak and wife
of Bangor were in the city, yesterday, ard
spent last night at the Simpson house at
Owls Head. Mr.. Simpson is the able treas
urer of Maine and handles the State funds
with skill born of keen discernment In the
MANAGEMENT of finances. He Is one Of
| those genial fellows whom everybody Is
glad to meet and who has hosts of friends
all over the State. Mr. Oak is a cousin of
State Land Agent Oak. and is engaged in
the clothing business in Bangor. The
party is spending month at Northport
and came through to Rockland yesterday
for little recreation.
The following report from Caribou may
be correct but it is open to suspicion
| George CHM saw four nice deer in his
oats Sunday. Although he tried several
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would Immediately return to the oats.
Finally Mr.. CHM was obliged to let them
remain unmolested and eat at his ex-
pense. The mice deer certainly ex-
hibited an alarming familiarity with
CHM.
The Bangor & Aroostook's station
agent at Sebols Is missing AS be didn't
take enough from the office to get him
into Canada apprehension is felt for him.
Out of 256 gallons of seized liquor,
which Waldo county sent away to be re-
fined, 241.47 gallons of alcohol were OBJ
tanned. Some of this so-called rum and
whiskey was 90 per cent cheap alcohol
colored. Either the purer liquors weren't
seized or Waldo county people prefer a
short cut to delirium tremens.
| Here's what a Skowhegan plumber
found in a we'll he was called to pump
out II pals, six horsehoes, a high back
comb and a revolver.
A Pittsfeld lady bought her berries OF
poor woman from out of town, and paid
her more than the market price in order
to help her In return the "poor woman
cheated her outrageously. Some of the
poverty in this world is due to Just that
sort of meanness
Portland would like to have the New
York Yacht Club rendezvous in Casco bay
and there is an expectation that the hope
will be realized.
| A Hallowell gardener has been expert
menting with fish as fertilizers He put
fish In each hill of potatoes When
later he went out to see what the wonder
full effects of his fertilizer might be he
found that the dogs had dug out the
potatoes to get at the fish This leads the
Hallowcll News to remark that they must
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