Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-04-06

vowed to silence, bel1eVe.
Conversations about the weather now
include illusions to April showers.
The money loss connected with Judge
Hale's defalcations will take from some
the support of their old age and will be
keenly felt by all. But the financial loss
isn't to be compared with the loss of con-
fidence in human nature resulting from
this most deplorable event.
Work upon Biddeford's new city build
ing progresses despite the threats of in
functions.
The senseless college custom of stealth G
signs and whatever the careless dealer
leaves exposed upon the street over night
"just for the fun of the thing,you know"
received a set back Thursday night in the
person of Bowdoin Freshman. He had
ever been known among his companions
as a modest unoffender but when return
ing to. the train from card party in Bath
a temptation came to him aud he fell. A
thermometer hung invitingly in front of
drug store. Visions of the trophy held
up before his college mates the subject of
thrilling tale of capture proved too
much. He "swiped' that thermometer
and ran for the train. A big Bath police
man was an eye witness, however, and as
the train whistled out of the station the
lock of his dungeon cell grated on the
sensitive ears of the young Freshman.
1t was finally decided that it wasn't
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to convince him that honesty is the best
policy.
Bath laments it's inability to be in the
New England base ball league. Can't
Bath and Brunswick cooperate?
1t costs but little more to have the pu-
pills of the public schools use the same
book through all the studies in any grade
and to keep the book when the grade is
completed and the advantages gained
more than make up the difference At
least SO thinks ThOmaston after trying
the experiment.
An AndrOscoggin county commissioner
says he doesn't see why the county should
pay 25 cents more week for the board of
a prisoner who works than for one that
doesn't work as all receive the same
amount of food. There are some who
don't see why the prisoner who works
shouldn't have board enough better than
that Of the drono to represent the differ
ence in cost to the county.
1t appears that Baths city marshal gets
less remuneration than the patrolman,
unless he counts the dignity of his office
as an equivalent of cash.
A medicine peddler prescribed for a
Portland man suffering with sore foot.
The result was that one of the toes had
to be amputated. 1t is little queer that
some people aren't satisfied with the aver
age physician liability to err without
encouraging some ignorant fellow to pre-
scribe for them.
Bar Harbor emerges from the most pro
fitable winter in it's experience and natur-
ally feels very hopeful of prosperous
summer.
Camden isn't in the New England lea
que but it proposes to have some good
base ball there this summer and the man.
ager starts with $500 in the treasury.
Peaks islanders have opportunities to
display their heroism and have the hero
sim to display. During recent terrific
blow there several of them rescued fisher
men from watery grave at the risk of
their own lives.
The Ellsworth Hook and Ladder Com
pany after hard but successful fight
with fire when nearly every man in the
company ruined a suit Of clothes, made a
peremptory demand for increased salary
The city fathers not liking the style of the
demand refused and the company dis
banded. Until a community is able or
willing to pay fully for it's fire protection
and demand that it be of the best, a spirit
of compromise and inject you half way"
is absolutely necessary