Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-04-25
MAINE GOSSIP.


The Bath Independent suggests spank
ing or the college boys, who steal signs.
numbers off the houses and commit like
silly depredations. The suggestion is a
good one. Boys who indulge in such idi-
otto freaks demonstrate pretty clearly
that intellectually they haven't advanced
beyond the spanking age.
A man in Prssque Isle with an inven-
tive turn of mind has made sleigh with
but one runner, This ought to be great
convenience in the deeply rutted roads SO
much complained of in that county dur
ing the heavy SHOWS of winter.
The Rockland Masons have selected the
site for the proposed new temple Inc
first step requires considerable effort.
The Portland agent OF a Liverpool firm
says that the reason why Maine apples
are in such great demand in England
is that our soil is of that hardy nature
which produces hardy fruit that retains
its original flavor longer than the fruit OF
other localities with the exception OF Ger
tain varieties of Canadian apples. he
estimates that Maine raised IT'S, 0O0 par
rels last season. We are yet OF the opln-
ion that there is more money in Maine ap-
plies than in Florida oranges.
Founders are biting down Rockland
way Good.
Rockland is also blessed with peanuts
at ten cents per quart.
Give the boys chance to play ball At
least this game keeps them out of mis-
chief and affords them healthful exercise
A man who sprained his foot on one OF
the sidewalks In Saco has sued that city
for $40, 600. Good sidewalks arc some
times comparatively cheap.
The people of Bangor are now cOnslder-
ing proposition to erect building to be
known as the Hamlin Memorial building
| in memory of the late Hannibal Hamlin,
the building to be occupied by Hannibal
Hamlin Post, g. A. K. and the historical
society. The suggestion certainly has the
air of practicability about it.
One Greenwood family rejoices in the
fact that members of five generations are
now living and that a baby recently born
there has seven grandparents living
This must be one of the new fashioned
| families.
The police of Portland have discovered,
what will hold true in other places gener-
ally, that the police records do not show
a wide extent of crime They find that
the old offenders at regular intervals have
their outbreaks and that in the city of
| Portland with the exception of an occa-
| sional new offender the cases that appear
in the police court are confined to about
| 100 people, many of whom get out OF
Jail only to get in again.
Swans Island has at last succeeded in
holding a town meeting that twill stick. u
1t was the third one, the other two held
this year being invalid on account of some
| informality.
1t is rather strain upon the imagina-
ton to think of Cinnamon being Snug
gled over the line at Vanceboro in pine
| collins and afterwards dressed as women
proceeding over the railroad to Boston
and New York. Evidently the reporter
who started the story is accustomed tc
such strains.
Portland seems to be good place fol
inventors of swindles to get their "hand
in" The latest consists in calling at the
houses and begging for a postage stamp
| to mail letter to a friend. Nearly every
| time the rascal is accommodated with q
stamp or two cents so the days harvest
| Is quite respectable as regards amount.
The old operatives in the Biddeford
mills decided this time not to allow the
''back- boys" to inaugurate a strike foI
them. What the older operatives may
eventually decide to do remains to be seen.
Biddeford' s experience with the strike tive
years ago ought to prevent repetition of
| it,
President Cleveland has again broken
| his rule not to reappoint the postmasters
| who served under his former administra-
| ton. Charles Walker of Lewiston, is the
last lucky exception. 1t looks as if the
President had taken this way to get out
of q dilemma With this appointment a
| profound secret is divulged. We are in
formed that Mr.. McGillicuddy became a
candidate "only at the solicitation of his
| friends.''
In one North Paris school district, there
are 81 farms. Not that this has anything
particular to do with the more important
fact that in the past 25 years this district
has sent out into the world % teachers
not turned out into a cold world as il
were. but equipped and fitted to grapple
with the young idea.
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