Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-06-15
MAINE GOSSIP.

Cheapest show on earth for the price,
Is advertised in some of the Maine towns
Yankees are supposed to want the best for
the price.
The bloomer girl craze Is reported in
the back towns Now those Boston evan
gelists will say II told you So" My but
aren t some of the country towns getting
to be awfulIy wicked!
A Jonesport cat has adopted a chicken
and exhibits the greatest maternal solicit
tude in bringing it up"
A tramp who staggered into Swift
River the other morning may have thought
he had struck Jay" place. But after
he had been given square meal at farm
house and to show his gratitude stole a new
hat hanging in the ball the farmer and
his hired man took the case in hand. The
tramp departed sorer and wiser. Pity
they all coul dn't receive like salutary
lesson.
So the Hale defalcations aren't so bad
by 800, 900 as they were supposed to be
and everybody in town is as ''chipper"
rs he used to be. Such optimism ought
to be contagious and we suspect 1t is.
In q town near Biddeford, at recent
church social there was ice cream on the
bill of fare. Nothing unusual in this. Well
one Of the sisters said there wasn't enough
to go around. A few days later another
sister went about the neighborhood
broadly limiting that the first sister knew
there was enough cream, but that she ap.
propriated it for her own home use Then
trouble began. There was elimination
and recrimination and when they had ex-
hausted the subject Of ice cream another
scandal was discussed. This referred to a
previous episode in which former cler-
gyman' wife had rejected the advances of
q certain retired sea captain. He saw OPP
portupity Of revenge, his blood was up and
the subject of Toe cream failed to cool 1t.
He commenced to circulate stories about
that minister and wife. Then some one
opposed to the SEQ captains theory of short
age in ice cream wrote to the clergyman
telling him Of the stories in circulation.
Then the minister appeared on the scene.
called upon the sea captain who agreed
to roost lower. The icy stare In that COM
munity will freeze no more marrows. The
parish GOODNESS melted and all have agreed
to take hold of hands for tho regeneration
Of the world.
That hail In Kennebec county Friday,
was harsh treatment of the tender grow
ing crops.
Manchester Union: A man way down
in Maine has made discovery. He as
serts that the stings of the mosquito
have cured him Of salt rheum. There is
rheum for thought In this suggestion, and
some people would prefer the rheum.
There have been wise, helpful words
spoken at the ongregational conferences
the past week. One of the leading clergy
men dwelt upon the need Of better results
in the country parishes and hazarded the
remark that there is in this country large
class of people who are not heather so
much as they arc goddess. They spend
much of Sunday in bed unless they spend
motive that they must not feed bad hay to
| their cattle. The country church Is using
the methods of fifty years ago, and for this
reason the best pastors will not serve
country churches. Another clergyman
said it seemed to him that country church
es cared more for creed, perhaps, than for
works There is more friction among
country churches than among city
churches. There were too many Of them
and he did not wonder that young
men wanted to leave the pastorates when
| they saw how they were hampered.
| The Portland Press In view of the deci-
sion of the railroad commissioners doubts
If the Cape Elizabeth Electric Railway will
be built this season.
Bath Times: The Androscoggin mill
at Lewiston raises wages seven per cent
| to settle the strike there. II the business
| will stand it this Is the best possible solu-
ton Of the strike problem.
Machias Union: We were promised (?)
that If Col Greene should fail to secure
the necessary funds to build the Shore
Line Railroad other parties stood ready
to build the railroad. Now we would like
to hear if the ''otber parties are ready
to build the Shore Line. There was
never q more opportune time to build a
railroad than now, and never people
needed a railroad more than do the 50,-
900 people of Hancock and Washington
counties.
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| A chance to subscribe fer stock in the
Washington county railroad is coming