Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-10-24
Our Own and Other Folks.

Tor S5oo.
Curtis 5. CARL, recently treasurer of
York county,is dangerously i'll at his resi-
dence in Marlborough
Manager Clarity of the Lewiston Base
Ball Club, is to sign a great Western
shortstop named Shaifer
Elk Conductor VIM Hooper of the Knox
& Lincoln branch Of the Maine Central.
who is to be the night station agent al
the Union station, has moved to Portland
with his family from Rockland
One barn near Biddeford entertained 10
hoboes one night recently. The barn still
stands but it is said that the owner has
kept the doors at either end open and
allowed the wind u blow through the
structure ever since.
A few Augusta young men who keep
run of pugilistic events say that they
have picked their man in the contem-
plated Corbett- Fitzsimmons contest and
will back their opinions with money
when they feel assured that the contest
will take place.
The weather seems favorable, said o
clothing drummer yesterday, "for good
trade with the retailers. But oue swallow
don t make n spring nor one cold day n
winter. a week of cold weather will make
difference. The merchants here arc not
bashfui about letting people know what
they have to sell. That's a good thing"
The traveller between Fairfield and
Skowhegan sees good-sized steamboat
nearly ready for launching on the was at
Shswmut just above the mills. The
Kennebec waters are flowed back by the
Shawmut dam nearly to Pishon's Ferry,
Il distance of five miles. and the lake thus
formed will afford the new steamer fine
chance to disport itself. But shipbulding
at Shawmut looks little odd after all,
says the Lewiston Journal,
The Kennebec Journal has engaged the
services of Mr.. BENZ. Shaw of Gardiner,
who will have in charge new feature on
| tho Journal, that of local and general
illustrating. This is keeping up 10 date,
and the Journal is just that kind of a
paper under its present management.
Mr.. Shaw uses the same process as that
employed by the Lewiston Journal and
Sun, and in fact by many OF the leading
daiiies throughout the country. Halo
well News.
Mr.. Milton $. Clifford, who for some
thing less than year, has been editor and
part owner of the Daily News of Bangor
has left that paper. Mr.. Clifford will
| resume the study of law In the office Of
| General Henry l.. Mitchell in Bangor and
| will later apply for admission to the
| Penobscot bar. Mr.. Clifford will be sue
| ceeded as editor by Mr.. J. ". Lcathers,
formerly night editor of the paper. MIR
| Clifford is graduate of Bowdo,n College,
and one of the brightest young men in
| the State.
Mrs. Hannah J. Bailey of Winthrop,
who is soon going to England to visit
| Lady Henry Somerset, her w. c. Il. U.
colleague, is pretty well known in Maine,
says Lin o Type in the Bangor CONNER.
| cial. Left with a vast fortune by the
| untimely death of her husband she spends
all her time and energies In making other
people happy. suppose no other person
| in Maine does so much every year for i'm
pecunious young woman as does Mrs.
| Bailey; her magnificent summer home is
| always open to them and all the season
several Of them live there gratefully upon
| her substance, commanding the services
of her servants and everything about the
house Mrs. Bailey il q noble woman and
| her journey will be attended hy the
| prayers and blessings of hundreds of poo-
girls whom she has befriended like n
parent.
Ellsworth people generally are inclined
| to express regretful surprise that Mr.. T..
II. Greeley didn't sell Bingen at a better
figure. Allowing something for the in
flation of local pride, it Is fact that
$4,000 was a pretty low price for the
| second wo-year-old in the world. Yet
Mr.. Greeley says that he Is perfectly sat
isfied, and in that case, his friends ought
to be. Mr.. Greeley says sensibly enough
that down east with its limited facilities
for winter training and conditioning was
| no place for colt of Blngan's calibre and
that It's worth something to yet the
| worriment Of such ticklish possession
as fast horse off his hands at price that
left him fair margin. The fact is, Mr..
Greeley's occupation is specializing and as
he Is shrewd and an observant man, he
has lively recollection of what has hap.
pened to other Maine men who couldn't
relax their grip quick enough
You may bumiliate the cashier or the
uedu Doohhttpcf' YOU may press your IRON
heel upon the neck Of the floor walker or
you may Scornfuily and publicly call
down the chief Gle K, but when it comes
to dealing with the elevator boy all the
diplomacy at your command is not too
much to do justice to the situation. A
Portland firm last week displayed card
in the store window advertising for an
elevator boy and the ambitious youth who
was filing that position Immediately
decided that be had been wronged as no
notification of a change had been given
him. He did not go TO the counting room
and complain but he calmly proceeded to
change the tags on the furniture in stock1
putting high prices on cheap furniture
and cheap prices on high. He also
changed the fuses 10 about thirty lights
in one Of the upper stories which broke
the electric circuit, doing much mischief
After he had thrown the whole establish
tnent complet -ly of its trolley, his opera
tons were discovered and he was placed
under arrest.