Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-08-23
MAINE GOSSIP.

MAINE GOSSIP.
The New England League games have
drawn immense crowds at the Eastern
Maine fair In fact they appear to have
been considerably more of an attraction
than the horse trots.
The good people of the sturdy old town
of LitchfeId have reason to feel proud Of
the magnificent success of their centen-
NAL celebration.
Senator Frye's speech at Litchfleld, was
one OF his best, and, 1t Is needless to say,
added not little to the interest of the
occasion.
Hiram Hall at Point Thorndike has In
his possession the iron kettle used by his
great great-grandfathe Hall, the origi-
nal settler of Matinicus, who was killed
there by Indians.
Fairfield Journal: The HoIlanders are
not fond of lazy people and they have a
very good way of curing people who can
but won't work If a pauper who is able
to work refuses to do so they put him in
cistern to which pump Is attached
and turn on stream of water. This
stream flows into the cistern just slow
enough to enable the lazy person by lively
pumping to keep the water from getting
idea for America to provide some way to
l. : h., ut arly CHI MI Il
be cure for the fellows who are now
tramping our country over, begging from
| house to house.
Two ladies jumping rope was one of the
sights recently seen in South Hollis.
Their ages were eighty and sixty-nine
years respectively. Those York county
girls are certainly lively ones
| Lewiston Journal: They're whoopefs
In Aroostook. Near Ashland one day re-
Gently the B. x A. engineers permanently
located full mile The next day it was
cleared of the growth of bushes and trees
and on the third day it was almost COM
| pletely graded That is almost as fast as
they lay railways ont on the prairios
Two well known Portland wheelmcn
on run over to the Cape one day last
week, developed a good appetite, and
looking up shady spot alongside the
road opened their box of provisions and
| began operations, meanwhile enjoying
the scenery, the cooling breeze and, not
least of all the passers by. Among these
were some young ladies in a buggy. One
of them looked at the wheelmen who
were so pleasantly engaged and suddenly
her face lighted up with a smile of amuse-
ment. She directed the attention of her
companions, and they also showed great
| amusement over something connected
with the pair of luncbers Then it occur
red to the latter to look for the cause of
such hilarity, and soon they discovered
that Immediately over their heads as they
sat eating with the gusto, that spin a
wheel seldom fails to provoke. was big
signGt was at the intersection of a byroad)
bearing the single word, in huge letters
Hogs" The farmer living up the road
had taken this brief way Of announcing
to the public that he had swine for sale.
A wonderful record was made by an
cmploye at the Munroe, Packard & Lin
SCOTT shoe factory, Lewiston. one day last
week She closed In 2004 shoes in ten
hours and after that went home, did the
house work and made calls in the evening
An average good days work would be
one hundred dozen. Mr.. Linscott of the
firm suggests to other factories that they
send in their attested records and if any
one can beat this, they will trot another
heat at his factory.
Lewiston merchants are arranging for
big trade week, the last of October. If
1t is as successful as those held in the
spring by Gardiner and Biddeford, the
citizens of the Spindle city will have no
cause to regret it.
Lawn mowers have not been very much
in evidence in Aroostook, this season on
account of the drought. The Pressure Isle
Star Herald says that lawns that usually
needed cutting twice q week have not re-
quired more than half a dozen mowings
during the present season.
There has been quite q spirited contest
waged of late between the towns of Wash
ington county as to which could claim
the distinction of having the smartest old
lady. At present 1t would seem as though
Larrabee had distanced all its competitors
and deserved the .honors. Mrs. Sarah
Larrabee of that town, who is in her SSth
year, one day recently did up all her
homework In the morning, and in the
afternoon went into the hay field and
finished the day in raking hay, not be-
cause she was obliged to, but because she
did not wish TO be idle. Mrs. Larrabet
can spin six skeins day, and thinks
nothing of walking two miles to visit a
neighbor and returning after tea.
The cold nights are causing the corr
packers considerable anxiety.
AUGUST MAGAZINES.