Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-09-26


to the system of model schools In which
normal school girls teach for the expert
ence and for which the State contributes
funds. Principal Cortbell has suggested
that If the district does not like the model
schools it should take the pupils out OF
the model schools at once, but this the
district doesn't want to do for 1t hasn't
sufficient room outside to accomm odate
them and SO the matter is pending.
A highwsyman, who tried to stop
Riddeford team in the Alfred woods,
Monday evening, was simply run over
and left lying in the dust, how badly in
irred No one has since cndeavored to
learn. The highwsyman business In this
State has not proved very lucrative of late.
The tramps are not just now bothering
the keepers Of lockups and jails. They
won't SO long as this weather lasts. A
cood rain storm would put out the fires
and put in the tramps.
One of the reasons advanced why the
Lincoln county fair was not given this
season is that for the past few years the
agricultural exhibits have been over
gone to the horsemen. Whether this be q
GOOD and sufficient reason for the discon-
tinuance of the fair is not known but it
is pretty safe to treat the farmers literally
in such matters for without them the
holding of agricultural fairs would be q
thankless task and the reverse Of money
making
Lewiston Journal: Fifteen years ago
a young man in Lewiston was approached
by an accident insurance agent who
got two dollars of his mother and gave It
to the agent. That afternoon he was up
on Winter street near Goes stable, and
fell over bank and sprained his ankle.
He was laid up II weeks and got 1925 for
it. He bought suit of clothes of Lis
bon street tailor and went to New York.
He saw q sign in window calling for
bids to move the building. He walked
in and bid $40 under anyone else, and to
his surprise was taken up. He hadn't
cent but knew how to move buildings.
He wrote to Lewiston man all the facts,
and he sent in 5000, with which the large
structure was moved. His new suit and
confident air helped out He came back
with 5000 more than he had when he went
on his vacation. This he put into piece
of land and cut the wood off that winter.
He was :set up In business when that
wood was sold, and ever since has been
a heavy man here.
Perhaps it's fortunate the entire De-
fender crew did not return to Deer Isle
together Otherwise the town wouldn't
have been big enough to hold the enthusi-
asm. The first arrivals were pelted with
flowers and welcomed right royalty aud
when the remainder of the crew with
bluff Hank Half gets along next week
well, we should like to be there.
The friends of Hon. J. W. Porter are
about as expectant of hoar frost in
July as Of an opportunity to get ahead Of
HIM. They have held this opinion since
years ago when he Kept country store In
Strong and boosted that he had everything
to sell. When he remarked this to an old
friend who was visiting him the friend
replied that he would like good second
hand pulpit for use in his town. Eyes, !"
said Mr.. Porter. 'just one left, right this
way" He had the pulpit but his friend
concluded he didn't want to buy after all
In the town of Woolwich, where bicycle
riders find dog at almost every other
house only 50 has been paid in for dog
taxes this year. Under the circumstances
Woolwich is poor place just now in
which to preach the doctrine that honesty
is the best policy.
The physicians Of Biddeford and Slco
are divided over the question whether the
alarming prevalence of typhoid fever in
those cities may be due to river water or
to the milk supply. Meanwhile the cases
of typhoid fever continue to multiply.
Fairfield has arrived at the conclusion
that the town needs some vigorous enforce
ment of the Maine liquor law.
Who wouldn't be doctor il he could
attain to the record of all aged Bethel
physician9 He is IS years old, doesn't
wear glasses, has praotised medicine SO
years, has helped into the world between
seven and eight hundred children and his
books show in charges and notes not worth
the paper they are written upon $40, 600.
The man who rode 16 miles in Kenne.
bee and Waldo counties the other day
| without finding an opportunity to water
his horse concluded that rain is needed.
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