Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-03-08

out IN his shirt sleeves Uncsc mornings W
consult the thermometer will never live to
tell about it as an oldest inhabitant.
The citizens of Wilton are making an
effort to see if they cannot raise funds
enough to put in pump and main for
fire protection. There are number of
Maine villages that are in need of i'm
proved facilities for fighting fires. 1t Is
not good plan to wait until disaster
has impressed the Importance of such pre-
caution before taking action to that end.
Mr.. Daniel Clark, the veteran stage
route driver tells the Pennington Chron-
icle an interesting story of the intelligence
recently exhibited by his pug dog Dandy. y
Mr.. Clark says Dandy was sitting in a
chair by the window vainly trying to look
out through the frosted window pane.
A bright idea struck Dandy all at once,
he lifted his forepaw and rubbed it back
and forth over the glass till he had re-
moved all the frost, then looked around
to Mrs. Clark, as much as saying,
"Haven't got big head?"
Norway is one of the hustling villages
of Maine; 65S5 tons of freight have been
shipped from that station and 1928 tons
received there during the past year The
figures show an increase over the year be-
fore of 100 tons of freight shipped and
the passenger receipts were some over $500
in excess of the previous year.
Hon. Samuel L. Boardman of this city
has written book entitled Handbook
of the Turf which embraces within its
pages all the information that person
could desire to know in connection with
the track, including technical terms,
popular expressions, etc. 1t is to be pub
lishcd by the Orange Judd Company, of
New York and will :certainly fill long felt
want Mr. Boardman' long and success
full work as an agricultural writer adj
mirably fits him for this task, and any
thing that comes from his pen will be
sure to possess merit.
The Smoker of the Bath Independent
calls attention to the fact that people in
sizing up the profits on barrel of flour
when made into loaves, forget that, in or
der to sell so loaves, the baker has to
make 100. He places his loaves all over
town and takes back on an average 80 or
| 40 loayes of the 100 as stale bread.
During recent cold snap one of the
Portland plumbers had no less than 80
cases of frozen pipes on hand at one time.
| The coal man is by no means the only one
who rejoices in low temperature
| Mr.. Horatio Wilbur says the Farming
ton Independent, of East Livermore, who
has for many years been familiar figure
at the annual town meetings, is seriously
| ILL., Mr. Wilbur never moved from the
house where he was born Sept. 10, 1916, yet
| he has resided in two states, Massachu-
sets (until 1890 when Maine was made a
STATED and Maine three counties Oxford,
towns, Livermore and East Livermore.
Since he WAS 20 years old he has had six
new teeth.
The Farmingdale report makes excellent
reading. Its liabilities are nothing, while
its resources are sl00377.
The Brunswick Telegraph tells of a
colored porter on the NJ. c. R. R., who
after collecting all the boots and shoes
of the passengers in his car, went for
ward to another car and became SO inter
ested in n slight Of hand performance a
drummer was giving, that he forgot the