Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-11-16

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Georgetown (kyD News.
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| Don't let the turkeys get the govt.
So far as emphasizing the need o
! good roads is concerned, this has beer
very impressive fall.
Portland has tattooed darkey boot
black. The effect of the highly col.
ored devices on the dark background
is said to be very noticeable and the
fellow is always delighted to bare his
decorated arms for free exhibition.
Lewiston Journal: In 1S4l, DR.. Ben
jamin Bradford of Livermore, was on
the council of Governor Edward Kent.
Between the governor and the doctor
there existed very intimate friend
ship. so that the latter felt perfectly
at his ease in the governors presence
and he one day drew upon himself the
censure of Hon. David Dunlap (an-
other member of the counciD by put
ting his feet on the wood-box. DR..
Bradford told the governor that he
had the misfortune to have offended
the nice sense Of decorum of Mr.. Dun
lap by elevating his feet in the pres
ence OF the gOvernOr-and 1t amused
Kent greatly. Il will give him les
son in etiquette tomorrow, myself"
said the governor. which he did by
putting his feet on the tablet
The little plantation of Schools came
out Tuesday with twenty-one McKin-
ley votes out of 81 ballots cast. On
the evening of Nov. 4th the enthusiasts
tic voters collected a large pile of com
bustible material on the highest pin
nacle of the Ridge" and saturating
the whole with Oil, set fire to it. Soon
every house was illuminated. and the
banging of Winchesters was heard
from almost every door. AS they had
no cannon they drilled and charged
several granite bolders, and these
proved a good substitute. Several of
the boys. after securing old wash boil
ers, tin horns. etc, marched through
the town, cheering for Mckinley.
What's the matter with Seboeis? It's
all right.
The less there is of the rubbing it
in at the election celebrations the
less lingering will be the smart and
the sufferers are not likely to soon
forget what hit EN- if salt. pepper and
vinegar be not freely applied to their
wounds.
Both parties to a campaign wager
made in PASSPORT seem to have won.
A young lady and gentleman We're the
participants, the lady agreeing to
marry the gentleman if Bryan was
elected: the wager was accepted by
the gentleman agreeing to marry the
lady if Mckinley was elected. and fur
paid all expenses. otherwise the gem
tleran paid them. That campaign
bet should be paid. 1t would be pos
itively wicked not to.
The word daguerreotype foored a
Biddeford spelling match. This, too.
just at time when the interest in
this early achievement in the wonder
full art of photography is renewed
through attention being directed to
the fact that some of the best por-
rats ever printed by the sun were
taken by this process.
Newport is in the troublous state of
too many towns that have introduced
abundance of water and provided no
way to carry off the surplus. A sewer
age system in a well regulated town
keeps pace with the water system. 1t
must be admitted. however. that judged
by that criterion there are compare
lively few well regulated towns.
Those who expect to attain to a green
old age and take up the manifold duties
that fall to the lot of the oldest in
habitant," should keep a record of the
weather this fall. When produced gem
erations hence. it will stagger the
Wanting youth inclined to sneer at the
days of their forefathers.
Can you bowie" is a query going the
rounds in Bangor
Capt. Webster, one of the well known
coasting shippers who sails to Portland
from many ports along the coast of
Maine says that the people-Democrats
and Republicans alike-on the shores of
the Pine Tree State are well pleased
with the election of Mckinley and the
bright business outlook of the next four
years. "One thing that all of these
people want to see," said Captain Web
ster to the Press, lis a large tariff on
lumber fish and Canadian products.
The last three or four years have been
mighty hard ones for the seafaring
folks in Maine. for the fishermen and
the farmers. They all believe that a
high tariff on lumber and fish will
bring about an era of business pros
perity, and as they have firm CONN.,
dence in the coming Republican admin
istration they are all very sanguine as
to the result of the high tariff policy
which they believe is to be inaugurated.
A sad spectacle in the Portland police
court one morning last week was a
forcible reminder of the utter made
quacy of the present methods for treat
ing certain classes of offenders A /
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