Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-12-15


A North WATERFORD man has discov-
cred way for satisfactorily putting 2
new coat Of shingles over an old one
The boys Of posterity who may have tc
sort the kindiing wood. if the old build
ing should he put to that purpose. are
not likely to praise his memory.
Now the prophets are beginning 70
discover signs of an open winter. Their,
are some. however. who stick TO tn,
first prediction of long, cold one.
Union Advocate: The wagon loads Of
school children being carried through on
village schools reminds one of the grea
change for the better that has beer
brought about during the past few
years. Before the district system wa,
abolished the rural scholars lahore,
under unfair and unequal advantages
but today they stand on an equal foot
ing in the race for an education. TIL,
old country school house with its har,
wooden benches and cracks in the doc
through which the snow drfted. on
cold winters day, is a thing of the past
The new order of things gives mucl
better instruction to the children at les.
cost to the towns. Notwithstanding III,
expense incurred in conveying tn,
scholars.
Here has Rangeley's postmaster gone
and blistered his toes by playing polo
on the ice, Truly polo is no respecte.
of persons.
Bddeford Journal: The State OF
Maine furnished one-eleN enth of the
governors chosen this fall in the differ
ent states of the Union. They are:
Llewellyn Powers in Maine, Hazen B.
PirSree in Michigan, Frank $. Black in
New York. and John Il. Rogers in far
off Washington. We do not believe
any other state can duplicate this
record.
Some of the Biddeford aldermen are
beginning to clamor for executive SEES
sions and excluded reporters That's a
pretty sure sign the constituents of
those aldermen should be on the alert
The Legislature. will he afforded a
comprehensive idea of the amount of
cloth before it gets chance to cut any
garments for the various petitioners
A Maine man now working at shoe
manufacturing in Massachusetts writes
his Maine friends that if they are not
suffering for the necessities of life and
can subsst and keep comfortably clad
and save twenty-five or thirty dollars
the coming year, my advice to them is
stay in Maine. for so far as | am able
to learn. after living here and study
ing the people for thirteen years, not
five out of hundred of the single
men or women who work in the shoe
factories save one dollar year, and
those who have come here with fami-
lies or have married here and raised
small families are. as a rule, poor in
body. mind and pocket, and if they
don't break down with lung fever.
liver or kidney trouble before they get
too old to be of use to their masters
(the shoe bosses) they are soon OBJ
jects of charity or paupers either on
this State or will drift back to their
native State to die with their early
friends and relatives" That's putting
it pretty strong, but if you stay in
Maine and make business you will
make no mistake.
While considering the proposition to
exclude deer dogs from the woods, the
should cast about for some
feasible way in which to keep out
those who can't distinguish between |
a moose and a donkey. Only the other |
day a manwho tired of riding his horse |
the woods got off and drove i
him ahead was surprised to hear the
report of rifle and to see his horse
mistaken the animal for big game.
drop dead in his tracks. A hunter had
no installing the hunter for
person who ought to be kept out of the
woods unless he goes in as a mark.
While SO many Of us are 'fadding''