Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-30

wheat with the utmost skill.
About 10000 majority for Mckinley
and sound money should be Names
verdict next Tuesday.
1t looks as if the mystery of the ia
nous Waldoboro tragedy, which was
specially reported at the time. by a
member of the Journal staff who was
on the ground, is to be cleared away.
1t is reported that detective Ira True
has succeeded in securing evidence
enough to fix the crime upon man
who has. all along, been under suspic-
ion of having been implicated in 1t.
A portly South Paris meat man. says
the oxford Democrat, has wagered his
moustache upon the election of Bryan.
1t is sixteen to one that the bleak
November wind will sweep over that
bald lip without finding so much as a
hair to check its progress.
The frost has settled down upon the
pumpkin with a winter grip.
1t is about harvest time for the an
nual crop of poems on The Falling
Leaves"
We may say, in passing. that the
Journal already has sufficient supply
on hand.
1t is said that a syndicate is quietly
buying up the available lots along Saco
to starting a summer resort boom there
in the near future.
A correspondent writes that "Lubec
people are all we'll employed. wages
fair when compared with prices of food
winter quarters with stores laid in
and a shot in the locker
Wilton Sentinel: The Tramps Must
Co." remarks State exchanges. They
are right. they will probably "go on for
ever" like the waterin the stream men,
toned by Alfred Tennyson in his
Song of the Brook"
| Canton (Maine) is signing for tin
smith. Report says that this is one of
the best opportunities in the State, for
the right man.
| And now the charming Bates co-eds
, are planning to establish boat crews on
| the Androscoggin. The boys are sim
ply to have the privilege of sitting on
| the banks and see them go by.
A South Paris boy was crossing a
field the other evening when he came
suddenly upon bear eating apples I'M
der tree. 1t is difficult to say whether
he or the bear was the most
| frightened. Bruin made haste to
amble away into the woods while the
boy streaked it for home at a pace
which would easily have won him a
medal in any field day contests.
! 1t is time now to arrange for winter
courses of lectures, and the people of
our State will not have to go outside of
it's limits to secure the talent for some
very entertaining and instructive ones.
The good people of Warren were
thrown into considerable excitement
the other day by the report that a
woman had been found dead on one
of the country roads. A constable who
hurried to the spot discovered that she
was indeed dead-dead drunk! dead to
shame and decency. 1t is pleasing to
think that such spectacles are rare in
our good old Pine Tree State.
A report from West Paris says:
Farmers are selling No. apples loaded
aboard the cars in bulk at As cents a
barrel; thousands of bushels of second
class fruit will not be gathered this
tall. Farmers are offering their second
quality of apples to any one that will
pick them. Mr.. Aliens Bryant has a
cider mill in operation in an open field
at South Woodstock. There is no sale
for the cider and the farmers cannot
afford to buy barrels.
NO. boys. this is not beechnut year
That crop is said to come in it's abun.
dance only once in seven years.