Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-03-24

beating her famous record as an ln'lc
pendence day celebrator.
| Bangor Republicans areeafly AWAKE
Wednesday evening they complete 'h'
beating her famous record as lnde-
formation of Republican clup
In answer to the suit brought by the
Rickers against the Rumford Falla
Railway Company, to restrain II froal
| using the name POLAND Springs as
the name of a station, the company de-
MES that said water has great medic-
inal value or qualities peculiar 10 Itself
and to no other water and alleges that
this water has no other qualities other
than such as are common to ordinary
pure spring water and possessed ny
other springs in the town of Poland
and other parts of Maine From this;
it would seem any other name for that
station would be just as good as the
one objected to.
"Heard's Emulsion" is proving sol
vent for the Biddeford city building
spells, it is said.
There is bit of rivalry between
Castine and Bar Harbor over the ceie
bration of their respective centennials
this summer.
Is it factory to milk stockholders
or cows" is what Winthrop wants to
know,
Bangor Wing & Courier In another
column this morning will he 'ourH ,ae
full text Of the report of the comnittc,
appointed by the Loyal Legion of
Maine, concerning the establishment
of an army post in Bangor. The re-
port was written by General Conner
and endorsed by all the other members
including General Narney ana Captain
Fairbanks Of this city, 1t covers the
ground admirably and furnishes an
uranswerable argument in favor Of
the location of a post here. The re-
port says the army should be distrib-
uted in those sections where its ser
vices are most likely to be required
THE State of Maine 20. 900 square
miles in area, thrusts itself like
wedge into alien territory. Three
fourths of its outline, apart from its
frontage on the ocean, is conterminous
TO the Dominion of Canada. =
II is evident that this part of the
United States would be exceptionally
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Britain, and that therefore special
measures should he taken for its pro-
lection. Bangor is easily accessible
b. rail and water and has abundant
facilities of communication with all ex-
posed points of the frontier ana its po-
sition in respect to them is central"
Boston Transcript: Faint hints Of
spring haunt the air" This poetic an
nouncement from the Bangor CONNER
cial is a noble endorsement of our re-
cent declaration that spring had begun
10 whisper in the air down here in
Boston. The fippant New York sun
took it up, and shifted and wheezed and
chOked in the blizzard then afflicting the
gaudy metropolis while il declared
against the possibility of spring doing
any whispering in Boston. where. &C
cordirg TO the Sun. the faint sobbing
Of Soloshes" may alone be heard at this
time OF year. But down in Maine, too
this spring feeling is creeping in and
out ii things in general If Penobscot
county had been short on hints of
srrile, there WAS al of the vast ter
ritory OF Aroostooit to draw on. Ban
gor could have sent up there 10 get
some spring hints TO come down and
haunt the Commercial office Thus
Bangor and Boston. hand-in-hand
boldly confront Gotham, and unflinch-
ingiv declare with all the dauntless-
hess of true New England conviction
that spring is not only whispering and
limiting, but is actually beginning to
bud and chirp. Early pussy willows
and first robins songs flourish in the
March sunshine
The death of Gov Greenhalge of
Pittsfeld, Massachusetts. brings WV
idly to mind his visit to Pittstield and
Castle Harmony last fall. writes the
Pittsficld correspondent of an ex-
change. The governor and party came
down from the castle on the Hartland
railroad to take the night Pullman
The governor and party started for the
depot. but finding the train was few