Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-12-16

rights to property were as literally
recognized by the law. as they are to-
day, James Frost Wing of Abbot viii
lage married Miss Hill Of East San
gerville. Mr.. Wing. it appears. was ir
debt. whereas Miss Hill had property.
Had she married Wing without pro-
tecting that property the creditors OF
the husband would have swooped
down upon it like hawks to a feast
Accordingly she turned her money oveI
to her uncle. who purchased the Wing
farm, paying off the mortgages there
on. and decided it to the first born
heir of the couple That heir was
James II. Wing and thus he became a
property owner before his birth IL one
chooses to regard the matter in tina;
light.
The Portland Y. NJ. C. A. have
graphophone loaded with hymns and
Talmage's sermons. The audience
presses the button and the machine
does the rest.
Think on this: The floors of the
Portland school houses are said to BIZ
too thin and weak to admit of washing
Bath sneak thieves have become So
depraved they steal blotting pads al
the postoffice.
Northern kennebec and Southern
Somerset feel easier in mind since the
four thieves have been sentenced tt
State prison.
Now that the Sanford ladies hav,
taken up the project of a public library
the State may as well expect call for
stipend.
FOR SALE-Auction sale of YOUNG
Mems Democratic club furniture ais,
consignment of stoves, crockery, Bald
chandise." The above recently ap-
peared among the advertisements il
the Eastern Argus but an account OF
the sale has not up to date. We hav,
little curiosity as to who bid off tina
somewhat unique collection.
Extremes were neighborly when two
Buckfeld men slaughtered hogs tn.
other day. one pig weighing 81 TBS,
the other 1917 TBS.
Grange weather Monday and Tues
day, but we are confident they would
not object to a little snow.
A Portland teacher was giving her
class some good advice about habits of
cleanliness when little fellow piped
up: Yes. and we must remember to
keep our mouth shut on the street or
we may inherit some persons breath
and catch a disease" Verify, the school
children have a clearer comprehension
of microbes than they do of the multi
plication table.
A Biddeford letter carrier has had
the grip seven years in succession,
recurrence of the disease occurring
about the same time each year. yet you
would hardly call that getting good
grip"
belIdSl y CITY IldTSldt Is TepOTlCu as
saying that six days in the week are
enough for the rumsellers. Has it got
so in Maine that anyone disagrees
with him?
a Pythian sister of Brunswick was
annoyed on her way home the other
night by a fellow who insisted on ac-
companying her. Argument falling the
woman put him to sleep" with her
right and walked on.
This is to be quiet winter judging
from the boom in whist.
A Thomaston Thomas cat ran away
some time ago, but when he returned
weeks later brought the fatted calf, in
the shape of full grown live partridge,
along with him.
A Parkhurst correspondent writes
THE inhabitants of this place feel
somewhat behind other portions of the
county, for they have not had an in
solvent debtor for over ten years.
A bull in a china shop, about which
you have all read. finds a parallel in
pig in a hack, q circumstance that
actually tranSnirp1 in this CITY n num-