Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-23
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Cures Every Form of Inflammation.
The Milford man. who lost 90

The Milford man. who lost 500
chickens last season by rea-
son of hail and thunder
showers should contribute an article to
some poultry journal and we would
suggest for the subject How in thun-
| der to raise chckens?'
Biddeford furnished the material for
stirring romance the other day. a
| couple drifting down the shady slope Of
life on the city farm at the city's ex-
pense saw each other there, and loved.
! madly. passionately. 1t was evident To
| them they We're destined for one an
other, that the match was made in an
| other world: that the harmonies of the
| temporal and the eternal demanded
| such union Of hearts. Blu, they
| couldn't convince the Biddeford au-
| thorities of it. License to marry they
could not obtain from the fiinty fathers
of the bailiwick. Nothing remained
but to fly to the Gretna Green for
| locally disappointed York county
couples. 1t was some time before they
| could get together enough money for
car fare but finally their efforts were
rewarded, and they left for Salmon
Falls and We're Joined in the bonds of
wedlock and are expected to return ~
the Biddeford city farm after their
honeymoon.
Occasionally we hear of town
| where the iyceum project is under con-
sideration; but usually whist, dancing
or some other form of amusement has
the preference.
The election of General Manager
Evans of the Maine Central to the
office of vice president of the road is
fitting recognition of the excellent
manner in which he has discharged the
duties of general manager
The fourth biennial report of the
superintendent Of the Worlds W. c. T.
ton, Mrs. H. J. Bailey superintendent.
has been printed in neat pamphlet
form for distribution. Mrs. Bailey is
| an indefatigable promoter of the cause
| OF peace and her report indicates that
she mas cause for qualification over the
results which have been achieved
along the line of the work CT the de-
| partment of which she is such an eff
cient and devoted head.
| Surely Aroostook ought to be thank
| full. There has never been a season
when there were bigger flocks of
turkeys roosting around on the fences
and outbuildings of Aroostook home
| steads than this fall.
| A Brewer boy came near paying
| dearly for his whistle. One evening
while driving the inmates of the house
| almost frantic with his blowings on
small but exceedingly shrill whistle he
| accidentally swallowed it. He was
scared boy and excited plenty of
solicitude in that household. Every
time he breathed that whistle gave
forth gutteral sound from somewhere
in his internal economy. The boy was
fabricated well with castor Oil and sent
to bed. All night long he slept peace
fully, breathing easily and whistled
continually. making life miserable for
his sleep-mate. The next day, how
ever, a doctor was consulted and the
whistling was stopped. The boy has a
new whistle now, but it is attached to
a stout string.
Those escaped Auburn Jail birds
probably would have got better
Thanksgiving dinner by tarrying.
Probably Mysteries would have been
the portion of this Lewiston woman
had she been more than ordinarily
superstitious. AS it was she was badly
frightened and is frank to admit it,
The baker called and as he was taking
the brown bread from his cart she no
ticed crow flying about the trees on
the street and remarked that the bird
seemed tame. Tame" replied the
crow. Whether the lady turned color
she does not know but the baker said,
Yes. he does appear tame and fol-
lows me occasionally" And when the
baker whose name is Henry got into
his team to drive away the bird calling
Henry. Henry flew after him and
the woman flew into the house.
The unusual occurred at Bowdoin-
ham recently. Three wayfarers &C.
cepted work discharging fertilizer
stock at Kendall.s dock and by night
time were anything but sweet scented
specimens of the genus hobo. They
We're put to bed in the village bastile
and soon were sleeping the sleep that