Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-10

/ it is a wonder more similarly situated
| DO not adopt. 1t consists in taking a
| plunge in the briny ocean
| The temptation was 50 strong some
| of the Aroostook potato growers sent
1 the tubers to market before they were
/ ripe. This hurts the good name ot
| Aro0stook potatoes, than which mono
| better are grown on the face of the
| earth. when properly grown and har-
! vested.
A short time ago Mrs. Geo Wills Of
Mexico went to the wood-box to get
! some wood for the stove: when she put
| her hand down she found a milk adder
| two and ne-half feet long. She didn't
| stop to listen to any advice from the
| serpent.
Brunswick seleetmen have ordered
all bicycles off the sidewalk. Probably
this action was precipitated by a snob,
who while riding on the walk overlook
| common laborer and ordered him to
! get out of the way. 1t Is compare =
lively small number of bicyclists who
make such ordinances necessary.
Portland people will have TO nail
| Town their houses. A thief tried 20
walk off with a Saratoga trunk from
| he Grand Trunk station the other day
| out accidentally ran into a policeman
and was captured.
The Reporter journal suggests that
4 branch of the order of the Nom
Swearing knights be formed in Gar
diner
Along with this much ado over re-
| ports of crop destruction comes one
rom Parker's Head to the effect that a
horse was Extraordinarily running
away the other day-by flock of black
ducks flying out from a brook near the
| road. 1t would seem that we must be
protected as much from black ducks as
from deer. We respectfully call the at :
tention of Prof. Bateman to this in
stance as his supply Of self-advertising
| material must be running short
Large schools of herring are the adj
vance agents of prosperity down in the
land of sardine factories
| The proprietor of a Caribou store was
somewhat surprised the other day
when a woman came in and rather
CURLY demanded Two dollars. please. ="
CHI \ u.s.
| inquired the proprietor. Two dollars
for twins" she said. Gradually ii be-
| gan to be made clear that the woman
| had been told by some practical joker
| that this store would pay to every
woman having twins two good, honest
dollars. The proprietor was impressed
| with the value of advertising but be-
| lieves that in that productive region it
| will pay him better to confine his ad-
| vertising to the newspapers than to
| squander it in premiums on babies.
Maine Statesman: Those who think
the rich are getting richer and the poor
are getting poorer should look over the
long list of Lewiston taxpayers which
we, are publishing, and the long list
published by the Biddeford Journal
And remember that all these taxpayers
are capitalists. These hundreds OF
families in Lewiston and Biddeford
who have worked hard and saved
enough for home and are still work
ing hard to keep that home belong 10
that dreadful wicked class called
capital.
Caribou thinks there should be a
game park in connection with its fish
feeding station. Kennebec thinks well
of that idea, too.
A little more than a week ago g
doctor was arrested at RumforJ
Falls for practicing medicine without
certificate of registration The local
paper says his ''materia medical is
curio. 1T is blank book with the
formula written upon the pages AS
an example we quote that 'Rhubarb is
loosening to the bowels 'Burdock is
good for rheumatism And yet he
was having good practice despite the
fact the town was full of doctors and