Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-08
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from Larone to help In the celebration
Of the Fourth. They arranged bicycle
race to Madison pond and return, and
supplying 40 pound wheel they easily
induced him to enter. A bell boy from
the Coburn entered as q bluff, and of
they went. The bell boy soon fell from
his wheel as u by accident. then
turned about and came home. while the
rustic, never looking behind, pedalled
his 40 pound machine for dear life over
the five miles to tine pond, under the
broiling sun. Then he came back loud
ly demanding the prize he had won
but those who had arranged the race
were not to be found
A Yankee genius at Northeast Har-
Dor, who Is innkeeper. blacksmith. lum-
herman. etc, rises to explain that the
great inventor Ferris owes the Ferris
wheel of Worlds Fair fame to a con-
trivance erected by himself for q
Fourth Of July celebration, several
years ago, in the town OF Amherst.
No doubt Mr.. Ferris will be real sorry
to learn he Is such thief.
A coon in a hen house made a sensa
ton in Bath one night recently. 1t
wasn't the curly haired, brunette va
riety so commonly associated with hen
roosts, but a genuine racoOn from tbs
ISagadahoc forests. Two policemen were
called and after an exciting struggle
in the dark, during which several hens
were killed, they laid out the invader
stiff and cold, and the Shipping City
went to sleep again.
Portland Is receiving compliments on
all sides for her magnificent celebra-
ton and she Is deserving Of it all.
The sensation of the hour in Auburn
is over the disappearance of a promi-
nent young lady and the subsequent
news of her marriage in Boston to a
wealthy Californian, she being at the
time engaged to a well known Auburn
man who had just renovated and re-
furnished his house in anticipation of
their coming wedding. Tongues are
wagging. and there are rumors. so d
local paper says. that the Auburn man
will demand a cash equivalent for the
damage TO his affections.
Cupid and Hymen are having a great
midsummer carnival in Lewiston.
Ten blushing brides were led to the
altar on Tuesday of this week.
Randolph is usually called re-
spectacle town of good standing. but
some of the citizens are afraid it will
become scaly place. One store sold
1000 smoked herring in three days, last
week
The CobboSseecontee fisherman who
handsome trout, because his friend told
him it was a sucker, has decided there
was a sucker in the boat, after all.
Assessors in some Maine towns and
cities report that the personal valua-
ton seems % be slipping away from
them. Horses, for one thing, are de-
preciating in value right along. BIZ
cycles are growing more numerous
every year. but they are also going
cheaper. Wheels have 30 be taxed on
the basis of their value and there are a
great many old wheels that are con-
stantly depreciating. 1t is true also
that traders are running lighter stocks
of goods than ever before.
The enemies of tobacco have a new
obstacle to surmount in the following
story told by the Bath Independent. A
good Methodist brother of that city
who was conscience stricken over his
tobacco habit, resolved to quit and did
so on New Years day, mentally agree
ing with himself that he might, if he
felt it advisable, commence again on
the following July 4. Although he had
used tobacco from his youth up he was
totally abstinent for several months
when he lost his voice and suffered 50
much that before that date he had to
renew his use of the weed.
The ancient Quakers of Winthrop are
turning in their graves. The present
Quaker church of that town INDUCES in
the worldly luxures of a bell. clergy
man and musical quartet.
The Thomaston Herald tells of man
living in that town who never, rode in
steam cars or on electric cars, never
out of Knox county farther than
Waldoboro: never uses rum or tobacco,
although on the Fourth of July in
dulges in a cigar. There are several
score of men in that town who habit
ually deny themselves all the pleasures
of travel, but they have the best Of
reasons therefor.
The Bath Enterprise in celebration
of the semi-centennial of that city ap-
peared Saturday adorned with quite 4
number of fine half-tone illustrations
which included some of the charming
views about the city and vicinity, the
Bath Iron Works and the various pro-
ducts Of Baths skill in iron gun boat
and ship building. The Enterprise was
true to its name.
The spirit of unselhshncss and self
sacrifice was strong in the Rangeley
guide, though the incident that brought