Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-06-10

Bath has voted against the rebuilt
ing of bridge over which the country
and now the Bath grocers think or
| asking the city to require those VINO
i peddle garden sass to take out a
| peddler's license.
The Kineo Echo has been added to
the already brilliant list of papers de-
voted to our summer and sporting re-
sorts It makes its debut in charming
dress under the management OF j. 5.
/ Rowe. the well known newspaper man.
We wish it a brilliant future and as
| for its capabilities for excellent SER
vice in the work it has chosen it may
be well to cite as Illustration. the follow
! ing from the first number. and we hope
there will be more along the same line;
Catching more trout than you can
eat or take care of, and allowing them
to spoil. is most reprehensible. and
! should be most severely condemned. If
YOU cannot eat them yourself and have
not cold storage by which to keep them
until YOU break camp and go home.
give them away 10 any one who VIII
make good use of them. but. in Heav-
ems name. don't take the beautiful fish
from the water only to have them rot,
Edwin f. Child has traded his noun
tain farm for a colt with John A. Put
nam of Dlckvale, reports one of our
state exchanges Either colts are look
ing up or farms are looking down.
An Orrington man is reported as
| having a flock of chickens that are
curiosities indeed Each one of them
has four wings, two on side. Origi-
nally the flock numbered eight chicks,
but four of them have died. Evidently
the individual who reported this is a
full fiedged novelist.
Cutler is to have baby show. Fie
on the weather, when so much of sum
shine and squat is corralled in one
community.
steuben is happy, the herring have
arrived, shoals of EN-.
Brunswick is asking whether an in
dignation meeting would hurry along
that new depot. Probably the question
is not asked seriously.
A hitch in the progress of the Maine
musical festival proposition at Bangor
leads linotype of the Commercial to
remark: Some men are like cows; you
can get 'em to the pasture bars all
| right, but when it comes to going
through they just stand and below;
and when you try to drive them through
they scatter all over the garden and
spoil everything.
Bath Independent: A baby mouse
ran along the pavement of Custom
House square, and big man coming
along the walk saw 1t. The big man
tried to stamp on the creature but the
mouse though small was spry and the
man had to dance quite jig before
succeeding in demolishing the animal.
| While the man was jumping wildly
about. a trim looking, modest maiden
came down the steps of the granite fort
and seeing the man. apparently in de
lirium tremens tfor she couldn't see
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Finally the man picked up the mouse
by the tail and waved it in the air as
if to explain his conduct. Then the
man threw the mouse down: the maid
i smiled and tripped along, the man
grnned and departed and an old tom
eat came around the corner and proud
ly walked off with the defunct cause of
the excitement while Is men. who had
their business.
A Portland newspaper man has in
vented an automatic mucilage bottle.
1t remains for one of the profession to
invent automatic shears. retire on the
proceeds and retire his brethren with
out proceeds.
The Rockland Star has a stirring APP
peal to school boards to refuse glowing
recommendations to incapable teachers.
There undoubtedly is much mischief re-
sultant from it.
An Armenian peddler put the court
room audience to shame in Dover the
other day. 1t was objected that he as
witness didn't know the nature of an
oath. do you know the meaning of an
oath?" asked Justice Mitchell" The
peddler shook his head obviously. do
you know what the Bible is?" said the
justice, who is a keen man and knows
something about the world. The face
of the peddler lit with intelligence.
Yes, yes," he said and then he reached
into a worn pocket and drew therefrom
a testament which he held triumphant
ly aloft.
VOICES OF THE PRESS.
A Comment on the Prize WALKERS.
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