Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-06-16
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The man who sprinklcs streets by
contract Is the only one who preferred
the weather OF the past two months to
that Of yesterday.
Center Montvllle correspondent writes
that it Is a touchful sight. as A. Ward
used to say, to see our farmers with
rubber boots on trying to fish out with
a lcng-handled spoon, the seeds which
were deposited in the mud some tins
since. to see If they are terminating
or rotting. The latter is proving to be
the condition in some cases,
Wrangling over that cemetery in,
Prospect is hardly sccinly, but not alto
gcther unprecedented.
1t will be impossible for the fusion
ana anti-fusion, better known as the
middle f-the-road, factions of the Pop
alist party in Maine to get up very
sizable fight among themselves The
smallnesS Of their number precludes it.
But it has been noticed that where a
few are gathered together in the name
of Populism ii is not only possible but
extremely probable mat there will be
n fight, and that ii will be bitter in the
extreme. Now Chairman Stockman Of
the PopuliSt State committee proposes
30 have that committee at its next
meeting, Saturday. choose candidates
a a
Nashville, without submitting to the
sormaIity Of a state convention. the
imallness of which would undoubtedly
border on the absurd. But there are
Populists, those who affiliated so close
y with the Popocrats last fall who
want TO do the same thing again. They
also will be heard at the meeting.
One writer notes the great increase in
The number of women who enter into
The sport of hunting and fishing and
predicts that the time Is not far distant
when the women win be as numerous
rs the men casting the ily on the Maine
waters. or to put il another way. the
bread which viii come back to them
multiplied many times in the form Of
rood health.
Rangeley Lakes publishes the story
# an incident, which occurred IS years /
ago at the lakes, and il is worthy Of at
ention at this time. when there Is CON
siderable agitation against the destruc
dive methods and wanton greed dis |
.layed by some would-be sportsmen in
Filling more of fish and game than they |
AN properly dispose of. In 1872 "a party /,
{ clergymen visited Rangeley and en-
aged a guide. They had splendid luck |
he first day and caught what might be |
crned a boat-load os fish. The guide /
demonstrated, but could scarcely blame |
he party for making the most Of what i
eemed to them extraordinary luck. 7
The next day they brought back 4 |
lrnilar quantity. and the guide be- |
eeched them not to be so destructive |
he was evidently different from some
f the old time guides). They gave no |
reed TO his remonstrances, until one
morning he told them they should not |
use one of his boats, unless they woull /
iromise TO put back all the fish they /
lie~'t need. 1t was case Of fight or
'ielo. and the party yielded.
1t is said there are people living along
he proposed routes of some Of the |
allScd about rural electric lines who
ire wondering how they are to get
Dobbin past them new-fansled cars.
Probably the promoters are worrying |
low they are ever tc set the cars past
Dcbbin."
The society edition OF the Far Harbor
.soord makes it's appearance this sea-
on in greatly improved form. Last
saturdays edition is daintily illustrat-
d and filled with entertaining matter.
The whole reflects great credit on the