Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-06-30
Maine Gossip

Portland Advertiser: Hope tells this
5latteitns tale Is the Augusta New Age,
whose editor was the Democratic can
,dklate for Congress- in the third district
the other day:
ss'Thefe will Ia another election next
year and the pepple will do good deal
OF tiiin4cing beGween new and then"
There will AIS be another election
two years after that, and again five
years hence md so On indefinitely
Meanwhile the(r0eople Will do more or
less thinking, and when the majority of
the third district conclude that the sill
yer standard is a good thing. then pigs
will begin to fly.
!. One Maine Yasikee has kept the crows
at safe distance from his cornfield.
this year by the simple device of an
open umbrella fastened in the middle
of the field. The crows have been 50
busy trying to- satisfy their curiosity
respecting it that they have entirely
forgotten the corn.
.
A drummer lost his pocket book con-
aiming $10o.1p Bath last week and IL
a. yreturned&o him the same day. A
ljat6or school teacher dropaad her pay.
.aiSnlope containing $50 on3the strcef1
- Die finder returned the money!
vet to hear some people talk one
faIa think honesty is a lost attribute.
GOOD number. of Maine Christian
.Eslsavorers are now on their way to.
thSToiden Gate.
THANKS to the long continued ruins
there-are no reports Of disastrous forest
''res to chronicle 20 u this time.
i Haying vill ~ little later this year
fhan usual. they. say; and the grass Is
about the only crop that promises well.
Willard is putting on airs because
the houses A. the village have been
numbered.
We trust 1t was a visitor at Bar Har-
bor and not a native who went roam
irg about town one day recently ln
of his cane which he had under
his arm all of the time. -
Belgrade is rejoicing because 1t is
now one Of the Maine summer reports
to which the railroads gives REDUCED
rates. The picturesque beauties ~ the
town ard many attCaetipni of. its
lakes to fishermeEafvr more
and more appreciated every year.
OF recent tramp stories one of the
best comes from Lewiston A womap
on Main street was mystified by
tramps who called at her house every
night and asked for newspapers. She
thought the hoboes We're of a literary
turn and gladly supplied the desired
reading matter. The other morning she
had occasion to so over to Summer
street, and, on her way home across
the Maine Central Railroad track on
Whipple street, glanced in at the open
door of a freight car. There lay one OF
her tramps asleep. withsthe. newspaper
carefully spread out ON the floor of the
car to keep his clothes clean.
West Newfield claims to have the old
est practicing physician in Maine. If not
in the country. DIR. Stephen Adams.
new "a years of age who graduated
from the Bowdoin Medical School in
1929. Almost 20 years of practice is a
great record, even in this State of long
lived people, and we cannot help Won
dering if the good old doctor has been
as successful in keeping his patients
alive as he has himself
Ashland continues to boom and the
visitors are coming there this
81 ason in a way to delight the hearts Of
the hotel keepers and the guides. "on
to Fish Lake is the cry Of the more
of the visitors.
1t is said West Sullivan actually needs
a summer hotel. Pity one of the sur
plus hotels of that variety at certain
West Sullivan.
b
Some of the Bay bridge advocates
now think the county ought to build it |
as a toll bridge and are agitating in the |
interests of such proposition.
The history of what are now known |
as the Bangor Brick Works is one that
In certain sense is typical Of Maine |
and is interesting Of itself |
aside from any comparisons or deduc- |
lions. John and James Heller, sons of |
In English brick maker. set up the first |
Kiln on the PenobScot nearly century |
ago. The business has remained in the |
family since that time. 50 that as a |
brickmaking firm this Is the Oldest in |
he United States. The present head of |
The concern has always been union /
advocate and a quite remarkable fact l
s the length of time the employees Of
he firm remain with lit, there being /
several who have worked there for
more than 40 years.
Deef1ng Rreyided lodgings and meals
H167 tfainps from the 18th of Febru-