Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-06

on every bottle. Price IS cents; SIX &3oos
CO., a. Custom House Street, Boston, MASS
Deering. The result in Greater New
York is not encouraging to these con-
solidation efforts, but then Portland is
not New York.
The Buckfield correspondent of the
oxford County Advertiser moralizes a
bit on hunting matches. He says: A
very interesting and instructive occur
renee came off here, last week. 1t was
designated bird hunt or shooting
match. First it teaches the youth to
slaughter the innocents. then for
cheating it is an excellent school Steal
ing one from another was allowable
and withal encouraged. One unsus-
pecting youth was called into a shop
ostensibly to examine gun, laying his
game outside. The ruse worked and a
fellow stole it. Another fellow watch
ing the performance steals it from thief
No. l, and so the play went on. Half
putrid birds We're counted and the side
that stole the most was supposed to
win.
Two North Haven gunners shot six
fine buck lambs belonging to a farmer
of that town. Their plea that they
mistook the animals for mountain
goats will not avail them.
In some localities the roads are in
better condition than usual. This is
not to be attributed so much to the
good roads agitation as to the fact that
owing to wet weather in the spring
and frequent washouts more work has
been done on them this fall.
Bangor with only one case of diphth-
eria isn't afraid of an epidemic of the
dread disease.
A Rockland lady, who has been mar
ried 43 years and was welded on a
beautiful sunshiny day, has noted that
with one exception every anniversary
day has been rarely beautiful. Evil
IDENTIFY she wasn't married on the
Fourth of July.
A Northport rooster crowed the other
day before he was out of the woods. A
woman hearing noise in her hen
house rushed out and was greatly sur
prsed to find a magnificent black fox
having tussle with a very large rOos-
ter. She clapped her hands. danced a
jig, and the fox fled. the rooster crowed,
and all of the hens cackled with de-
light to see the enemy of their race
cheated of his prey. But alas! the day
Of reckoning came too soon for the
poor rooster; for. next morning Rey-
nard again appeared in all his glory.
got his eye on the slick looking Bramah
that crowed at him the day before, and
in less time than it takes to tell it the
rooster was winking last farewell
to his companions, as the fox bounded
over the stone wall into the woods.
The local musical choruses are or
ganizing for the festivals another year
There's retribution ahead of slick
Watervillian. He spends much of his
summers at North Pond where he has
cottage. In the fall he rakes the
| leaves from about it to lessen the dan
ger from fire. The other day as he was
planning to rake those leaves along
came two would be-sportsmen from
Waterville who wanted to shoot loon
and having heard that he was an ex-
pert had come to him for information.
He scratched his head minute and then
said if they would collect a lot of leaves
and burn them that night it would at
tract the looms and bring them within
easy range. This they did but they
were the slick mans leaves, which they
raked together and burned, and nary a
loon responded to the allurement of the
bonfire. They now know it would in
deed be loony loon that would be
caught in any such manner.
necessary to warn it's readers not to
abuse the privilege given by the law
permitting them to net whitefish in the
lakes at certain seasons.
Bath wants a fine hotel built on one
of her many available sites.
A red auction flag started a small pox
scare in Portland the other day. 1t
takes such little thing to start scare
| sometimes!
The Hartland Tribune, Lloyd L. Pal
mer, local editor, makes its bow to a
long felt want and evinces disposition
to fill it. We wish it all manner Of sue
cess.
1IG.
Varied industries is what the Bath
Independent keeps telling Its readers