Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-11

OF course more or less of them have
sneaked into the city but they have
been so quiet in their movements and
have done what begging they ventur ed
to do at all in so respectful way that
there has been no complaint on their
account from indignant citizens. Now
the circumstances that made the
solution of the tramp problem
easy for Waterville for the last
half-year lies in the fact that
it has been the summer season when
life out of doors is infinitely to be pre-
ferred by the average tramp to con-
finement in Jail. The next six
months may tell different story, for
a tramp that would be very careful to
avoid being arrested and sent to Jail
in summer may be quite willing to meet
that fate in winter, when bowling
blasts and scanty food make life on the
road and in police stations anything
but a pleasure. But, however. this
may be, Waterville's experiment has
shown that a community may be prac-
tically made free of this tramp nui-
sance for a half-year at least by the
enforcement Of the laws passed for pro-
lection from them. Make the winter
confinement of these fellows uncom-
Portable for them by forcing them to
break stone six days out of the week
and the State will be rid of them for
good.
There is something pathetic in this
little news bit from Penobscot: In one
neighborhood in this district four fami
lies in succession have been deprived Of
their heads within little more than two
years.
A Franklin county man says that in
1917 corn was sixteen shillings a bushel
and flour was so high that no one
thought of buying any. That was be-
fore the days of the gold bug and
trusts and injunctions. Carry the news
to Bryan.
Belfast is another Maine city with
too few hotels. So far none complains
of having too many.
But three telephone instruments III
Bethel and the local paper clamoring
for telephone exchange controlled by
local capital.
Franklin's town treasurer has
posted himself on the distinguishing
| marks of coons and bob cats since he
paid, the other day, bob cat bounty
on a raccoon skim. ... e.
Lewiston Journal The unpleasant
| revelations now made in the town Of
| Steuben, following so closely on SIM
| liar affair in Cherryfield, have called
| attention anew to the slack methods
of doing town business, followed in so
many municipalities, and probably will
cause a few Investigations and settle
ments with town officers in other places
| that have allowed their officers to col
| lect and disburse money without any
| accounting to anyone. 1t by no means
| follows, however, that any more defal-
cations will be brought to light as Il
result. Probably there will be nothing
Of the kind. The great majority of the
town officers will be proved honest, as
|
An occasional settlement of accounts,
however, is no reflection on any ones
honesty. In fact, an honest man gen.
orally prefers to be held to strict ac-
count and if any officer shows sensi-
tiveness on the subject he is the one
who it may be assumed, will bear
watching.
Several female drivers of buckboards
in Guiiford have developed remarkable
skill as reins-women the past season, it
is said. They can say "g'lang," too.
with naturalness that is positively
startling both to man and horse.
People down Buxton way are still
wondering whether that electric rail-
road is going to be built after all.
A man in Dover dug a pint of pota-
toes. "streaked" measure, from % hills
last week.
A West Sullivan woman is blazing
the way to new employment for
women. She is employed by her neigh
bors in killing chickens.
In Trenton there is family consist
ing OF father and mother. six chill
dren. four sons-in-law, two daughters
in-iaw and II grandchildren. The old