Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-04-22
Maine G0ssaIp.


People will discuss social problem.
though the discussion result in no sat
lsfactory conclusion. The Spruce Heac
correspondent of the Courier-Gazett,
Eliminates thusly: Owing to the ex.
tremely low price of paving, the pavins
cutters. like wild geese, are on tn,
move. If the big contractors can ge'
the paving business down so fine tina,
the Films can't stand it and return
home. they will confer blessing on =
large number of natives who have
homes to keep up, children to educate
and ministers to support, saying moth
ing about taxes that everybody knows
keeps everything in repair. We otter
scratch our head and wonder what gu
children's children will do to keep q
focthold in our good State if the laws
continue to allow men TO combine hire
money on watered stock and bring
pauper labor to our State to compete
With our boys. We have just passed
through a struggle to pay our paste
for his years labor in our behalf
The Smoker recollects that when the
shipowners were holding meetings here
little over two years ago and work
ing TO influence the reductions of take
On shipping by the Legislature, it wa
claimed that if the Legislature would
act as desired, more vessels would bt
built ard all owners would registe
their holdings in the custom house III
s.4... 4 g.g., /. 4
Legislature let up" en- the taxes a.
desired but the Smoker has yet t.
learn Of more vessels being built o.
certain shipping owners registering
their holdings otherwise than of yore.-
Bath Independent.-The have been
hard times since them brother.
The spring opera season-cats, frog
and robins fer prima donnas-will 500
begin.
The coal bills of one captain Of tug
beat plying in Portland harbor thl
spring will be unusually heavy. H.
was caught stealing coal from
schooner in the harbor and he paid fC
the ccal, the trouble" and the miscGl-
lansous expenses.
Winthrop is having a little mill
discussing the propose,
new schoolhouse, its location, etc. ar
Il miniscences Of the old one. On
kindly cid gentleman doesn't want n,
location any nearer his home than
present and tells the Winthrop Banner;
Il have been trying for the past yea
to live a Christian life ard | must say
that the schcolhouse--Cr the Childi
around it-has caused me to ccmmi
more sin than anything else Anothe
citizen writes of the deeds of 'derrin
do" in the old days when the schcci
master licked the scholars on prin-
ciple, threw his jackknife at them
ia bbed pins in the back of their head
when he found their eyes off the book
and psrpetrated other like barbalities
The editor of the Banner recalls tn,
following amusing incident that oc
CURED when he was a youngster. Tnc
woman teacher tried to trounce one o.
the big girls: The teacher sent out
for a good sized limb from one of thy |
big NAPLES. ard calling the girl up on
to the old high platform, she took het
right hand in her cwn left, and Will |
the switch in her right hand tn
eacher commenced to pay it on to the
part of the girls anatomy which shG
.hought was best adapted by nature It
,eceive the chastisement. With tn |
irst blow struck the girl began to run
oil of -
girls hand but, as the girl was nearly
IS large as she, chould not prevent her
'unning in a circle around her, tins
leacher turning around and around on
ler heel ard all time pilins on the
witch 1t beat all the horse races VIZ
wen. saw at the Readfield fair grounds,
md the girl made faster time around
he track The teacher finally got
lizzy and gave it up.
Jaw Bridge misses the activity of herl
PAPER industry and the circulation ct
he dollars caused by it.
An ex-member Of the Biddefcrd boaro
,f overseers Of the Lccr sues the city
o recover 1906 he claims to be due him
N salary account. He was elected Tor
hree years and o'aims the salary flxea
1t that time should have been pad him
throughout his term of office whereas
he c..y COUNCIL afterwards reduced H.
lie row SUES fer the balance am Is
ike]v to know mcre Of law before he
sets through.
II is renorted that the Dewitt house,
may be opened in May.