Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-04-13

| The mlcr0be theory mas Sot q III ia
/ foothold in jefferson it would seem. A
man entering a neighbours house re-
cently did not remove a veil over his
mouth and nose. He said he was SUI
fering from a cold epidemic and was
afraid the microbes from his breath
might be impaired to others. They II
vet find the microbe of fright.
| Two Mormon preachers are reported
in North Haven. We shall expect u
hear next of a tar and feathers bee in
that vicinity.
| One of Presque Isles prominent men
who drew horse in a rattle with Il
ticket that cost a cent is in doubt
| whether after all fate has been kind to
, him.
| The Rockland opinion thinks Fast
day should be appointed for Good Fri
day is rarely desecrated; and if the
State is to join with the church in APP
pointing a fast day, it ought to appoint
day that will be suitably observed.
| The descendants of the Puritans now
observe Christmas and Easter, though
their fathers would have been shocked
F., to see such idolatry.' Why not OBJ
serve the fasts as well as the feasts?
| This plant comes from resident in
the thriving town of Blaine and as it
! will doubtless be found applicable to
some other towns as well and is more
| over quite pertinent we publish 1t.
| What cold, unattractive, cherries
schoolhouses we have, They are not
| by any means confined within the
limits of our own town. Many of them
were built years ago and located in
swamps or on bleak. cold hills. on land
that was considered unfit for anything
else. Some of them look more like
prisons than institutions of learning,
and often their interior is worse than
the outside appearance
A. j. Darling writes the Phillips
Photograph: lone writer tells us in
the columns of the Photograph, that Il
main reason why big game is scarce in
| some sections of our State. is due To
our Maine lumbermen. / have visited
! as many lumber camps as almost any
other man in the State. | have travelled
our State in the summer season. and
today I shall claim that fishermen. or
| summer sportsmen, kill ten moose.
! caribou and deer that lay and rot
where killed. to every one killed or used
by lumbermen of Maine. Three years
T Loo oai living in
logans, lakes and streams within 40
| miles of the Canada line. than else
where in large game regions. He wants
to see the blame distributed where 1t
should he This is pious wish and
there will probably be found enough to
go around.
| The rejuvenated board of trade in
, Saco has almost landed that shoe
! factory. Anyhow its plucky efforts
ought to be contagious.
| A dealer in frozen fish had a brisk
trade in Mars Hill the other day bu.
he got out of town before they thawed
for then the housewives began to take
them out-of- doors with a pair OF tongs
and the aroma they distilled was OPP
pressive to say the least.
Base ball has developed in Bucksport
since the days of Jed Prouty and the
cranks are planning to put native
team into the field this season that will
! give neighboring teams all the exercise
| they may be looking for.
Brewer is growing to be quite city
these days; she is passing into the
period of municipal travail which has
made Bangor such a delightful place to
F., live in for a half-dozen years past.
! Millennium is farther away from Bangor
and Brewer, apparently, than any
other spot in Misunderstanding, may
be, Biddeford, writes Lin o. Type in the
! Bangor Commercial.
| The information that freight train
! arrangements will be made to enable
/ Rockland to get freight more quickly
+, by IS hours from the West warns the
| hearts of the Rockland business men
! toward Manager Evans. The freight
train, which now leaves Rockland at
5.45 A. NJ, and arrives at AS p. NJ, will
/ be made a night train, leaving Rock
land about p. NJ, and arriving early
in the morning.
The combative spirit in Biddeford
| occasionally finds expression in some
very unique ways. In one neighbor-
hood are dog and pig who have long
held grudge against each other. One
morning recently the dog started out
looking for trouble and eventually
thrust his nose over the fence of the
pigs pen. The latter saw the dog and
grunted defiance. The dog was over the
fence in fifty and the two met. They
acted cautiously for a few minutes as if
| feeling Of each other and then the dog
made a jump at his antagonist and
| seized him by the ear There was a
! loud snort from the pig and rising on
his hind legs he shook his antagonist
off. Then the pig showed his aggres-
siveness. He advanced upon the dog
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