Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-29
these men do SO much harm they
ought to be willing to do little good"

ought to be willing to do a little good"
Alas that any man should ever be
blackmailed! But II such things must
be a rumseller makes about as good a
victim as could reasonably be desired.
The Bangor hotel clerks are just
"loaded for bear" with stories of the
festival rush. At one famous hosiery
a party of women from up the country
got a room, and so timid were they
that every time they entered the room
even If only for a minute, they care
fully locked the door. One night they
not only locked the door. but also lost
| the key They were all ready to start
| for the festival, and as some of them were
| in the chorus they were panic-stricken
lest they should be late. But the mis-
cradle key could not be found, and
finally, after an hour of fruitless search
and floods Of tears, bright idea came
to one of them-the bell! So they
pushed the button and the grinning
bell boy did the rest. Another woman
could eat no dinner on her hungriest
day here because she had lost her false
| teeth.
The Klondike fever appears to b..
growing more and more contagious
| here in Maine, but perhaps 1t may
turn before spring.
Oh, why won't the officials make
some effort to enforce the tramp law!
AS result of their failure to do so the
professional hoboes are constantly be-
coming more numerous and more inso-
lent. few days ago a tramp called at
the house of Harry Chase at Walkers
Mills and finding the family away,
broke into the house by breaking in a
window, and dressed himself in a nice
suit of clothes belonging to Mr.. Chase.
When Mr.. Chase went from his work
where he had been in sight of the
house all of the time, he found the old
clothes of the tramp and his own miss
ing-then ne recalled seeing a gentle
man well dressed walking down the
street, never suspecting his own clothes
We're walking off.
A ploughing bee was the way In
which the members of the West Bath |
Grange rendered substantial assist
ance to a widow. and her son, who has |
been sick since haying |
Railroad as we'll as steamboat Off !,
Gals all report that the catch of herr |
ing along the Maine and New Bruins
wick coast is light. so that their freight |
in that line is very small. Receipts in
Portland have been but nominal. No |
stock Of the canned article is to be
found, and no packer dares make 4
price. At Eastport. and in the hands
of the packers elsewhere. there is not |
two weeks supply of domestic sar-
dimes. 1t was radical change a few
years ago for Gamers to go from mack
erel to herring. because the former
had disappeared largely, and now they
are both hard to find,-in fact, last sea-
sons. catch is the smallest on record.
Maine marksmen will have to look
to their laurels. Friday Mrs James
E. Perry of Meadowbrook, hearing
noise among his hens. went out, and
seeing hawk with them she ran into
|
out and fired killing the hawk. 1t was
the first time she ever fired gun.
The hawk measured from tip to tip of
wings 4 feet, and the distance she
fired was 40 yards. We think she has
broken the record.
A Biddeford man gave his wife 4
terrible fright recently by putting up
a bluff at suicide with a razor. He
slashed away at his collar until the
front button was cut away, when he
threw the weapon into a corner. and
said he was disguised with trying to
commit suicide. More than one man
has repented when he has come to the
jumping off place, and many of them
would never have been missed"
The Portland Athletic Club has such | {
a swimming tank as the Journal has long
and earnestly advocated for Augusta !
and indeed every city and large village
in the State. The Portland Express