Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-17

awoke he found he had been thorough
| re- soaked by q passing shower. Some
body suggested he was soaked before
he sat down. but I'VE cannot believe
that.
How many Maine towns keep guide
posts at the road corners as Is required
by law? Nothing is more aggravating
to a traveller than to find himself sew
eral miles on the wrong road and there
are many towns where a stranger can
not find the right road without stop
ping to enquire.
Honorable Albion Little of Portland
is quoted by the Portland papers as
I authority for this yarn: Forty years
ago three men. who may be called
Brown. Jones and Robinson, lived in a
| Maine city. Brown was a lawyer,
Jones a business man and Robinson
while something of a rolling stone was
| O man of some property and no family
Robinson went to California, but before
| leaving handed Jones $500, asking him
| to keep it for him and send 1t to him If
| he wrote for it. Jones asked Brown
| how he could place the money so either
| he or Robinson could get it. Brown
said he'd fix 1t for him and took the
money and invested it in his own name.
Nothing more was heard from Robin
son until news came of his death and
as he had no relatives Jones thought
he might as well have the money.
When he asked for it, however Brown
wanted an order from Robinson. The
question is. who will keep the money
This is the ''off year for cherries.
and the lover of the luscious black
heart will be left hungry for more.
Biddcford with two consulship APP
pointnents, this week. carries off the
palm and the plum.
No hard times at Swans Island
while the crop of ambergris holds out
One man picked UP piece on the shore
which weighed seven pounds, and
which is worth several hundred dol
lars
Not for many years have summer
visitors to Names coast seen such
grand surf as the recent storm afford
ed
Pennington Chronicle: The sacrifice
people will make for an opinion is
strikinsly shown in the tenacity with
which New Englandcrs. as well as
many others, have chung to their own
particular UNCONVENTIONAL organization
and sought. however unpromising the
circumstances. to keep up its local hab-
itation and maintain its name in a
community. This has often been ac-
complished only with q great struggle
and the impairment of the member
ships ability to give much to other |
causes, as for instance, common neigh |
borhood benevolence: and. indeed in |
some cases Jealous ones have given |
more than justice to their creditors |
would allow The mistake of duty in |
such a course has seemed to be slow in |
coming to the minds of the people gem
orally, and the struggle has gone on /
year after year. A reaction seems to
have set in at length and the idea of |
uniting two or three weak churches.
such as are often found in country viii
lagos. into one society. is gaining favor
in many quarters. Our own county /
has one or more illustrations of this
more excellent way, the results con
firlning the wisdom of the principle
adopted. so far as those special com
munities are concerned TO say the
least.
The towns are awakening to the fact
that there's advantage for them i'm the :,
free public library law.
The militia boys are rubbing up their
buttons and adjusting their rifle sights.
Now you see it and now you don't
and again you do seems to be the at
tractive feature of that Rluemil tuber-
culosis sensation.
Those burned out of home by the
Nassalboro fire realize that it was a
pleasant spot in which they lived It's
safe to say they don't want to pitch
their tents elsewhere
Il. Y. Spnney & Co. of Norway. are
about to enlarge their business by
manufacturing mems shoes, which
calls for an addition of two hundred
hands. This makes a call for thorough
repair of the building at an outlay of
$1,000