Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-03-01
Maine 0ossllu.

a genius In Hull's Cove has invented
. model sawhorrc. For our part e41e
US the inventor who VIII discover =
method to do away with the necssllty
for such an article.
Apple money isn't going Ear scpafd
paying taxes this spring.
Communities are awaling - tlks de-
STABILITY ri having no school on. daks
when the weather makes 4 perfibuS;l or
the children to attend. ~
In connection with the REVIVAL OF tie
Washingtonian temperance movement.
Portland man calls attention to ~
old temperance society which existed
In Portland in the forties. probshly
about 1S47. 1t was known - the yGDtke
Society" The meetings were held III .
small hall in a wooden block on Port.
land street, near Green. The hall
seated about $50 people and It was a.
ways crowded when meetings were
held. When man signed the pledge
he was given a hammer and q spike.
He then went out and drove the spike
into telegraph pole on the corner. II
he broke his pledge the agreement was
that he was to pull the spike out with
his teeth 1t is not recorded that any.
baekslider ever performed this. fe1f,3
but many signed this peculiar pledge,
for the pole was full Of sspikes The
society n0urished for about q year md
then the novelty evidently wore OK.
Ten cents a barrel for feeding sur
poses, il the ruling price for sod
apples in towns far from market.
8 PASSPORT sardine packers are not sure
they can get help enough II that Inn
migration bill becomes . law. There
are plenty Of Americans out OF work
who might be induced under those con-
ditions to take up permanent residence
in Eastport.
Just how 1t Ii possible; for q being
raised and bred in the country to. re-
tain rural ways after living in Portland
Is past the understanding. Nevertle-
less here is the story told of q grimal-
kin, which has acquired metropolitan
manners by quite long residence lin.
Portland but has not forgotten q trick
he learned on. the farm. This was the
habit Of sitting on his 1hipd legs by his
master at milking time with mouth
wide open to receive the stream that
his master occasionally divefted from
the pan into his mouth. That Mas
several years ago and It was .tho0Gfit
that "Coonie' had, Of course. forgotten
all the tricks, Of his youth. He WAS
taken out to his. old home for;A Witt
he other day, but mo sooner did milk
ng time come around than he was on
,is launches By. the side Of the COW as
before. ready for his supper, and he
'eemed t. enjoy ahe oeestsion as much
Turner'S town report Is satisfactory
the great expense
,aused by the flood last spring.
--sS.,-- 49,
Beginning this week Portland has
lew protective fire patrol The objects
II the patrol is THE. protection to prop
rty of subscribers. Its uniformed rep
viii be on duty from s r.
u. to 7.30 A. NJ. and during the entire
4 hours on Sundays and holidays. The
Of the subscribers will be
inspected twice every night.
will be promptly informed
f all accidents to their places Of buai-
less, such as doors and windows left
lights left burning, water
Freaks. burglary. fire. escaping gas.
automatic sprinkler breaks, ETC., and
rec and rapid transportation to the
Gene is furnished. In the stables OF
he patrol the equipment is'identical
9TH that in use in the engine house of
he city.
.Aroostook Pioneer:s On Tuesday last
'nited States Deputy Emery, arrested
richard Ayers Of Fort Fairfield. Ao0k
i'm to Portland and had him com
lifted to jafl. Last Saturday morning
e was brought before the .caRirt
harged with selling liquor without 3
Enited States license. The charge was
pt proven. however, and Ayers was
old to, 90 home and appear againstn =
bangor In June. At the time uE~bis =
he had not money enought40
ny his expenses home, and waD Mek
esides. He reached this town GafNfx
ay evening and friends kept him 0ter
unday. Yesterday he was obltGadt to s.
all on the overseers Of the spoor for Z
ssistance. A ticket was procured tor j.
i'm and he was sent home to Fort
'airfield. Mr.. Ayers claims to- be'a
lember OF the Methodist church IN
God standing; he says that he never
rank or sold glass Of liquor In his
fe. and that he does not know the
arties who caused his arrest. Her9
.yssthat his wife Is an active member =
the w. C. T. U. that the cell I'm
HIGH he was confined in P6rtlandswes
I'D and damp. and that the food was -.
le poorest he ever saw. In couess
ue11ce Of his condnemeG&t he teftl6X
dswas hardly able to tsavel WIZ q
,oaIad we not have . commissioneffiu 81
iiS1 county before whom .p1fties e
,aIEed with selling liquor without = Il
niAed States license could BE- hruuol&. s.
ithOut subjecting them to : journey y
~ miles? Il
Rangeley Lakes: State pupeeln< q
ndent Of schools says 6os0oo gFangeS
this State are behind TIE peuposed y
h6ol bin. They would make : stFQne 4
'dy to fight for anything and. 4he
AZ. why do not our female sdtfroSpts
Itch on to this point. In the grange
le female has full suffrage and