Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-11

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Bangor News:-SOme people believe
that there would be less tuberculosis
| if there were fewer fancy barns and
the herds were less pampered.
One of the many Norway friends of
the late General Beal thinks that the
building of a memorial hall and public
library would be the best way Ito per-
petuate the memory and deeds of our
honored and illustrious townsman and
all who fought with him from this town
for the Union"
A baptism through a hole in the ice
entertained the people of Mars Hill a
,, week ago last Sunday.
Progression as we'll as depression is
contagious. Here's the town of AL
bany, Me-. so interested over the cleo
trfc railroad project that it feels as
sured watch factory will be built
there if ever the road can be put
through.
Honest debts will be more collect
able in Sangerville now that a local
firm that employs many hands has
determined that a trustee process
served on one of the employees shall be
a notice to quit the firms employ.
The lively hustling of Aroostook po-
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the belief among the farmers that the
price will be lower instead of higher.
Whether this belief is right or wrong
| the fact remains that the farmer who
| acts according to it usually comes on;
better in the end.
Portland Press: Very little, legisla-
| ton is needed or demanded by the in
terests of the people in general. The
demands viii come largely from pri
vate interests, and a favorable re-
Spouse to them will frequently not be
compatible with the interests of the
people in general. Gov. Cleaves made
a laudable effort to exclude private leg
islation from the general court. He
| was successful to d considerable de-
gree but there is still altogether too
| much of it,
A pastor at Cranberry ISLE dfstribu-
ted $50 worth of presents amsng his
: parishioners. He must have come into
an inheritance other than a quarters
salary. Anyhow it was indeed Kind
| ly act.
| Rangeley lakes has this "Reminiscences
Of the days when pigs We're roasted and
served whole: At the session of court
in a Maine town the judge and other
officers of the court boarded at 4 hotel.
The first day roasted pig was brought
on. No one seemed willing to begin
the attack on it and it appeared regu-
larly every day. On the day of ad-
ieurnment the judge. turning to the
clerk of court said. Mr. CLERK you
may dismiss that pig without bonds. he
has been so punctual in attendance
during this term that there can be no
doubt but what he will be present at
the next"
In North Arson there are two steep
| nils Win a valley between upon all
three of which Main street rests like
an inverted rainbow. But the erosion
of rainfalls and the pillow of the road
workers have relieved the steepness a
great deal in the past century. A hun
dred years ago the mail was brought
from Norridgewock on horseback
through dense forests and over precip-
itous hills. One day for wager,
Peter Gilman, the mail carrier. pro-
posed to ride in chaise down Bunker
hill. an exploit which had never been
undertaken because of the abruptness
of the descent. The settlers from far
and near gathered at the end of the
bridge on the north side where a grog
shop stood. to witness the daring feat.
which was accomplished amid the
cheers of the crowd. Then as was the
custom in those old days all were in
vited into the grog shop to drink and
celebrate the event. But times have
| changed since Peter road down the
hill, and the grog shop with it's I'M
written history has passed into obliv-
ion.
It's bit early in the winter season