Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-02

by saying that down that way the girls
follow the old adage Of EARLY to bed
and get up at five" In this way their
cheeks retain a little Of the sunset and
steal touch of the sunrise.
The city of Bangor is making a BUSH
ness OF collecting taxes this year, and is
succeeding we'll. Employees Of the city
who have been delinquent with their
poll taxes. along with some other citi-
zens Of the town, We're surprised on
Tuesday, on being paid Off, to find the
amount Of their back taxes deducted
from their pay. The dose was bitter
but 1t was crammed down in every
case.
Biddeford is enjoying a real estate
boom which gives the part locally
called Five Points some such an APP
pearance as Sioux Falls might have
had when so much Bidieford cash was
being dumped into choice corner lots.
The property bought by the Boston
syndicate is being surveyed. streets are
being laid out and the territory is
thickly dotted with stakes which mark
the survey.
1t is said the recent drop in the price
of bicycles will not at once affect the
local trade.
Base ball in Maine is doomed for this
season.
Women peddlers are a nuisance said
be multiplying In parts of the State.
y are often dreaded more than
II FPS as they are more persistent
II men in trying To get into houses
al. sell their goods. In some cases
the look like men dressed in women's
clot, They seem to think because of
theii ex they must stay as long as
they like If rainy as they wish for a
vacation, and it is with much trouble
they are gotten out Of the house. At
this time Of the year people living in
the country on farms have their houses
open and they force themselves into
houses and cause much annoyance. 4
The services Of a locksmith are said
TO be needed in a government building
not 1000 miles from Bath. In this
building there. is a safe. and the Demo-
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cratic custodian of it was recently
obliged to give up his place to make
room for Republican. When he left
the Office. SO the story goes, he left the
safe unlocked and declined to give the
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had arranged himself and the new one
could do the same The new custodian
while arranging a combination Sot the
bolts drawn and couldn't set them
back. and now he is realizing how full
of trials is an office holders life.
Where to have the fireworks is the
great question agitating those in
charge of the Bath celebration. A float
up; the Hyde field is too far out of the
city, and the city fathers are afraid
that if the park is used the people viii
step on the grass.
Bar Harbor and other coast resorts
are holding their breath in anticipation
of the arrival of the warships in "a few
weeks
The poor Saco woman who paid sla
for a package of envelopes said by a
smooth stranger to contain 81 has lost
her implicit confidence in the honesty
of mankind, also her SIS. 1t was bit
ter lesson and she will not have TO
learn it = second time. but there are
others, and the industrious bunco man
will ever lack victims.
The peanut fad has struck Bar Har-
Tor theatre goers, and the crack of the
peanut is now said to be as familiar il
Music hall as the music of the orches-
ira. Peanuts are as necessary as
tickets to gain admittance to the lead
ing place of entertainment of Americas
most aristocrsttic resort, and the habit
is common to both sexes.
The sin of talking scandal was the
theme of an Advent minister Mt the Old
Orchard campground one morning this
week. 1t was good subject for the
great summer resort, ana might We'll
he preached often in the season. So
full of force was the sermon that at its
close two-thirds of the large congrega-
ton come forward for confession and
prayers.
The law against cruelty to animals is
not extreme enough for the Orono fell
low who became furious during the
course of a road race because his horse
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