Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-21

chants. and we think there are other
| broader considerations that enter into
the matter that would make such
road a grand benefit to Winthrop and
all the towns concerned.
An Auburn lady whose $40 dress was
ruined In Pennington by catching on
q coil of wire placed on the sidewalk
by a dealer, thinks there are other
| highway nuisances than stones and
ruts to be abated.
Bath is getting on her good behavior
already in anticipation Of the visit Of
the State W. C. T. U. in September.
|
Bangor's finest seem to be of most
sensitive disposition. A wheelman
from outside the city.who was innocent
of the knowledge that he was riding
on a prohibited sidewalk, was arrested
| and taken to the station. His offense,
as it came out in court the next day,
was not that he was riding on the side.
| walk but that he told the policeman
he considered such an arrest an out
rage. He was fined and considered
himself lucky not to have to spend a
term in Jail.
/ Poland Springs claims the most elab
crate and beautiful flower beds in
Maine
| Ripley has had barn raising, one of
the old fashioned kind, so rare in these
a. l.
out and lifted the big timbers into
place, and then all hands sat down To a
| baked bean dinner in the shade. The
only feature Of the old time barn rails
| ing that was omitted, was the New
| England rum that was always so i'm
portant a factor in getting the frame
| into place. Ice water was substituted
and did very well. 1t was Leroy Sea-
vey's barn and the frame was 90x40
| feet.
| why, it is years ahead of a city the
size of Portland" remarked William H.
Crane. the famous actor, when he had
looked over the Forest Citys new
| theatre. And now Portland is SUI
premely happy.
1t is now Dexter's turn to have a
liquor crusade. and a petition for the
extreme enforcement of the law is said
TO be receiving the signatures of nine
tenths of the people.
An old gentleman in Lewiston now be
lieves in miracles. He has had a grea.
desire to own a hive of bees, and not
long ago one of his neighl,ors promised
him the bees providing he would secure
the empty hive. He accordingly did So
and left it standing on the piazza over
night What was his surprise in the
morning to find his bee hive eceunied
by a stray swarm that apparently came
TO him or were sent to crafty his ear
nest wish.
Reports of the theft of bicycles arr
more common and people are more
careless than ever in giving the thieves
a chance.
Saco has gained lap on the rest al
Maine and already has a boy in tbs
Alaska gold fields who writes how that
he is taking out $3.50 worth of dust A
day.
The Bangor News believes in Ban
gor. 1t says the metropolitanness of
the city is becoming more apparent
every year. and that drummer hal
rather spend Sunday there than any
where else i'm Maine. II closes its
eulogy of the Queen City by deciarina
ii is the most important city of the
State of Maine. The News may be :,
little over-enthusastic ana sweeping in
its claims, but it has the right spirit
and sets good example for the other
papers and cities of the State.
That Bluehill COW. which either did
or did not have tuberculosis, promises
to become as famous as Mrs. DLeary's
bovine whose kick burned Chicago.
Reports from Georgia prize fight
state that the defeated man was from
Portland ME. Portland says it never
heard of him. 1t he had won it might
have been different.
The barefoot boy with pond lilies has
appeared. Summer is past her youth
Pretty soon the aster and golden rod
will be in style
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