Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-29
Maine Gossllp.


-" ti'.ny "n"he'' Odttie-Scarred and
lie flung adown the scowllng armament
| His .clansmen charged; 10! Autumn,
hosts Oerthrown!
o mighty monarch of the virgin crou,r,
Magician-artist! whose light breath "a,
chain ga"
The pulsing sea, yet deigns without a
To paint weird pictures on the humble
loved fair Summer and the Autumn
But hail and worship thy majestic reign,
). L. Gallagher in Boston Transcript.
Twas genuine Maine Press snow
storm.
But whenever the association ia
| snowbound there are the delights n,
summer excursion to be talked oyer
The delights of being road commits.
siOner or a country doctor.
Who said the snow bills would he
light?
Fairfield has cooking club and the
l
does not know how the Fairfield cooks
can be improved upon.
In the rural districts there is no
whistle to announce mo school, but
there should be some rule whereby the
| children remaining at home on a
| stormy day should not be discouraged
with absent marks
| Fairfield is to have an entertainment
to start public library fund and
Waterville is determined to increase
| hers.
The Bath overseers of the poor OBJ
ject to furnishing the paupers with polo
and several who had been receiving aid
| We're cut off when it was found they
were regular attendants on the games.
The fellow who talked all the first
of the winter about Names climate
| changing has now subsidized.
1t is little unusual to read that Mr..
| and Mrs. So-and-So were reunited in
marriage, but that describes what be-
fel a few days since Rockland couple
divorced some years ago. 1t hardly
| seems a wise divorce law that allows
| separation before the parties know
| their own minds
They are ready, down on the WASH
| ington county coast, to hail with de-
light the arrival of the steamer City of
Fitchburg on her first trip from Boston
their anticipations get the better of
them as they've been fooled before.
Somerset Argus: A friend of the
writer, who is engaged in the wooden
mill business, recently received letter
from his brother in England. In this
| letter the brother wrote that the mills
| in the old country were all running
| over time and for the people here not to
tinker" with the present tariff. The
/ brother in this country answered back
/ that they had better run their mills
while they could as the tariff law
would surely be 'tinkered" with, so
that the mills here could run awhile.
An apt Illustration of one side, at least,
| of the question.
The town of Porter has convictions
that there ought to be women on the
school committee but so far hasn't the
| courage of those convictions. There
| are many such instances
| So far we've only heard of kicking
| for the Augusta Hospital.
Machiasport man wanted his tooth
pulled badly enough to walk So miles
| out of the woods to a dentist. As it
was jumping" toothache he doubt
less covered the distance quite quickly.
The Saco board of health used half
a ton of sulphur for fumigating pur-
| poses last year. The city appointed a
smelling" committee to investigate
the matter.
1t has been decided that the travelling
clothiers driven out of Augusta COM
piled with the itinerant vendors law
| before pitching their tent in Water
vile. But the Waterville Mail rises to
| inquire: Would you rather purchase
goods of uncertain value of strangers
| of whom you know nothing, at price
| so low that you know their goods must
be worthless and cannot possibly hold
together long enough to get sufficient
service out of them to pay
to buy them at any price, or
will you pay out your money
| to your own home merchants whereyou
can be sure of honest goods at living
prices?
There lives a young man in MIL
bridge, whose death was announced in
the Thursday evening prayer meeting
and prayers were offered for his poor
family. At the very hour he was on the
river tending his fish weirs. Milbridee
should familiarize itself with accurate
reporting.
1t occasionally costs something to be
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