Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-07-13


Bangor policemen are on the alert
and the new company Of the National
Guard of Maine is expecting to be
called out. A Brewer fisherman saw a
panther in the woods the other day and
the sporting blood of the two cities is
aroused. 1t was only short time ago
that wild raccoon was captured in
Bangor's Market square and a pair of
deer paraded the main streets.
A Lewiston bicyclist has put q gong
almost as powerful as those used on
the electrics, on his bicycle; but the
startled pedestrians say there is not
much choice between being run over by
the bicycle and being scared to death
by the gong
Reports of wholesale log. stealing
come from the Penobscot One man
with half million logs coming down
the river finds that his marks on the
logs has been changed and others are
getting possession of them. Rather
scaly business.
One Maine paper discusses editorially
the question Of the bicycle craze dying
out.-and in general comes to the
startling conclusion that the wheel is
bound to go.
A Waterville man has kept his fur
mace fire going through the intense
no. spell, declaring it is now so near
cold weather that it will not pay to let
it go out
Who has stopped to think that 1897
is considerably over half gone?
Happy Caribou, with not vacant
house in the place. What other Maine
city, or village can make a like boast?
Trains and steamboats, headed for
Maine are carrying large loads these
days. The people are coming to the
national vacation reservation.
Rockland is to be congratulated on
it's tax collector, and also on its tax
payers. The last cent of it's 1895 COM
mitment of $4,000 has been paid in,
and not taxpayer prosecuted. The
1896 commitment is also well collected.
This is good work for hard times.
Limerick is already planning on a
Fourth of July celebration for next
year that shall be worthy the day.
This year it was all noise. they say.
that meant nothing and was far from
pleasant.
Pittsfield is longing for electric lights
and there is more or less talk about
damming the Sebasticook river at a
point near the 3O-mile rips" and OBJ
tanning power for an. electric light
plant for the village.
Thomaston is having to bite the dust
this summer, and doesn't like it a bit.
On it's first and only appearance the
street sprinkler gave out beyond the
possibility of repairs.
The hay field is warm place in
summer time, but the operatives in 4
cotton mill get something much worse.
They have to keep the windows down
and so get very little fresh air. The
brick walls become heated and the
rooms are more like ovens than any
thing else
At graduation after all bills were
paid the Bowdoin graduating class had
$110 in it's treasury. Instead of indulg-
ing in a blow out and general farewell
iambOree the members showed the
stuff they are made of by voting the
whole sum to the college library for
Prof. Little to buy books at his discre-
ton. This was done in memory of
Edward X. Tapley of Saco, member
of the class who died in sophomore
year.
Maine farmers began haying in ear
nest, yesterday.
Blaine is town favored above most
A correspondent writes that the physi-
clans have all gone fishing, there being
nothing else for them to do.
Says a well known writer, speaking
of the rivers of the world: '"rhe Ken
nebec in it's strong syllables exempli-
fies it's rude northern strength and
dash, suggesting the tinkling of it's
forest tributaries with the sound of the
ice pick and the woodman's axe"
PenobScot moose understand that the
law protects them and are getting so
daring that they mingle freely with
the cattle in the pastures. 1t is said
they will be made part of the farm
exhibits at the local cattle shows, as
they are fast being classed under the
head of domestic animals.
The evils of tight lacing SO often ex-
emplified in the fair sex, are now
shown in the case of Lewiston police
man. On st. Johns day he was one of
the policemen, who headed the parade
He is a large man, and the belt which
he wore was too small for him. Never
theless he buckled it up and marched