Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-11

| There has never been a death in any
of the families. The children have
| homes Of their own.
A BiddefOrd hen owner chased thief
| with a big hand full of biddies around
blocks, squares, across lots and through
| fields, the other night, but the thief
| kept tight hold of the hens until he
ran into a barbed wire fence and then
| he dropped only one biddy.
This is the way Winthrop man
| takes his family for an outing: The
little boy sits in front Of his papa, and
the baby in front of it's mamma on a
convenient seat on the front handle
bar of the tandem bicycle.
The State news column of a con-
temporary inforrrS us that boarding
house keeper in Henderson lost one of
her boarders recently under the follow
ing trying circumstances: 1T seems
the man had left his work on the rail-
road for a weeks spree. He started in
on good State of Maine booze but at
last sank to Jamaica ginger, pepper
mint, witch hazel and last to bay rum
which he stuck to till the last. Having
no friends he was buried on Monday by
the town." He chose painful and dis
gushing method for committing suicide,
to say the least.
Burberry wine, it is said. will supply
all the lack in the elderberry article
this year. Wonder if the Bacchanalian
BURBERRY produces a "blue" feeling the
next morning? No, thanks, you need
MT send us a bottle. But to think that
a new intoxicant should be discovered
IN Maine!
The foxes are beginning to anticipate
the Thanksgiving turkey. sly fellows
they are!
The instructor of the Saco manual
training school punished a boy; the
boys parents claim the punishment
was excessive and threaten to bring ac
ton. In that event it is said the school
board will see what it can do to the
boy for making a disturbance in the
school and for resisting the teacher.
The Bristol fair which has been sue
cessful the past IS years in giving legi-
innate exhibitions is now looking for
new grounds, it's lease having expired.
In 1888 Ghilford had neither physi-
clan nor minister but a nonagenarian
who recalls that time declares, 1--WE
were a healthy and tolerably we'll be-
haved people"
Reporter-Journal: How long are
you Gardiner folks going to keep this
thing up?" remarked drummer today
at the depot who happened to be in
town yesterday when the wedding par
ty started. Stranger, we have just
commenced. The traders have ordered
all of the rice in Portland and Boston
shipped to this port.
The city is going to the expense in
Bath of repairing the streets, where re-
pairs were occasioned by the digging
up by the water, gas and electric COM
panies, and the Times very pertinently
remarks that it doesn't seem right for
the city to bear the expense.
Bar Harbor is determined to have
adequate sewers if it takes special
town meeting to get 'em.
Bangor's got her polo players If she
can only get her league.
Already there are two distinguished
gentlemen ready to collect customs at
the port Of Bangor.
Now Portland is to have regular
steamers connecting with Germany.
A Portland man who went West a
few years ago to snap up bargains was
called on for payment in the court at
Portland last week. The court said
pay" Notwithstanding the defendant
said the trade did not turn out to be
the bargain it was represented to be.
There are others with similar experi-
ence.
Among the interesting fragments
found in the PiscataQuis Observers
valuable historical sketches is that
which relates how. about so years ago
when Piscataquis county man wanted