Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-18

spelling school is soon to be organized
in town. Get out yer old speller and
hunt out them jaw cracking words
EX.-All of which suggests that it's
little advantage to be able to spell big
words when you don't know how to use
even the small ones.
One tramp had two toes frozen while
walking to Ellsworth to get work in
the shoe factory and then didn't get
the job. That fellow wasn't a hobo
! There are really honest deserving
men who want to work on the ice,
though few of the DER protesting
| tramps hereabouts come in that cate
CORY. When a local ice dealer in Bidde-
ford began to harvest his annual crop
the other day over 100 men applied for
| a chance to work.
| 1t is said the housewives of Ellsworth
are so interested in a cooking school
recently opened there and in the
neighborly discussions incident thereto
| thdt oCNSldl VI tilC are ldh-
ing their meals from the cold vituals
on the pantry shelves.
| Nothing mercurial about the price of
apples.
| 1t has been explained how a certain
Dexter citizen, Hon. V. A. Sprague,
manages to solver so many of the
puzzles in the Maine Farmers Alma
nae. The explanation, according to
one of our exchanges, Isl. 1T requires
a great deal of hard study, but the
Maine Farmers Almanac and the
dictionary constitute a principal part
of his Sunday reading"
| Plans to be Matched out at the
March meetings are going into the in
cubator.
| There's a noticeable difference be-
tween the prices quoted on apples to
ship abroad and what the apple seller
on the farm gets when he ships them
| on commission.
A Bath man aged 60 years and
weighing $50 pounds fell three stories
onto pile of iron one day last week
But he Immediately got up and climbed
back to the loft from whence he had
| fallen.
| Ellsworth American: My child"
said the old herring to the young her.
ring. by way of parting advice. 1.-The
whole ocean is before you. but don't go
| too near those canneries along the
coast of Maine unless you want to be
taken for sardine.''
| The Bangor beat is in a fair way to
become very tired individual. A con-
Germ has been getting subscribers in
that town for a weekly confidential
bulletin containing the names, occupa-
ton and address of people who will
not pay their bills without legal ac-
ton. 1t has also a valuable feature in
giving special ratings or detailed re-
ports concerning any parties about
whom the subscriber may wish to en-
quire. Another highly valuable feature,
and one which experience has proven
to be productive of good results, is the
advertising for sale of judgments on
accounts, by the use of posters, which
are placed on the bill boards of the
city. This method is used against peo-
pie who own no attachable property
and who are in a position to defy an
| execution.
"A generous man gave to the Ladies'
| Aid society of Gouldsboro the Office of
| the silver mining company at that
| place if they would move it away.
| Then another generous man offered to
give land for it to set upon and a lot
more generous men with OK teams
| turned out and moved it. The aided
| ladies' society undoubtedly feels very
grateful.
The elements INDUCED in an oddly
up Aroostook way week ago, giving
good sleighing to the town of Caribou
and poor wheeling to Presque Isle, Fl.
Fairfield and Houlton.
In Monsoon the inhabitant free from
pink-eye or whooping cough is an OBJ
ject of suspicion.
A Word or Two
to sufferers from .catarrh will not be
amiss If cure can be offered. Ely's