Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-28


Falls editor. A subscriber sent him 81
cucumber measuring 11% inches around
and l3 inches in length and now he
makes bold to add that he knows {,
prize pumpkin when he sees it and is
a good judge of turkeys.
A photograph car has started from
Pressure Isle with Tennessee as it's OBJ
jective point. Wait till one starts from
TT. Kent for Klondyke.
The Winthrop Banner sees an oppor-
tunity to make that great idle milk
condensing plant give down" by uti-
LIKING it as station for the Kennebec
& Franklin Railroad.
Aroostook Republican,: One of Carl
bou's merchants, a staunch Democrat,
has recently sold quite a number Of
pocket books and declares they are the
first he has sold since Cleveland was
elected for his second term as Presi-
dent.
Those who took off the door and win
dow screens with the first cold snap
are wondering what flies were made
for any way.
A Lewiston man claims that his
chickens grow so fast that the hole by
which they come out of the coop in
the morning is too small for them TO
return through at night.
Newport boasts of having no idle man
in town. The sight of few tramps
might afford her sort of relaxation.
If Portland keeps insisting on having
a new hotel to be run by the Rickers
she may eventually get it. If for no
other reason than to set at rest the
super abundant rumors we hope that
hotel will be built. ed1
Oh yes. we live in an enlightened
generation, but it's somewhat discour-
aging to note that there are many peo-
pie yet too ignorant to respect a diph-
iberia quarantine.
1t is seldom that an intoxicated wo-
man is seen in Belfast Such is re-
cent fact, however. and so surprised
and shocked was the municipal judge,
before whom she was arraigned, that
he sentenced her to 80 days in jail.-Ex
The writer should have explained for
as the item stands it looks as though
the law for intoxicated women was
more severe than that for men.
The editor of the Phillips Photograph
thought he would ride out one pleasant
day last week and look for some of the
abandoned farms about which so much
is heard. The only one he discovered
in several tours of investigation had a
soil mainly of pumple stone, and near
ly on the edge 1t that" Most of the farms
had a prosperous, well kept-up look
and several bore witness to the com
forts which the money of the summer
boarder brings to the country home. i
Norridgewock feels elated over the
prospect of furnishing the granite for
the new Masonic temple at Boston. A
81, 900 contract will take the dull edge
off the winter outlook.
The shrewd farmers in Aroostook
county are seriously considering the
raising of stock for the Farmers Pro-
dun To hn ncfn ltCt1 in
Bangor. They believe they can raise
better pork, mutton and beef for the
Bangor market than can the West and
sell it in competition at profit. 1t
will be of lasting benefit to the county
if they can for then less fertilizers will
be required for the potato crop and less
danger will wait on the failure of that
crop.
Think of attacking two horse thieves
single-handed and armed with only
whip! That is what a Mr.. Reed of
Garland says he did about l A. NJ, one
morning last week. His daughter Mel
lie was awakened by hearing a team
driving from the yard, and looking
from the window saw persons in road
cart, leading a horse behind. She called
to her father, who was up stairs, and
hastily dressing he ran to the stable to
find one horse missing. He harnessed
another and started in pursuit 1t oc-
Cured to him that the thieves might
have turned into the orchard to be out
of sight, so he followed them there, and
found two men with a team of their
own and his horse led at the back of
the cart. He left his team and ran for
the men with his whip, and they
dropped the halter Of the stolen horse
which proved to be Mr.. Reeds. By the
time he had secured it the robbers hal
driven away so rapidly he could not
overtake them.
A battle between hawk and South
Andover woman is so graphically re-
lated in one of our exchanges it seems
the story can properly be told in no
other way than by quoting. This wo-
man heard commotion among her
poultry. "Hurridly investigating, she
soon discovered an immense hawk in
her hen yard; and with the fierce CLEAN
of battle in her eye, she grabbed the
broom, and as the hawk showed fight
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