Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-01-09

Harrington people now think Bran
did it. 3 -, &.gs,s
But what shall be thought OF
Browns strange behavior and con-
ficting Statements.
This cold chill didn't strike to the
marrow Of the ice men. SGJ 81.
Lewiston milkmen must register and
milkman introduced the order to re-
quire them to do SO.
A South Litchfield man caught what
he supposed was muskrat and by
way of joke presented the arrival to
a neighbor. His sense of humor was
somewhat blunted the next day when
he learned it was mink with val
liable skin.
President Harris of the State college
is quoted as saying that the trustees
of that institution will ask the Legis-
lature for a total of $780, 900 for the two
years. 1t is Urged that the college
badly needs buildings, the shops now
| being so crowded that the students
have to work in shifts. A new library,
chapel and dormitory for female stu
dents are among other needs cited. -.
Searsport has what may be termed
the clam flat police, it having been
found necessary to patrol the flats to
keep off intruders from surrounding
towns.
That's staff to be proud of, Gov
ernor. D....,-
Because the inmates of the Auburn
Jail have refused to work is advanced
| by some as reason why Jail work.
shops are not eXpedient. AS these
obdurate prisoners have been put upon
bread and water the county can prob
ably stand it as long as can the strik-
ers. Moreover the bread and water
diet for men in confinement and idle
ness is not unhealthful unless unrea-
sonably. protracted and the discipline is
not such as calls for the criticism that
the motto, He who enters here leaves
all hope behind has been adopted by
the prison officials. There should be,
however. a motto over the entrance of
every Jail, He who enters here does
not leave work behind" AS a measure
for promoting the health of the prisoner
work should be enforced.
| Bath Times: The late Editor Nc
: Cullagh's achievements continue to
=, pour in. He invented the word BOOM
Boston Herald.
He did, did he? -.
That word originally came from the
Shipping City.
The boom swings things, you see. g
One of Baths good resolutions didn't
go into effect until the second week of
the new year, when the city marshal
notified parties having slot machines to
| put them out of sight. In several
places little boys had been allowed to
gamble away their pennies in those
money catching devices.
The population of Eustis in 1890 was
321. 1t will be bigger in 1900 if this
record is kept up: There have been Is
births in town the past year. nine boys
and nine girls; three pairs of twins.
There were but six deaths.
A resident of Belfast recently bought
horse of jockey for 81 stipulating
that the jockey should take the animal
out to the neighborhood of Quantaba-
| cook pond, kill it. and leave the carcass
| there as bait for foxes. the horse
dealer was further entrusted with
| message to a resident in that vicinity
THAT if he preferred to keep this horse
| and substitute one of his own he was
at liberty to do so. The recipient of
the message is now looking for the
| sender. with club But this is not
the whole of the story. The horse was
killed, as agreed, and the skin was
brought to Belfast and sold for 81. and
another dollar was received from the
Humane society for killing the animal.
Only a boss jockey could nave finan-
ciered a project like that.
! How many women of this generation.
| if obliged to earn livelihood at times
by cutting wood would expect to attain
| 101 years with mind and body unim-
paired by disease? Not many, and for
that matter if the question had been
put to the women of preceding genera
! ti0ns it would be perfectly safe to as
tsume that the great majority of them
would have shaken their heads dubi-
ously at such a prospect. Neverthe-
| less a Maine woman now passing her
declining years in Milbridge has had
such experience and enjoys recollec-
| tions of it. Mrs. Eliza Pinkham of that
town was 101 years Of age last Thurs
clay. She was born at Lubec. January
7. 1896. Her eyesight and hearing are
remarkably good and her memory quite
tsunimpaired by old age. Not so very
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