Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-12

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| Moreover, there are a lot OF Gariiner's
gallants who thirst for like informa-
ton.
Now that cirgarette cannot bt
bought in town. the sale of papers ana
fine cut is on the boom, and amateur
cigarette rollers are struggling with the
art is the latest report from Bucksport
When boys or grown people set out 10
make fools of themselves it's hard stop
ping them.
1t happened in Bridgton that stag
horse was so overcome by a slough II
the road that he had to be killed after
he was extrieated This is not so bad
as the quagmre in Patten road, where
a child became mired. and but fdI
speedy assistance would have been
| swallowed.
The Portland young man who con
tracted the habit of occasionally snap
ping the lid of the match box he car
ried in his hip pocket. did 50 at dane
| the other night 4 match was ignited
with the result that the young man Is
wearing borrowed pair Of trousers
while his old ones are being reseated.
That epidemic Of breaking and enter
| ing in Portland has abbreviated the
nocturnal maps of the Forest city's fin
est.
The West Fryeburg young man, who
in the guise of girl hung a May has
I ket, got kissed just the same as if he'd
! been the genuine article.
| Village improvements. new business
firms and new buildings are reported III
several Of the Washington county
towns. just as if the new railroad HAD
got along.
Camden's High School graduating
class of one will not have public exer-
cises
Paris fears a plague of caterpillars
| Several Bath boys, with Yankee
shrewdness, being out of employment.
last week picked aud sold Mayllowers
making 4 pretty penny.
At Portland, they say, Arbor day
went by default. 1t didn't fare much.
if any better in Augusta.
| Maine people, including horsemen AMI
exhibitors. have this year to decide be
tween the Maine State Fair and the
| Eastern Maine State Fair There's
! enough to go around if they occurred
on separate dates, but they don't I'M
| fortunately.
| There is a man down in Verona who
| hasn't once been heard to query wheth-
er farming paid. He's too busy, ana
here are some of the things he is doing:
| He has 80 barrels of seed peas to plant
! is to SOW enough seed to
raise cucumbers to make two
carloads of barreed pickles.
plant / 400 bushels of potatoes, and in
crease his strawberry bed to a capa-
city of $4,000 crates.
| Keep off the sidewalks and get bet
| ter Streets should he the maxim of
the bicyclsts.
Damariscotta is happy over reduced
insurance rates.
| Spring has at last come up Aroos-
adjourned over the summer.
I The Lewiston Democrats appear to
think it a sufficient excuse to say that
| the party did not get out its full vote
in support of its mayoralty candidate.
If they had cast 997 more votes their
candidate would have had as many as
the Republicans.
! The Brunswick Telegraph says less
than 500 of Brunswicks Protestant pop
ulation attend church. How much these
contribute toward converting the for
| eign heather we do not know.
| A Buckfield man remarks that from
| appearances we should judge that the
law is off on caterpillars and suckers
| The Saco and Biddeford reporters
have been brushing up their knowledge
| of the old blue laws"
A Lewiston alderman raises chickens
at odd spells, and it touched him deep
er than a campaign contribution when.
| few days ago, he discovered a big
| hawk sailing aloft with one of those
chickens. The statesman seized a big
stone and hurled it at the bird with
such unerring aim that it struck it upon
the breast. The hawk uttered a scream
| of fright and dropped the chicken, so
feet from the ground The little thing
, fell. fiuttering its tiny wings and tumb-
| ling over and over, into an apple tree
which broke its fall. 1t, landed right
side up and all right on the ground.
while the hawk disappeared overi
Thorne's mountain and did not return.