Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-02

highways is now going on. This often
consists of scraping mud and sods out
Of the ditch and carefully placing them
in the middle Of the road where they
Will never assimilate with the road,
and their only possible use is to OBJ
struct travel cause broken wagon
springs, and provoke profanity. The
good roads question in Maine is coming
to the front and will not much longer
be put so easily aside.
The hero of the Colby commence
ment was the Confederate veteran who
made an eloquent and patriotic speech
at the alumni dinner which made the
walls of Memorial hall ring with
thunders of applause. II was dra-
matte and thrilling episode.
after graduation, what?' is the
question now pondered by hundreds Of
Names young people.
The vandal who stole the little flags
over the soldiers graves in Marshyille
is equaled if not outdone by the
women who were recently caught TAX
ing flowers which had been placed on
graves in Evergreen cemetery. Port
land 1t is hard to conceive of such a
degree of meanness.
An East Machias corr Elmer"t de-
clares that three hancit ~. ~ i s.a,,t. ne
monkey, and one scissors
the only real positive proof a. :,
town that it isssummer.
South Portland IS planning on an
Elesae street sprinkler. and hopes to
keen Tn dust in perfect subsection
Thersfis a musical school district
down IL Rockport. There are only -
H{aHllieS but they possess Il yiolins.
bff guitar. Wonder if they ever all &c.
to going at once.
Il The great rush of summer visitors to
Maine is now due, and for the next ten
weeks it will be the Mecca of vacation
lists, the play ground of the nation.
Give US blue skies and a rise in mer-
curry" pray the landlords.
There was a merry old time at Skow-
hogan when the battle cry of Hey,
Rube," was sounded and 100 circus
employees rushed together to do up a
gang Of local toughs.
Waterville Mail: There was never a
Colby commencement, within recent
years at least, when some of the alumni
did not buttonhole their acquaintances
and give the trustees n hauling over
for their sins of omission and commits
sion. The makeup of the board never
escapes criticism. Some of the less
conservative of the alumni who have
no particular sympathy with the col
ege as "a Baptist institution, complain
because, as they say, the places on the
board are filed up with Baptist min
listers entirely regardless of their
scholarly qualities. their business
ability. or their knowledge of affairs in
general. In this way. the critics say,
the board has on ii a lot of men thor
oughly impractical and more of a dea
weight than a help to the institution.
The chances are that the most of this
criticism is unprovoked and unjust
AS Colby is Baptist institution
founded by Baptist and largely sup
ported by the benefactions of Baptists.
it is not only natural but altogether
proper that 4 majority of its trustees
should be of Baptist persuasion. There
is, however, force in the demand made
by the progressive element among the
alumni that the men chosen to fill va
cancies on the board shall be something
more than Baptists: that they shall be
men who have shown qualifications
fitting them for the position. :
Men who are very much alive are
needed for trustees at Colby as at ali
similar institutions. There are a lot
of such men now on the board. but
there should be more. The best are
none too good for this position The
critics who declaim against having so
many ministers elected tn the board
should not find fauh for that. A min
lister may make a, first class trustee
but 1t may also well be remembered
that minister who can manage the
affairs of a small parish without the
least difficulty may yet be a very weak
addition to the board of trustees of a
modern and progressive college.
The Caribou man who ordered a sal
mon by express and found only ice in
the box when it arrived, is doing lots of
guessing these days. The shipper ana
express company declare they did their
duty all right. and now the question
comes, who dined on that salmon?
Sergeant Leopold Hegyi the soli-
tary keeper of old Fort Knox, which is
situated across the river from Bucks
port, does not have a very hard time i'm
overseeing the fortress, and his duties
are made lighter by his intelligent dog,
Tommie. that has acquired the COM
mendable habit of hunting eggs ami
bringing them to his master to be
cooked and eaten. Tommie never
breaks an egg. and his master does not
know where he gets them
Saturday afternoon is now legal
holiday for all banking institutions. the
new law of the last Legislature having
gone into effect Yesterday