Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-08-25

strike In one of the Quarries there this
spring. The strike was for an increase
in wages which would aggregate 81 on
the JOB for each man employed on it
To get that 81 they lost two days work,
and $4,000 contract. But, you say,
1t was not money, it was principle for
which they were fighting. Granted, bu,
it's a pretty high price to pay even TO-:
principle.
Among other things that New Swe-
den takes the lead in is the matter of
summer visitors, and 1t is claimed no
town in Aroostook can beat it.
Edddeford, too. expects to get into the
rink, next winter, and have merry
time at polo.
When the government builds the i'm
mense dry dock that must soon be built
for the use of our navy it will be well
to remember the fact that the coast Of
Maine offers superior advantages for
its location. We have the harbors, the
coast line and the founda ton of Maine
SiohiiS w buiiu uRoH lCl lil tlit dS:S,
whether of peace or war.
The Niben club. the crack Bangor
organization that has the honor of be-
ing Names first country club, is plan
ming on magnificent club house a;
Pushaw lake, six miles from Bangor,
which will be the pride of the State.
They say the new gray checked suit
ard golf cap of Mayor Beal caused him
to be taken for an English lord by sew
eral strangers, while he was at Port
land last week. t"
Bath people are either very literary
or very easy" A book agent has con-
quered the city to the extent of $4,000
worth of orders.
Dennysvi9le comes forward with
unique claim to distinction. 1t says
that the handsome pine tree of the
Stnte seal was drawn from life and the
'trle that served as the artists model
is still standing in Dennysville. The
tree, as well 3 he seal. is still vigoG
Gus and well-s..Aped.,
Eastern Washington county has come
to realize that it has well developed
RI bbit plague on its hands. For the
past two years the rabbits have been
increasing rapidly. In-inverse ratio has
the interest in hunting them decreased.
Where rabbits are as thick as tabbies
there is no fun in wasting powder on
them. So the bunnies nave increased
by the tens and the hundreds and
every farmers field is we'll tenanted
with them. This season there has been
pretty brisk race between the house
wives and the rabbits as to which
should get the best pickings from the
gardens.
Now Rigby is planning on the New
England fair for 1898.
Pittsfield's feminine jockeys have
come in for good deal of criticism
from the turf press.
Quite number of town fairs are on
the programme this week, but the real
rush doesn't begin until the excitement
is over at Lewiston and Bangor.
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A woman at North Lubec who re-
Gently died on her S5th birthday, was
born, married, and died in the same
house and room, where she passed all
the years of her useful life.
The set Oe scales that stands in the
railroad station at Phillips, has prob
ably weighed more anglers than any
other scales in America. On the trip
to the Rangeley and Dead river fishing
grounds, the train stops just about
long enough fer the passengers 10
weigh themselves, and as the scales
are in view from the car window, a
great many of the passengers make 4
dive for them as soon as the train
stops. When they return, they, OF
course, want to know how much they've
gained, so they patronize the fisher
mems scales" a second time:
Time was when Maine farmers RAISED
wheat enough in general to furnish
them with flour fer their own use, be-
sides leaving some for sale. Now the
great fields of the West produce the
most of the wheat that is used in the
manufacture of the -four that is con-
sumeu in Maine homes. Once in a
while section of the State is to be
found where the farmers still sow
wheat and such place is the town os
New Sweden in Aroostook county. AL
most every farmer in New Sweden has
a wheat field and the crop is this year,
as usual, a good one. The -four manu-
factured in the local mills is not quite
so fine an article as that brought from
the West, so far as color and SOME
other qualities go, but 1t is sweet and
nutritious ana very satisfactory to the
thrifty husbandmen of New Sweden.
Cherryfield is no longer hospitable
ground for the long handled hammer
man. The edict has gone forth from
the chief of the town fathers that
henceforth the covered bridge and tel-
eLhone poles shall he undecorated with
patenS medicine advertisements. or to-
baccO cards. For some days past ham Is