Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-31
Bath is to have an all-night "hello."

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| Saith Is to have an all-night hello.
Next Friday afternoon the members
of the Signal Corps, N. G. S. NJ, vii
| leave Portland on bicycles for a triE
across country to Augusta to attend
muster. On their wheels will be carried
overcoat, blanket, towel. soap and three
cooked rations will be rolled inside the
shelter tent and strapped to the handle
bar. Carbnes and signal kites will be
| secured to the frame. They will make
careful reconnaissance of the country
through which they pass. There's
about this An evidence Of desire for
| thoreughness in practice and drill
which is commendable.
This is the season for family re-
unions.
Old Town is wondering what can the
| matter be. There have been no arrests
for some time and no signs of drunken
ness seen i'm the streets. Perhaps the
red men and river drivers have been
experiencing a grand revival on the
quiet.
What gay old time the Boston and
Portland city fathers had down among
the Casco islands, Thursday 1t is
said they didn't spend all their time
discussing municipal reform. The
visitors proved easy victims in the bail
game, the score being IA TO in favo,
of Portland in the second inning when
the cruel,wet rain stopped the fun. The
Portland city government will return
the visit next month.
Like all ghost stories the Waterville
one turns out to be a ghost story. pure
and simple
A returning Washing tonian says that
he never saw so happy body of men
as the Republican members of Con-
gress over the fruits Of this session and
its adjournment. Senators and con-
gressmen alike. felt like boys and he
remembers no more colossal specimen
of happiness than Speaker Reed. who
was with them on the train leaving
Washington. The speaker was going
yachting and he wore a pink shirt
whose expanse revealed the flowing
folds of the national flag on the Capitol
and on the back Of his head was tilted
a straw hat of the most pronounced
Tom Reed style. Good bye boys. F
said he. Behave yourselves. I'm GO
ing to-" Mr.. Reed could afford to feel
happy and well satisfied with life for
the work of the session was greatly 10
his credit, as also 10 that of the other
Maine congressman and senators.
The Bar Harbor Record briefly, but
in an item which conveys a world Of
meaning, tells of some of the annoy
ances of steamboating on the Maine
coast. The steward of the steamer
Ruth is the hero of the tale and he has
added to his stock Of knowledge sew
eral new points. one of them being not.
in rough weather,to place a dish pan "
hot water in the middle of the floor,
quantity of soft dough on a barrel
head, and then try to steer his course
around them. The steward is a small man
and on Saturday morning the weather
was very rough. 50 rough, in fact, that
his legs refused duty and ne sat down
in his pan of hot water while his
dough flew from its barrel head aud
fitted over him like n huge dumping
The story is told that he was at onCe
put in the oven and baked but the re-
port is fortunately said to be false.
West Bath now has no trouble in
keeping its children in doors after
dark. A large bear has been seen in
that town, No doubt many other
Maine towns wish they We're similarly
favored.
Mexico felt as if il We're quite n
place, one day recently, when two OK
governors called at the postofIiee for
their mail at the same time
An exchange states that "a horse
fell over rolling stone, breaking it's
behind leg" We hope its before leg
escaped injury.