Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-07-03
Bangor now boasts OF Sunday after
noon band concerts.

- $50
noon band concerts.
Now Bdddeford is all worked up over
the inefficient catering at the annual
meeting of the High School Alumni
Association, and a local paper devotes
a column to telling how poor the ban
quet was.
Portland and Bath have the great
celebration Of the Fourth, or rather Of
the Fifth, this year.
Bar Harbor is soured on the young
man who took young lady to the
theatre and instead Of offering to share
his bag Of peanuts with her ate them
all himself. This Is said to have created
a great scandal In the choice social cir
cles of the island.
Once in while they reform and tina.
| Is what gives hope and strength to
those struggling TO save them. About
a year ago, Policeman Henry Lizotte
of Lewiston, arrested q liquor maniac,
who was tiourshing a razor on English
hill, and driving everybody into the
houses. His hair was flying, his eyes
bloodshot, his cloth rs rent and soiled,
and his brain on fire. This week q
well-dressed, good-looking man walked
quietly into the guard room of the
police station and asked Mr.. Lizotte for
the razor. 1t was given to him and he
thanked the officer for returning 1t, and
also for taking il away from him year
ago. Though he didn't look like the
same man. he was. Hss has been pur-
suing the paths of peace and industry
and finds II more profitable.
A Lewiston Ice dealer is made OF the
stuff that compose her oes. In spite Of
a broken rib and thrae broken toes he
is on his daily rounds. attending to his
customers. He is war veteran and
doesn't mind these little Inconvenience.
One day last week he was delivering a
junk of ice in dark cellar. A wash
tub or some other pro<saic object inter-
yened between his feet and the ground,
and he fell the ice failing on him, ara
breaking one rib. oriday he was TAX
tfst, an uuilNItN Dputtl OiDth III ice IFpfu
the cart-tai of his wagon when the
tongs slipped off and the block fell on
his right foot. breaking three of his
toes, and cutting through the boot:
When asked why he d oesn't take a va
cation. he asks what more pleasure BILE
work man can have in the summer
than hauling ice.
-Afs III
for the erection OF soldiers and sail
ors' monument. This patriotic town
sent a large share of its sons to the
front, and their memory may well be
cherished.
Sorrento's cup of joy is full and run
ming over President Mckinley and
ex-President Cleveland will both visit
there this summer. and Dan Lamont
has already arrived for the season.
Brewer Is in gloom. The promised
rides on the merry -go-round were not
realized. as the concern had neglected
to secure the proper permit and was NOT
allowed to do business.
His many friends all over the State
viii be glad to know that Editor j. Nj.
S. Hunter of the Pennington Chronicle,
whp has been alarmingly i'll for several
weeks, now appears to be gaining
Lewiston and Auburn are tickled at
the prospect of shooting the chutes," a
pastime that has been all the rage for
two seasons in Massachusetts, and New
York, but which has not reached con
servativc Maine. Moving through
space at the rate of several miles a
minute will be the popular fad about
State fair time.
The Portland Argus wants the bells
of the city rung on the glorious Fifth,
and says that in the past they have
been merely tolled. Let them ring ana
peal. no tollinG on that day.
A travelling man, who goes ill over
Maine with team. says that the roads
about Dexter for a dozen miles are the
best in the State. This, however, is
doubtful sort OF praise.
A pretty good cat story comes from
Portland where they have habit of
telling good stories of all kinds. The
tale goes that a Portland man possesses
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