Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-14

electricity, the first incandescents in
town. The advantages of electric lights
the Herald does not propose to hide
under a bushel.
Bridge builders visited Old Orchard
| last week and the pier question has
since been uppermost in the minds OF
the natives.
Gardiner folks can count on their
fingers eight weddings to be and the
season is young. What's the matter
with Gardiner? She's all right!
The genuine bicycle girl is never at
loss for an eXpedicnt. A Camden
lass mended her torn boomers with
tutti- frutti chewing gum the other day
! and all was well.
White perch are so plenty in Chicka-
waukie pond that one fisherman re-
ports seeing two acres of them in one
school. And yet they wouldn't bite the
| alluring hooks he cast for them.
Denmark had an old fashion barn
raising Tuesday, with a single excep-
ton, viz: the absence of old cider, lem
| onade being served instead, says an
| exchange but whether scarcity of the
former beverage or temperance prin-
ciple is to be credited is not stated
The Maine w. C. T. u. holds it's
| next State convention at Bath, IAN eX-
ceptionally inviting field" remarks the
Brdgton News.
Bath is contemplating what to do
| with the bonus it got on it's bonds It's
hardly the kind of income to expend
| cXtravagantly.
Gardiner thinks if Troop r had got
along little sooner she might now
have company of cavalry instead of
infantry. But they're Draw boys"
afoot or horseback
The farmer who sold his good eve
lambs this spring is beginning to see
his mistake.
Cider tipping will be an expensive
habit in Maine this winter.
Caribou merchant arranged mir
ror in his store recently for the purpose
of experimenting those who were wort
to steal from his counters 1t worked
to oh nd Ha hi
gard him with awe as the man who
can see out of the back of his head.
A Norway man complains of hard
luck because he has lost four dogs in
the past few years That man doesn't
know good luck when it is most kind
to him. . .. 49,.
A man in Blaine. beguiled by the
government seed prospectus, got some
corn warranted to mature in any cline
from Florida! to Klondyke. He is now
playing hide and seek with his children
in the shadow of it's mightiness and is
the frost holds off till Thanksgiving
hopes to harvest corn.
Some of the Gardiner people are
that place affords fine, facilities, FOR
boating. 4 I
The Blaine correspondent thus gives
| vent to his feelings in a way to reveal
| disposition on his part to make the
| best of matters: "The swallows, mar
tens and other song birds have gone
and left us, and their merry chippering
is sadly missed. There would be a big
vacancy if it were not for those cussed
English sparrows, who defy the ele-
ments and will chirp pleasantly with
/ the weather 80 degrees below" ..
The theory that the course of true
love doesn't run smoothly does not ap-'
pear to need any new demonstration
but the demonstrations continue to
come along just as though they were
wanted. The other day a young man
took his girl to the Etna campmeetine
and became separated from her on the
way home and got off the train at the
wrong station. Up in New Sweden,
that pastoral eutopia, the green eyeI
monster has found his way. A young
man took his girl to ride the other eve
ming and some jealous person rugged
contrivance at the foot of a steep hill
which resulted in throwing the couple
out of the team and wrecking the car
riage. 1t would be well for miscreants
to remember that the course of real
rascality doesn't run smoothly.
Brunswick Telegraph: The trustees
and overseers of Bowdoin College arc
the parties to approach in moving the
Bowdoin Medical School to Portland;
not the Portland city government.
Somebody seems to have a gross mis-
conception of the matter. Why does