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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-29

Whether or not anyone may be in
clined to take the circumstance as al
excuse for midwinter baptisms through
the ice we do not know, but the fact is, ac.
cording to Brunswick citizen, that in
the year 1S41 at a time of great revival u
converts were baptized through the ice
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-29

OF course the Maine farmers hope to
have better apple crop another year.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-29
Lincoln.
CORINNA..

Stone Eel Lodge conferred degrees.
Thursday, on two candidates. The fol-
lowing officers were elected: l.. T.
Titcomb, n. c.; George Tibbetts. V. c.:
j. +. Gray. secretary; George Crowell.
treasurer-The contractors have taken
their teams and men to Bangor. Four
carpenters remain at work upon the
library building. Seavey Burrell has
the contract of putting the laths on
the buldng.-J. :. Burrell is quite
comfortable considering the nature of
his disease.-B. A. Smith left for Or
rngton. Saturday.-Alonzo r. Dear
born is slowly improving. His chances
of recovery are favora bie.-Twiligh
Grange members are well pleased with
the selection of o. Gardner as master
of the State Grange.-Alma Croweli
has sold her real estate to F. Harmon
of Exeter, price $500
NEWPORT
The scholars OF the High Street Sab
bath school had Christmas tree in
their Nestry. Friday afternoon.-Mr. f.
4. Dow spent Christmas with his
family.-Cnion meetings will be held,
this week, at the Methodist church,
conducted by the pastors and ministers
from out of town.-Mrs. Carrie Fuller
and children of Pittsfield. spent Christ
mas with Mrs. .. II. Judkins.-Clifford
Harvey and Waldo Bennett, who are
attending school in Orono. are at home
for vacation.-Miss Bertha Stuart
commenced her school on Billings hill.
Monday.-Mr. Charles Osborne of Lin
ID I
ETNA.
School began in District No. 3. with
Miss Flossie NJ. bennett as teacher; in
No. &. with Mrs. Lottie D. Mason
There was a gathering at j. A. San
born's. Christmas. Among those pre-
sent was Walter J. Written, who pre-
scented Mrs. George A. Sanborn with a
nice oak rocking chair.-Eugene H.
Russell. Mrs. Nelson Russells little boy
is not very well.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-29

Smithton has lost some of its
charitable impulses since a woman
tramp visited there and ate three
breakfasts at as many houses, one
morning.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-29

Portland philanthropists. who are so
chicken hearted as to buy tramps \
dinner, are in the habit of ordering
baked beans. The tramps grumble at
this and one of them had the audacity
the other day to ask his benefactor for
another course but the latter refused
and Weary Willy at once announced
the determination to shake Portland 5
dirty snow from his feet. Other things
frequently occur to disgust the phlan-
thropist and to emphasize the sin of
indiscriminate giving. One clergyman
recently was appealed to by woman
who told OF a starving family. She
located them at q number where the
clergyman happened To know she
couldn't live as he was acquainted
with those who did. Another man wanted
to get So from the same source To help
his starving family, which existed only
in the mans imagination. He wanted
to buy liquor.
A young man in Portland has made
himself so popular with the squirrels at
the Deering oaks that the animals run
all over him whenever he visits that
locality.
Lewiston Journal: The new narrow
gauge railroad will knock OUT that
picturesque old stage route from Farm
inSton to New Sharon. which for years
has been driven by Comrade Pain,a.
Vf>l. H.. "A Ia,
CHEEKY Mali at the farm house gates
was the one diversion of the day 10
many lonely farmers along his route.
He had CHEEKY, pleasant way about
him, and was especially loved by the
children in the schoolhouses along the
way Years ago when he was in the
habit Of stopping to rest his weary
horses at the red schoolhouse of The
Cover district. the children used To
make it a rule TO pick pond lilies from
the creek in the rear of the SchoolhouSe
and give them to Paine's passengers.
1t was a picturesque scene when the
little ones crowded about the old
fashioned stage and the little bare
footed boys climbed up ever the STEPS
to the top. Across the road was 4
Illtlc ltlillllS ttIittSfy Ecittitu VII wy VI
a knoll where were buried some of
Madame Nordicas first husband s
relatives The children made this
cemetery a playground. and watched
from the brow of the hill for Paine
coach to come bowling down along the
intervale road past the Brown farm.
Comrade Paine is we'll known in Lew
iston, and frequently came here to at
tend G. A. r. meetings. One VIM. w.
Smith now drives his famous coach.
\ Brewer woman is not as supersti-
tous as she was, she is ashamed to be.
She nearly went into Mysteries the
other day when she saw a chair in the
room slipping toward the door without
visible prOpelling or attracting force.
She recovered when she discovered
that her young hopeful had black
thread attached to the chair and con-
cealed in the other room was respon-
sible for the manifestation that caused
every particular hair of her head 10
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-29

Two little anecdotes which are told
in one of our Biddeford exchanges are
rather apropos while the pedagogues
are with us. A teacher, who had taken
from a little fellow the glass agate he
had been playing with instead OF
studying, was somewhat startled when
he approached her with the offer to
give two skies" for it. She didn't ac-
cept. Another teacher in the same city
had occasion to send out the boys and
girls with admonitions to come in
more quietly and she told the boys not
to enter the room until the last girl
had entered The girls came in quietly
but not a boy appeared. Going out she
found them sitting on the steps In
reply to her inquiry they said they
were waiting for Mary Moran. Now
Mary Moran had been home sick
week with the measles but as she was
the last girl of all, according to one
view of the situation, the teacher did
rot think it best to punish that time.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-29

A South Addison correspondent
writes an exchange that he hopes the
postOffice contestants in that plact
won't come to blows as it would be
bad to see a hand to hand encounter
between a man and a woman.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-29

Manley has moved to New Sharon AMI
is going into trade there. ElbSidge and
his wife will remain on the old home
farm till spring, and George will board
them. Will has returned to Hallowell
to work on the quarry through the
winter. Charles and his wife are still
there.
EAST PITTSTON.
Lewis Hewey spent Christmas with his
parents in this place. He Is now stopping
church was well attended and goodly
number Of nice presents distributed. The
recitations by the children were very ap-
propriate anp well rendered. Christ
mas dance at f.. f. Hanley's hall was
quite well attended and everybody
seemed to enjoy the occasion. Another is
billed for next Saturday evening, Jan.
J. 1S9s.-Alonzo Morelen. principal OF Ores
den Academy. spent Christmas with his
parents i'm this place.-Eugene Moody
while working at the creamery one day
last week, received quite severe wound
in the hand, caused by broken hammer
handle.-Alden Benner. who has been
confined to the house for some time past
is now able to be out again.
Lincoln.
ALMA.
Mr.. and Mrs. O. B. Hunnewell and
daughters. Viola and Queene, also
Miss Edith M. Hilton, all Of Augusta,
spent Christmas with their parents
Mr. and Mrs. d. NJ. Hilton, at Head
Tide. There was a Christmas tree in
the evening with speaking by Master
Howard l.. Hilton and the Hunnewell
sisters. Miss Edith NJ. Hilton presided
al the organ. 1t was a grand family
reunion
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-29

Bridgton News: Involuntary man.
is what they call it in West
Virginia-the murder of Frank E.
Thompson, formerly of Norway by
one of Morbys wartime guerrilla
chiefs. Two years in Jail if he isn't
sooner discharged! But even that is
an advance upon Maine methods, where
thanksgiving is regarded as quite ex-
cusable if only the slayer thought it
was a deer"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-29

Despite the customs officers it is said
a good many from the Canadian side
did their Christmas shopping in Calais
and not many of the purchases had tn
bear duty. On the other hand it is
stated that a good many Calais people
find it to their advantage to purchase
their groceries on the British side
Just how it is done, however, is not
made quite clear.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-29

If we can hold what snow we've got
and get three or four more such snow
falls within "A week or two. why We
shall have good travelling.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-29
Welcome, pedagogues!

This word pedagogue. by the way,
illustrates how far words drift in appl:-
cation from that of their derivatives.
Pedagogue comes from two Greek
words, one meaning boy and the other
to lead, and was applied as name TO
the slave who directed his masters
children to school, or had charge OF
them generally. Now how different!
The hard worked teacher may some
times feel that he is compelled to toll
like a slave, but as for being one in
reality the idea would simply arouse
his indignation to the highest pitch,
and rightly, TOO. If they are not lead
ers of men in the common acceptance
of those terms they are the leaders Of
boys to manhood and of girls to
womanhood. they inculcate ideas and
train thoughts that never desert the
Intelligence and are seldom absent
from mind. 1t may be said of their
work the
IS" - teachers doctrine. sanctiiied
!. truth. shall spread throughout the
world dispersed"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-12-29

a young man in Portland has made
himself so popular with the squirrels al
the Deering oaks that the animals run
all over him whenever he visits that
locality.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-12-14
THOSE FOUR PLANKs.

Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer.
Sometime ago we had the pleasure of
reading several articles from the pen
of Mr.. Archer, and since that time the
letters commencing the platform con-
tanned in them by MI. Bateman, of
Maine. We have been anxiously look
for Mr.. Archer to continue his articles
On that platform as Mr.. Bateman sug
gested, for like him, we admit never to
have seen its "a lal for scope of reform
principles and perspicuity of expires
sion. While in embraces all of the re
forms of the Omaha platform, yet there
are really only four planks, but they
wonderfully comprehensive and plain
and easily understood. l for n wish
we could all get together on them and
stand there Until we gain a victory for
them in the government.
The issue of money to the people at
one per cent. on real estate security is
better than a dc IAN free coinage of sill
yer planks, and the direct graduated
taxation, as he has it explained, so as
to cover all tax for revenue of Nation,
State, county and municipal uses, is a
comprehensive view of it that l never
go fully understood before. That will
surely strike at the very root of all
monopoly as no other plan that I have
ever seen will do.
The plan is simple and just and
powerful. It seems to grasp monopo
lies by the throat and throw them down
to legitimate business with the people.
With these two reforms established
in our political economy of government,
supported by government transporta
ton and the referendum, we would be
on the highway Of progress and hap
piness in a manner that we as a people
have never been before.
Let ma IN this manner publicly.
through your columns, insists on Bro.
Archer that he will continue to write
and explain those principles for these
who have not the time. or perhaps not
the ability, to investigate for them
selves.
He is evidently not a highly preiu
diced man in our ranks against ny
persons or schemes, but is broad.
gagged in comprehension of principles,
and attends strictly to points on the
principles in such a way as to give con
fdence.
We believe that such work is more
urgently needed nov than ever before.
The Populist party needs to take
strong and radically reform govern
ment and give pointed and plain rea
sons for its separate existence from the
old parties. This is most admirably
done in the platform referred to, and
it is why we believe thousands Of US j n
Texas will use cur Utmost influence to
spread it far and wide bafore the people.
P. Q. DUNCAN. n. D.
Birdston, Texas, Dec. 8, 1892.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-12-14

common fidelity the co operating ele-
ments of reform. 1t is yours especially
to persuade deceived and betrayed re
pubIicans that to vote against their be-
trayeCs is their highest duty. Ii the
degeneration of country and enslave-
ment of it's producers are to be averted;
if to ourselves and p~osterity the bless
ings of liberty are to be preserved If
the final industrial and material regen
Grafton ef>the race is to remain a serene
and reasonable hope, there must come
enment and acknowledgements to
hundreds of thousands of those yet
blinded by partisan Prejudice ana / n
bondage to partisan custom. You'
more readily than the members or the
other great allied forces, may open
their eyes to the truth and arouse their
patriotism to action. Let US be thank
full that at length the battle is to be
fought in the open, that me after an
other all subterfuges have fallen, that
at last we shall be able to challenge the
gold standard and it's associated wrongs
and abuses to meet us in the open forum
of % sense, the justice and the
patriotism of the American people.
They cannot remain blind to the clear
AID now confessed designs of those
who have traficked in their confidence.
They cannot continue deaf to the Ian
guage of reason and the appeals to hu
manity. Citizenship will not rise above
~partlsanship. The rule of the people
will come again; the people upon
whom our institutions rest, for whom
they were created and by whom they
shall be preserved; the people in this
broad and only true sens9; the people
believed in, loved, and trusted by JEFF
ferson, by Lincoln, by Bryan and by
all the great souls that have come to
rest the hearts of men and therefore
live in harmony with the infinite pur-
pose of God.
CHARLES A. TOwNE,
Chairman of the National Committee
of the Silver Republican Party"
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-12-14
A PROCLAMATION BY The GOV.
ERNOR.
ST. so Reward
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,
T-~@,,A-@ H-~--&~--

department.
Whereas, official information has
been received at this Department that
Alor y Waters i'd, on or about the
265h day of December. 1896, kill and
murder Henderson West, in Pitt
county; aud whereas. it appears that
the said Alonz) Waters has fed the
State or 80 conceels himself that the
ordinary process of law cannot be
served upon him: Now, therefore. l,
Daniel L Russell, Governor of the
State of North Carolina, by virtue of
authority IN me vested by law, do issue
this my proclamation, Offering q reward
of O0e Hundred and Fifty Dollars for
the apprehension and delivery of the
said AlQnzo Waters to the Sheriff of
Pitt county at the court house in Green
vile, N. @, and I do en- lin all officers
OF the State and all gooo citizens to as
sist in bringing ssid criminal 20 justice
Done at City OF Raleigh, the
third day Of December, in the year Of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and ninety-seven, and in the one hun
dred and twenty second year of our
American Independence.
DANIEL L. RUSSELL
By the Governor:
J. E ALEXANDER, Private Secretary.
Description Very stout, black
man, 81 feel high, smooth face, large
white eyes, had en- upward look from
the eve when spoken to, weighed about
179 POUNDS.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-12-14

Much remains to be accomplished to
make this sy stem reasonably perfect.
There are places now in the service
which ought to be exempted from
classification and others not classified
may properly be included The Presi
dent a y he shall not hesitate to Cor
rect these faults in the interest of the
public service. The system has the ep
proval of the people and it will be his
endeavor to uphold and ex end it.
ECONOMIC
The message concludes with an ad
monition from the President TO Con-
gress to carefully scrutinize the esti
mates of the expenses OF the govern
ment and not to encourage their in
crease, as it ia the commanding duty
to keep the appropriations within the
receipts OF the government and thus
avoid a deficit.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-12-14
A SCARED NRGRO.

Nh. O. Baker, the undertaken and
furniture man, has a factotum called
Tos, (ae has his visiting cards en-
graVed MIR. Tosten Hoke'O, who is
very fond Of fireWater. AprofessionaI
gentleman caught Tos., tasting a pint
bottle Of his choice corn Wednesday
and as a punishment forced him to
drink the whole pint at once. As s
natural consequence, Tos. was very
soon stretched out in his employers
coffin room, dead drunk. Mr.. Baker
got a Colin, placed his Unconscious Dor
ter therein, screwed down the lid and
awaited developments. After several
hours of profound slumber, Tos. awoke
1t wa several minutes before he couId
succeed in figuring out just where he
was at" but when he did succeed in
figuring out that he was buried, the
slumbering echoes were awakened
likewise, and such crying and praying
and lamentation and scum ng was
never before heard hereabouts, Mr..
Baker, fearing he would have a coffin
TORN TO pieces, unscreWed the lid and
Eeleased his terrified man. Tos has
zen sober ever since. - LincoIn
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-12-14
HOW'S THIS

We offer One Hundred Dollars re
ward for any case Of Catarrh that can
not be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
+. j. CHENEY 6 Co, Toledo. o
We, the undersigned. have known E.
J. Cheney for the last Is years, and be
lieve him to be perfectly honorable in
all business transactionsan and financially
able to carry out any obligations made
by their firm.
WEST & TRAUx, Wholesale Druggists,
WALDLNG, KINNAN & MARVIN, Whole
sale Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken intern
ally, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces Of the system. Testi-
sent free. Price 25c. per bot
tie. Sold by all Druggists.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-12-14
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The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-12-14

browns BRONCHIAL TRoCHEs" ara
Of great service In suOduIng Hoarse-
mesa and Coughs. Sold only in boxes.
Avoid limitations.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-12-14

and BRONCHITIS
CURE,

We learn. from a reliable source.
that Judge Geo, E Hunt, of Lexing
ton, N. O.. has discovered a medicine
OF his own make, that is q 8ure cure
for Consumption and Bronchitis All
who are suffering with either disease,
would do we'll to- address him at Lex
ingtoD, N. @. He has this medicine in
any quantity desired at the low price
OF SO cents per bottle.