Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-15

| fan as the saying goes. We think
he'll get it {? D."
| Aroostook Pioneer: The lady Of the
house was mot at home" the other day
when a neighbor called, and in re-
Spouse to her question: rs Mrs. y
in?" the servant girl replied: NO, she
isn't; she's out on her wheel, and she .
just 'delicioushed' with H..
The frost went deep on the Arooa-
took roads last winter and on coming
out this spring it left them in a very
bad condition.
There seems to be n disposition To
speak slightingly of a meeting OF the
Madison Board of Trade. which was
attended by is men and two women
In many towns such an attendance as
that would not be sneeZed at.
Two South Hollis misses received May
baskets from an old gentleman SO years
old made after the pattern used when
hanging May baskets was a rare oc-
currenCe.
1t is reported that two men were
known to be proving around the home
the other night. leaving tracks in the
soft earth under her sleeping room
where a cellar window is located. She
Is now supplied With a siX-shooter and
as she is a woman Of courage and
nerve she will not hesitate to use il.
says the correspondent, which we are
glad to learn.
1t may have been on some such day
as yesterday that Shakespeare wrote;
How lush and lusty the grass looks
How green,"
The logs are getting their fill of swim
ming, and the log driver is in a fair
way to get his fiji of water.
Lewiston, Bangor or Portland, which
city is to have the Maine Musical Fes-
tival? is the question Prof Chapman
is now asking Why not Augusta?
We think there is some unexplained
mystery about this item from Park
man: Nell Green set two hens on 81
eggs and got SO chicks"
An Ellsworth cat has given birth to
several freak kittens in her lifetime.
but the latest had two heads and eight
feet That cat is either a decadent or
a handmade of natural science.
Have you aired out the summer cot
| tage, painted the blinds and taken
down the shutters? It's approaching
: high time.
| Watervile evidently liked that CON
| vention. The Mail estimates that thf
delegates spent $1,000. and wishes the
| town might have more of all the con
ventions going.
In the town of Unity this spring there
were consumed 1000 rolls of wall paper.
such tidying-up as that ought to be
| productive of excellent results.
Here is a question that at least ought
to be answered.: 1t is in Dexter that
some one wants to know why the town
hall, given free to political gatherings
should not be freely opened to the
| graduating exercises of the High
| school.
| On n recent evening n South Nor
ridgewock youth held his companions
| spellbound at shooting gallery; fol-
| at every shot he fired the bell rang
| Such Workmanship had never been sus-
| pected by his nearest friends. But you
| should have heard the shout that Went
| up and seen the abject misery of the
| poor fellow when it was discovered
| that he had not been hitting the target
! once in dozen times. His bullets had
| been striking the steel plate behind
| and thus ringing the bell
There is in the public library at Ma
chias an old tavern sign, of which they
| are proud down that way. 1t is said to
| have been the first tavern sign hung out
| east of the kennebec. and was hung
by Mrs. Olive Longfellow in 1871.
| Dennysville is entitled to lenency il
! she didn't celebrate Artor day this
year any more noticeably than did Au-
gusta. Indeed, it would be rather
strange If Dennysville didn't look upor
Arbor day as in certain sense an in
terloper, trying to get the credit foi
being no more than was the day which
the worthy people of that town a hall
century ago We're wont to set apart fol-
tree planting. On that occasion, we are
told, the old and young of the village
took stroll about the woods and up