Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-18

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While talking with her she says he
tried to grab the watch she wore In her
waist pocket. For this she elected him.
Later he was arrested and gave the
name of Alexander G. Morris. When
| locked in his cell he called for Bible.
He seems in fair way to continue
his theological studies at the expense
of Cumberland county.
| Sharks were among the attractions
of the York county fair. They Were
the variety known as land sharks
Their bite is not fatal but the victim
feels uncomfortable for some time.
A Jefferson farmer planted threa
bushels of good potatoes and harvested
one bushel of poor ones. But then he
had the fun of planting and digging. i
A favorite text in Kennebunk must
be whatever thy hands find to do etc.
In that town are at least six men who
preach when called and who do not
fold their hands in the interim. One
is a dentist, another proprietor of a
| five and ten cent store, another con-
| tractor for other undertakings than
| saving York county souls, another Is
| a carriage man, another an auctioneer
and one is a horseman and one a farm
err
| The Rockland Opinion recently told
of a nonagenarian who could knit with
out glasses and now takes occasion to
| add that she can wash dishes without
| the aid of an ear trumpet.
There is some talk in Bath about run
ming a citizens ticket at the next morn
cipal election. But this sort of CONVEX
sation may be due to lack Of other SEN
sations.
There was prospect of drouth in
Prospect. Perhaps Fridays rain
reached there.
| Brooks village is to have waterworks
| and spring water at one and the same
| fountain. Brooks is to be envied.
Mrs. Dooley of Vanceboro, does not
| take kindly to the do-littles. She main
| tains a woodpile and every tramp that
| eats one of Mrs. Dooley's nice lunches
| first earns it at the woodpile.
Sandy Point thinks it has gained a
point on dame nature by harvesting a
| second crop Of peas. Pooh! here's a
| Wilton woman who gathered dandelior
seed in June, planted it the first day OF
July and by September was eating the
green's which grew from it.
| knowledge and conscience do not al
| ways come with age. A female of
seventy years has been stealing plants
| and bouquets from graves in the Bath
| cemetery.
1t may have been apaaccident rather
than an instance of wise precaution
| but surely here is a hint for the man
who insists on getting drunk. In Port
| land the other day a drunken man sat
| on barrel in the hot sun. He didn'J
| fall off and the police didn't snatch
| him away for he had put a half pound
of spruce gum in his hip pocket and
this had melted and securely anchored
him.
An Ellsworth Falls pastor rode 40
miles one Sunday this month and he
did it on bicycle to fill an engage
mcnt
| Guess we shall never get through
talking about "a year without sum-
mer"
The people of Portland are informed
they can go to the new theatre without
dress suits. Who dares insnuate they
would do such a thing?
| One of the Rockland Opinions sub
scribers paid the editor pleasant
call" the other day. He is &c years old.
has lived all his life within 16 miles of
Rockland and this was his first visit to
town. His mother who resides in
Waldoboro is rs years olds and has
never yet been on board a steamboat
| UT Ill IdIliodu cdI, anu never dte Il
meal in a. hotel OF, boarding house, in
her life e ~";'j-. -.
The porgy steamers have not ceased
| from troubling, it is said.
| In the year 1888 when North Orlan1
was a wilderness, John Hartman
bought tract of land where he made a
clearing and erecteda log house. Upon
riding up to his house one night on
horse back, on dismounting he stuck
the little stick which he had used for a
whip into the ground, and giving it no
more thought it grew to be large tree.
1t measured two feet through and %
feet from the ground to the first limbs
and it is estimated about the same dis
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