Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-02-02
Maine Gossip


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One Of Oxford county's officers mad.
bid for the agricultural vote the 9th.
er day, when he tried TO buy %.
quart pail In which to milk his best
COW.
All diggers of clans within the city
limits of Biddeford are admonished ~
take out license IL they would avoid
trouble.
The Sagadahoc farmer who drove .
smooth" horse over icy hills to the
blacksmith by tying tarred rope about
the horses feet. is a genius Of the
proverbial Yankee variety.
Uncle" Joseph Holden has been IN
cuced to deliver his lecture on the fiat
ness Of the earth into a graphophone.
Think of a mere machine like that
replacing Uncle Joseph in the affec-
tons of Maine Legislature. Where
would be the fun and the relaxation
from carking care?
Every other egg that North Water
ford hen lays has double yolk, while
Sumner leghorn celebrated her tlir-
tenth ovicular effort by producing one
Gx7k inches. These little egg-centric-
tiles on the part Of the biddies show a
fine consideration for the poultry para
grapher.
The average Ashland farm is not free
from rocks as are some in that county
but this is not an unmixed misfortune.
for the farmers whereabouts are selling
stone to the company building that line
OF big piers in the river above the
great mill.
North Arson hasn't entered the old
est citizen competition but thinks Mr..
John Taylor, aged a. who worked out
of doors piling wood all day with the
mercury sulking between 10 and 20 de-
grees below zero. worthy Of mention.
The ladies in a Dexter parish are to
show the people of that village how to
run town meeting. 1t will be given
as an entertainment with many bur-
lesque features, but we'll venture to
assume it won't be burlesque on the
women's ability to comprehend the
serious as well as the funny side OF
town meeting.
Houiton thought she had a pretty
mean fellow in the individual who
charged the owner of runaway horse
one dollar for catching the animal but
New Brunswick has gone her one
worse. Island Fails people sent home
in a nice casket and well cared for the
body Of a New Brunswick man, who
was drowned in Mattawamkeag lake
last summer. He had no relatives in
the states. hence this act OF kindness.
Now the New Brunswick relatives re-
fuse or neglect to pay the expenses.
The Eastport man whose snow shovel
was stolen by funny neighbor rises to
that a practical joke is often a
misnomer for maliciousness.
A good story is related Of a pastor
who labored with the people of Dover
years ago. One Of his practitioners
admitted to his pastor that he did not
think he had attended prayer meetings
as he ought but that he didn't like to
hear Brother talk in meeting
The pastor Inadvertently remarked
that he'd as soon hear bull below as
that man talk or pray. This gradually
sifted through the community, - such
things will. until Brother - heard
it. He went to the pastor and de-
manded that he go down to the store
that evening and take it all back. The
pastor complied. He told the men as
sembled there that his remark was Ill
advised and that he did wrong to make
It, adding. however But, after AL.
gentlemen. have no confidence in this
mans religion