Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-06-21

Rockland the other day in slashini
owninrs Now we hear that In the re-
spectacle community OF fort ciy"'
some miscreant sneaks ABOUT hsn.'
cutting boat sails.
After twenty years Of suffering. much
of the time being bed ridden. Port
land woman suddenly RECEIVERS and pc
lgins to do the. work of her family. she
explains this way. She had heard OF
the efficacy Of prayer and during Inc
Friends conference in that city went y
one of the members and asked MIN %
4 pray over her. He did so and she com
pletely recovered
Bath Times: 1t is said the bicycilsts
are to become factor i'm the next
municipal election. They think from
their number and as they are assessed
for their wheels each year, they ought
to have a little attention paid TO Their
comfort on the roads in this vicinity.
1t Is estimated there are upwards OF
eight hundred wheels owned in this
city and by little work among the
owners they are confident of recefv-
ing some recognition from the would
be members OF the next city council. T.,
Have you worked out your road tax?
And if so are the roads any better for
lit?
An Old Town wedding has luckily
been postponed. A man got drunk,
was arrested and excused because his
wedding day had been set. But be-
fore the day arrived he got drunk
again, was sent to Jail and the wedding
has been indefinitely postponed.
Biddeford people appreciated Cover
way from Houlton to Biddeford to at.
tend the carnival.
The dog killer of Lagrange didn't
make a dollar this year. Everybody
got their dogs licensed.
| Piazza cold' follows close on tn,
'.oben car sneeze.
/
pie are yet wondering what caused the
FIRE and what would have happened il
they had had better fire apparatus.
Auburn proposes to remove the las.
box stove that after the manner b,
which our ancestors We're, as schoai
children. roasted in front while free1
| ing behind, has been doing duty in on,
lOlthe schools in that city.
| angof' Commercials. The sweet gil
graduate old title honorable enough
Ito be still good, is now trying to max
v hat she knows about everything con
| form to the cruel limitation of a writ
ten page. When the same knowleds
comes to be applied as energy on
bread board, or as the motive power fo'
: Il peransbulator, the SORROWS of thl
Z present moment will fade into a glori
4 Gus past. sa
| The village with good sidewalks ha;
appreciated them this year.
/! Another absent minded man has beer
| exposed in Dover. One evening he wen
! to a Rebekah lodge with his wife ant
nut his team in the shed at the Congre.
! gational church. After the meeting h
went over and got his team but forge
about his wife so drove home withou
, her, not thinking Of the omission unit
his arrival at home-r
Il. 7 jctn r,a
"a trunk had been stolen from the from
IRf the, store of the man who had bee
liiistrumHfal in having the police fore
feducddr furthermore that this was
! just retribution- Another Lewiston pa
PR points out that the trunk was stolei
before the police force was reduce,
and during one Of the rare moment
when the superfluous guardians of tn
lfeace did not happen to be sitting OF
that trunk swapping stories.
Can horses count? This question III,
PASSPORT Sentinel asks and then pro
ceeds to answer as follows, and VIII,
4 shall say the answer is not satisiac1
tory: An interesting incident occurre,
while unloading the schooner Dread
naught, that furnished good deal o
amusement to the by ISLANDERS. ant
proves pretty conclusively that horse.
have at least to a certain extent,
power of conception. II is customary
when hauling hard coal to put six tub:
in the carts when the last tub ha'
been dumped those horses that TO
years have been in the business, with
out word from the driver invariabiS
start off. While discharging the soft Goa
: from the Dreadnaught, seven tubs Were
hauled for load, and at the beginning
of the work the horses in nearly every
Instance started when the sixth tut
was emptied, but after being stopped
few times, they seemed to realize they
were to haul one more and waited
with down hanging head till the sevet
tubs were in the carts when as usual
they started up the dock. Can horses
count?