Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-04-08

beard of selectmen and the schooi
J hoard are minus these desirable
functionaries because they can asiee
on the men who shall be chairman.
! Speculation in Whitneyville since the
recent experience of one townsmah mas
+ been somewhat under the weather. lie
took flock of hens to winter Tor Whae
eggs they might produce. He fed the
flock about six bushels Of corn without
getting an egg. On the advent OF gentle
spring when the first cut a-du-hu
was heard, the owner came ana con-
veyed them to his home.
The man in town who was recently
cited before the municipal court at
Calais, IS miles across country utterly
devoid of railroads TO show cause Tor
not paying S. debt, the second tune,
is wondering just now why several
/ competent trial justices have recently
been appointed in this locality, remarks
the Milbridge correspondent OF an eX-
change. This is one of the things that
arouses in the minds of minimizing
people the notion that law was created 10
prevent justice being done.
| Lewiston is to have a policeman
mounted on a bicycle How some of
these aspiring towns to put on airs.
| Look out for the law to protect sheep
for it means protect your dogs with Il
| license or lose 'em.
! Isn't it enough to be a victim of the
! grip without being termed "gripite?
+, Yet this heinous offence is being pur-
! petrated, we are informed.
The urchin who knows when he has
enough and survives the information
is in a fair way to make his mark few
feet higher up the ladder than ordinary
folks. We are reminded of this by the
rumor from Indian River that little
Leon Tahbutt has after varied expert
/ ences abandoned his two favOrite pas
, times, splitting wood with powder and
! playing on the ice cakes. We com
! mend his reformation to the consider
| ton of the small boy.
A little mild curiosity has been ex-
cited among the more inflammable por-
! tons of the Portland populace over the
. rumor that at the coming industrial
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product of many months of labor and
mechanical skill. That the invention is
something in the line of motive power
! is generally believed among machinists.
but Just what it is no one seems to
know 1t is said. however. that it Will
| solve q problem that many of the lead
| ing minds of the country have been
at work at for years.
A Westbrook small boy is in luck.
or has a wonderfully keen eye to bust
! ness. At Christmas his father gave
him a camera with which he photo
/ graphed pas mother-in-law in the acl
of cutting her corns. She is so indig
| nant that she has left that house for
good and pa is to give the lad bicycle.
Most Bangoreans can't digest salmon
at present prices.
Lewiston Journal: From the vantage
point of the Enterprise office in Lisbon
Falls. Editor Mann continues to yigor
ously shell the Holy Ghost and Us
Bible School on Beulah Hill in Durham.
| Mr.. Mann says that While Brother Sand
ford can pull the wo@ over the eyes of
city reporters. he will get nothing but
! the plain, unvarnished truth from the
Enterprise. Thereupon he assaiis the
god of Beuah Hill' in such terms as
these: The shouting. believing, yelp
| ing apostle who is apparently trying to
get into Sam Jones class" Mr.. Sand
| ford intimates that he has long stood
the taunts of his neighbors but adds
that if the mellowing influence of Beu
lah religion ever leaves him there will
be the evidences of a cyclone in the
camp of his enemies.
| One provision in the will Of a recently
deceased Brewer man was that the
horse Billy" should not be sold but be
cared for we'll for the rest of his natural
| life. Such provisions are not alto
| gether uncommon but they are pleasant
matters to read about, however often
| they may occur.
| That Bryant estate of Biddeford is in
i the first throes of litigation and pre-
sumably not half the claimants have
yet appeared and yet ii is said to have
shrunl< $3.50 900 since becoming involved
| in the law.
The Portland Argus says prize fights
| are becoming quite common in that
! town and that a few nights ago two
youngsters got together in an old barn
! and mauled one another to a finish.
, zone was quite badly used up. He
wanted to quit the game at the end Of
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