Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-09-04


ster was found as healthy as mule in
thistle patch. All kinds of stories
have been told me in appeal to my
sympathies. and they have cost me
hundreds of dollars" But he walked
away without offering to sell out his
interest in rents.
Rockland's tax collector has en-
countered the advancing wave of pros
| perity with the result that collections
are ahead of what they We're at this
time last year
After three meetings the Ellsworth
school board had to adjourn without
arriving at decision respecting a new
| United States history to be used.
A Rockland youth has demonstrated
his ability to deliver more laundry
| packages on his bicycle than by a
team This would indicate that the
had brains enough.
A Belfast man drove pair of black
| IL
miles to attend funeral one day last
week.
In some towns the taxpayers are
availing themselves of the discount for
prompt payment with remarkable
unanimity.
| hpt he l.,
left Bar Harbor it occurs to the natives
that they never so much as hung out a
| strip of bunting or a flag union down
| The whole thing was taken as a mat
| ter of course. Now, in their late hour
repentance, they contemplate estab~
fishing a board of trade to look after
such things in the future
Sullivan has a walklaying bee and
off to help it along.
Bath talks or having big bicycle
meet this month. VIII there be ex-
element enough to it, is the question
that suggests itself to the satiated
natives.
Eastport admits that a prize fight
between two females occurred in that
city recently. We doubt whether such
| confession is good for the soul or the
town.
The porgy fishermen are said to be
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make such big hauls in the forbidden
bays they can afford to pay the fine.
An Orland man says his potatoes rot
while boiling. They've had so much
| to do with water we don't wonder they
| show objection to boiling: bake EN-
A hobo pleaded at a South Bethel
| farmhouse that he'd had nothing to eat
| for As hours. While he was talking a
| doughnut dropped through a hole in
| his pocket and rolled away on the
| grass. Without the slightest embar-
rassment he picked it up and continued
| his plea.
Biddeford Journal Only the native
| of Maine that has gone elsewhere to
| fight the battle of life can appreciate
to the utmost what a strength his boy
| hood in the Pine Tree State has given
him and what an Inspiration it's scenes
are to him. That Limington boy
| Frank Black, who is now the governor
| of the great state of New York, left
| there on Wednesday for a few days
visit at his old home here Only the
| night before he said: II am going to
start for Maine in the morning. ] have
| made it a rule ever since / left home
| to get back to the old place at least
| once year. 1t does me a world of
| good. No matter where a man may
| locate. no matter how many new
| friends he may form, no matter how
| strong the ties that bind him to his
manhood associations, he longs to get
| back occasionally to the place where
| he was born and grew up. / go up to
| York county when l feel that l am
| faltering. Browsing around the old
| homestead puts new courage in me-
l seem to drink in the confidence and
self-reliance ! found there when a boy.
| Every man has that experience 1t
| does him good to go home once in n
while" Every York county boy that
| reads these lines away from home
| knows how true they are
If blue just read what the Bangor
cans have to say about Lewiston's
| horseless carriage race.
| When Biddeford's mayor received
| Sept. l. petition to call a mass meet |
| ing on August 81 he didn't do a thing
but remark that some things We're i'm
| possible even to reform mayors.
| The base ball club at Stickney's Cor
ner, Washington, appreciates the in |
| terest manifested by the populace in |
| the clubs games and all are glad to seq |
| the people attracted to town. but when
the hat was passed among $50 spec |
tators and less than an average of |
three quarters of cent each was con-
| trlhllfad