Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-08-26

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The most exciting event in the sport
ing life OF Biddeford recently was race
of two brothers for the police station.
They had been engaged in a fight and
were sprinting for police headquarters.
each anxious to get there first to lodge
complaint against the other. The
victor in the race had the pleasure of
seeing his brother sentenced to 30 day.;
| in jail.
Pittsfield boasts of cat which was
shut up sin a bureau drawer for two
weeks with nothing to eat or drink and
which is now as full of fun and frolic
as ever
| A Mechanic Falls baby who put the
shears into her curly locks that her
baldheaded rag doll might be properly
crowned to roll in her carriage with the
rest OF the dolls on the Central park Of
the town. didn't deserve to be spanked,
anyway.
The Phillips monograph announces
that it is little happier than usual,
as it is now started on it's goth volume.
Dexter is all on edge ITO know who
will purchase it's wooden mills which
are to Zoe sold at auction October 81,
and whether they will be operated.
Swift river may yet rival the Yukon.
A Brunswick man who has been pros
pecting there brought home over 81
worth of the yellow metal.
The small boy who runs away from
home to follow the circus is being
heard from in various parts of the
State.
The most exciting scene that Pop
ham has witnessed Since the wreck of
the John Somes" was a bout between
big Thomas cat of the fighting kind
and a valuable greyhound at the Rock
ledge. The ferOcious and nimble feline
hnd everything its own way and when
several men finally united their forces
and pulled it Off two of its claws re-
manned in the poor dogs nose.
There seems to DE something incom-
nlete about the law that compels towns
10 cut bushes from the roadsides, but
does not compel them to clean away
the bushes after being cut
Bidjeford has been feasting on beer
soaked beef this week. You see. it hap
pened this way. The cattle were of the
good temperance species. and were not
soaked until after they We're dressed
and were in freight car on the siding.
In some unaccountable way a barrel ~
beer was in the same car, and some
miscreant tapped this. proha bly, just ~
see it flow. 1t flowed all over the beef
and the demand for that meat was
something great at the market to
which it was consigned. Biddeford is
confident some tramp tapped the bar
rel,-no Biddeford man would do it
and, in fact, says that the barrel was
sent to that city by mistake.
Two years ago. about this time of the
year, an eight-year-old boy damned
up the little Androscoggin river SO as
10 entirely stop it's flow for several
hours, while now the water there is
sufficient to float small steamer.
Portland Express: The close of the
New England fair terminates what has
been in every sense of the word help
fun summer for Portland 1t has
been an exceptional season. 1t has
seemed like one continual fete day.
More than the customary number OF
reunions. celebrations and patriotic OBJ
servances have been signaliZed. The
right kind of progressive spirit has been
manifested, and there has been kindled
in the breasts of every lover of the Fer
est city cooperative desire to make
it an irresistible terminus of the flying
thousands. 1t is a palpable illustration,
of what wideawake citizenship will do
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