Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-17
The opponents OF foot ball point with

lHdt lfiHc q HuHureu OF the StuueHtS
have actively engaged in the game.
One broken arm is the sum total Of
disaster. Put the same number into
any other kind Of sport, base ball.
skating. polo, cycling, boating and the
chances are that more frequent and
more serious accidents would
have resulted. Put this one
broken arm against all the good
that has come to Thornton boys from
foot ball training. muscular develop
ment and acquired hardwood and Il
becomes insignificant. 1t was a bad
accident for young Whitehead yet even
in this individual case the probabilities
are that he has benefited more than he
will have suffered from foot ball. The
accident resulted from an open play
and was purely and simply an acct
dent. 1t shows that foot ball is more
or less dangerous; so is any rugged,
healthy sport. but it has no connection
with the alleged brutality of the
game"
Eve,y workman at the big plant of
the Bowdoin Paper Manufacturing
Company is kept on the jump these
days to fill the immense orders for pa
per sent out daily, and the atmosphere
or the whole place is vibrant with a
sense of hysterical hustle and rush.
saturday afternoon an order of six car
loads of paper was completed for i'm
mediate shipment to Chill. where it
Will be packed over the mountains and
into the interior of South America by
mule back. The paper has to be put up
differently, of course, than that which
is delivered by rail, and is baled-15O
pounds in bale-and these bales are
slung over the backs of the stupidity
patient mules. pannier- fashion. Think
of Brunswick-made paper jogging
down the steep sides of the Andes in
long mule trains! And that is not ALL
one day last week large shipments Of
paper from these mills We're made 70
Bombay. India; Sidney, Australia:
Valparaiso. S. A.: to far western points
and to Liverpool. In these markets
the Maine company is competing close
ly with German manufacturers and
finds no difficulty in getting it's orders
and keeping its products in front of the
field. The six machines now in opera
ton turn out 65 tons of paper daily,
and when the two new machines now
being set up in the Pejepscot mill are
started they will exactly double this
product, piling up 100 tons of fresh
product between two nights.
Saco would just like to get its hands
on the scoundrel who rang in two false
alarms the other morning before day
light. The streets were very muddy
and the firemen had just got the engine
polished after the first needless run
when the second was rung in Sus-
pecting another hoax. many failed to
respond and if a fire had really broken
out about that time the result might
have been serious.
The Waterville Mail has talked with
a number of men who have returned
from hunting trips to the big woods as
to the service being rendered the game
commissioners by the guides in the
way of performing volunteer warden
service. Every one of them declares
that the guides make no pretense of
aiding the wardens preferring to at
tend to their own business and let the
wardens attend to theirs
Gard indexes are used pretty general
ly nowadays but an Auburn attorney
is getting up one that is certainly
unique. 1t is a card index of dead
beats. by means of this index"
says he, Il expect to be able to locate
any dead beat against whom l receive
bill and to tell at once what the
chances are for getting any money ous
of him." Each card contains together
with the mans name. his residence.
occupation, if he has any. former
claims against him and their results.
One of the conductors on the Port
land electrics took up three tickets, the
other day, issued by the Portland Rail-
road Company in 1863 They were pre-
scented by an elderly gentleman in pay
ment of the fares of himself and two
ladies. The gentleman does not have
occasion to use the cars very often
now, so he has been saving these
tickets until needed.
An amusing story is told of the way
the boys of Lewiston school received
gentleman who had gone to act as
their principal temporarily and was
unknown to them. 1t was the day
after the snowstorm. and the boys
We're snowballing when they saw the
gentleman coming. "Hi?" shouted one
OF them, there comes tramp. Let's
peh him. And they did "pelt him.
Two hundred boys We're throwing the
missiles, and they made some pretty
good shots. The gentleman grasped
two of the offenders and was going to
shake them, but the balls came so
thick and fast that he was obliged to
let them go. One of the lady teachers
of the school who knew the gentleman
happened to look out the window and
discovered his predicament She i'm
mediately rescued him by ringing the
bell and calling the boys in. The in
structor doesn't mind the snow balling,
but he does feel little sore that the
boys should have taken him for a
tramp.
The hen that keeps right on laying
when eggs are high as well as when
they are low is getting her name in the
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