Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-10-12

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the past week. Fish are very plentiful
and are bought for the small sum of
S1.0O per hogshead.
Passengers on most of the longer
Maine electric roads have been treated
to the sight of deer at various times
lately; but the Portsmouth, Kittery e.
York Railway claims to hold the record
at present. AS one of their cars
crossed the bridge at Kittery Point, the
other day, the passengers saw a huge
form rise out of the water about 100
feet from the bridge and later a large
stream of water shot into the air, after
which the big whale, having thus sa-
luted the car, dived under the bridge.
Portland Advertiser: Bangor has
assumed to be the Worcester of Maine
as center of musical taste and Gull
ture. but she does not seem to have
lived up to her reputation in the mat
ter of sustaining the Maine music fes-
tival. Small attendance is reported,
with audiences ranging from 600 10
HOO, and the festival is pronounced 4
financial failure, SO far as that city IS
concerned. This great enterprise de-
serves to be encouraged by lovers of
noble music, and if it is to make both
ends meet and lap over, evidently Port
land must help it out.
Washington Times: John c. Moore
of New York, was born in Steuben, a
little village near Winter Harbor, Me-,
and has been celebrating that event by
buying up everything that he admired
when boy. He has built a new
schoolhouse and given an organ to the
church in acknowledgment of his
obligations for what these two institu-
tions contributed toward his success in
life. and has bought a couple of noun
tains which he used to contemplate
from the doorstep of his fathers farm
house as ideals of the majestic of ma
ture, and he has built a beautiful
macadam roadway to the tops of these
mountains SO that he can drive up
there whenever he pleases and renew
his acquaintance with the pine forest
and the sky and the sea.
Reports from important ice centers
all over New England and the Middle
States as well as farther west, indicate
that the ice supply is nearly exhausted
and that partial ice famine already
exists, with a strong prospect that it
will grow more stringent within the
next few weeks. In all quarters prices
are being pushed up and many Gus
toners have been limited in the GUAM
tity of ice they are allowed to consume.
From other states come numerous APP
plications to Maine dealers for help.
but in this State the supply is nearly
exhausted and no ice can be sold to
outside parties at any price.
-Four Pressure Isle young men have
entered upon a plan to acquire wealth
without any realizing sense of how
rapidly their riches are accommodating.
The plan is simply to lay aside, in a
secure place, whatever money they
would spend "foolishly," as they term
it. Instead of buying cigars, going to
shows, dances, excursions, and the like.
they take the money they would thus
spend. and place it in their treasure
box" which is not to be opened until
two years from next January. They
propose then to take their Croesus
possessions and enjoy trip to New
York, Chicago. San Francisco. or pos
sibly to the Worlds fair in Paris. The
idea is one well worthy of being pat
termed after. BY the terms Of the