Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-09-13

The good wottd1 ol,es nom ,ndustri-
Gus and prospefu = New Sweden that
nearly every faris1r in that town il
either repainng ana enlarxing his old
buildings or tearing them down and
putting up better and more commodi-
GUS new ones Such q general I'M
provement IN buildings has never been
done in one season before.
Ordnance Sergeant J. A.. Richard
son is again guardian OF the United
States property It Pqpham. II was
turned over to him by Captain Crockett
OF Hattefy A before their departure
for Augusta last week This week
Sergeant Richardson will commence
the work Of mounting the new eight
inch breech loading rifle guns which
arrived last week To complete the
work a large amount of stone and
cement will be needed. It is expected
that crew Of: ~ or so men win be
employed several weeks on the Job.
When the battery IL completed It (. i
said that detachment Of 10 or Is
regulars will be stationed there.
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Bridgton News: The New England
fair. which was wicked, run behind
$4,000 this year. The 6aco fair. "a
cross between the good and bad" was
also unsuccessful financially. Now, II
the Maine State Is really ana truly
good and proves to be money tier,
won't 1t prove quite concausiye hat
cleanliness as to fairs is Tho er
policy? A
The corn factories are amun
very busiest Of the busy placG s. =
now. The long continued hot wGf1 :
ripened the corn of fast and now th6S
are keeping things hustling at the
shops to get the corn in before thu
frost strikes.
A good illustration Of the way people
in Massachusetts regard Maine geo.
graphically recently came To the ears
of the Skowhegan representative Of the
Journal. A young lady who was about
to Visit relatives In Skowhegan was
cautioned by her friends who resided
near Boston, not to visit that locality
as the people in Canada had smallpox
and Skowhegan was very near the line.
1t Is claimed that the youngest men,
Der OF the House in the next session of
the Legislature will be Charles j.
Hutchings, Esq.,. of Brewer. Mr..
Hutchings is about % years of age, but
Notwithstanding his youth he has a
well-earned reputation as an i'm
promptu speaker and logical debater.
He is the youngest member of the
Penobscot bar, but has reputation for
legal acumen and convincing argu-
ment. He is the oldest son of the late
Jasper Hutchings, the second mayor Of
the city Of Brewer.
An Eastport woman sent her Ave-
years-old son to dry goods store for q
darning needle, giving him a cent for
the purchase. The lad passed candy
store on the way, saw some candy and
wanted it. He spent the cent and then
tried to figure out how to get the darn
ing needle for nothing. This was not so
difficult. He borrowed one from a
neighbor, which he gave to his mother.
forgetting to tell her 1t was second
hand and that he had used the cent
for candy. When" through with the
needle she placed it In, the cushion, and
when she had left the room, the
naughty boy returned 1t to the neigh
boris without word. It was lost. This
young man promises to bring up in the
reform school before many years, OF
else to become a Napoleon Of finance in
later life. ~
A Bar Harbor gentleman tells this
story Of how the squirrels on White
island often spend their time in feeding
flock Of sheep from a certain orchard
there. He says that he and his COM
panion. who were duck shooting there,
last fall, had stopped to rest in an old
field in which there MAS an orchard. a
flock of sheep was feeding near by. 1t
was not long before their attention was
called to the chirruping Of some squir-
rels in a thicket, and they were sur
prised to see the sheep suddenly stop
feeding and manifest great excitement
The squirrels went into the orchard,
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sumed their loud chatter. evidently
calling the sheep. since the flock made
at once for the apple tree. Then, the
squirrels began to bite of the apples
which fell among the hungry sheep,
who would struggle for the fruit like
so many school boys. The squirrels
seemed to enjoy the fun, and after they
had dropped few apples from the first
tree they skipped to a distant tree, for
which the sheep would make in great
confusion. After the squirrels had
thus enjoyed an hours fun with their
fleecy neighbors and supplied them
with Sufficient quantity of the fruit.
they scampered back to their haunts in
the thicket. leaving the sheep to re-
sumo their grazing.
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