Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-03-09

&- A
lMaime Gossip.
Less and Less.
She mounted her chainless wheel.
| Did the beautiful SkirtleSs maid.
And she traversed the paveless streets
At the rear of the horseless cab.
! She rode to cree Hess church
And there heard churchless priest
! Deliver an endless talk
| Regarding the deathleSS life.
Then | with my brainless head
Did think of this funny joke,
/ It's the ninety-eight model code,
The wonderful rhymeless poem
New York Truth
The polo season is almost ended
And not a murmur is heard about d
Maine base ball league.
Some of the city sidewalks are get
ting dry, but the country roads will D.
! moist for some time
The n. G.. S. NJ is getting ready fol
business, as shown by the general or
dcrs in another column.
one prominent officer says he truly
! expects that when the Maine companies
next assemble it will be in Cuba and
not in Camp Powers.
| If war comes the sons of Maine can
! be depended upon to fight side by sid"
/ with the best of them, and to uphold
| the honor Of Old Glory first, last and
/ always.
/ Politics has its ups and downs, and
/ ms and outs, and sudden stops and
changes in the subject as many a
Maine municipality found out, Monday.
| Several towns treated themselves To
surprises in one way or another. but OF
all the red hot times that at stald OLD
! Bethel was the most torrd.
The Saco strike continues. but many
of the Saco strikers are at work in tn"
Biddeford mills and very glad of the
opportunity,
The Winthrop high school played
! truant. en- masse, for the sake OF !
, crust walk, and as a result its vaca
ton is a week longer than the pupils
expected.
1t isn't very often that a couple cele-
brates its 18th marriage anniversary in
Jail. but there was such a case in thu
kennebec jail. last Saturday. The
couple was popular Sheriff McFadden
and his Wife 1t is reported that the
lady remarked that if she had known
that after - years OF married life sh
would bring up in jail with her hus
! band. she would have hesitated at the
altar
The Old Town Enterprise true to its
name and traditions has enlarged its
pages, an Improvement that its readers
and advertisers will appreciate 1t has
added another column to each of its
eight pages and heightened the pages
themselves, thus giving "A large amount
of new space which. it is needless To
say. Brother Robbins will wisely
utilize
1t is told that the Waterville Dem
ocrats had made preparations before
!, 80 liy,
egners in that town. but that some
body quietly circulated a report among
the candidates that they would have to
fight in the war against Spain if they
became citizens of this country and ii
consequence but one Of two came to
Augusta and We're naturalizcd.
An association is soon to lie formed
by the landlords Of Bangor for protc"
ton against that class of tenants who
believe that lit is cheaper To move
than pay rent" \ blacklist of this
class of tenants is to he prepared. ami
in future it is expected. there will be
less difficulty in collecting rents.
| A Bangor statistician and dirt hator
who has been investigating the matter.
finds that the Queen City has exactly
1872 bath tubs or one to every 20 per
sons. 1t hopes to have 1000 by the time
that new military post is established.
! This does not include the tin basins and
wash tubs used by the masses on Sat
| urday night
| Bar Harbor may be safe from attack
| by an enemy in case Of war. but certain
citizens believe the town was fired upon
! years ago. When Mr. r. S. Higgins
was building his store on Eden sire [
some of his worllmen, who were dig
| Sing the cellar. unearthed a cannon
| ball. which must have been fired from
some ship visiting Bar Harbor in
| Revolutionary times. or perhaps. when
| French pirates infested this coast