Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-09-01
that Bangor is getting more than is
share OF the perfect weather.

tnat bdHsoI Is getting more tHdii US
share OF the perfect weather
The president OF the Electrolytic
Marine Salts Company stu has faith
but he isn't adding much to the worlds
stock of gold.
The whole Stare regrets the business
misfortune of Hon. Galen c. Moses OF
Bath. The assignment is on q scale
with which Maine is but little ac-
'quainted.
A Connecticut visitor to Gardiner
writes home to the Hartford Times a
woeful letter of protest against Gar
diners confusing system Of keeping
time. Gardner is said to be the only
city in Maine where the local and
standard systems are both in vogue.
The two town clocks are kept q min
utes apart, and each has it's devotees,
with the result Of much confusion in
keeping business and social engage
ments. Visitors are entirely at sea,
and the natives are never quite sure
where they are at.
Maine doesn't raise many snakes
seven feet long but Springvale man
killed one in mis- orchard, the other
day, that was seven feet and two
inches long. Most of us would excuse
d woman from screaming at the sight
of such a reptile.
Bddeford boasts of quite romance.
While on shore leave, last Memorial
day, navy lad met a fair waitress
at one of Biddeford's hotels. 1t was
love at first glance, and now that the
cruel war is over the hero has come
back on weeks furlough to claim his
waiting bride.
This is The way a Rumford Falls
Times correspondent sends in a mar
riage notice: 1--WE were startled here
in our quiet little place not long ago
by the sound of wedding bells. This
couple came from Trap Corner and
stopped at the Mountain house, or
what is better knows as the Barnet
Thorne place. The Rev. George An
drews married this couple and his
wife Martha was bridesmaid, while
Freeman Farrar acted as best man."
Happy Deering. 1t viii save enough
by the big reduction in the price of
electric lights this year to enable the
location of about so new lights without
increasing the annual appropriation of
about $4,000.
A candidate for admission to the
Penobscot bar last week was asked:
I'm your opinion should the justices Of
the supreme court hold their office for
life or for term of years" The
answer came promptly: I'm my
opinion. it should be during good be-
havior." The. candidate iis understood
to have passed, ,,t M
Miss Fidelia A.. BEST who was mar
ried the other day to Leo D. Lamond
in PASSPORT, is said to 3 be the only
female child born aboard a United
States gunboat. Her father was a
naval officer on board the Amphitrite,
stationed at Annapolis naval academy.
Admiral Dewey was at the time cap
tain of the Constitutians stationed at
the same place., and suggested she be
named Fldelia Amphitrite Best, after
the vessel, which suggestion was car
ried out.
nrnminnnt Whitman nifiyan hn
attended the recent Wayne centennial
got into deep water at the banquet.
When he called for second cup of
coffee. the fair daughter of the burgh
to whom he applied informed him that
the coffee was all served. The idea of
a tip Immediately occurred to his mind
and he began to tumble in his pocket.
To his horror he could find nothing
smaller than the dollar of his daddies,
but. as his pride would not permit him
to back out, he presented the damsel
with fine speciman of the 16 to l ar
ticle. 1t is needless to say that she
Immediately reversed her statement
that there was no more coffee and
brought him a cup running over full.
She appeared somewhat dazed. how
ever. and stood gazing at him with an
admiration. before which that inspired
by Hiram Maxim. decorations and all,
sinks into insignificance. The VIM
thOp man is now filled with pro-
found disgust for low priced drinks.
Bar Harbor Record: Talk about mis-
management in the war department.:
it is not circumstance to the mis-
in the weather depart
ment. The clerk of the weather should
be forthwith tried, and at the very
least discharged from office. What a
terrible fizZ1e he has made of his work!
He has done his best to spoil any num-
Der of delightful enterprises: he has
brought us fog and dismal uncertain
ty when he should have given us sun
shine and joy. Worst of all he has
succeeded in bringing the divine CHI
mate of Bar Harbor into some disre-
pute. among casual visitors who do
not know that these sozzly days are all
a mistake and that we have had sad
died upon us the weather of some
other resort and not that of our own.
The History of Litchfield, which has
just been printed by Burleigh &
Flynt, is now nearly ready for distr;.