Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-12
In a moment Of absent mindel ness

In q moment of nt-mlnue lHess
the editor of the Halloween Register
penned the following remarkable Item
1.-THE reason for Bates supremacy over
the other colleges In the athletic con
tests may be traced to this fact, that
students on entering are required TO
pledge themselves to total abstinence
from the use Of liquors" The editor
of the Waterville Mall in common
with many others, was very much sur
prised and not little amused to read
this, and he comments as follows: 1t
will be news to Il great many people
to learn that Bates has ever shown
any supremacy in athletics. Years ago
she used to be formidable at base ball,
but aside from that and two or three
foot ball games won by narrow mar
gin. she has never taken even a prOmi-
nent part in Maine college athletics.
or course the Register knows that no
student in rigid athletic training ever
allows himself to indulge in liquor
whether at Bates or anywhere else.
A Prospect correspondent protests
vigorously against the common custom
of counting his town in the second
tier of towns from the bay. He says
that including all the crooks and bends
along the South Branch and Perobscot
river Prospect has more than twelve
miles bordering on the salt water. Be-
sides she has an island that cuts salt
hay The gravel mound on the big
cod lead marsh. where the supposed
10 Kidd hyIyia6
is also in Prospect.
What a tribute to the honesty ard
of a good old farmer and his
hens is this little item from Portland
paper Mr.. Farwell of Cumberland
has brought eggs to one family in this
city for 80 years. and among them all
there has been but one bad one found"
Those who are wont to ridicule the
woman will do well to
restrain themselves when in the presence
of Mrs. Harry Purrinton of Byron.
This lady saw a doe, recently. about
so feet distant, and brought down the
animal with two shots from a % call
bre revolver, using short cartridges.
At least, this is the yarn cores
pondent tells the Rumford Falls Times,
but there must have been some magic
power TO her weapon and ammunition.
A % calibre revolver at a distance of
so feet is not considered a very formd-
able weapon. even in the hands of an
expert. Perhaps Mrs. Purrinton fright
ened the deer to death.
A hustling Maine boy who was cleo |
ted to Congress, Tuesday. for his third
successive term is Frederick Stevens
Of st. Paul, Minnesota. He had a ma
jority of $500. Mr.. Stevens is native |
Of Bangor. and is a Bowdoin College |
graduate. His father, DR.. Jonn G. |
Stevens, resides in Bangor.
The 33d New York district also re-
turns to Congress. by a handsome ma
jority. loyal son of Maine and Bow
dom College. Col d. S. Alexander of |
who was born in Richmond |
Maine. Concerning his election the |
Post has this to say: |
Col. d. S. Alexander of Buffalo. N Y. |
who has been reelected to Congress |
from the Thirty-third district of that |
state, is one of the foremost leaders in |
The House, and a man of much political |
experience. Geographically he has |
what the Bowery youth would speak |
Of as de leadpipe cinch." for he was |
born in Maine. brought up in Ohio, at |
fifteen years of age was soldier |
served through the Civil War as a |
then went back to Maine, en- |
tered and graduated at Bowdoin Col |
lege, which numbers also among it's |
alumni Senator Frye and Speaker |
Reed. Colonel Alexander combined |
the work of newspaper correspondent |
Tor the Cincinnati Gazette with that of |
secretary for the Indiana Republican |
state committee for six years, then |
came to Washington as clerk of the |
United States Senate committee on
privileges and elections. holding that
office during the investigation of the |
presidential frauds of 1876. Five years |
later he returned to Washington as
fifth auditor of the treasury. After |
this he changed his residence from
Indiana to New York state. although
returning to Indianapolis in 1883 to
take personal charge of the canvass Of
Benjamin Harrison for President His
IISuaI pl1ralitv in his Ruffalo hOpa