Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-10-07

pleased with the quality OF the crop
which has been grown in this section
and that it will be hard to find better
chicory than this which is now being
shipped from this station. He is OF the
opinion that there will be much larg-
or acreage planted next season than
there was this and that many will take
hold of it next year who have been
looking round to see what would be the
result to those who did take hold of it.
AT the time of the encampment at
Camp Benson. William II. Barnes OF
Newport had fine new bicycle stolen
by some person unknown to him. He
hunted high and low for the wheel and
had all the police departments in the
central part of Maine notified of it. but
was utterly unable to get any track OF
the missing wheel. Last week he re-
ceived notice from Mrs. David FL
bridge, that a wheel had been found
by her near her home. He went to the
place and found that his wheel had
sure enough been found and that 1T
was all right. The wheel was found in
clump Of bushes, where ii had evil
IDENTIFY been hidden by the thief and
when the leaves fell off the trees, the
wheel was exposed to view. 1t was
not much the worse. except that some
of the parts were slightly rusted. The
wheel had evidently laid right where it
was found all the time since the Camp
Benson encampment, but not the
slightest clue to the identity of the
thief was found.
Joe Hosham, residing near the rail-
road crossing at Blaine, is the owner
of dog that has always objected in a
vigorous manner to the passing trains.
He would get on rail and bark as
they approached, but would jump away
in time to save knockout on the jaw
But now he won't wag his tail any
more: by some miscalculation he lin
gered too long and lost his appendage
close up. He won't even look at "A
train now as it passes by. and he keeps
a sharp eye up and down the track as
he passes over the crossing.
A Waterville man who evidently is
observing says: When | was a boy
travelling with my father | took oc-
casion TO find fault with the food that
was provided at a wayside inn. The
old gentleman remarked to me, My
son, | never knew a person that had
very little to eat at home but what was
always finding fault when away.
have never forgotten it. and when I
see people finding fault at the hotel. in
the restaurant or on the cars. | size
them up by the standard my father set
forty years ago" And who will say the
old gentleman is not right?
The man who owns shingle mill
and can get lumber to manufacture.
has something better than a gold claim
ter will be a lively one in the cedar
business The days of the big cedar
log fence have passed away. There
are thousands of dollars worth of val
liable lumber on the farms and it
would not be surprising 10 see the
farmer hauling in his fences to be man
ufactured into shingles and replacing
them with a heater one Of wire. Those
| big log fences look substantial but
| they are expensive and not n thing of
| beauty and form a nucleus for the
growth of weeds and all sorts of rub
| bish, and the snow always accumulates
around them several feet deeper than
any other place on the farm. and the
| worst thing that road commissioner
has to contend with during the winter
season is at those places where those
| roadside log fences are located. ana
| the sooner they disappear the better
| the farms will look, writes an Aroos-
| took county correspondent.