Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-08

Among next weeks events will be the
| arrival of SIMPSONS squadron at
Portland, the meeting of the labor
commissioners at Augusta, and Halo
wells celebration.
In his three months campaign the
| Biddeford dog officer has killed 1913 I'M
| licensed CANNES. This is good record
| and might be duplicated in all Maine
cities to their credit and profit.
The people who saw Fighting Bob
Evans during his trip to Bath We're
amused to observe that while his COM
panions, Rear Admiral Rogers, Com
| mander Sergeant and Chief Engineer
DayhuG. We're furnished up with uni
| forms and brass buttons. Bob had on
| citizens clothes, with a close little cap
set jauntily over his left eye. and his
shoulders set square. while he seemed
to watch the people about him with
nightly Indifferent eyes
Some of the Maine sidewalks-espe-
cially those known as the earth and
gravel variety-are fearfully and
wonderfully constructed. but it is be-
| lieved the foundation of few of them
have such an ingredient as i'm the case
| of one reported by the Rockland- Cour-
Ter Gazette, where a man i'm Thomas
| ton, repairing a walk, found under it a
| gold watch and chain that apparently
| had lain there a year or more.
Portland doesn't boast of any women
lawyers but it is bright Portland girl,
Miss Gail Laughlin, now practicing
| law in New York. who has been elected
secretary of the newly formed Women
Lawyers Club of the metropolis.
A Prospect farmer, according to the
| Maine correspondent Of the New York
| Sun, has found a way to foil the pota
to bugs by inoculating his seed pota-
| toes with tobacco. This may not be a
true story, but it would be if the pota-
| to bugs had a proper regard for de-
| cency and their health.
In an article in last Sundays Boston
| Herald upon the work and needs of
| New England colleges it was stated
that in remarkable showing of famous
alumni, in the progressive energy of
management and in the general high
public estimation. BOwdoin may be
considered as standing at the head of
| the smaller colleges, and as doing a
greater work in proportion to it's re-
| hn, ~, ntI, in, no
country. ''-
| The project of erecting somewhere in
Portland a permanent memorial to the
sailors of the battleship Maine will be
revived. 1t is proposed to organize a
corporation for this purpose capitalized
at, 100000 and invite contributions
from all over the State and outside.
j The State will be asked to help the
project and the. city no doubt will con-
| tinue. A year ago, when the matter
was first preached, $1,000 was appro-
priated by the city government toward
the fund, but the matter was dropped
and the money never called for. 1t is,
of course, not available now, but that,
or even q larger sum could probably be
secured when the right time arrives.
AS to just what form the memorial
shall take it is yet undecided. but there
are several propositions. One is the
erection of n sailors home or Bethel
in the city with fund to support it
and another is to build magnificent
monument on the eastern promenade
overlooking the part of the harbor
where the Maine lay when she was last
here. still more ambitious project is
a stones tower or observatory provided
with an elevator and telescopes.
The car inspectors of the Maine
Central Railroad find queer things un-
der the cars at times. The queerest
up to date was found this week when
two eggs were picked out from the
truck frame Of the Pullman car that
arrived from Bangor in Portland.
There was quite a question as to how
the eggs came there, whether they
were cooked or not, etc. In order to
settle it the car inspector called all the
4 tation men into council and broke the