Daily Kennebec journal., 1899-11-13
AUGUSTA LOCALS.
"SMOKEY" ECHOES.
Reverberations from Wednesday Eve
ning's "Smokey Mokes" Production.
Some ut the Local Hits Given With Malice
Toward No One.

Because it is fresh and green from
the hands Of the Creator. and il has
never been repaired since
Great applause from the audience.
This was one Of the many very
amusing things said and done at the
Smokey Mokes," last Wednesday eve
ming. To the Augusta people the per
formance was git-edged from every
standpoint. for there We're so many
local hits they could be appreciated.
To the outsider the evening was
pleasant one because there was some
good wit without local flavor, the lat
ter of course, they could not taste, and
then there was the excellent singing
and other attractions.
To AugustanS, however, who love
joke at the expense of someone else or
who love to laugh at something. the
evening was Il pleasure. Since that
night the jokes have been repeated
over and over again until some of them
have reached the jokers in an entirely
new dress and with additions. Enough
jokes have arisen from the seed plant
ed at the performance TO supply the
world with minstrel features.
1t was the highway department,
however. that got some of the hard
digs. and the above was one of them.
And they named Water street be
cause all you could buy there was
water" continued Helen Hunt who
lodged as she said this as though she
expected somebody was going to throw
an egg at her.
"Oh, say Mr.. Bond, I am not feeling
well of late" said Rufus Rivers on the
ends, Il have been suffering from an
overdose of shoe factory stock that has
given me what the doctors call auto
mobliousness."
Thus he delivered himself concerning
the shoe factory and the use for which
the purchaser was to devote it.
And say. Hon. p. @. Vickery isn't
doing any shooting, this fall. they say.
He has heard there are a few shares of
that stock he didn't get and he is
hunting for them" The Hon. Mr..
Nickery was thus called up. on account
of his having assisted SO largely in
the erection of the building. and his
earnest efforts to keep it going, even
at a considerable personal expense.
And say. Mr.. Bond, did you hear
about Fred Kinsman's sunstroke. thn
other night
"A sunstroke at night. you must be
mistaken
"Em-m- n sunstroke at night. You
see Charlie struck him for 81. Wasn't
that a sOnStroke?"
More wild applause from the young
people who knew Charlie.
THAT was a good reason County
Attorney Leigh gave for a new trial
in that case he lost, last week, wasn't
it?"
You mean City Solicitor Leigh. don't
you? What was the reason
We'll. there was one man in the jury
who could hear in only one side of his
head. and he decided against Tom.
Tom thought he had heard the wrong
side of the case
Did you hear what the brother Of
Murderer Quirion said, the other night.
when his brother was sentenced?"
asked Rastus DeWilde.
NO. what did Quirion's brother
say?"
He asked a man how much time
they had sentenced the murderer to,
and the man said six years and six
months. He looked up and said. 4
don't believe Louis will be contented
down there six weeks
What was Billy Williams doing up
on your street, the other night" asked
Rastus of Rufus.
"Oh, you must be mistaken Billy
don't go out nights now. Uncle Joe
won't let him go out, now that it's so
dark out.
Yes. it was Billy. I noticed him
throwing things around, and | went up
and asked him what was the matter.
He said the people had been kicking
because the low water wouldn't allow
the street lights to burn. and there
had been no lights. He had a bag of
feathers and he thought these would
be light enough"
What's become of Rob nOw?" was
asked concerning Overseer of the Poor
Robertson.
"Oh. he isn't very well. About all he
is doing is the poor"
You know the blunders DR.. Wilder
is always making" said Cora Coupon
to the interlocutor. We'll. you ought
20 heard the one he made to Helen
Hunt over there. She went in the
other morning to have tooth repaired
and the doctor brought out one of
those buzzers that tests anyone's
nerves He asked her to open her
mouth and she began doing it. She
kept opening and opening wider. and
the doctor he said, 1 am going to stand
on the outside.
Charles Caldwell and Charles Whitten
were playing whist the other night,
Whitten held thirteen trumps and he neV
er took a trick. 1t was square deal too
II was like this. Caldwell led an ace-he
always does-and Whitten trumped. This
made Caldwell mad and he threw down
his hand. So Whitten didn't have a
chance to take Il trick.
How long has Lonnie Chadbourne been
in the barbering business. Rastus2'
.'Oh. | don't know, Rufus. | can remem
her back a long time. More than 10 years
| should say. He went into the business
rs soon as he left school
"Oh. he has been in it longer than
that. he was a little shaver when he was
two years old"
'Oh say, you know about their break
ing the news of Daniel WebSters death
TO Lonnie don't you. No? Why Il traT
elling man came in after hearing of tho
death and told Lonnie as the shave wa:
nropresSing that Daniel Webster was dead