Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-04-01

ware must have been made on honor.
There is promise of a great improve
ment in sidewalks in many parts of the
State this year. Several town meetings
have made generous appropriations for
this purpose. The citizens of Ocean
Vile have Just held public meeting to
take action on sidewalk building and
voted to commence on new walks at
once.
After this winter" said a Lewiston
| dealer in fuels lit is going to be hard
er TO get good hard wood within 90
| miles Of Lewiston in large lots. l have
| been looking about a little this winter,
and the large. upland wood lots in
| which 1000 cords of wood taken out
are as nothing, are getting mighty
| scarce"
! There is one day in the year at least
when Chase Goodwin of Biddeford.
feels like displaying the Stars and
| Stripes. exploding fireworks and cele-
| brating generally. That day is the
22nd Of February. rye chief reason
for his leaning towards that day is the
fact that he was born on the 22nd and
his only son was also born on that day.
generation may not know that so years
or more ago match factory was con-
Quoted in the brick building on Vine
street between Water and Front streets.
1t was operated by X. p, Morse and the
matches sold for five cents per card,
| there being ten matches TO a card. All
of them were made by hand in those
days.
1t was a phlOsophic six-year-old in
| PASSPORT who had cut his shoe acci-
dentally while 'foolins" with a knife
and whose father was reprovlnS MN ~
great length for his carelessneSs- me
little fellow listened patiently for
time then looking up at his fathci'
said; Papa. if you don't stop talking
So much about it. you'll get me mad'
too
Al some Of the Auburn schools, Al
least the teachers have recently mi
unOn The idea Of using court plaster as
an antidote for Whispering. When a
boy o.. girl persists in whispering ana
patiencp ceases 10 be a virtue. the
teacher applies the court plaster. which
has the desired effect.
Deputy Sheriff +. S. Vosc Of Rock
land, rode over 90 miles last week IN
search Of a witness, and then found
his man right there in Rockldnd In
the course Of his travels he visited
Union. Lincolnville, Liberty and sew
cral other of Greater tockland :
suburbs.
one of the most industrious women
of Windham is Mrs. Susan Senter
Mrs. Senter resides with her son. Al
lphonso Senter. and is 81 years old. Al
though weak physically she has made
since her SOth birthday Il log cabin
louilts. five infants quilts, comfortables
land wearing apparel unnumbered, be
sides doing the sewing for two per-
sons: and much knitting.
There is some talk Of putting up at
Peaks island this summer the roller to-
boggan slide that was taken down
when the rink WAS made over into the
Gem theater The roller coaster was
always popular. and when there was
ANYBODY in the rink it was almost al
wavs going If il is erected again TINS
wear il will be placed out in the open
| air
Jas. Rivers of Biddeford, had an eX-
perience the other day which he does
|
returning on the Goodwin's Mill road
10 Riddeford. with a load of hay, when
a bart of the under rigging of the sled
became lOosened. and no sooner hac
Rivers crawled under the load to re-
pair the damage. than gust or wine
upset the load. pinnng him beneath ii
Fortunately two men happened along
lust then and rescued him in a half
suffocated condition.
The parents Of many Auburn schoo
= children are getting a rest from the
l frequent demands upon their pocket
books for one thing and another FOL
school purposes. since the request OF
the teachers that the children carr
| their pennies by the sale Of old rubber:
and junk. The result is lively bust
ness in old rubbers at the junk stores
whose proprietors report the distribu-
| ton OF considerable money to we'll
dressed and bright-loOkins school
children.
CYRUS Rundlett Of Portland. about II
years old. cut one of his legs quite
severely, recently, while cutting cloth
at the store where he is employed.
Owing to the keenness Of the edge on
the knife the wound occasioned no pam
at first. and the young man did not
notice his misfortune until his atten-
ton was called to the blood stains on
his Overalis. He treated the matter
lightly at first, but soon became 50
weak from loss of blood that is was
necessary to carry him home.
4! one small boy in Belfast will be a
\fnancier if he lives long enough.
| While awaiting his turn in grocery
store he saw a clerk from a neighbor-
ing store buy some goods at the usual
| discount. He then went to another
STORE and said: Mr.. H sent me for
two quarts of split peas He got the
trade discount" but the clerk who
sold him the peas soon found himself
wondering how HIS store happened to
be out of split peas and sending a
strange boy out for two quarts.
The men. engaged in dischargng and
! loading the thronging ocean steam
ships at Portland this season have in
| some cases found little time for rest.
| one Of them states that he worked two
nights and three days without an
hours sleep, and if he ever found his
eyelds closing involuntarily, the clouds
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