Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-04-15

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here" is a sign recently given to the
public on Federal street. Portland.
The assessors of Carmel report. this
year. an increase in neat stock. but
| few colts, no yearling colts and but
Two 2-year-olds.
| Eighteen hundred and seventy three
was the total number of Holsters seized
! by the wardens in Cumberland county
during the month of March.
The assistant assessors of Bath, find
| Il large increase in the number OF
| school children over those which were
shown by their returns last year. -
L. I. Brown Of Rumford Falls. has
| just had repaired a drum which went
through the War of 1912. 1t is an an
cient looking affair but is OF very good
tone. in spite OF its age.
The school census of Paris shows a
! total of S24 scholars, loss of Is from
last year. The loss is in the country
districts OF the whole number. 53l-
! nearly one-half-are in South Paris
village.
Two families were caught recently
using water from the Maine Water
Company, Brunswick, without COM
pensation to the company. Investiga-
ton proved that the steal had been go
ing on for the past five years. They
both settled to the amount of $50 ana
$40 each.
Animated by the desire to make it
lively there during the coming sum-
mer. Richmond business men have con-
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whistle for the shoe factory. 1t is a X.
and F. chime whistle and was formerly
on the gunboat Machias, but was re-
moved on account of not being heavy
enough for service in the navy.
1t begins to look as if there would be
demand for carpenters in Portland
this spring, beyond the local supply.
All the local building contractors have
plenty of contracts on hand and they
are looking forward to long and busy
season. At all the summer resorts
there is more or less building to be
done. The Yarmouth road is going to
put up a $4,000 Casino.
A Bath man recently created an I'M
pleasant connection in his household.
While endeavoring to restore peace in
the neighborhood one evening. he fired
a shot gun at some cats who were set
Ting a quarrel in the back yard of his
home. All the felines escaped with The
exception of "Rudyard kiDling." the
home pet, who was hit in the back of
the head with some duck shot which
wiped out his entire nine lives.
II may be wrong said little
woman in an electric car. but / fully
believe that man would strike Il
match on the tombstone of his mother
and her eyes snapped and her cheeks
flushed at the idea of such a sacrilcge.
That woman is about right. too. Man
will scratch match on the first thing
convenient. no matter where. as count
less defacements made everywhere by
him can tell--Bath Enterprise.
Main street merchants have been
visited during the past few days by
man with smooth game. He states
that he is from Brooksville, or some
other nearby town. and asks the mer-
chant if he doesn't remember his BUY
ing last year a suit of clothes. or a
barrel of flour. or bill of lumber or
whatever may he the handiest kind Of
goods. The merchant usually isn't able
to recall that the man didn't make
such purchase. So the fellow strings
it along a sspell and desires the loan Of
a quarter. haying mislaid his pocket
book. We don't know if the game has
worked but we have heard of many
places in which he has attempted IT, :
Rockland Courier Gazette.
one thing which cannot fail to be
remarked by visitor to Bath is the
cratic way in which the society men
Of the town wear evening dress A
man goes to party in evening regalla
and finds his swallow tail the only
one in evidence He profits 60 by TINS
| experience and wears cut-away 10
! the next social gathering which he at
/ tends, and 10, everybody is respien-
dent with evening dress. what is the
matter with always wearing full dress
ut formal and semi-formai functions
/ after six o'clock as the custom is in
. other civilized places bath Times.