Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-05-10

Nv Pierce, Buffalo, NY.
flowers picked in the woods and fields,
May 6.
If anybody down South Berwick way
hasn't been suspected Of that Sprague
murder he should come forward al
once.
If any Maine guide had any linger-
ing doubts about the ACCESSIBILITY of
complying with the registration law,
| they have been removed.
With good luck. the Rangeleys will
be clear of ice and fishing will begin.
week hence. The ice usually fingers
there till it has gone from our other
| lakes.
The Kennebec valley is giving
Bishop Goldman Il generous welcome.
and he undoubtedly appreciates its
/ hospitality and cordially reciprocates
its kind feelings.
| Here is a sample Of the robust
patriotism with which Editor Prescott
Of the Biddeford Journal inspires his
! readers: People who do not see any
| promotion in Sanford Il. Dole's eleva-
| ton from president to governor Of
| Hawaii forget that ii is better to be
| third selectman of a small town in the
| backwoods. in a country where Old
! Glory floats over the schoolh0usc, than
| to be supreme dictator in any other
country on the face Of this round
earth
The Bangor correspondent Of the
! Boston Sunday Herald knows little of
! the agricultural affairs of Maine If he
4 supposes. as would appear from his
| letter Of May ;. to that newspaper.
that there is any breach between the
State Grange and the State Board of
Agriculture or the agricultural
societies. The Commercial takes him to
task and gives him some valuable
| points on the matter.
One very interesting feature of the
Maxwell trial in the United States
court at Portland, was the fact that
the duties of clerk, after the first day
| were performed in the most capable
and efficient manner by Miss Elizabeth
NJ. Russell. the deputy clerk of the
United States courts in Portland. Her
presence was made necessary by the
absence of Clerk Davis. who was I'M
able to attend by reason OF Illness.
Miss Russell administered the oath to
the witnesses and took the verdict
from the jury. all with ease, conf
dence and dignity, though she was in
n position where trace of nervousness
would not have been surprising 1t is
probably the first case Of this impor-
lance in Maine in which a lady has
| acted as clerk.
At recent school sociable held in a
third story hall at South Paris, there
was an acrobatic feature not on the
program. A young man had pushed
up the lower sash Of one or the win
dows on the back side of the hall, and
| was attempting to pull down the upper
| sash, when III some way he lost his
balance and pitched head first out OF
the window. Fortunately the window
from which he fell is directly over a
rear window in drug store, above
| which the telephone wires go in. at
tached to good solid bracket. The
young man dropped through between
the wires, but managed to catch one of
them in his right hand and hold on.
Then he swung his feet up and got
hold Of the bracket with them. Next he
proceeded to make his presence known
to the people in the drug store with
somuch vigor that he left one less large
pane of glass in the window than he
found there. AIS well that ends we'll,
and he was taken in al the window
without serious consequences beyond
| considerable lameness for a day or
two. but it was a narrow escape from
trouble.
Maine is to furnish the granite for
the palatial residence which Senator
Clark Of Montana. is to build i'll New
York. The contract. which is million
dollar affair, has been signed by the
Maine and New Hampshire Granite
Company ana the granite viii come
from the North Jay quarries.
1t has been suggested that the warm
wave is waiting to give people q
chance to observe Arbor day in an
appropriate manner. At one time ii
looked rs if May II would be little
late for tree planting. but vegetation
does not advance by leaps ana bounds
during such weather rs this.