Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-05-04
RUSSELL & WESTON, l90D2 Water st. Augusta, Me-

each week splitting Portland siar
matches. 50 ~ to get two matches out ~
each one. This il way OF SAVING "iich
must be original with that man.
one OF the unusual scenes Witnessed ia
bradley during the recent Hood was Il
woman padding around her dpof-Satu IN
4 battcau taking III her week WASH luS
from the clotheslines. TE.Te was an"u
four feet of water where the ING Wa
stretched.
Frank Miles Of Lisbon, who Is II ne
employ OF the New England l'itpHnn'
40. al Portland. has ia iis ln- session lh-
bullet which Killed ,he chief electrician.
l. II. Farnham For tus Mr. Mtts FAY
IN slS been offered a good sum 81 money
by Portland man.
Two Bath citizens were discussing th'
Iron Works the Other day when ON,
claimed there were not over 80 men en-
plovcd therein, the other insisting there
were more than b0. y box of cigars WI
wagercd and an official statement was
obtained In few moments ;hdt the mum
Der was rising 100.
one Of the greatest fcAts " strength
he Times has heard ~ was nat ~ Rlrl
Williams ~ i>iugncid VINO recently htt-
"a. on wager. ~ pounds ana UfobAbit
could have liftcd y few pounds more. Ihi-
was done Iurly ana squarcly with har-
ness over his shoulders ana ar"aad tht
load Mr.. Williams weighs lV pounds
Rumiord Falls Times.
The over 81 club is u Gu.ll"Td society
in which only those ladies are eligible
who have reached - years Of age. Tho
meetings are held at the home 81 tn"
members un thy birthday Of ia" one
holding the meeting III really might
just AZ well b. called the Dead give
away club. says the woman who ma,
forgotten Just how VA ahc really IL.
\ Rockand man. 10 tn tup ot whr.r
head hair mas long been 4 stranger. t,iis
Il good story On himself. one day his iit-
TIE grand daughter was having ner hAl'
brushed and In the course ~ Tits more
or less pleasant occupation an occasional
lock became pulled out bN the roots
Finally there came twngc worse than
the others and the child eNclaim' u
Don't do that mamma unless you want
me To took ii'.e grandpa.
0--onki.." OF the projected monument I,
Elijah Kellogg, the Bangor News is hal'
....,u ...nn that A Mir kciuE-
could nav, the writing ~ MI cpitaph h,
would have written tins.
asked for bread ANA
And Won gave me stone.
Not un!css the nature ~ the man had
experienced radical change. and instead
planning soul known 10 his parish"ners
ana friends he had suddenly become Il
cynic.-Portland Advertiser.
Capt Giley, keeper of Negro Island
light. says there is no end TO the quantity
and variety of drift wood and other drift
staff coming ashore on the eastern ca
Of the island 1t consists OF logs. timber
boards. stumps. cedar trees ana even
parts q. niu WAGON DbIl'S- ne llIf
swept everything within i,s rcacn on tn
banks nf the Pcnohscot. Nothing like
this floating stun has been seen along on
shores for many years. Capt. GillcN
thinks he will not suffer for want ut
fire wood another winter
Portland is in the race and is quite
mctroDontan. Recently the mayor re-
ceiVed a complaint that the owners Of
automobiles ana other horSClcsS carriage
were riding about the city streets in &,
most reckless manner and he was asked Il
stop this habit before someone is injured
He looked up the ordinance passed last
year and found that the maximum r1tv
Of speed for horsclcss carriages IN Port
land is eight miles nm hour and To rN-
coed this rate LAYS the driver liable 70 a
fine of not more than SO for each Of
Tense.
There has been story written about
the Swedish woman in -irooStOok who
punched shingles and took them 10 mar
Ect to keep her sick husband and small
children from starvation. But as odd Il
sight the past winter, has been an Amer
lean woman with her boy of twelve years.
and not Il very sturdy boy either. chon-
ping cord wood and hauling from Green
field. about fifteen miles to Milford wh' r.
she had contracted it, and unloading ID
with her own hands. When tho weather
was warm enough So that she could ~
barchandcd She occupied her time VIII !,
going ana coming in knitting.