Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-06

thing that can happen to the indus
trious farmer is to have horse that
is threatened with speed
The farmers say that the buyers are
big apple crop in order to keep down
prices.
CLAIMS weighing two pounds each are
being caught" at South Surry. At
least that's what our South Surry cor
respondent writes. 1t is small wonder
that Newbury Neck is anticipating
boom.
Two sturdy East Bluehill boys
wanted to see the President, and they
wanted to see him so much they
walked to Ellsworth. and walked back
again. There's presidential timber in
those two East Bluehill chaps.
Has any Maine editor been in the
business on the same paper longer than
Editor Parlin of the Machias Union?
He has been associated with that paper
AZ years, and plans to make it at least
half a century. The only out about
Brother Parlin is his politics.
Occasionally patrons of the trolley
cars are heard to say, I'VE do not like
TO ride with such and such a motorman,
ways be all the motorman that brings
about this condition. When you see a
four wheeled-ca spinning along with
twelve or fifteen passengers packed in
the three rear seats and no one at all
in the front of the car it is not surpris-
ing that somebody gets jolted, no mat
ter how experienced a driver the
mOtorman is.
A Portland man who visited Bath,
the other day, was amazed to see sew
eral signs displayed reading "Sody and
Cigars and now the Portland papers
are gently poking Bath in the ribs.
Just wait until the Times and Inde-
pendent get after them.
One Wesley man sold s215 worth of
| blueberries to the Columbia Falls cam
ming factories, and he and his family
picked most of them
The new trolley line from Brunswick
to Yarmouth is prospering handsomely,
and patronage is already very heavy.
The closed cars will begin to arrive in
a few days. They will be AZ feet long.
with double trucks, smoking compart-
ments and toilet-rooms, and will be
finer than anything now in use in the
State.
Thus far this season Capt. II. z. Beal
by his large catches of herring is king
of the weirmen. Capt. Beal has three
weirs in Eastern bay which are prov
! ing better investment than many of
the gold and silver mines in the coun-
| try and fully less liable to fizzle out as
a bad speculation. In the last ten days
ne has had his bank deposit increased
with checks to the amount of $1,000
| from the products of these weirs which
were sold to Jonesport packers and
| packers in Hancock county. Two of
| his weirs are equipped with pockets
| capable of holding 1926 hogsheads of
herring it - rfy$r~-
A pleasing incident occurred on the
track enclosure at Lewiston, the other
afternoon. party had just been
showing green colt on the track and
at the close of the exhibition mile the
time was hung out from the judges
stand in the usual way, the time made
by the green colt being 500 u. Two
ladies' who We're standing, near the
judges stand happened to look UP and
| noticed the time as hung out. MY
Lord" exclaimed one of the ladies, I'VE
must hustle to the station, it is now
five and half minutes past three and
our train leaves at 800" And as they
walked toward the station both sang
high praises of the management, for
keeping the correct time of day sus-
| pended from the judges stand. so the
people might not miss their trains, and
the beauty of the whole thing is that