Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-16

charter at the next session Of the
Maine Legislature.
The Bangor Democrats are making
talk about nominating a candidate for
mayor in the spring, but probably they
don't really mean it.
Kittery is recognizing the ability Of
its young people and giving them
every advantage possible. 1t is
good idea The towns police justice.
it's High school principal and its post
mistress are all under Is years of age.
Whenever you hear man bemoan-
ing the physical degeneracy Of the hui
man race, and boasting that he, him.
self never wears an Overcoat even i'll
the coolest weather. you are perfectly
justified in suspecting that the boaster
at that very moment has on two or
three full suits Of underwear.
New York people know the value of
Maine goods and sometimes the mer-
chants impose upon their patrons.
Such an instance is reported by a
Maysville man, who says that on 4
recent trip to New York, he saw
Dakota potatoes labelled "HoultOn
Reds displayed for sale in shop vim
dcws at two cents apiece.
The OK has been getting almost as
scarce in Maine as the buffalo on the
prairies of the West, but there are
promises of a revival in the OK rails
ing industry in some of the back
towns.
Sheriff Pearson is going to lecture in
Bangor January 20. City hall has been
engaged for the event. II think I'll
take along with me some Of the relics
l have gathered during the past year."
says the sheriff. They haven't any
use for body cans, whiskey cans and
hides over there and they'll be some
thing of a novelty. The exhibits also
Will give the Bangor people some idea
Of the desperate straits the Portland
rum sellers are in.
Two of the proudest boys in Brewer
/ are Willie Edwards, age II, and
Clement Davis. age Is, who attended
! for several years the private school
conducted at Central Valley, N. Y. by
y. Estrada Palma. the newly elected
{ president of the Cuban republic. Their
rlaymates are listening in awe these
days to the tales they tell of the C:iban
Patriot.
/ One country correspondent writes
that his neighbor mentioning his
name. has bought several new mich
cows and intends next summer to
''decanter" wholly to the summer
! trgde
When the ship subsidy bill comes up
III the House, it is safe to say that
Congressman Littlefield will deliver a
sreech that the country will listen to,
as 1t did to his famous speeches In the
| last Congress. When he came back to
Rockland for the holidays he brought
with him a large mass of papers and
/ book ks and continued here The re-
searches which he has been pursuing
for two or three years. He has gone
carefully into every branch of the
ship subsidy question. He has studied
the subsidies granted to ships in
Great Britain and in Japan. not to
mention many other countries. He
knows the history of each subsidy act,
| the conditions under which it was
passed. and the effect it had on stimu-
lating shipping. He has given special
attention to the so-called mail SUBJ
sidies of Great Britain. which in
! reality are subsidies for commerce. as
they have enabled mail ships to COM
pete more successfully for the carry
ing trade. Mr.. Lttlefield. with his
habit of exhausting the information on
any subject he undertakes. is I'M
questionably today the best informed
man on ship subsidies in the National
| House.
| Old Town has added a new munich
Woodman mas new duty. He is now
chief of the division of care end main
tenance in the city cat bureau and act
Jag custodian of the city cats. The
present inventory of city cats COM
prises one gray cat called Dick and
one yellow cat named Pansy. Dick
drifted into City hall at the time of
the Library fair and couldn't be
driven or scared away. Mr.. Wood
man finally decided that the city need
ed a cat to look out for the city prop
erty and so adopted Dick. Dick was
lonesome. and overworked with all the
Zig building to look out for in addi-
ton to keeping the rats from chewing
ri. the CITY sta HE and he appeared
/ coon after with another cat. a little yell
) low one. Mr.. Woodman thought this
rather an imposition on the public but