Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-07-12

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The Conversation Maker.
Kickin' bout the weather
That's my greatest fun
Kickin' when it's overcast,
An kickIn' at the sun.
Kickin' when it's rainin',
Kickin' when it's dry,
Kickin' when the wind is low
An kickin' whel it's high.
Kickin' at the north wind,
An kickin' at the south,
Always apprehensive
OF a freshet or drouth.
Kickin' night an mornin'
TIL the air is blue,
If 'twasn't fur the weather
l wonder what I'd do!
Washington Star
Taking your vacation in July or Au-
gust, this year?
Think of those who have the whole
summer for a vacation!
The haymakers will be forgiven for
taking advantage of a pleasant Sun
day.
Over 400 permanent residents now of
the Sanford colony at Shiloh.
The sale of pine Tree Ballads"
promises to beat the record of "JJD in
Maine
Old Town is justly proud of its $780,
900 worth of buildings, completed or
begun since January l.
During June the Jonesport fisher
men took sc, 600 Holsters with a market
value Of $4,000.
The Bath Times closes the obituary
of a well-known citizen by remarkiny :
that ''he probably was not worse than
he average of mankind"
A fourteen-foot 1,500 pound shark is
what they are gathering in down at
South Gouldsboro--at least that is
what "a couple of fishermen report they
found entangled in their trawl one day
last week.
The new trolley line between Bruins
wick and Freeport is in working order,
but is not yet carrying passengers. The
line viii be pushed on the Yarmouth
end at once.
The opening of the Biddeford and
Saco extension of the Portland Street
Railroad, this week, is but another re-
mirder of the fact that no city in the
country Of Portland's size has a more
extensive or better equipped street car
system.
1t is decided that there will be no
public observance of Old Home week
in Belfast this year; but next year the
semi-centennial of the adoption of the
city charter will no doubt be observed
in connection with Il welcome to the
home-comers. Belfast hopes by that
time to have additional hotel accom-
modations, anG be otherwise better
prepared to entertain crowd
There was a real Wild West show AT
the farm of Capt. Ansel Wadsworth
Belfast, on circus day. Capt. Wads-
worth had a 2-year-o heifer that had
been running wild several weeks AMI
defied all the attempts of the men ana
dogs to catch her. One of the cow
boys from the show was called unon
and rode to the farm horseback in His
picturesque wild west costume. At the
first throw his lariat landed over her
horns and she was thrown. The throw
was a tritle over 40 feet. The per-
Torrance as witnessed by large num-
Der of spectators.
The Wild West show. by the way,
seems mainly to have impressed some
communities where it appeared with
the ingenuity and zeal of the manage
ment in squeezing every possible cent
out OF those attending it. Complaints
are made that there Were long DELAYS
in opening the ticket Office and in the
meanwhile agents mingled with the
waiting crowd Offering tickets at 70
cents above the regular price. At
Dexter there was a small riot in the
tent because the show people attempt
ed to force people as they came in to
buy reserved seat tickets on the ground
that the other seats were all filled.
which was not the case. A police off,
Ger took charge of the ticket sellers
and the crowd rushed over the ropes
to the seats they wanted A show
using such methods is evidently not
planning to come to town a second
time.
July % will be the great day of the |