Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-20

The hunters are particularly eager
for little snow. |
The Auburn Advocate has been
forced to suspend publication.
The prophets are all at odds over the
kind of a winter which awaits us.
Deer are protected in York county
and they are said to be getting Very
numerous and tame in that section.
Dexter people have petitioned the
Penobscot Central for an extension to
that town from East Corinth, via Gar
land.
A serious attack of conscience is re-
ported from Portland when a man has
sought the police and confessed that
he was concerned in a burglary. three
years ago.
The report of the death of Daniel p.
Murphy in the State prison. like that
of Mark Twain on a certain occasion,
proves to be much exaggerated. he
was sentenced from Aroostook IN 15OO
for the brutal murder Of his father.
Editor Bracket isn't going to change
the name of the Maine Woods to the
Maine Woodsman," after all. He is
going to publish two papers in place
Of one. The Maine Woods" will be
devoted to sporting news for OUTSIDE
readers and the maine Woodsman'
will be filled with local news for home
consumption.
Did YOU ever see a moving machine
running in November? A farmer In
Aroostook cut large field Of seed hay
last week. and while he was moving,
| it was so warm that the horses sweat
as they would in July.
Cherryfield is interested in the an
nouncement that Harry T., once well
known trotting stallion at Washing
ton fairs. is now in the stables of the
| Car at st. Petersburg. He was sold
to Boston parties and from that city
| went to Russia with a dozen others
purchased by a private agent OF the
Gar.
| The Rockland Star declares that
Rockiand has little use for anything
at the opera house except the 10, 20 and
his band would have been met by
empty seats had it not been for those
who came from Camden, Rockport.
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Damariscotta.
A correspondent who signs herself
"Housekeeper," in a letter to the edi-
tor of the Bath Times, says: 1T has
been told to me, and I believe it is true,
that Bath girls. generally speaking,
don't know how to work. and never
will. SO long as their parents support
them in idleness, and allow them to
dress up and parade the streets with
no care or responsibility Of any kind,
furnish them with money to attend
matinees and evening performances
and in other ways encourage idleness
and uselessness. This is given as one
of the principal reasons why the Bath
shirt factory and other similar institu-
tions have not been able to do a sue
cessful business in Bath. 1t is now in
order for the Bath girls to deny this
soft Impeachment.
A Parkhurst man played pretty
mean trick. the other day. He has a
partridge which was mounted several
years ago and which the moths and
flies have somewhat soiled. Last Sun
day morning he carried 1t to the edge
of the woods, and placed it on a branch !
Of fir tree. tying it securely to the
limb. He then came and informed a
young man who would like to become n |
member of the family that fine part |
ridge was quietly sitting down there
in a tree, apparently waiting for some |
one to come and shoot him. The young |
man seized the rife and started for /
the woods. after being informed where |
to find the bird. and cautioned to shoot |
it through the head. The mean man
then went to the barn and watched |
proceedings from window. The |
young man got to within 20 yards of |
the game. and commenced to shoot. /
After firing II times he stood the rifle
against the fence sneaked away
across the fields. A certain young lady
now has bad fit of the sulks.
A Bath officer who started for Au-I
burn Jail with a prisoner Is months
ago. arrived there with him, this week. L
Bath officers are not usually so slow
and so the case is worth an explana-
ton. In July, 1901, Melvine Crooker of /
Bath. was arrested for drunkennessI
and as he was an old defender and
had given the police much trouble he
was sentenced to Auburn jail for a
period of ninety days. Officer JackI
was detailed to escort him to the
county hotel and with his prisoner hef
boarded an afternoon train for Au-
burn. When at Merrymeeting Park the
train stopped and Croker sprang FRONT
his seat and ran to the door jumpingt
from the train. He was immediately
followed by Officer Jack who could not
overcome the lead and 30 Croker sue
ceeded in securing his liberty. Jackt
searched in the vicinity until dark and
then returned to this city. Whent
Croker escaped he had on a pair OIL