Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-02-21

barrels.
There is something alarming, to say
the least, in Names increasing divorce
rate. At the first term of court of the
wear in Androscoggin county, 20 di-
vorces were granted, and UP in Frank
lin county 16 were granted. In the lat
ter county it is pointed out that the to-
tal number of divorces in 1891 was 16,
and it has steadily increased till the
number was AZ in 1901. Considering
the small increase in population dur
ing the decade this was an increase for
Franklin county to ponder over.
Now, just what sort of grievance
do you suppose the editor of the Bid
deford Journal was brooding over when
he penned this Delphic utterance:
"The annual sucker fishing has been in
augurated at Augusta, according to the
Kennebec Journal. If our esteemed
contemporary had used the word 'bien-
NAL instead of annual the joys of the
situation would have been more APP
parent to those who know that there
are suckers and suckers
1t is not often that two men, with
the same name, from the same place,
register at the same hotel. on the
same day and at the same time. This
is what happened at The Lafayette In
Portland. this week. One was Geo. II
Allen, a Boston travelling man, and the
other was Geo. H. Allen. POrtlands
new customs appraiser, and they had
never met before,
The smallpox scare is subsiding in
Biddeford The orders against public
gatherings are partly revoked, though
dances and fairs are still on the for
hidden list. 1t is noted that out OF
several hundred who have been Salo
to have smallpox not one death has
occurred. For the city it has been
most expensive epidemic, particularly
since the burning of the pest house
The Biddeford Record which is consist
emily "agin the government" declares
that there has been no smallpox any
way and has a lot of interesting read
ing about the cunning trips coastins
parties, dances, card parties and Other
social diversions of those quaran-
tined at the pest house.
1t is not only in the good old sum
mer time that Bar Harbor achieves it:
social triumphs. The first annual con
cert and ball of the Bar Harbor Sports
mems Association was given at thu
Casino the other evening and was
great success. One thousand invita-
tons were sent out, and it is estimated
that fully that number was present
At any rate it was the largest GROVE
that ever assembled at the Casino, ant
the large hall was packed full. There
was concert by the full band and 21'
couples were in the grand march
Among the elaborate decorations were
30 deer and caribou heads and five
huge moose heads looked down upol
The dancers from the walls and bal
comics. The walls were hung with skins
oi leopard, wildcat, raccoon, seal, fox
e'c Rifles, shot guns, fishing rods
,sh baskets, landing nets, ETC., were
hung in profusion on the walls, along
win pictures of camps and sporting
scenes. Three birch bark canoes were
suspended over the dance floor. A rope
VI evergreen hung all the way around
.he nan on the wall in the rear of the
oalcony seats. The stage was shut In
ny evergreen trees. In one corner OF
sie stage was a log cabin about ter
ieet across, from the walls of which
hung traps. snow shoes, rifles, etc. Two
handsome black bear-skins occupied
prominent places in the stage decora-
uons. In the vestibule were cages con-
sa'nins eight live coons. two hedgehogs
ana raven. Two strings of red and
white electric lights added TO the bril-
nancy of the scene.
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"A south Lewiston lady of SO is cut
slng a wisdom tooth. Her daughter in
Turns us that three Weekc nraxr;ous