Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-02-19


This is the day when Governor Hill
has a welcome for all Maine people a:
the Capitol in the afternoon, and the
citizens of Augusta give the legislators
and their ladies the time of their lives
at City hall in the evening"
The increased supply of coal and the
lower price accompanying it took much
of the edge off this latest cold wave
which followed so closely in the wake
of the blizzard. 1t is an empty coal
bin that gives the greatest terrors to
the mercury down in the twenties.
The prospectus of the Portland Sum-
mer school comes as reminder that it
will not always be winter. The school
will be held in the High school build
ing, July IL to August q, and offers
some very attractive courses in the
languages and music. This is the old
est summer school in the country and
it's location makes it very popular. The
secretary is Miss Mary p. Ames, 20
Shepley street, Portland.
The Maine Sportsman issues a very
attractive New York Show edition with
a fine lot Of articles and pictures on
the Maine woods. The dates of the
great Sportsmen's show. this year, are
February 81 to March Z.
Most of the big passenger engines on
the Maine Central are now equipped
with the automatic bell ringer which
consists of a small piston attached to
the boiler just under the bell. This is
controlled from the cab. and it is not
necessary for the fireman to pull this
rope as of old when coming in or going
out of a station. The engineer simply
has to set the mechanism going and
the bell rings until he stops it.
Hon. w. w. Stetson, State superin-
tendent of schools, has been engaged as
one of the speakers at the National
superintendent meeting in Gin
cinnati. Feb. 25-26-27. His special SUBJ
ject of treatment will be Rural In
dustrial Education
A Limestone parson proposes to an
swer the following questions in series
of sermons which began last Sunday.
Where Is Man in Death?" Elm Death
Is Man Conscious or Unconscious?
will All Men Be Raised From the
Dead?" when Are the Righteous
Separated From the Unrighteous?"
Are the Wicked to be Destroyed"
When do Men Receive Eternal Life?"
Where is the Future Home of Gods
People?" The man who will discuss
and answer those questions from the
pulpit can never be accused of lacking
in courage.
An Auburn man is quoted in the
Lewiston Journal as having said that
his fuel bills this winter from burning
green wood at S. cord are $50 less
than last winter. with anthracite at Sc
ton. This may possibly be true, but
it is easy to see where the amount
saved on cost of fuel could be more
than offset by the extra work of keep
ing the fires going with green wood.
But perhaps this mans wife attended
to the fires, making it unnecessary to
enter the item Of labor in the expense
account.
One of the early things that Rock
land and Thomaston would like to see
brought to pass under the reign of the
new road machines is the building of
permanent and thorough road between
the two cities. For generations there
has flowed between these two impor-
taat points a steady stream of traffic,
upon a road that for the most part of
the year the gods might weep over
mud and execrable ruts alternating
with dust and obtrusive stones. and
only at long intervals, and then of short
duration, anything like comfort to the
traveller or the drawer of mer-
chandise.
Once in a while hotel clerk is puz-
zled to meet the emergency cases
which arise in waiting upon the num-
erous travellers from time to time who
stop at popular hosiery. A case of
this character transpired here one day
recently that is too good to be passed
without mention. A travelling man
stopped at the Exeter Exchange one
night leaving a cali so he could have
time to get his breakfast and reach
the morning train going west. The
clerk went to the door of the gentle
mans room in the morning, but his eff
forts failed to arouse the man. He
pounded until his arm ached. then
thinking the ledger must have some
serious trouble he procured chair and
looked in over the transom. The man
was sleeping as soundly as though it
was the only duty he had on the string.
The door was locked, the key turned in
it. and the clerk could not get into the
room. He could not get pole to
reach the man with, and prod him, so
necessity being the mother of inven-
ton, he betook himself to the kitchen.
There he procured half dozen raw
potatoes and using these, taking the
man as a mark. he began throwing
them through the transom. The sec
ond or third throw brought the sleeper
to realization of his surroundings.
Such a man must have clear con-
science and perfect digestion, to say
the least.
A Sangerville correspondent writes
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