Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-04-06

lsonal allusion.
Dover has voted to exempt from tax
alton for 10 years any firm or corpora
tion which will locate in town and ex-
pend at least 5000 in establishing a
manufacturing industry and employ
not less than 10 hands, and now it is
looking for the industry.
Waterville's latest grievance against
Augusta Is the existence of the Edo
waros Company's dam which prevents
the salmon from going up river to the
Ticonic falls, as they did in the olden
times.
The Portland Advertiser has it's drag
net out for the champion liar and this
is what it landed. last week: Speak
ing about the recent hot day in March,
l take pleasure in telling you that in
1868 on Jan. %, it was so hot that the
snowbanks in my barnyard took fire at
two O'clock in the morning and the
steam sWelled my barn so that the
next summer it took twice as much hay
to fill it.
Among Names most practical enc,
mics of the race suicide" idea which
President Roosevelt has so vigorously
condemned are Mr.. and Mrs. T. A.
Hunt of Norway, who have nine heal
Ethy and happy children less than Is
Years of age. and no twins in the lot.
1t is interesting 10 note how pleased
New Hampshire is that Maine did not
make any appropriation for an exhibit
at ST. Louis. The Concord Mirror, for
| instance, looks at it this way: The
fact that the Legislature of Maine has
declined TO make an appropriation for
4 State exhibit at the St. Louis Expo
stion, gives New Hampshire an abso-
lutely clear field at the big fair to show
| up our summer resort attractions. We
| shall be absolutely alone in that field
and the $4,000 which it is proposed to
| expend can be made to return to US an
hundred fold.''
| 1t is stated by some of those inter-
ested in the business of contracting and
/
Of an eight-hour day to the masons
| with the same rate of wages as under
| the nine hour arrangement, will ineyit-
| ably be an increase in the cost of build
| ing opera tons. The contractors have
| not made serious objection to the de-
mands of their men feeling that such
| concessions were inevitable But they
feel also that those who have building
to be done must expect to pay more,
| since of course the contractor cannot
| stand in the gap. The contractors have
usually reckoned that as a rule they
| must sell labor which they hired for So
a day for about $3.50, in order to do
| business on a safe margin. Now, with
| wages at $3.50 for an eight-hour day,
the contractor will need to put the
labor in at a little over "a for eight
hours of work. Some of the contract
ors feel shat their customers may re-
gard this as very high: but it seems the
necessary result Of the adjustment.
1t now looks as though the scheme
Cor connecting a number of lower
Perobscot towns by telephone would go
through all right. Enough stock has
now been subscribed to build a line
over quite a distance that it is desired
to cover. The line will be constructed
through Plymouth, into Troy and Dix
mont. Stctson, Corinna, this town and
some others, if the present plans do not
miscarry.
| Kate Vannah of Gardiner, is engaged
in preparing a volume devoted to her
personal "reminiscences of many inter-
esting men and women famous in the
literary and musical world. Miss Van
nah is well equipped for just this
line of work, for she has for many
years enjoyed the privilege of know
ing, and in a way the world rarely
knows, a great number of clever peo-
pie about whom the outside world is
always very curious. She is also eX-
pecting to publish this year her third
volume of verse
| Gardiner Reporter-J Journal: The talk
of removing the capital from Augusta
to Portland. or anywhere else, might as
well be saved. for a few years at least.
1t is conveniently located as it is, and
| the State can't afford to build any
more State Houses. 1t had better put
its money into insane asylums.
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