Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-29

been given most extended and ap.
preciatiye criticisms in the Boston
papers.
Bath girls are interested in the ex.
pertinent that is being tried by the
Newport News shipyard. A. dozen
young women are employed in the
drafting department as tracers. and it
is understood that if they can meet all
requirements the force will be in
creased to 100 girls. These are the
first young women to be engaged in the
actual construction of a ship, and il
the experiment is success, the Bath
Iron Works will probably be willing to
give Bath girls a chance.
Adding to the Journals list of bad
breaks made by clergymen in opening
prayers in court, the Oxford Democrat
tells of good man. now gone to his
reward. in opening court in Oxford
county few years since, who prayed
that all might SO live that they would
some time reach a place where courts
and lawyers are not known.
The Portland Advertiser thus sledge-
hammers home a few things about the
vastness of Names northern wilder
ness: "You don't understand, kind
Christian friend. that this is big
State. You don't have the least idea
that I'm telling you the truth when l
say it is as far from Bangor to the tip
end of Aroostook as it is from Bangor
to Boston? You wouldn't believe me
if l took you on Pullman car at sun
rise tomorrow morning in Bangor and
II. after we had Travelled all day long
behind fast locomotive you asked me
what country we were in and l replied:
Maine and there's half a day more of
1t yeti You would call me a liar lust.
as they did a man named Cram of
Bangor, who few years ago told some
hnanciers that he could ship 10000
bushels of potatoes out of Aroostook
every year if he only had a railroad.
They laughed him down. but now that
there really is railroad and he is the
president of it, he is turning out four
million bushels season, and he de-
livers to the Maine Central every day
in every year $50 full cars of loaded
freight. And between Mattawamkeas
and van Buren,. and going the other
way from bound to bound-in that vast
square where the Bangor & Aroostook
'ails have cut two bands of steel down
1eep into the heart of the finest of the
lords big woods, there are spruce and
pine and poplar and fir to keen the
World going great deal longer than
nose Bangor mills will run, and i'm the
waters of the rivers thereof are a
hundred Millinockets."
A Bath boy who has never had any
uck in drawings or raffles not long
go invested several cents for a ticket
q rattle for a very beautiful parIor
amp OF the value of twenty dollars
oon after purchasing the ticket
riend who was about to be married
ave him an invitation to the wedding
nd loosely asked him what he was
oing to give him for a wedding pres
mt. I will give you this said he,
ne Bath boy handing him the ticket
the rattle. The young man about
be married accepted with thanks
ne bit pasteboard which he care
lily put in his pockets sbdok To the
arprise of the Bath boy who never
al any luck on his own account in
i'ne. the ticket WAS The lucky one
nd drew the Swenty-deIlhr lamp which
ow graces a center table in his mar
ed friends aarlorsi " spfs
hereafter Portland boys attending
he primary and grammar schools who
e caught smoking cigars, cigarettes
pipes on their way to and from
hool or on their way to manual
aiming school will be suspended and
Ill not be reinstated until they have
ade q satisfactory explanation to
iperintendent Lord and the super
sor of the school which they att
nd. This is a late order passed by
e school committee.
ASTORIA.
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