Daily Kennebec journal., 1904-10-22

Colby boys think that Reggie
Brown. of Harvard is a hoodoo to
Colby for he coached the 1900 team
which was defeated by Bowdoin 6S to
0 and he was one OF the officials in
Wednesdays game which Bowdoin
won, 50 to 0.
The work on the foundation for the
observatory at Mt. Percival in North
port is progressing well and the stone
work will be completed this week and
made ready for the wood work in
short time. The stone work is built III
the style of a cellar. about twelve feet
in height and is eighteen feet square.
The tower will be a very lofty one.
Thomaston claims the youngest sew
ing club in the State, that is, the
youngest in the point of the members
ages. 1t is composed Of little ladies OF
seven years and they have planned q
winters campaign of fancy sewing.
OronO is somewhat worried over it"
diphthcria epidemic. The most dis
cOuraging phase of the situat ton is tina.
some parents, when the diphtheria get.
into their families keep the fact hid so
that they may avoid the restrictions OF
quarantine. That was the trouble a,
Bath.
Among the expenditures that Con-
gress will be asked to make at the COM
ing session will be an appropriation
for new postoffice building at Bal
Harbor. The site having been obtained
the next thing is the building. 1t i!
hoped that $4,000 building can b
secured.
The BridgtOn News does not approx.
of bestowing upon Senator Frye tn,
title Of grand old man. of the Senate
1t says: bill Frye" Is the term by
which he has so long been known heI
be nothing else-to his intimate friends
at least-while he lives.
"Aunt Salome" Sellers of Deer Isl,
who celebrated her 1O4th birthday, las.
week. attributes her prolonged life to
the exercise of five rules: 1. Neve,
worry and never miss a chance for {;
good laugh. 2. Breathe plenty of pur,
country air. 3. Do plenty of goo.
muscular work. 4. Be temperate h'
your habits. 5. Take as much sleep a:
nature demands.
A Waldo county correspondent says
that never in the history of that section
have apples been quite as plentiful a.
they are at the present time. Large
orchards We're well filled and there has
been no demand for them at almos,
any price. The general price for win
ter apples on the trees seems to be no.
more than fifty cents per bushel ant.
hundreds will rot on the grounds and
not be gathered. In the vicinity OF
Waldo many hundred bushels were
frost t-bitten on the trees.
The New England Homestead says
that a ten pound tub of butter and twn
parcels of creamery prints constituted
the sole dairy display at the MOI thamp-
ton. Mass. fair; while there We're "ex-
actly 26 cheap fakirs, side shows ara
gpmbling devices" Naturally the
Homestead demands reform. Then
the DamariscOtta Herald says of the
local fair that las managed at present
it is a shame to the society and a dis
grace to the county" but says'that the
general agent lis in no way responsible
for the disgraceful scenes which Occu,
there and for the admission of rum
sellers under the thin disguise o.
fakirS:" and concludes with saying:
I'VE doubt if the society could legally
claim State aid at any time within the
past few years." Evidently reform IS
needed at Damariscotta as well as in
NorthamptOn-and perhaps elsewhere
In Maine.
An amusing story Is told of how a
newly married couple cleveriy out
witten their friends, who had arranged
to have some fun at their expense. 1t
seems that both the young people were
members of club i'm Portland. and
We're both very popular. Incidentally.
they learned that their fellow members
had planned to play pranks upon them
on the night of their wedding, which