Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-11-14


story of that Portland woman, aged 30
years. who was before the court for
drunkenness. last week.
With the course in football ended
for the year. the less important parts
OF the curriculum will now come in for
share of attention.
1t took courage for Democrats to get
together. last week. and have cele-
Dration, with a band. a banquet and all
the fixings Yet that is what they did
down in Knox county and the excuse
for the celebration in the face of Re-
publican landslide throughout the
country. was that the Democrats had
carried st. George and ROckport. DR..
Crockett was on hand and the pathOS
of his speech made the sad music of
the sad sea waves seem like joyful
laughter in comparison.
Two Patten sportsmen have had
some hair-raising experiences in the
line of game adventures. lately. One
hunter was out. and what should hap
pen but that moose came and looked
at him and when the hunter started
for camp the animal followed, bound to-
be shot at any price. For accommodate
ton the fellow turned and shot the per-
sistent pursuer, and when his comrades
came out to help skin the moose they
We're surprised to find dead pet mule
which had been straying around the
camps. The other hunter watched all
one long cold night for the bears that
had been stealing apples and other
winter supplies. Finally he got a shot
and went home thinking how much the
pet would add to his purse, but when
he returned in the morning he found
that he had severely wounded a kcro-
sene barrel and that oil was flowing
from the death wound
Down PASSPORT way many Of the
cellars about the city are now in de-
mand by the Gamers Of sardines.
which are now being stored for the
winter to await change in the mar
kct and most Of the teams are in de-
mand to haul the newly packed fish
into suitable quarters where they will
remain for the next six months or
more Usually before the call of the
board Of assessors most OF, the sardines
are removed. Many thousand cases of
the sardines are taken to Boston on
every trip of the steamers of the East
ern Steamship Company.
The project of putting on an early
morning train from Boston to Portland
| meets with enthusiastic approval in
| Portland. The first mail from Boston
now reaches Portland at 1910. and is
opened for box delivery at 1l.15. 1t
does not go out on the delivery routes
| until afternoon. Ii the proposed ar
arrangement for reaching here with a
mail train at . o'clock goes into effect.
the Boston mail will have an equal
| show with Eastern mails in the matter
of local delivery. reaching both the
| business houses and residences before
9 O'Clock. The first morning mail from
| Portland to eastern and northern
Maine leaves at o'clock. At $50 the
| first train for Waterville and way sta
tons. via. Lewiston and the Rangeley
Lake region. leaves Portland. At $50
a through train leaves over the White
| Mountain division Of the Maine Cen
trail. The Grand Trunks first train
north leaves at SIS. At 80 mail
goes out over the Portland Worcester
& Nashua division of the Boston &
| Maine. covering points in northern
| Cumberland and York counties Every
one OF these trains leaves Portland be-
fore the arrival Of the first train from
Boston. The proposed plan would give
Boston passengers "A connection by
which they could reach points in Maine
from three to FIVE hours earlier than
under the present arrangement. and
would also get the Boston into Maine
! cities SeNHral hours o. rlier