Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-05-17


[ naChaly jest like ter work,
And yet | would far lever
Now that there's some sunshinny days
jest SOrtCr lOp around an laZc.
guess I've got spring tcvcr.
Chicago News.
POftland's aggressive and eloquent
clcrsym"n are getting a reform wave
i'll motion in that city.
The man with ambition and a lawn
make himself unpopular with his
neighbors.
Troubles did not come singly to that
household which the IIallowelI Regis
ter describes. The horse died, the hired
girl left. the hired man got drunk and
company arrived, all in one week.
The Eucksport Times closed it's first
year and made a change of manage
ment, last week. 1t has been good
local weekly and deserve; cvn;inc u
prosperity.
cheerful way of claiming all the I'M
instructed delegates, which must be dc
cidedly amusing to the substantial ma
jority Of Cobb men who figure in that
column.
Here is the Bath Times cheerful
word for the Shipping City: "Our Bath
yards are all busy and have Il goojliy
number Of contracts on hand SO there
seems to be no good reason for Bath
merchants to see anything but good
times ahead for many months YET
The Portland Express still spells it
Puerto Rico. but it was probably a
mix-up of the linotype keys. for the
Express is as American as they make
them. 10y ,,sx.
A Cherryficld correspondent asks:
when man who is known to be
strictly temperate and an exemplary
citizen in every way goes to Bangor
and upon returning home that evening,
walks off the sidewalk into the mud
"''' "tttt- htdliJ up " NdIct,
what's the use of trying to make him
feel any worse about it by attempting
to make him say that he was afraid of
the typhoid fever germ and did not
dare to drink Bangor city water
A Caribou man has just finished
thrcshing Il field of grain that had lain
out all winter. 1t appears that help
was scarce last fail and the poor old
honest farmer could not pay over $500
per day for hired help, consequently
the grain was left out. This spring he
>pcrsuaded u hobo that happened along.
to help him gather the grain up and
thrcsh it and he had 10 bushels of fine
oats and 16 bushels of nice bright buck
wheat.
Now that the porcupines are having
a rest the muskrats in Washington
county are taking their turn. These
little animals are priced for their fur
and large quantities are trapped and
shot. They build their homes beside
the streams and are not altogether I'M
like the beavers in their habits, though
they build no dams as do the beavers.
Willie Z. Pennell of Whitncyville is
without doubt the champion of that
section, for this seasons catch. In
company with his father he has taken
20S since the ice went out of the
Machias river, which is a phenomenal
catch. During the first four days they
took an even 100, and the largest num-
Der taken in n single day is So This
record will not be easy to beat. 1t was
made possible by the fact that the ice
in the river broke up when the water
was high, and the animals were driven
cut of their homes. and were at the
mercy OF the trappers. 1t has frequent
ly been the case that two have been
shot at a time, and the record shot,
made a year or two ago. was five at a
-single shot. 1t will be seen by this that
these men are not novices at this sort
OF thing.