Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-01-09


The Ellsworth American, one of the
best of Names weeklies, enters, this
week, upon it's second half century.
The Athens boys are organizing 4
brass band to help give cheer to the
long winter evenings.
Four sardine factories have burned
since the close of the canning season,
and it is said that three Of them will
not be rebuilt.
The Lewiston poultry show has been
50 SHINY attended, this week, that the
exhibitors want it moved to Portland
where fine feathers and fine birds are
more appreciated.
III southeastern Maine they complain
that the tramps are much more
numerous and troublesome since Bos
ton began it's crusade against loafers,
Desgcrs and suspicious characters.
The extra illustrated edition OF the
Bethel News is one OF the best things
of it's kind we have seen for Il long.
time, and is q valuable and attractive
souvenir Of the beautiful village Of
northern oxford. Its n pages arr.
filled Nith scores Of fine half-tOnes, and
The. village in all its aspects is well
written ~.
IN the column devoted to the New
York Tribunc's Sunshine society.
"Wiiiam Jones Of Maine" is credited
with q tive-dollar contribution to be
given to The poor woman in MaS@a
chu5etts who had 10 sell her beautiful
hair because she was in a starving
condition" Maine can always b..
depended upon in an emergency, and
undoubtedly the hair sacrificed, or
some just as good, will be restored in
time.
Justice in Somerset county a decade
or two ago was of a peculiar sort.
There was a good trial justice. now
gone to a higher jurisdiction, was
hearing d case on a liquor libel.
The yood citizen to whom the wet
goods were consigned appeared before
the Justice and claimed the liquor and
denied its being intended for other
than his own personal use. The judge
closed the case in the following
wcighty language: You may swear
the liquors yours and you want it for
Your own use. but / swear you won't
get it," Sample OF Somerset justice of
a couple decades ago.
e. the way. it was in that same dec
adc that another trial justice was
walking along the street when a crowd
OF young hoodlums attracted his
august attention by their noisy actions.
Upon his stopping to give them some
good advice. they retortcd in
decidedly SauCy manner, and there
upon the irate dispenser of the law
said. You young reprobaterS Ill fine
YOU for contempt Of court you
can't do it," answered two of the
wiscst of them in chorus. your court
isn't in session." Boys" then
numbered the judge, Il want you to
understand this court is always in
session, and therefore always a subject
of contempt.
The motto Look before YOU leap"
has been handed down for generations
and generations, but it is a curious
fact that a person has never suggested
, the thought Of thinking before look
ing" If there had ever been a motto
like the latter il is probable t!iat
Gideon L. Joy. of Hancock, would
never have received the shock to his
system that he experienced when he
lookd into a hole in the ground and
found q big. black bear about three
inches from hi; nose Mr.. JOY, did not
STAY looking into that hole any longer
I than was Necessary to recover from his
4 establishment. but got up and the way
ne legged it for home and gun would
probably have made the bear laugh if
he had stayed to witness Mr.. joys
4 sprinting act. When Mr.. Joy returned
with his rifle the bear was nowhere 70
ne seen, nor has he been seen since.
.Ir. Joy will likely get his gun first and
look afterwards if such Il case ever
comes up again.
II may not be generally known that
Ny. Charles Townsend Copeland. the
! eminent lecture on English literature
1T Harvard university, author and
critic. is 4 Maine man. He was born
il Calais in 1870 and graduated from