Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-03-22
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Wanted.

in the path,
With six or eight steam heated rooms, a
screen porch and a bath,
bling brook.
An arbOr where to rest at ease and read
the latest book.
Perhaps YOU know of such a place at rca-
Sonahle rate
Say, thirty dollars for the year.-B. j..
2S.
I'm looking for boarding house. where
folks are never proud,
Where no one tells of better days or tries
to bluff the crowd:
The boarders must be courteous. the sarv-
ing staff refined.
My bed Of softest eiderdown, the food Of
choicest kind
The price two dollars weekly. maybe half
a dollar more;
Address, inclosins reference. =. j., 2H.
Although a man of leisure now, I'm will
ing to be placed
In some position suitable to one of nur-
tured taste,
A situation not confirming, 10 till .. per-
hapS.
With leave to go abroad each year, an
hour at noon for maps
And salary commensurate with merit
such as mine,
Send offers stamped and closely sealed
i. j.. ol9.
Newark News.
Reports from the earthquake are still
coming in from all parts~of the State.
1t seems t. be pretty generally agreed
that it was about the worst one ever
experienced in Maine.
The woman clergyman who for
twenty years has ably presided over
the Universalist parish in Norway has
resigned her pastorite.
There is at least one small boy in
North HridStOn who is bemOaning the
misfortune Of the curiosity of woman
kind and he is thinking some things
which are more expressive than elO-
Qnent. For q long time he has had his
mind set on the capture of a large grey
squirrel which has made his home in
the woods near his house. Accordingly
he prevailed upon an acquaintance of
his to construct a bOX-trap in which to
make the animal a prisoner. Every
day he went to the woods and found
the trap sprung but no squirrel. His
friend told him 10 take down Il brick
better luck. Sure enough the next
morning the friend in passing dis
covered the trap sprung and Mr.
Squirrel a prisoner. He placed the trap
behind Il large tree out of sight ard
sent word to his boy friend. The small
hoy came down in post haste but to his
tiismay ne discovered that some of the
girl students of the Academy had been
there before him and in their curiosity
to discover what the box contained had
set the animal at liberty.
Vandalism appears to find its only
recompense in the very wantOnness Of
destruction. About 4 week ago some
ut Birch Point and destroyed much Of
the property. About all the glass in
the kotc. was broken out while the
furniture inside the building was
wrecked. Mirrors in the tops of the
bureau frames in tie chambers We're
broken. range thrown out through n
window and much other damage done.
TIC be sure the hotel has been closed for
n long time but that is no excuse for
any one TO destroy the building or its
contents. When perpetrators of such
Outrases gre apprehended the courts
ShOulu see to il that they get all the
punishment the law provides
The movement for city charters in
some of our larger Maine Villages does
not appear to have made much head
way. Skowhngan still prefers to re-
main under the town system ard in
Camden at a special town meeting
called to consider the matter. it was
decided by vote of 1876 to IT, not to
apply for Il city charter.
Already the summer resort men all
over the State are getting their houses
into condition for the coming summer.
II is necessary that repairs and
additions should be completed before
III" season opens in order that guests
may not be annoyed by them. So far
as can be learned at this date all the
indications are that the season of 1904
VIII be 4 very prosperous one
People often wonder how summer
hctcis SccIrr their help" remarked the