Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-05-14

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aboard The Portland boys were sun
standing on the platform. Ihe tram
pulled out of the station leaving them.
You'll have to move along salo
police officer. AS the train WAS soihs
out of sight the manager came uo"ii
the street. 1t appeared that lie hao
made the acquaintance or one vi
Lewistons many bewitching young
ladies and had accompanied her nome
and as she lives no small distance
away from the station he had missed
| his train. That is the reason why the
Portland High School boys dld not
reach home until the next day at noon.
The friends of Temperance neeo nave
no fears that their cause will not be
zealCusly maintained with Hon. VIII
liam T. Cobb in the gubernatorlal chair.
Actions speak louder than words III this
| life, and a man who has been all ms
life an absolute teetotaller-as has Mr..
Goodwill not go back on the primer
pies he has practiced, when elevated 10
positions of public trust and RESPONSE
bility.
Turf, Farm and Home: There is one
thing that has become more and more
apparent in the last few months. which
we would like to have explained by
some of our good friends in Aroostook
county or elsewhere, and that is why
there is such an output of Aroostook
farmers who are seeking farms in the
older parts of the State. If this move
mcnt had been noted years ago, when
ArOostOOk farmers We're getting the
hard end OF the business. we could all
have understood it, but now when they
are getting such fabulous prices not
only for their potatoes but for every
other crop grown, why they should sell
out and buy farms on older and in
many cases poorer soil is something We
can't Just understand, but we would
like to have the opinion of our lntelll-
gent readers on this subject. 1t is, we
believe safe to predict that more than
Il hundred farms in PenObScOt, PiScata-
uuis, and JKennebac counties have been
sold within the past year to farmers
who have come from AroostOok county
to engage in precisely the same bust
ness that they let there. 1t is certainly
/ IL movement lItil lhhh
passing notice.
The caucuses already held will call
for a considerable amount of revising
in the tables of prospective delegates
given out by Mr.. Cobbs opponents
some days ago.
Over in Bucksport William Farnum
the famous star of Ben Hur, has a
summer home and he took several of
the company, Monday, down to see it.
Among the sights was fish weir.
The young women of the party were
especially interested and stayed watch
ing the fish while the men strolled
farther along on the shore. "Oh look
at that big fish-thats no alewive,
girls. that's 4 whale" cried one of the
pretty girls of the Farnum party.
Come and see the whale" was the
chorus which reached the ears of the
men some yards away. Come quick
or he'll eat up all the other fish," Mi.
Farnum was the first to arrive at the
weir. He has seen PenobscOt salmon
many times before. That's no whale,
you goosies, that's a salmon and We'll
get him and have him. for dinner to-
day." We'll have to jump in for
him." were the actors orders and into
the weir he went. Tive water wasn't
deep hardly above his knccs '2.lt i VT
hard work trying to get his hands on
10 the salmon. You've got to help
me- said Ben Hur. I'm not going to
do this act ali by my lonesome" so in
Jumped the men. The young women
weren't so rash ana they thought of
their clothes. So they slipped off their
shoes and stockings and gathering up
their skirts into the pool they went,
too. 1t was Il merry scrabble and al
though the water was cold Mr.. Farnum
and his friends stuck to their task ard
finally succeeded i'm eXhausting the big
fish so that when someone came to the
rescue with a net and gaff it didn't
take long to put an end to his strug-
giles. The fish was a beauty and
weighed % pounds. When it was
served at dinner at Mr.. Farnum's sum-
mer home-after the men and girls had
dried their clothes, everybody agreed
that chasing salmon was m5re ex itin:t