Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-04-14

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The report Of the first thunder s"o"
o. Of the, season comes from heh'ie-
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,boir state convention. TINS year.
q, South Paris in June.
,r,,o country roads are improving. Out
:. ,,i,, he several weeks yet before they
can he used for speedways.
The distribution of salutatorles anu
,,,,edic,ories in the high schools show
that the boys still excel in baseball and
football.
The ambitious gardener is making
nlans for his annual campaign against
hugs birds, blight and beetles.
Sanford is to have a new standpipe
to replace the one that collapsed last
fall II is to have a capacity of a mill
lion gallons and will be constructed at
once.
About everything and everybody
down in Waldoboro came originally
from Germany. and one man. John II.
White has an appletree which he
(rarlnanV lJU
wears ago. 1t is four feet in diameter
and still bears large and luscious frult.
V1,doboro is also famous for its
poultry and they claim that the secret
of making hens lay i'll the winter is 10
feed them on apples. Miss Emma l.
Liable. wintered nineteen puilets. ana
she has fed eight barrels of apples to
them. and is now buying apples to feed
her hens on; and those 10 pullets have
laid from Is to IS eggs per day all WIN
tor Edward +. Waterman has fed 20
barrels of anples to his hens. and mas
got upwards of 200 eggs per day all
winter.
One of the papers on the kennebec
ODSpfNS Ill d i'Co''' -
the time when the boy and the buck
saw make the sawdust fly in the bacK
ward" Really, Anybody seen any
body seen any such ancient relics
about this region? Would be curios-
ity. we reckon.-Bridgton News.
Can it be that boys are to be ciassed
as "ancient relics in rural Cumbcr-
land. The anti race suicide society
should send missionaries into that re-
gion.
Fl w Smith, one of the most benev-
client and energetic farmer-gardeners
of Pitts(ield, who owns nice farm d
short distance from the village, pro-
poses to give the working men of Pitts
field an exceedingly fine opportunity
to have a garden of their own at ills
place this summer. If su'Ilclent
number avail themselves of this oD-
portunity. Mr. Smith will have large
piece of his land ploughed and put in
Grst-class condition for gardening pur-
poses and then check it off into small
parcels and let the workingrnen have
the use of the same at 5 cents per
square rod, which will just about pay
for TIE work of getting the ground INTO
condition. This offer of MIR. Sm1th 5
will give many people here Sood
chance to put in their spare time dur
ing the summer at good profit, VINO
heretofore have had no chance for
small garden Of their own.
A judge i'm Ohio granted four o'-
IorceS in ~ minutes short tne ago.
Which beats even Knox cauntys rec
ord.-Rockland Courier-Gazette.
In commenting on this, the Oxford
Democrat remarks that four divorces
were granted in 90 minutes during a
recent term of court in a county which
it does not name. but which we INFER
to be Oxford.
There was an Oxford county man.
who went into a postoffice and asked
the clerk if they kept stamps. The
clerk with a tolerant smile admitted
that they did, but was little taken
back by the next question. What sorts
do you keep" "All the values. sir
that are issued from half-penny to
pound" he replied. Whereupon his
would be customer shyly minated that
he would like to look at some penny
ones. The clerk with something of an
air produced one of the huge sheets
which holds some 20 shillings' worth of
stamps and spread it on the counter.
There you are. SIR he said. II you
want penny stamps, there are some
The customer appeared dazzled with
the display and seemed unable to take
his eyes off the stamps. He looked and
looked and at last after careful ex-'
animation which had comprehended
every part of the sheet he pointed to a
stamp in the middle and murmured. Il
think I'll have that one please.
The ma jority of people who daily
pass the building numbered 2O514 Mid
ole street, Portland, and outside of
which is displayed the office sign of the
recruiting station of the u. S. Army, do
not realize the amount of work that is
carried on there, day by day in enlisting
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