Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-08-26

"oOuS VI hdlIIt.
Bets are even that so,na of the fans
will die of heart failure before the Troll
ley League season ends.
That was q narrow escape which
Governor Cobb had this week. and I'll
Maine is very thankful that the injury
proved so slight.
A movement for the one session sys-
tenn in the High school Is on foot in
Brewer, the return 20 the two-sessiou
not proving popular.
The good word comes from Oxford
county that in that section the apple
crop will not be so very small after all,
and that the fruit will be OF much bet
ter quality than last year.
Old Orchard Mirror: Those who were
hoping that they might be able to say
that Old Orchard was having a poor
season are sadly disappointed. The
facts are against the croakers most
emphatically this year.
Bar Harbor will stick to the anti
auto ordinance a little longer, accord
ing to present indications from a postal
card poll and the attitude of the cut
under drivers. "Cutander let it be
explained to the uninitiatcd, refers to
Il style of vehicle, and has nothing to do
with rates.
A good story is told Of u Waldo coun-
ty man and the autos. He was jogging
along country road when one of the
devil wagons came up behind him.
His horse took fright, and went into
the ditch and across a field before he
could be got under control. He had
just got back into the read and was
pursuing his Journey when he heard
another auto coming. This time he got
out and held his horse by the head and
as the auto went by j" remarked:
These darned horses arc heap of
trouble, amt they" The tourists. who
had nc doubt expected Il torrent of
abuse. laughed hard and long as they
whizzed by.
The Waterville Mail tells of short
contest between a skunk and an auto
mobile driven by a gasoline engine out
near Cascade park, the other evening.
The skunk won. This will no doubt
give courage to the whole family of
skunks to keep on living. for it is said
that the first skunk to smell a gasoline
car go along the road, fearing that
something had come along that could
smell worse than he could, exclaimed,
"Oh h what's the use!"
A native of Maine, Charles II. Frank
lin, who was sentenced to be hanged for
murder in Georgia in 1880, his sentence
later. being changed to life imprison-
ment has just been pardoned and set
free as the result of a death-bed con-
fessiOn Of the real murderer which
shows Franklin to have been wholly in
nocent. He was born in this State in
1910, went South as boy and served in
the Confederate army.
When Ex-Governor ROBBIE passed his
SD birthday. two weeks ago, some Of
the papers referred to him as the oldest
bank president in Maine. The Farm
ingtOn Chronicle claims this honor,
however. for Hon. ]. W. Fairbanks
since 1883 the president Ct the Franklin
County Savings bank and the only sur
vivOr of those who organized it in 1863
He still performs his duties at the bank
and is active in mind and body. He is
one of the leading mel o: Franklin
county. has served two terms each in
the House and Senate, and among the
many Offices of trust which he has held
is that Of a member Of the board of
trustees Of Normal schools, chairman of
which he now is.
Here Is an interesting little story
from Lewiston with moral attached
She wore an exceedingly "peekaboo"
waist and she insisted upon riding on
the rear seat instead of leaving the rear
seats to the smokers. Just ahead a
man sat with his arm resting on the
back of the seat ana with a half inch
of ashes decorating the Zip of his cigar
There was a sudden lurch as the motor
man applied the current too quickly
and from the rear seat there came
wall that could be heard loud above the
din of the street traffic. In an instant
the carful of passengers were standing
in their seats to see what the accident
was. but they saw only a very red faced
young woman, with her hands convul-
sively pressed to her heart She in
sisted to the conductor that she was
rot hurt and left TIL, car ut the mex
corner. The man in the seat ahead