Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-09-28

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Atlanta Constitution
The discussion over the new City
hall plans is waxing warm in Portland
Anyway the first fatal accident of the
hunting season was not a mistaken
fora deer case.
are the dates of the always popular
fair at South Windsor
Thomas Nelson Page. the noted
author who has Il summer home at
York, is contemplating the starting of
4 boys club for the purpose of OPEN
ing gymnasium and reading room for
the benefit of the young boys of the
town.
Portland learns that its horseless
fire engine, better known in the city
as the useless" has been taken apart
at a Providence shop and that the only
man in the world who can put it
toget Ter is taking Il vacation.
Bingham is to have another new in
dustry, a wood working factory to
work all kinds Of hard wood into bicy-
Gle rims novelties ana other things.
This will make four plants established
in Bingham for working hard wood
since the railroad WAS extended to the
Lake, tapping an immense hard wood
growth.
Bath Independent: Bath people are
now evincing much interest in the
work of building the city's big sewer
age system. 1t is something Bath mas
long needed but which up to this
time she could hardly afford. 1t is a
great relief to know that careful man
agement of city finances for the past
few years has brought Bath to a point
where she can at last do some perman-
cnt work on her streets and sewers.
a Journal subscriber over in Troy,
Mrs. Roxy Gerry, has been reading the
big cucumber stories and has one of
her own to tell which is the best thus
far She recently picked in her gar
den one cucumber which measured
1917 inches in length and 101z inche>;
around, weighing Az pounds, and
another 1Gh inches long by 10 inches
around ami weighing 3 pounds. Plain
~ Troy is the banner cucumber town.
Mrs. Gerry also has a raspberry bush
il: full blossom.
The Calais paper tells this: A
prominent citizen who prides himself
on his skill as a fisherman, went out
the other day looking for trout. We
met him on his return and inquired
what luck he had. "Oh fine" he said,
Il caught 10 beauties, the biggest one
weighing six pounds five ounces and a
quarter (See footnOte). Where did
YOU get them" we inquired. 20, out in
Cranberry brook" he said. p. S. There
is hardly drop of water in Gram
berry DrOok-FoOtnote He was a liar.
PASSPORT took this unique way of
impressng upon the Congressman
elect of the 4th Maine district the i'm
portance of the sardine business. The
other afternoon, at the request OF
several of the sardine packers, the
Maine Mercantile co., offered the use
OF their rooms for the purpose of hold
ing an informal reception to Mr..
Guernsey All sardine packers in the
city and Lubec. were invited to attend.
The object OF this reception was to
show Mn Guernsey the magnitude Of
the Sardine business and the necessity
of the present tariff on sardines being
maintained to the benefit of all East
port citizens
This joke is on Baggage Master Si'as
owen of the steamer Ransom b. Fuller.
One night recently Mr.. owen was busy
in the baggage room on the Boston
wharf when man came up and said,
Don't YOU go on the Fuller?" Mr..
owen replied in the affirmative and the
man politely told him that the
steamer had left the dock. The bag
gage master made one grand hustle to
the slip but the boat was not there and
he saw her headed down the harbor.
Not having wings and ne tug being
handy, Mr.. owen had visions Of his
reception when he should again meet
ST was on his way to the North station
and it is gamble he boarded the
Maine train as soon as the gate was
opened He arrived in Bath on the
late Pullman and was on the wharf
to greet his brother officers when the
boat tied up at four o'clock. He got II
reception worthy of the joke. Speak
ing of the matter, Mr.. owen says that
he has been running on the boats for
the past nineteen years and it was the
first time he ever got left on either end
of the route.
Freeman Spearin, one of the drivers
for a Bath firm, had a run Of hard luck
one day this week while handling a
huge memorial boulder to be taken to
the Bailey lot in WoolWich. The
boulder weighed $500 pounds and was
on a jigger First it was hauled to the
city scales where its great weight
broke one Of the hangers. Fortunately
the scales We're not seriously injured
however, and the iigger was extrcated
without difficulty From there Mr.,
Spearin started for Water street and