Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-02-26


! S35 to $50. Seems there must be
other "middlemen" besides those hand
| ling butter and eggs!
The Biddeford Journal in an edi-
| torial on "A Lewiston Brainstorm,
gets down to brass taclss and drives
| 'en in. Brother Wormwood seems to
| have made a study of Sixteen Years.
! Degeneration in Once Great News
| paper"
Anything to beat the Republicans,
appears to be the highest aim of
very few disappointed men who have
at some time asked of the G. o. p and
did not receive. Here is the latest
from the Bangor Commercial:
The political situation in this city,
which has been at fever heat during
the past week, has now simmered
down to the usual gum shoe work be-
fore election day, March ?, with both
sides apparently resting on their oars.
Ex- Mayor j. NJ. Swett's boom to head
an Independent ticket has been side
tracked for the time being and the
contest has developed into a battle be-
tween the Fusionists, made up by
combination of Progressives and DEM
ocrats. and the Republicans"
The Biddeford Records pilot, who
never suffers from Indigestion, finds
cause for wonder in the following
story which we clip from his paper:
Even goats are sometimes victims
of acute indigestion, but never on ac-
count of indulgence in such delicacles
as tin cans and old hats. 1t takes
something like oats to lay them out.
One days this week Frank Ridlon's
goat strayed away from its home on
the Ferry road, got in neighbors
oat bin, stuffed himself and returning
home was seized with acute indiges-
tion, laid down and died"
Bath stories have 1t that Kennebec
fishermen predict the coming spring
will see extra good shad fishing on the
river, owing to the large amount Of
snow that has fallen from Moosehead
Lake down to the mouth of the Ken
nebec. There is four feet on level
around Moosehead. When this snow
melts, there will be freshets and the
fresh water will run out into the sea
at Popham, acting as tolling bait
for the shad to come up stream to
spawn.
James Doyle, a Bath lumberman,
with two other woodsmen, was COM
ing along a road from the landing
when they stopped TO watch three
partridges which were standing on
the limb of a nearby tree, making
dives head first into the deep snow.
Evidently they were engaged in feed
ing and took this method as the easi-
est to get through the snow to the
ground beneath Two dove success
fully. but the third biddy in making
her dive, struck a stump, partially
and thinly covered by the top snow,
and this bird lay as she struck.
Dodge and his fellow lumbermen
then went up to the stump and pick
ed up the partridge which was dead,
having broken her neck in her dive.
They carried the dead biddy with
them back to the camp and had it
cooked for their supper.
Dexter Grange has bought black
smithing business and installed there
in brother patron of skill and mus
Gle from Ripley. Get together is
the modern policy. 1t is as true in
its benefits to producers as 1t was 10
the sons of the dying man whom he
gave the fagots to break. In union there
is strength and, divided, we compete
with each other. Get together, pat
rons, and share the profits you have
been giving others.
The report among the farmers about
Dexter is that the present winter has
been the worst in years for local po-
tato buyers. and the buyers agree.
The continued intenst cold which has
made it a hazardous matter for the
farmers to attempt to haul potatoes
into town has interfered with the
business. Those of the buyers who
have been fortunate enough to pur-
chase potatoes have had their diffi-
culties in keeping them from freezing.
Quite a number of car loads nave
frozen at the r. r. station. owing 10
the failure of the heater ears to work
properly. The potato business is al
most at a standstill and will remain so