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101*-essonhe;relierastotilltvsthein6r-nd.iller,byAtted evv all ar-• in ; in put ; ofle.adopts him. A. K. G. —-SLAB TOWN SPLINTERS.Or Whispers from Wclnl, Wild but Winsome Wliiiicguiicc.Shiners — Bigger - Fish — Burglarious Vegetarians — A Reconciliation — a Skipper Who Will Skip Him.More houses have been repaired in ’8b than in any season lor the twenty previous years.The mills have been shut down since early summer owing to a scarcity of logs. This is an unusual occurrence.The Winnegance school, with Miss Nan Trask as principal, began Monday.Wm, II. Small of Hates, now teaching the York II. S., will oneu the school on the east side of the creek Nov. .*10.Last Saturday Cant;—Thomas Small dug sixty bushels of Early llose. potatoes on less than half an acre of land.Clias. T. Rich, four years ago, grafted ant [ a thorn tree from which this vear he has ersan un-ard red it I its ii is her . or wey as of0111dilled.redsonth1 orimeave i noigh. •cry s ofThea to ic I jsk-this and and tsegathered two barrels of nice Bartlettpears.Fish and potato thieves have been at work of late in Phipsburg, Georgetown. Winnegance and West Bath. One night last week some of them dug two hundred hills of potatoes on .Joseph Nichols' laud in Phipsburg and fled with the booty. Next night they returned, but that gentleman was readv for them with a shot gun learning which they “let her go Smith” after digging two bags full. A Richmond young man with fish on his vessel, obtained at Popham, he beingbound home, stopped Saturday night with his uncle, Andrew McKinney, leaving the cargo on board. Next morning he found both vessel and cargo gone. That same night theives visited Josiah Me Inti re's farm and dug 150 hills leaving before morning. Mr. M. was a Union scout in the late war and he tracked the thieves some-d i s tanee.------------- —1finethehemling;ing;redrostjoutrgottheawsrees lives the ut ) like olor •own pple werA young man set out to accompany a Winnegance girl from the campmecting to the village after one of the services of last week. On reaching the main road it was so very dark that his courage failed him and bidding the • young girl good night hastened home. That maiden wants it distinctly understood that she doesn’t want any men looling around her who get frightened because it is a trifle dark!A pleasant incident is reported of the lute revival when two families of this vicinity who for years have been not on friendly terms became converted, the men shaking hands and the women going up together and in joyful tears for prayers.A great yarn comes to us from the New Meadows: A youthful visitor ofthe male persuasion fell in love with a spunky West Bath maiden and took her out sailing. He couldn’t manage the boat and she was obliged to act as skipper home. The young gallant finally fell overboard and she pulled him out of a watery grave heels first, they say. She acted as skipper but she will in future be a skip him—at any fate that him.G. T. S.We eat a good deal more sugar than wn rlid fivn vpnrn firrn. In 1880 the an-
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Bath Independent
Bath, Maine, US
Sat, Sep 19, 1885
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