Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-08-16

river. She has identified herself thor
oughly with the little village where siie
passed her childhood and has done d
great deal for the community. she
plays the organ in the old church anu
sings in the choir. She teaches III tie
Sunday-school lends her mousse ~
church and social festivities, anu slNe'
help with open hands Wherever IL 10
needed. A village Improvement So
ciety is one of her pet HOBBIES, anu
each year she gives an entertainments
whose proceeds go toward beautilyihs
the village. She reads from the manu-
script of her newest Unpublished pooh
and she presses into service the talehts
of any friends who happen to be IN her
house party. The evenings would nnd
favor even in New York. Saco river
considers them record breaking ana
buys tickets lavishly, with a comfort
able inner knowledge that the bread
will return in the shape of park bench-
es and river terraces and clean streets
and other village improvements. Mrs.
Wiggin's latest book, THE Diary of a
Goose Girl" is proving very acceptable
summer reading. This autumn heF
"Penelope's Irish Experiences VIII De
published in a holiday edition, WITH
charming illustrations by the English
artist Charles E. Brock.
Portland Press: In the appointment
of Mr.. Charles Dunn to serve out the
unexDired term of Sheriff Pearson,
Governor Hill has done the wise and
rtn, ,6S
principles which the citizenship OF this
county endorsed two years ago, ana
the Governors recognition OF tnat
fact was courageous and statesman
like. We believe that every man who
put into the ballot box a vote for MI
Pearson two years ago may feel that
the administration which he voted for
is to continue to the end of its legal
term. The question of enforcement
was the pre- eminent issue in this con-
test, and it is no disparagement to the
other candidates to say that Mr.. Dunn
represented that issue by reason of his
relations to the office, as well as to Mr..
Pearson personally.
Portland Argus: In appointing Dep
late Sheriff Pearson as sheriff of Cum
berland county, Governor Hill has
done the right thing. Under the cir
cumstances the appointment of any
other man would have violated the
proprieties of the occasion. Sheriff
Pearson had fairly earned the privilege
of naming his successor to fill out his
unexpired term of office. The people
who elected him to office for term of
two years might fairly insist that the
sheriff's dying request be respected
and that the work which they had
elected him to carry out during that
in whom he had the greatest conf
dence. So much at least was due to
the sheriff who had sacrificed his life
in the cause which he had SO much at
heart. Furthermore there is nothing
in the man of Sheriff PearSon'S choice
to which the slightest exception can be
taken. Mr.. Dunn is a man of charac-
ter and ability, a lawyer by profess
sion and familiar with the duties of
the sheriff's office. He has won the
confidence of the public, and there is
every reason to believe that he will
round out the PEARSON administration
in a manner that will fully confirm
that confidence and justify the trust
reposed in him by his lamented pre-
decessor and sponsor.