Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-05-24

is pushing along the good work.
Everybody in Maine knows Tom
Murphy, the Waterville newspaper
man, but here comes the Portland EX-
press giving him 4 send-off under the
name of ED" Murphy.
Biddeford Journal: The editor of the
New Age has just received an appoint
| ment to n position in the foreign
consular service. To avoid misunder-
standing it may be well to observe that
the New Age referred to is not the one
published at Augusta, Maine, the edi-
| tor of which could not be dragged into
the consular service under the present
administration by n team of wild
horses. The journal first alluded to is
an organ of the colored man in the
South.
The delegates already chosen to the
State Convention ut Bangor have at
least demonstrated the wildness of
some of the early predictions of Mr..
CObbs opponents.
The Ryan Concert company, COM
posed wholly of blind artists, gives a
series of entertainments in southern
i<enncboc county, this week, for the
benefit of the proposed home for the
blind i'm Portland. Wednesday evening
they will be at st. Andrews church
Smithtown; Thursday evening at G. A.
K. hall, South Gardiner; Friday eve
ming at Old South church, Hal!owell,
and Saturday evening at the Town
hall, Chelsea. 1.-THE concerts of Thurs
day and Saturday evenings will be fol-
lowed by dances.
1t must occur to the thoughtful citi-
running SO strongly in favor of Mr..
Cobb, that someone besides members of
the State committee are attending
Republican primaries this year. 1t is
evident that the people are turning out
in force, and giving the popular Rock
land candidate a rousing support.
The question of dogfish as bait is
something that is being agitated at the
DIcStHl tlIlc ii VI thC
approach Of the season when these
sharks of the Northern waters begin to
make their appearance off this coast
with the result that all kinds of fish,
especially mackerel, are driven from
this section and the fishing in all
branches is more or less injured.
Many believe here that the dogfish
could be used for lobster bait but that
| it would not be particularly good for
other kinds of fishing.
Bath independents: Sagadahoc county
rnmsellers might well tremble if the
Rev. C. II. Young of Bowdcinham. the
Prohibition nominee for sheriff, should
be elected. This having preacher for
sheriff is nothing new in Maine, but a
COW boy sheriff is n different propo-
sition. Think of a man who has
spent years in the saddle on the back
of brOncho. who has trailed the
Indian DER the plains and fought the
horse thief to the death, who has felt
the keen edge of the scalping knife and
who carries more lead in his body than
any man in Maine. who has smelled
powder and who knows the prairies, the
mountains and the bad lands of the
great West as well as we do Front
street casting aside his bride rein and
stepping into an automobile to put up
what he promises shall be the greatest
fight Sagadahoc county ever knew.
Such n man as that would indeed be n
terror to evil doors and his reputation
as the preacher sheriff might soon be-
come as famous throughout the length
and breadth of Sagadahoc county as
the name he once bore, wild Bert of
Montana" was through the states of
the wild and woolly West.
R.Harfione If = Rarbeior.