Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-30

So hare. but there isn't a doubt of
The fact that the parts they forbid him to
He IS glad. mighty glad; to get s out s of;
For Governor, William T. Cobb.
The Rockland man is the choice of
the people.
The first ballot did it, and did it in
very handsome fashion.
The great convention gave Bangor
more music than all the eight Festivals
combined.
Senator Hale makes an ideal presid-
ing officer.
greatly facilitated by the completeness
of the arrangements for holding the
convention. No detail was overlooked,
and smoothness with which the i'm
mense crowd at the auditorium was
handled reflects great credit upon
Some Of Names best eloquence was
unlocked in those nominating speeches,
yesterday.
1t was a record-breaking contest;
now close up the ranks for great VIC
tory in September.
The graduations and commandments
are over, and the graduates will now
take possession of their property, the
great big world.
Plans all made for the Fourth? 1t
gives another double holiday combi-
nation which will be most welcome
The interesting discovery is made
that the cowboy clergyman whom the
ProhibitiOnists have nominated for
Sheriff in Sagadahoc, is not a citizen of
Maine.
Two Portland boys graduated from
the Harvard Law school, this week,
Ripley l.. Dana and Henry C. Sullivan.
the former Bowdoin graduate and
the latter 4 graduate of Brown.
The bicycle is not wholly past its
usefulness as a South Paris man has
demonstrated. this week, in making
the 1877 mile trip to Boston on his wheel.
Lewiston usually has something ex-
citing doing in the matter of local
politics ard the latest has been the
long fight over the liquor agent.
The Bangor finest are to wear white
gloves on Sundays, holidays and all
special occasions as when festivals or
meet in the city,
The old time parade of horribles will
be given up on the Fourth in some
cities for an automobile parade, and
from some points of view it is not Il
great change, after all.
Portland Telegram: We have reach
e'i lHe excursion season. we nave AT
our disposal many real honest plea
sures. 1t becomes us to make the most
of the time, and to see to it that we do
not indulge in any likely to injure us.
The idea of physical culture, the keep
ing of Il sound mind in a vigorous body
has fast possession of many. 1t be-
comes us all to keep in mind the fact
that unlimited drafts on the bank of
health will not be honOred.
A three year-old girl in Greenwood
was much impressed by string Of fish
which her father brought home in
which was an eel. A few days later
the mother was washing out in the
wcOGshed while her little girl was
playing in the door yard. Now it SO
happened that someone. or something.
had killed good sized snake but
short time previous. and finding the
reptile she carried it to her mother ex-
claiming. Chinee like, "a fish-e, 4
fish-e" or course the mother looked
around to see what the child had found,
and on making the discovery-but per-
haps it would be more proper to drop
the curtain right here and let the
imagination tell the rest of the story.
Here is bear story from South
Paris. The other night Ira Murch Of
that village went to a pasture. near the
Stony Brook road. after his COW.
When well up into the pasture he
stopped down to pick some Strawberries
and Il little distance away heard a
combined grunting and squealing
sound: looking up he beheld a large
female bear with her family of three
little cubs about two rods ahead of
him. The mother bear was lying down
but got up slowly onto her forward
feet and took a careful survey of Mr.
Murch. He then tossed a small stick
toward her. when she got onto her
feet and walked away. closely followed
by her three babies. Mr.. Murch says
she was quite thin but thinks she
would weigh about two hundred
pounds. The cubs We're from his
some eight or ten weeks
old. and very cunning. Several boys