Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-10-31

| 1t looks as though BOStOnS great
suitcase mystery would be solved
without dragging Maine into it, after
all
When that gang of burglars adds
burning to its burgling operations, it
runs a serious risk of FORGETTING public
sympathy.
The first Chinaman TO be baptized
| in Maine was received into member
ship in the First Baptist church., Port
land, Sunday evening.
! A st. Stephen taxidermist, has so
far received for mounting, Is moose
| heads and only four deer heads, which
will give one an idea of the plenitude
Of moose in the valley of the St. Croix.
What stories of poverty, hardship.
sorrow and suffering could be told by
c. H. Baker who has just resigned
after 80 years service as agent of the
Portland Board of Overseers of the
| Poor.
| Here is reminder and rebuke
from the Bridgton News: with the
fine Reed statue in Portland assured
seems as if local pride, if nothing
else. ought to induce Augusta to do
something in the same line as to Lot
NJ. Morrill, and James G. Blaine; Lew
iston as to Nelson Dingley; and Ban
gor as to Hannibal Hamlin and
| Charles A. Boutelle.''
While some of the wooden mills in
neighborins towns are now being shut
| down for lack of orders, running but
| three days out of the week. the Dexter
| mills are being operated to their limit
| to keep up with the thrush of orders.
The business has kept up throughout
the summer and there is every indica
| ton to believe that it will continue
| during the winter months. In several
/ of the mills it is necessary to run
| evenings. Owing to the fact that
probably 1000 Dexter people are mill
employees this reign of good business
| means much to the town and all unite
| in saying that business was never
| better here than at the present time.
| oxford county Universalists are in
| terested in securing a memorial for
the late w. w. Hooper, for many
years pastor of the various churches
in that county. and the well-known
author Of juvenile books. AT the bus
mess meeting at Mechanic Falls, last
week, they voted to help the new church
L n, 1a,- e-t,-,,, t;<,, Do,
to put in beautiful memorial window
at Mechanic Falls in honor of the Rev.
Mr.. Hooper. Among Mr.. Hooper's
best known works was THAT Minis
ter's Boy" and his success as a pastor
in Massachusetts and New York at
| tracted wide interest
AS two MillinOcket spOrtsmen were
coming from Shad pond last week
| they came upon a fine buck near the
! top of fallen tree not far below the
| village. The meeting was sudden and
unexpected. One of the pair was carry
ing his rife and a frying pan. In his
excitement he threw away his rifle rails
ed the frying pan and took deliberate
| aim. Somehow the frying pan would
| mt work and the other man shot the
deer. They got the deer out and then
| the former remembered his rifle and
| returning for it found it not. Later he
went back again with two boys from
the village and found the gun where
he cast it aside at the critical moment
Just now he is explaining to his friends
i how he came to try to shoot a deer
with a frying pan.
For years, every fall and winter,
report has come to the Biddeford pa
pers of a wild animal that prowls
| about in North Saco and in the Port
| land road district. He has always
been seen in one locality or the other
and while he does not do much dam
age some of the residents are afraid
that he will tackle them if they are
out after dark. He is seldom seen in
| the summer but as soon as the wealth.
er begins to grow colder he puts in
an appearance. A few nights ago a
party of Portland road men who were
out cunning for coons and skunks
saw the wild animal in a field The
animal attacked a dog of one of the
party but although they attempted
to capture the beast he escaped. He
mixed up with the dog and when he
saw the men approaching he broke
away and escaped when he came to
brook in the vicinity The animal
is described as being as big as a
shepherd dog, and makes track
about three inches long. and a little
over two inches wide. The beast has
iour toes and long nails. A coon has