Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-04-09

ion DEGREES
No style is too queer or bizarre,
And tits comfort to know, when out
landish you look,
Just that much more modish you are!
New York Times
The election of county, district and
State convention delegates j. gins to
put the real zest into the 1908 political
program.
In some cities the problem OF one
session or two for the High school
seems never to be settled. In Bath the
parents have voted 1876 to As for one
session and the school board stands
8 to S for two sessions.
w. &. Smiley of Fayette does not
claim to have the earliest flock of
chickens, but he does believe that his
flock of IS little Rhode Island reds,
now two weeks old. would be hard to
beat anywhere.
In one of the Portland parks Il monu-
nent is to be erected to Sergeant
Alonzo Z. Stinson of Co. H, 5th Me-,
the first Portland soldier to lose his
life in battle in the Civil War. The
money has been raised, Col. Shannon
Of New York giving $1,000, and the
monument will be dedicate ted July 4.
The story of the clay pipe found IN
an elm tree at Passadulnkeag brings
to mind to a reader of the Lincoln
Chronicle a tree at North Lincoln on
the Kirby farm from the limb of which
a paint DOT hangs. The paint pot was
hung OH the limb of this tree many
years ago when the tree was small and
as the branch grew 1t finaIJ filled the
pail and grew around it until it was
completely hidden. All that can he
seen now is the body of the paint pail
seemingly stuck to the branch. The
bottom has fallen out but the body of
the paint pot is still in good state of
preservation.
Old Orchard is rapidly rising from
seashore extends its lure again,
Names famous resort will once more
be in a position to uphold it's old pres
tige as a leading North Atlantic water
ing place. One-third of the 10 fire.
swept acres has been rebuilt. One-half
will be rebuilt by midsummer. In three
years, it is declared, there will be
nothing to remind the visitor OF the
heavy price Old Orchard paid because
of wolnan's vanity; for SO the story
goes, it was a young lady crimping
her hair who upset a lamp and caused
the big conhagration. Eight of the II
hotels and boarding houses destroyed
by the fire have been restored, and 20
OF the so cottages and smaller build
ings burned down are now building.
The new buildings il, course of con-
struction will cost $25O,OGO. The total
value OF those destroyed was $75U,00O.
king Spruce is out, the new novel
of the Maine woods by Holman Day
and it is book which cannot fail to
add to the popularity OF our best
known Maine writer with the reading
public. The spirit of the story is the
same as that which has shown forth
| from some of Mr.. Days best poetic
works, the spirit of the great woods,
of the lumber camp and the drive The
story is one of absorbing interest and
is told as only Holman Day can tell it,
| There is perhaps less character study
! than in Squire Phin," but there is
| more action and the tale is sustained
at high tension throughout. There is
nothing about the story suggestive OF
the textbook, but the reader, with
| such a wealth Of wood lore put before
him in such attractive form, cannot
help learning a lot of practical forestry
and getting better knowledge OF
Maine woods and Maine woods life
than he ever had before. With the
vivid narrative of the hero's strenuous
fight for his rights in the woods and or
the river there are the threads of a
very pretty love story deftly woven in
and the sketching of some of those odd
characters which Mr.. Day is always
discovering. The great fire in the for
| est, the mysterious girl of the woods
the wild ride of the lumber load lei
loose down the hill. the blowing up OF
the dam, the mad race of the logs
the hunt for the hero's sweetheart los
/ in the winter woods, the fight of tn.
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