Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-04-18

1t has been little difficult to realize
this week that spring has been here
almost a month.
Those fortunate people who get
day off on Patriots day will now get
quite a spring vacation.
Miss Mabel s. Merrill of the Lewis
ton Sun has a clever little story in the
April number of the New England
Magazine, entitled AN Easter Bios
soming.'
Biddeford Journal: Well, anyway,
there's some consolation in a backward
spring for the man who doesn't like to
run a lawn mower.
Richard G. Badger of the Gorham
Press. Boston, is about issuing a VOL
ume of the collected verse of Miss
Charlotte Mellen Packard of Bruins
wick. The book it entitled From the
Foothills of Song"
Lewiston seems to be in the lead in
the getting together of it's baseball
team. but Bangor, Biddeford and Port
land are doing a lot of talking. La,-~
the Trolley league cities will wake up.
The most important transaction in
summer resort property in Maine in
recent years, involving property to the
&c 1nl1
has just been concluded at Sorrento.
The Frank Jones estate has sold to
George H. Grant of Ellsworth all its
holdings at Sorrento, which includes
500 acres of shore property and five
large cottages.
Here is a Skowhegan criticism of a
travelling theatrical attraction that is
candid if not flattering: "Hooligan in
New York played to a large audience
in Grange hall Friday night. 1t was
the worst aggregation of barn storm
ers Skowhegan has seen in years.
The only member of the troop worthy
of mention was the dog, Flip, who re-
ceived a curtain call at the end Of the
third act. His was a thinking part,
and had the entire play been a pam
tomime it would have been much
better 1t was the worst ever in fact,
beyond the limit"
In reviewing King Spruce" the
Dexter Gazette finds abundent evil
dence that the story is based on real
happenings and actual characters. 1t
For instance in his 6pSprln-
ton of the sduatters on Misery Gore
we recognize the Turtles and Browns
of real life, even to the less than half
witted Anse who was worked in har-
ness. Mr. Day has, ever since as
editor of the Dexter Gazette in the
eighties. when he made the paper. as
he quantity expresses it, the chief
literary fodder of the towns hereabout.
shown particular fondness for de-
picting odd and eccentric characters.
There was Mediator Brown. one of his
favorites, who. under a thinly dis
guised NAME appears and disappers at
opportune times in the story of King
Spruce
Says Medford correspondent:
considerable uneasiness has been
created among timid people by the
presence of a strange animal. thought
from the description given by those
who have seen it to be a North Ameri-
can puma or panther. He was seen in
the winter by Palmer Lovejoy, Jr, and
since by others. They all described
him as the size of a large dog, of a
yellow color and having a long tail.
One girl was badly frightened by this
animal when coming home from a
neighbours. He ran along in the
bushes, emitting cries. 1t is seldom
that a panther will attack a person,
but they are destructive to sheep. The
writer's father had % killed in one
night by one of these animals, their
threats being torn open. A little of
the blood was drunk, but the animal
seems to kill for the mere sport of
killing and not for food"
Of all the prominent actors in the
Portland run. riot of 1855 S. l.. Carleton
who died in that city last week, was
the last survivor. Then as ever after
wards radical and aggressive prohi-
oitionist, he seems to have been the
mayors chief supporter in all the
troublous events that marked and fol-
lowed the June riot which 53 years