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Milo’s Sea Serpent| Frora th« OtUwa Journal!IF that journey in a barrel down theNiagara gorge was a sign of a return to what the late President Harding called “normalcy/* there Is another in a report from Milo, Alta., population 129, and ambitious.The citizens of Milo are busy telling the world about a sea serpent whichinhabits their Lake McGregor, main reservoir for the Lethbridge irrigation system. Sea serpents are new to them, and the only details of the monster we have seen give its length at 12 to 14 feet. Veracious spectators say it swims with its head several feet out of the water. But tourists will want something better than that, and we shall not be surprised to learn any day that the creature roars like a bull, has horns and long black whiskers, has a mean disposition and seems bent on reducing Milo's population to 128. And, of course, it must have a name—Milosaurus would convey the ring of authenticity.What a sea serpent would be doing in a little Alberta lake need not enttr into the discussion—it is enough that the 129 people of Milo would like some publicity for their village and a strange monster is always a welcome subject, especially in the summer.But the Milo monster must be taken seriously. It is disturbing to find the Milo correspondent of the High River Times remarking that “if this does not advertise our lake, which is the second largest artificial lake in the world, it at least should advertise our beer, which must lie second to none. That is a note of scepticism which every sea serpent will deplore.
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Winnipeg Tribune
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
Fri, Mar 01, 1946
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