Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-06-07

As for ne, .IuOth iaffOult,
II shall freeze"
All the aspens fairly shook
Through the woiG.
"Htly gee" averred the brook.
Spring is cCldi
IrSsy Willow did no. kick.
With the rest.
Pussy willows quite as sick
AS tie beST.
SThInG is chilly. As to that
She concurS.
That is why the crafty cat
FCtC!es f'rS.
Louisville Courier Journal.
Not very summerish yet, but the
backbone of winter is plainly broken.
This is Ivy Day at Bowdoin, the OBJ
servance of q custom originated there
almost half century ago and since
copied at many colleges.
Kcnnnbunk is to build a new school
house which. with the lot, will cost
about $4,000.
Portland has quite Il Danish con-
tingcnt. judging from the 800 people
who attended the picnic of the Danish
societies this week.
One of the r. F. D. men who goes
out from Ellsworth began using an
automobile this week. the first to be
used in this business in Hancock
county.
For lack of funds the district nurse
system which was started i'll Houlton
| through the efforts of the clubwomen.
| has been given up. In the IL months
| that it has been in operation the nurse
has made 1,O14 calls.
Four communicates of Knight Tenn
plar. Dunlap of Bath, Claremont of
Rockiand, Palestine of Belfast and
Camden OF Camden will spent st.
Johns day, June "a, at Crescent beach.
| Three others, Maine of Gardiner, Trim
| ily Of Augusta and st. Omar of Water
vile will spend the day in Lewiston as
| the guests of Lewiston cOmmandery.
The annual field day of the Maine
Daughters of the American Revolution
will be held at ThOmaston, June IA.
! Special rates will be given on the rail-
roads, and the General Knox chapter
will entertain the visitors most delight
| fully with a sail down the historic
| Georges river, a five o'clock tea, and an
| cntC rtainment in the evening. The
business meeting will take place in the
| forenoon.
| The Unitarian churches of Maine
| I,F,I. moi,
with the Unitarian society in Houlton.
Junc II and II. There will be an in
| formal reception in the church parlors,
| "Wednesday afternoon. In the eve
ming there will be a preaching service.
| the speaker being Rev. Thomas Van
| Ness of the Second church of Boston.
| Wednesday will be given to conference
| business. reports, papers and discus
sion. In the evening there will be a
religious service with addresses.
| A writer in the Bath Independent has
this to say about the neglected grave
Of an early Maine hero: "On rocky,
bleak and barren neck of land extend
ing into the ocean against whose shores
| the waves of the Atlantic beat high,
rebound and recedc with a dismal roar,
ii" the remains of Samuel Tucker.
| The town clerk of Bremen wrote
me- last year that only a small slate
| slab marked the spot where rests
this naval captain who received his
| commission from Washington i'll
1776 and was in active service dur
ing the Revolutionary War as com
| modOrc most Of the time, during
which he captured g. British vessels,
GOO pieces of cannon and 5000 pris-
orcrs besides mountaineering the
| cncmy's vessels and carrying John
Adams safely to France as an envoy.
| For all this he received vote of
| thanks from Congress and that was
all, Empty honor. During the war Of
1912, when English privateers and war
| vessels were devastating our coastWise
| commerce, despite his gray hairs and
| advanced years, he with crew of
| heroic Maine soldiers (of whom one
was my great unclc) on a schooner
| armed with two brass cannon from the
| fort at Wiscassct chased the privatccr
| down and drove from the coast of
| Maine the vessels which had been
50 successfully devastating the COM
merCe of America. This man eked out
a precarious living in his old age and
died in poverty in Bremen, his home by
| adoption in 1893. He was a native of
| Massachusetts. Some of the DauGh-
tiers Of the Revolution have been inter-
estad in having suitable monument
erected to his memory, also the late
Nelson Dingley but as late as last
year nothing had been done. Judge
| William Gaslin of Alma. Neb., a son of
Maine. has endeavored to incite the
historical societies to take some steps
in this direction. At least, let us hope
that lonely grave was not forgotten by
all on Decoration Day and little chill
drcn strewed it with violets and soft
green foliage, but more likely the old
slate stone lies prone on the ground
the hero forgotten"
MAINE EDITORIAL COMMENT,
An lndisputabIe Fact.