Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-03
Maine Gossip
A Soldiers Battle.

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A Soldiers Battle.
Life is soldiers battle-bugles are on
the hills.
The morning calls with a trumpet note
Life is a soldiers battle, but the mead
oWs are sweet with light,
And the tents of love are pitched in the
wales fer the rest OF the Gleamful
night.
Life is soldiers battle-and the victory
cometh to those
Who fare to the fray in the brave old
way Of love in the wars of the rose.
Life is a soldiers battle-but the crown
of it all is rest.
And a little song and a little joy and
dream on trustful breast!
Baltimore News.
Today's game in the college series is
Bates VS.. Colby at Waterville.
At Bethel and Biddeford soldiers
were dedicated last Satur-
day
One correspondent says: Through the
Dor ularity of baseball, the day we dec
crate has become the day we desc
crate"
The late Col. Purinton was Il faith
full public servant, a loyal friend and
a man of the highest standards and
ideals in politics as we'll as in private
life.
If medals FOR bravery and GOODNESS
in crisis are to he passed around. one
belongs to Mrs. Farrar, the wife Of the
South Paris jailer.
About one half of the 1928 delegates
to the Republican State convention at
Bangor June 80 have now been elected.
September II is the date officially set
for the closing of the schedule of the
new State baseball league. Other dates
are unotiicially set.
A porcupine weighing 341a pounds
was killed in South Parsonsfield last
week. 1t was first seen by w. w Bur-
bank, who at first thought it cub
bear. Minard Hamilton shot the ami
NAL.
State Master c. S. Stetson of Greene
has started for au extended trip among
the oranges of Washington and Aroos-
took counties He will not return I'M
til the 9th of the month. He says
that the order is in a highly tlorishine
condition.
"Linc" Daniels, q veteran hunter,
guide and fisherman at Sebago lake
says the salmon fishing since the ice
went out of the lake has never i'll his
long experience been better, the fish
averaging from 4 to 10 pounds The
largest salmon ever taken in Sebago
lake was caught off Songo bar last
summer by Edward Blakely of New
York city. 1t weighed PIE pounds
and was IS inches long.
In speaking of the Memorial day adj
dress delivered at Newport, a cores
pendent says that the speaker conclud-
ed with the recital of Howard Owens
beautiful poem THE Returned Maine
Battlefags.' That famous poem in
it's travels over the land has been cred
tied to various authors, but never be-
fore to the veteran Augusta journalist.
However, this is not so very far out Of
the way for Howard Owen is a cousin
of the late Moses Owen of Bath. the
brilliant young genius who wrote the
verses.
Although the Commencement season
is not vet here the colleges are already
talking about the size of the entering
classes next fall In his annual report
which has just appeared, President
HYDE says: prom all indications it
appears that the next class to enter
Bowdoin College, the class of 1912, will
be by far the largest class that the col
lege has admitted. BY the last of May,
124 men had expressed their intention
to seek admission next fall as freshmen
and is men had signified their desire to
try for advanced standing. From the
indications that have reached the reg
iStrar's office, it appears that there are
now 80 candidates from 33 Maine high
schools and academies, 10 candidates
from 16 Massachusetts schools, and Is
candidates from Vermont, New Hamp-
shire Rhode Island, New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, District of CO.
lumbia. Michigan and Wisconsin. The
IS applicants for advanced standing
represent II colleges and universities
in seven states. The total number, 142,
is over fifty per cent. larger than that
of the corresponding date OF last year.
Although it is probable that a consid
cradle number of these candidates will
fail to meet the requirements, vet it
seems equally probable that this num-
Der will be offset by candidates who
have not yet applied for the June and
September examinations"
VOICES OF THE PRESS.