Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-11-17

Stood few and faint, but fearless still,
The soldiers hope. the patriots zeal.
Forever dimmed, for ever crost-
Oh! who shall say what heroes feel,
When all but life and honors lost?
The last sad hour of freedoms dream
And valor's task move slowly by,
While mute they watched till morning
beam
There's yet world where souls are free.
Where. tyrants faint not nature
bliss
II death that worlds bright opening be
| Oh. who would live slave In this?
The Maine Society of the Descend
ants of the MayfoWer will hold its
18th annual meeting at 1889 A. NJ.
Saturday. Nov. 81 at the Casino Mt
Riverton. A reception will take place
at ills and banquet at 1915. follow
ing which F. L. Dingiey Of Lewiston
will deliver an address on Pilgrim
Democracy"
Lewis Rawson. who has been work.
ing for John E. Hayden of Pressure
Isle, having hired for a year, was
summoned to his home in South arts
Friday in connection with the Thomas
Preese murder case Young Rawson,
who Is IS years old, came to Pressure
| Isle with Preese Aug. 16, driving q
| team, a horse and top buggy which
| belonged to Rawson and his mother
Mrs Abbie Rawson of South Paris or
Paris Hill. Rawson and PreeSe were
attached to each other and both were
considered likely young men by their
employers. In conversation with Raw
| son on a recent occasion, he stated to
/ the Bangor News reporter that they
| got to joking about the trip back to
| South Paris and Preese said you take
| the team and I'll take the cushions,
meaning the cars. The boy answered,
no. you take the team and when L
go. I'll take the cushions. They jocose-
| ly decided to draw lots and the trip
by team fell to Preese. He left Pres
que Isle with the same team accom-
panied by a small dog and his fate as
he neared South Paris is too well
known to need repetition. The young
man Rawson will figure among the
witnesses in the case. Preese has a
| brother in Boston, so Rawson stated.
Rawson was deeply moved on learning
| OF Presses death.
Children's school tickets at half
rates will be sold by the Bangor Rail-
way & Electric Co. until a decision to
the contrary is rendered by the Pub
lie Utilities commission, according to
an official Of the company. Notwith-
standing the report in the Portland
Press that such tickets would be abol-
ished on the B. r. & e. as has al
ready been done on the Lewiston, Au-
gusta & Waterville and Portland roads.
When the Gladys Clark Company
was recently playing in Brunswick w.
| H. Crockett formerly Of Bath, scan
ming the program on the opening
night, came across the name of VIII
r. Crockett. He said jokingly, to "a
friend, We must be some relation
After the show for curiosity he went
to the dressing room Of Mr.. Crockett
and 1t turned out that Will F. Crockett
was an own cousin of w. H. Crockett,
their fathers being brothers. The
formers father left home when very
young and never returned so all rel
atives thought him dead and never
knew OF any children. Will f. Crock
! EFT has his son Bruce Kent (Crockett)
with him and assumes his first two
names for theatrical work. The elder
Mr.. Crockett has been on the stage
nearly all his life but had never met
any of his fathers people before. He
and his son have a vaudeville sketch
that they put on at times and adver-
tise under the name of Crockett &
. Kent. Sunday they were the guests OF
W. H. Crockett and a pleasant day
was spent studying the family tree.
: An amusing incident has just CONF
to light connected with the recent
sailing OF the ship Edward Sewall. Al
Christmas time If all goes we'll or
board. the Edward Sewall will BIZ
somewhere In the vicinity of Cap.
Horn. Now there Is not much Christ
mas cheer off this bleak, barren poin
of land, so Mrs. Quick planned t.
make up q happy surprise for ths
captain and their children. After some
manouvering she succeeded in per
suading them to go for the afternoon
to the moving pictures while she i'm
proved the opportunity 1t gave he
to make Christmas purchases. He
shopping done she had the things sen