Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-30
Maine Gossip
A chiId's Message to the Soldiers.
(Mrs. Isabel Reynolds.1

~ NHiluS message 10 Ifie 0oiuiefS'
(Mrs. Isabel Reynolds.1
! God made these beautiful flowers,
We see all about US today
We bring them as tokens of love to you,
Dear soldiers old and gray.
We have heard the story of how you
To make the Union strong,
We know how brayely you stood for the
right,
And crushed out a dreadful wrong
We want to tell you that we love the
flag,
Wherever we see it unfuried.
1t stands for the country you helped 10
make
The very best in the world.
Yes we love the flag and were proud of
Proud of our flag, our country and you.
We hope each veteran here today,
May be cheered by something we have TO
say,
For the songs that we sing the fiags
and the flowers,
Are all telling of love, for these soldiers
of ours.
1t makes our hearts sorry whenever we
hear,
How your ranks grow thinner, year by
1t viii be sadder Memorial day,
When the last of your number has
passed away.
But We'll sing the songs you love so well.
All about your noble deeds we'll tell
And we'll never forget TO bring the
As tokens of love fer these soldiers of
ours.
The good people of North Deering
are disguised with sewer serviee-or,
they say, lack of sewer serviee-and
! propose, unless a remedy is very soon
found, to carry the matter to court.
One big sewer has been under the
course of construction for some time,
but is only about half completed,
though about s6S.OoQ has already been
expended upon it and ii will cost
about Se5, 600 more. The people say
| it must be done this season even II
bond issue has to be made.
Holman Days Red Lane" is re-
called in the arrest of Clapha Burebe
of st. John plantation and Pea Mar
tin of st. Agatha, both of whom are
now at the county Jail in Portland
waiting to be arraigned before Judge
court. These men were brought to
Portland Wednesday morning by
Denutv u. s. Marshal Harmon who
arrested them in the northern part
of the State this week as the result
of indictments returned against them
at the December term of the United
States district court. Burebe is eharg-
ed with having brought into Maine
from st. John, two cattle, both bulls,
that had not been Inspected. These
were seized by the authorities and
the indictment of Burebe followed as
a natural result. Martin is charged
with having smuggied a horse into
Maine from Canada. When Deputy
Marshal Harmon visited St. Agatha
after his man, he did not find him
and had to wait around we'll into the
night before he returned so that the
arrest could be made. Both of these
men will probably be arraigned Sat
urday morning before Judge Hale.
Bangor has a new city official,
! city auditor. This innovation is one
of Mayor Utterback's recommenda-
| tons and he claims that it will save
| the salary Oh tHt dudftpi' hAcQ az
! 1920, many times over. With the es-
| tablishing of a city purchasing agent
and the Introduction of uniform sys-
tenn of bookkeeping in all the city de-
partments now in process there VIII
be a great change in City hall meth
| DDS.
! DIR. D. E. MeLain, who was assign
| ed to a Calais pastorate at the East
Maine conference, and has gone to
his new charge, left a record of work
| we'll done at Milo in the five years
| he was there. In that time and large
| ly through mis- fundamentally the
new M. E. church edifice has been
built on Park street. During his min
| istry there he has received into the
church 207 and has performed the rite
| of baptism 213 times. He has mar
ried 81 couples and officiated at 81
| funerals.
| Rumford has a fine new Maine Cen
trail station just opened to the public.
1t is ,51 feet long with a 160-feet plat
form, is built of brick. with slate roof
and cement walks. 1t is lighted by
| $50 electric lights. The new building
replaces the station destroyed by fire
on March 10, 1913 and is conveniently
! located at the foot of Congress street,
the trains running directly into the
station, doing away with all backing
in and all changes.
Emerson p Bartlette of East Summer
is much interested in his fox farm and
writes under date of May 10 to Maine
| Woods: My baby foxes are stu at
tracing lots of attention. Last
Thursday there were three here from
Lewiston to see them and Sunday
there were 40 people called to see
them. Mrs. Palmer, our postmasters
wife is coming soon with her camera