Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-03-29

Then looked toward the sea,
"Mad-am-my odder leetle boy
He's dead-in Italee!'
Then face to face the mothers stood!
Each knew each others heart;
For mother love is mother love-
Though born a world apart.
O Christ who lowest all the earth,
Two mothers pray to Thee
One mothers boy lies dead in Maine,-
One-dead in 1talee!
Farmers are making necessary
preparations for the springs work,
writes the Pressure Isle correspondent
Of the Bangor News. Some who have
rented farms are getting located and
others are marketing what potatoes
they can. Some have a thousand or
more barrels not sold at any price.
Notwithstanding the hard year they
are going at it again and land Is rent
ing at $25 an acre. and one man Of
whom the writer knows, has leased 40
acres at that price per acre. If it
were not for hope the heart would
break" we've oft heard quoted and
think farmers must have good
courage.
The many friends in Pressure Isle
and vicinity Of Melvin Archer of that
town, who recently lost his home by
fire, which also cost the lives Of two
Of his children, have manifested their
sympathy in a practical way, having
raised about $500 In money, besides
clothing and the farmers have hauled
the lumber to the mill where it will
be sawed without cost, so that a new
home may be erected as soon as the
ground will permit work being started.
Calais Is again afflicted with the river
water nuisance, break in the main
last Wednesday night necessitating
it's being turned into the pipes.
The river water has been con-
demned for family use. Repairs on
the pipe can be quickly made, but
it always takes some time to free the
mains from the undesirable water.
What did we tell you? Now comes
Elbridge Houston of Woodfords, who
says he planted his green" peas on
March l6, or several days before E.
S. Waite, who announced the other
land and vicinity.
Chase's pond at York has long been
known as favorite fishing resort for
many who will be disappointed to
learn that the York Shore Water Co.,
fav 70 hos 6n6 To
close 1t to fishing and boating. The
towns water supply is taken from the
pond and the company deems 1t wise
to take this course. Teaming and ice
fishing in the winter will also be pro-
hibited.
The York Transcript reports that
after having received a dozen COM
plants that the men hired to clear
away the brown-tail moths were not
properly disposing Of them but were
leaving them in the bushes, it had
conducted an investigation on its own
account and found the charge to be
true, finding hundreds of nests in the
bushes beside the roads. To make
sure. some Of the nests were cut open
and the caterpillars found alive and
nearly ready to again begin work
on the trees.
So busy is the steamer Camden,
which has just gone on the Bangor
Boston run, that a crew of painters
has been put on board and will give
her the usual spring coat Of paint
while between ports.
Among the things which Bangor has
just been recalling to mind with par
donable pride is the fact that she was
the first city in the State to place a
woman on the School Board: that DR..
ID. A. Robinson, chairman Of the
School Board, was the first to write
out a series Of instructions for the
teachers for action in cases Of conta-
gious diseases; and DR.. Robinson was
also first to write paper on the ef-
fects Of alcoho. on the system, both
Of which were Incorporated in the an
nual reports and used in the schools.
Numerous requests came from far
and near for these articles. A medical
journal some years after the appear
ance Of DR.. Robinson's article on con-
tagious diseases, published a transla-
ton Of German article on the same
subject, claiming 1t to be the first ever
published. but apologized. under the
heading Bangor Leads the Country"