Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-06-14
Maine Gossip
Your Flag and My Flag.
(By Wilbur D. Nesbit.)


| much it holds ,.. a..
Your land and my land-secure WITHIN It's
Your heart and my heart beat quicker at
sun-kissed and wind-tossed. red and blue
and white.
The one Flag-the great Flag-the Flag
for me and you -
| Glorifies all else beside-the red and
white and blue!
Your Flag and my Flag! And how it files
today
In your land and my land and half a |
Rose-red and blood-red the stripes for
snow-white and soul-white-the good
forefathers' dream: wit, stars to
The gloried guidon of the day; a shelter
through the night |
Your Flag and my Flag! To every star
and stripe
The drums beat as hearts beat and fifers
shrlly pipe. ~.
| Your Flag and my Flag-a blessing IN the
| Your hope and my hope-1t never hid a
lie.
Home land and far land and half lie
world around,
Old Glory hears our glad salute and rip
pies to the sound!
| Thursday for Alvan Trask at Wind
sorville found large solid gold ring. |
| evidently made from $50 gold coin.
| The annual encanlrment Of the De
partment of Maine, G. A. r., is being
held today in Boswt,th Post hall, Free
street, Portland, instead of in the
Eythian Temple as las been previous
| ly announced.
| The June campnleeting of the F. M.
S. S. Association will be held Satur-
day and Sunday, June 2425, at the
Etna campgrouni. The Maine State
| Spiritualist Association has accepted
an invitation to holo its annual con-
vention in connection with this meet
| irg.
The Bowdoin conference Of Free
baptist churcnes will be hello Wednes-
DAY and Thursday at the Court Street
Free Baptist church of Auburn. The
convention sermon will be by Rev. B.
= Brown and the speakers will in
c!ude Rev. George ii. Hamlin, a re-
turned missionary from India; Rev.
DR.. Wilbur F. Berry Of Waterville,
Rev. c. G. Mosher, Rev. F. c. Wrigh!
and Rev. A. D. Paul Of Auburn, presi-
dent of the conference
AS the beginning of country wide
educationa! demonstration of the paper
making industry, conducted by S. D.
Warren &, Co. Of Westbrook, Var
mouth and Gardiner. corps of picture
Imachine operators from the Geese
Wilkinson studios of New York City
started Monday the uork of recording
in motion pictures the entire process
of paper making, from the arrival of
the train loads Ct poplar wood at
Westbrook to tho shipping of the
hundreds of tons Ct finished product
daily from the huge Westbrook plant
OF the company.
The U. S. S. Birmingham, scout
cruiser, anchored off the Bath Iron
Works 4. Bath Monday morning. On
board are Admiral Gleaves and Com
mander Sellers. 'I'ic Birmingham will
lremain in port until June II and Bath
people will be glad to learn that Wis
itors will be allowed every afternoon
Curing The stay. Edward w. Hyde
George E. Thompson and Scott r.
Frye of the Bat Chamber of Com |
merce went aboard Monday morning
and extended the courtesies of the city
to the admiral, commander, officers
and men. Admiral Gleaves said that
Bath bull. vessels in the navy were
always speedy, satisfactory in every
way and stood vi. we'll Admiral
Gleaves and the officers of the scout
ship were entertained Tuesday at New
Meadows Inn by Mr.. Hyde.
Writes the Dicnvale correspondent
of the Oxford democrat: IA Mr..
lStackpole has been in town buying
feldspar mines. The game warden
has been here catching fishermen with
short fish. Politicians have been here
getting voters. and no one knows what
will come next"
Government Surveyor Hunt, with q
number Of men, Is surveying Machias
river. We don't know what the OBJ
jcct of the survey is and there seems
to be some mystery about it. Anyone
you ask will tell you a different story.
Presumably the work is being done
preparatory to dredging the river some
time in the future. Let US hope SC.
There is need Of it-Machias Republi-
can.
Charles A. Stevens, former we'll known
citizen, returnd to Old Town last week
after an absence of 3s years Mr. Stevens
is veteran Of the Civil War. Since
leaving Old Town he has led a wild life
in the woolly west and in Mexico. He
was captured by the Navajo Indians and
held prisoner by them for eight years.
While with them he educated them SO
they are now one of the smartest tribes
in the country and have good schools
He owns several mines in Mexico as we'll
as lands and returns to his old home to
pass his remaining years.
Postmaster Howe of Pressure Isle has
received communication from the De-