Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-05-30
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A hutter Of flags in the sunlight.
The tramp. tramp Of heavy feet march.
Our srey-headed veterans come.
How falterinE the footsteps. and feeble,
How many the places that are vacant.
How thin art the ranks Of today!
They go to the quiet Gods acre.
With flowers to strew DER the grave
OF comrades who've answered the roll
And are sleeping the sleep of the brave.
Some fell in tie thick Of the battle,
Fer their manhood was scarcely begun:
Others three-score and ten years have
Each Year they fall out, one by one.
Yes. the main army camps over yonder:
Just few scattered companies here!
Their memory still shall be dear,
Wherever a soldier is sleeping
The flag that they fought for shall wave
And may God keep from war and from
The country they battled to save!
GRACE BUCKLEY.
shoe geranium nearly 10 feet tall and with
leaves seven inches wide.
So hne are the prospects Of the new
feldspar mines in Phippsburg that lands
showing the same outcroppings in North
Woolwich in the Chops region are being
prospected. The lands are owned by w.
D. Blair and G. M. Stinson.
Lewiston has a fine prospect Of having
an up-to-date Y. NJ. c. A. building at an
early date, an offer of from $4,000 to $780,
600 having already been made. conditional
on the balance of a $4,000 fund being
raised. Some of the prominent men are
taking hold Of the matter and hope to
have early action taken to open the cam
paign for raising the fund.
Maine sea shore fishermen are having
fine times, with the shad coming along
the coast, thousands Of barrels of pol
lock awaiting the netting, sturgeon fol-
lowing the shad into the rivers. and one
Criehaven man finding q count Holsters in
one trap at one hauling. Sturgeon brings
from 20 to 30 cents per pound and a s.
foot fish will dress out about 40 pounds.
The waters around the Little Sheepscot
have been alive with pollock and some
great hauls. have been made around
Goose rock.
1t was some launching the other day
at Rockland, when the municipal wood
yard slid into the harbor and some
hustling to rescue the fuel.
And now the Kennebec Is to have a
summer school for girls and perhaps that
ought to be a popular place during the
season. 1t will be run by Edna Pearl
Cotteral of Cincinnati and located about
six miles above Bath. The site is one of
the finest on the river, contains about so
acres, ranging from hilltop to meadow
and riverbank, with trees. shrubs and
shady hooks, open fields and a pine
grove. 1t will be open through July and
August.
Speaking Of the new tangled seed tape.
for flower or vegetable seeds, which are
simply strips Of f1brous tape contain
in gthe seeds placed at the proper plant
ing distance, the tape quickly rotting
away when planted, some one has limited
that it was an invention for the lazy peo-
pie but it is noticed that some others
have begun using them.
private wireless outfit at Rockland
was used to report the result of the trials
Of the destroyer Sampson to the builders,
used to call carriages for the naval off,
GERS in bad weather and often to send
hurry up orders for material. Messages
from the destroyer were SO accurately
and promptly handled that the officers
were very free with their praise of the
amateurs work.
Ellsworth Lovett of Georgetown has a
duck which for two days laid two eggs
daily. Can We beat it?
The University of Maine students who
are obliged to take the military training
are getting all they want just now. The
Federal Governments idea seems to be
that. as it is helping support the institu-
ton and keeps an army officer there all
the time to instruct the students in mill
tary science, it should expect results and
the developing Of an efficient force for the
second line of defense is expected and be-
ing we'll accomplished. The students are
given plenty Of drilling and OF late the
war games and defense problems have
fred the enthusiastic and been somewhat
grueling to those who do not care to be
soldiers. Lieut.. F. S. Clark, military in
structor, is hoping to take a large &C.
tachment Of the cadet battalion to Platts-
burg. Under the new law students from
a university like Maine may go to Platts- |
burg under conditions which cost them
only their time. Several will 20 in any
event, and 1t is POSSIBLE that a full COM
pany or more will 60.
Great Britain is progressing. having |
turned her clocks an hour ahead and now |
being four instead of three hours ahead |
in time of Maine time. 1t is for the pur- |
pose of saving the daylight for business !
purposes and will be discontinued, 1t is |
said, in the fall.
The new Texas Co. shipyard at Bath
will be busy place from now on. The
first tUO Sta ~ ave 81 bo bu;1t will