Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-08-15
Maine GOSSIP
The Runla Call.

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Hear the stern call ITO Arms
See them respond from the cities;
See them respond from the farms.
Blood of their fathers a-tingle,
Quickly they step into line.
Eyes front and shoulder to shoulder,
Each face with courage ashine.
Mothers are silently weeping,
Crushed are the sweethearts and wives:
Dads face is cleaning, though tear wet,
AS sons freely offer their lives.
Backward his thoughts now are turning
Back to "his" call, as today.
Wishing he, too, were but able
To march forth as bravely as they.
God speed the day when it's over.
All Of this turmoil and strife;
Bring back the son to his mother;
Bring back the husband to wife;
Prayers now ascend for their safety:
Smiles take the place now of tears.
Give them Of courage and solace.
Comfort each heart filled with fears.
Carleton Everett Knox, in Kansas City
Journal.
w. H. Gould has had the coon which
he captured last winter from large
tree which he felled, made into muff
for a birthday present for his daugh-
ter Helen, using the whole animal for
the same, and it makes a very hand
some uff-Bowdoinham item, Bath
Independent.
State Auditor Sullivan Of Bangor was
visitor in the city Wednesday night,
on his way to Thomaston, where he is
auditing the prison accounts, reports
the Rocklard CourierGazette. which
continues: Like most Democratic Of
flee holders Mr.. Sullivan is putting on
a. cheerful front as to the result of the
State election one month from today,
and the Presidential election in Novem-
Der. The only other occasion on which
the State auditor was equally cheerful
was when he brought William Jennings
Bryan into this State on a personally
conducted speaking tour. Mr.. Sullivan
uses the soft pedal nowadays when he
| speaks of the extinct Nebraskan, and Is
using his laudatory adjectives upon
with Solomon, to the latters disad-
| vantage.
| The Tooth anniversary of the incor-
| poration Of Weld as township will be
celebrated with elaborate centennial
exercises Aug. % and "a. and every for
| mer resident Of the town within reach
| will be invited to come home and help
| celebrate the event. There will be
| many family reunions. water sports
and a variety of races, baseball game,
band concerts, followed by a ball, the
! first day, and the second a parade, fol-
lowed by addresses by prominent for
mer residents, baseball game, more
races, band concerts, picnic dinners,
and in the evening an elaborate water
carnival on the lake, which will be
widely varied in character and very
| beautiful, including the greatest dis
play Of fireworks ever seen in that part
Of Maine.
Abijah Thomas and Ira Clemens of
Cornish, will figure in a unique contest
within the next few days, a BURBERRY
picking match A referee and time
keeper will officiate. The contest comes
from the claim Of Mr. Thomas that he
picked 10 IL quarts of berries the other
day. Mr.. Clemens had already picked
90 quarts in eight hours, and now their
friends believe they should meet for
the championship. The winner will
| take all the berries.
The annual reunion Of the former pu-
pills and teachers Of the school known
as District No. 1, in Chesterville VII
lage, took place Saturday at the Center
Church. the schoolhouse being built on
the old site to replace the one burned
last winter not being ready for use.
There was a picnic dinner at noon, fol-
lowed by remarks by members. the
reading of letters from absent ones,
readings by Mrs. Blanche Harrington
Sampson, talking machine music, les
sons in spelling and geography by
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