Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-12-28
Maine Gossip
America for Me!
(Henry Van Dyke.)

(Henry Van Dyke)
Oh, it's home again, and home again,
America for me.
My heart is turning home again to Gods
To the land of youth and freedom, be-
Where the air is full Of sunshine and the
flag is full of stars.
It is good to see the Old World, and
travel up and down
Among the famous countries and cities of
! renOWn:
To admire the crumbly castles and the
monuments and kings;
But soon or late you have enough of an
tiquated things.
Oh. London is mans town; there's
power in the air;
And Paris is a woman'S town, with flow
And it's sweet to loaf in Venice, it's
great to study Rome;
But when it comes to living, there is no
place like home.
like the German firwoods. in green bat
talions drilled;
I like the gardens of Versailles, with
flashing fountains filled;
But, oh, to take your hand, my dear.
and ramble for day
In the friendly western woodland where
nature has her way!
Oh, Europe is fine place, yet some
thing seems to lack;
The past is too much with her. and the
people looking back:
But life is in the present. and the future
must be free:
We love our land for what she is, and
what she Is to be.
Oh, it's home again, and home again,
America for me!
MY heart is turning home again to God
To the blessed land of Room Enough, be-
yond the ocean bars,
Where the air is full of sunshine and the
flag is full of stars.
Announcements of three engage
ments are made at Bangor. Miss Eliza
beth Gale Littlefield. superintendent of
music in the public schools of that
city, to George Franklin Eaton of Ban
gor a graduate Of the U. of M. Law
School, Glass Of 1916: Miss Prudence
Webster Of Orono to Clarence Alden
Whitney, U. of NJ, 1914, formerly of
Portland and now of Chicago; and Miss
Barbara Thatcher Of Bangor to Charles
F. Gould Of Bangor, a sophomore at
Harvard. The last two ladies are cous-
ms.
Kennebec fishermen suggest using
eel skins for shoes as we'll as shark
skins to supply the scarcity of leather
Eel skins are tough.
Mrs. Ethel Currie Of Portland told
the court at Portland Tuesday that
her husband, John ]. Currie, was in the
trenches in Europe and that it had been
| impossible to serve notice of her di-
| vorce libel on him there owing to the
strict censorship maintained by the
British war department. She sued for
a divorce on the ground of cruelty and
other grounds, and Judge Connolly
granted her plea. They were married
in Portland Aug. "a, 1910. and lived to-
gether five years. One boy was born
to the couple and custody is given to
| the mother.
Portland harbor had a visitor on
Tuesday, which Gin her day" would
have attracted as much attention al
most as the President-the famous old
Americas cup defender Jubilee. The
once famous yacht is now rugged as a
two -masted knockabout, with a well
short foremost set well back from the
bow and a very tall mainmast set well
aft. She is now owned in the Prov
inoes and carries pulp wood, although
painted white, she looks much as she
did when launched in 1898 to defend
the cup from Sir Thomas Lipton's de-
signs.
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| John Ellis Of Bangor on Saturday
morning discovered a man struggling
in the Penobscot river and rescued
him, at great discomfort to himself.
only to have the chap leave him with
out even a word of thanks. If John
again sees that fellow in the river. it's
a dollar to a dcughnut bet that it will
be q case of swim out, old man."
An East Brunswick man Saturday
evening was in his room dolling up to
60 into Brunswick village to be mar
ried when his younger brother secured
some chalk from neighhor and in
| scribed various notifications to the
general public on the outside Of the
sleigh that q wedding was ahead Of
the man driving. The brother, on