Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-06
Maine Gossip
GIVE US A CHANCE!
A Song for Young Jonathan

steadfast and strong is the Tommy of
Gallant and gay is the Poilu Of France:
| We've been asleep, out thank God, we're
awake now,
| Frenchmen and Eng!ishmen, give US
chance.
Give US a chance. we stand for the right.
too!
Give US chance. we know how to fight
Brothers of England and comrades Of
Give US chance.
None Of our women have persisted IN
| Where the shells scream and the bayo-
nets glance,
None of our children have Death for their
Belgians and serbians, give us chance.
Give US a chance. we've sweethearts and
! wives, too!
Give us a chance! for the little ones
| lives, too,
Now. as we rouse from security's trance
Give US chance.
Fair stands our homes in their spring
flushing meadows,
! Hands all around for the daffodil-dance!
! In the wrecked lands where the death
| pail o'ershadows.
| Poles and Armenians, give us a chance!
Give us chance! our strength shall up
hold you,
Give us a chance, our love shall enfold
Stretch out your faint hands to greet our
| advance.
| Give US a chance!
Up with the Flag. then, Too long has it
Furled round the Past in its dream of
| romance;
Blaze every stripe, every bright star be
Freedom and Brotherhood, give US
| chance!
Give us a chance! we stand for the right,
too.
Give lis a chance, we're in for the fight,
Over. and over. and over to France!
| Give us chance!
! B. B. Spear of the National Home,
Togus. called at the Journal office Fri
day afternoon with a postal card re-
ceived few days ago by him at the
Home, which had been since Jan. 70,
1902, in coming from Thomaston, Me.
Mr.. Spear was in the winter of 1902
working in the jewelry store of George
B. Macomber in Thomaston and on
leaving, had left behind a main spring
punch, which, if found Mr.. Macomber
agreed to notify him. He kept his
word, writing and mailing the post
card on Jan. %, 1902. at Thomaston,
but it evidently was lost somewhere in
the furnishings of the department ana
not found until Sept. Is, 1917, when it
was mailed to his old address, as di
rected. Warren, Me-" 1t reached
Warren all right. because nine days
later it was remailed to the National
Home. Mr. Spear is glad to learn that
| his punch was found, although the
writer of the card has been dead for
several years. He is also slightly sus-
picious that, almost is years for the
transit of a mere post card from
Thomaston to Warren and Togus, is
nearly all that should be allowed, even
by patient man.
The famous old Montgomery Guards
of Portland took out new lease of
life on Thursday evening, when about
so Of the old members held a banquet,
at which a permanent organization
was formed, with the following officers:
Commander, James ONeil; vice COM
mander, John Maloney; adjutant and
clerk, Thomas l.. Donahue; officer. of
the day, Arthur H. Whitney. The
name adopted is the Portland Mont
gCmery Guards Veteran association.
In come ction with the launching
and christening Of the Annie c. Ross,
when Capt Ross wa asked WEDNESDAY
says the Bath Times IL any klna OF
| liquor would be used to christen the
new bride of the sea, he answered
sternly that there would not he, and
he added: NO liquor to start her off
with and none to end her with. We
christer our boats with roses and I
| have never christened a boat | was to
command with anything but roses"
The storv reached Lewiston Thursday
of how Lorenzo ". Fales. an attorney,
and George II. Barron, civil engineer
both of Lewiston, held up the fair" at
Lvermore Falls. Wednesday. 1t was a
| form Of procedure to collect land rent and
proved the big sensation of the day. They
we're threatened with arrest and the
crowd tried to run them off the grounds.
But they determinedly resisted all at
lacks until Mr.. Fales had reached salts
factory agreement with the fair officials.
Hon. Edward Woodman has put his
boat out of commission for the sea-
son and has taken the boathouse
away from the top of Central wharf
dock, says the Portland Press. The
boathouse Is approved by everybody,
but the boat has been source of great
worriment to everybody on the water
front all summer. The craft has a
name which nobody can either spell or
pronounce, being made up Of more
than half of the letters In the alphabet
mixed together any old way. At least
| that is the way it looks, but Mr.. Wood
man is always glad to explain to any
who ask about it that the name is a
Mexican word. Then he smiles and
waits the next question which general
! ly doesn't como.
! The experience of two Milford wo-
men who a few nights ago were chased
by a bear recalls the humorous man
ner in which then Representative J.