Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-04-05
Maine Gossip
A Nations Pride
(By Elizabeth Powers Merrill.O

"A Nations Pride
(By Elizabeth Powers Merrill)
! Sons of the nation sailing away
Sailing away Ger the salt blue seas
| Ships clad in armor of black and gray
Lifted and swayed by a steady breeze
Feel you the thrill and know you the start
! That quivers and runs through wave
and spray,
Quivers and runs through a nations
! AS to France and England you sail
! away.
! Not for the power of your shot and guns
Bearing victory to those who wait
Not for the sound of trumpet that runs
! Fibrates, and thrills like a note of fate
Not for your strength and power, and
might
! Not for your riches, glory and gold
Not for the Cause that calls to the fight
| Nor rights of old that you sternly hold.
All these dear to nations heart
! To nation proud in it's youthful price
But dearer to all the Men who depart
! AS brave as Heroes of long past time
t The teachers of Sagadahoc and lin
coin counties will meet in Joint SEES
| sion at the Morse High school at Bath.
! Friday, April 10. At 1890 A. NJ will
| begin the work of registration and as
sembly. The general session will open
at 1915 a, M. in the assembly hall.
After the opening exercises and pre-
| urinary business the chorus and or
chestra will give a concert. The con-
cert will be about one-half hour in
| length. The chorus is composed of
pupils from the Bath school and the
orchestra of pupils from the following
places in Lincoln county: Dresden
Mills Newcastle, Wald0boro. East
Boothbay, Wiscasset, Boothbay Har-
Dor. Friendship and Damariscotta. Fol
| lowing the concert j. Asbury Pitmar.
principal of the State Normal school al
Salem, Mass, will speak on "Some Re
Tcent Educational Movements" In the
afternoon, beginning at f.45 o'clock
will take place the department ses-
sions. which will include sessions for
the rural schools. grade schools and
secondary schools. The general ses-
sion will take place at 3.15 =. NJ. The
speakers will be B. L. Packard, super
intendent of schools Of Camden and
. Thomaston. Professor Henry w.
Brown Of Colby college and A. j. Tors
left. secretary of the Maine Anti
| tuberculosis Association.
An early American flag which is
composed of IS stripes and 13 stars is
in the possession of Walter H. Will
!iams of Lewiston. BY the design the
flag thus shows its age. This flag has
come down from Simon Carville, the
grandfather of his wife, and has long
been family heirloom. Mr.. Williams
is anxious to learn the exact date of
it's adoption.
The first starting ever seen in Maine
it is claimed. made it's appearance on
Monday, April 2. and was seen by a
Lewiston woman, Mrs. George N
Coates. The bird is an English bird
which however has become exceeding
ly numerous in the states to the south
of Maine. 1t is loud noisy creature
and is considered more of a pest than
the English sparrow. The bird which
is dull or greenish black, of rather
metallic luster, has a body the size of
the robin but with a very short square
tail. It's wings are tipped with silver.
The most pronounced characteristic is
its pale yellow beak.
A heart warming little act of
patriotism was observed Saturday, the
last day of March. in Auburn when ].
Edwin Eames performed no little skill
as he climbed out upon flag pole and
UNFINISHED a flag which had become
sadly twisted by the breeze.
| Good roads and fairly good weather
| for this season of the year were report
ed by an automobile party from the
Pacific coast which arrived at Bath the
other day from Los Angeles, Cal. en-
| route for Bangor. The run across
country was made in % days, the mile
| age from Los Angeles to Bath being
$3.50 miles. L. NJ. Campbell of San
| Francisco, a trans-continental chauf-
feur who has made 80 trips across, was
at the wheel.
Walter W. Westall an attorney of
| New York city, who is retained by the
heirs of the late Lillian Nordica, has
been in Pennington for a few days ac-
quainting himself with the town of
| Madame Nordica's birth and with her
| interests tnoTe- MI. WeStalI stated
| that the Jewels owned by the prima
donna were recently taken to Tiffany's
| for appraisal and that firm offered to
pay 100000 for them.
Following is the anecdote of dainty
little Miss of perhaps a half-dozen
years who attended divine worship in
one of the Bath churches the other
Sunday and occupied one of the front
pews: When the collection was being
taken. as the plate was passed her way,
she arose and engaging the ushers at
tention she whispered in his ear, MY
mamma don't have to pay for me-" evil
IDENTIFY thinking that she was exempt,
as in the street car. BY mastery
stroke of self-contrel the usher man
| aged to keep a straight face.