Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-24
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Life

With forward face and unreluctant soul;
Not Fastening TO, nor turning from Inc
Not mourning for the things that dis
appear
In the dim past. nor holding back IN fear
From what the future wells; but with
And happy heart, that pays its toll
TO Youth and Age, and travels on with
cheer.
So let the way wind up the hill or down WI
Ger rough or smooth, the journey Will
Still seeking what sought when but a
boy
New friendship. high adventure and
Ny heart will keep the courage Of the
quest,
and hope the roads last turn will be
Henry Van Dyke.
When the cargo steamer building al
the Kelley, Spear Co. yard at Bath
goes into commission she will be pc
cuuar sight with her camoufage paint
ing &c reduce visibility 10 the enemy
at sea, dark blue and green, with
white for the foam Of the waves IN
the superstructure cchre will be used
in addition TO blue and green, in seek
ing q sky effect. This style Of painting
has been adopted by the United states
Shipping Board.
Dependents Of Bangor volunteers
and drafted men now in service are
receiving the relief voted by the last
legislature from the city OF Bangor
tfrcLeh Mayor Woodman, says the
/ a
! Ilicaticn thus far and none have been
refused although some are pending.
| The mayor says that II IS Necessary
to show actual dependency. In one
case a nurse married a soldier after
he lad enlisted. She is earning 81
week and receives $50 month from
| fer husband. who is an officer earning
| $50 a month. Whether or not relief
/ will he given in this case has not been
/ decided, the mayor said, Monday, add
ing that the wife in this case had new
| or been dependent on her husband for
support. In the case Of parents, theT
must be aged and infirm as well as
! dependent. in order to obtain relief.
! The city has made an appropriation of
| 500 for this purpose from the unclass-
! flied fund. and will make similar APP
preparation from time to time if found
necessary.
! The season is surely all too short for
busy man. In a conversation with
one Of East Cornvilles lively farmers
| the Journal correspondent asked
Have you got your apples gathered p
! He replied: Apples catnered?" Gee
whiz, we are hustling like Hallowell to
! finish having, so we can pull our
| beans
1t Isn't everybody who can shoot a
deer as easy as a well-known local dem
/ fist, DT. Fred O. circuit says the Pioneer,
Houston. The genial doctor was at the
, Oak Point Camps, Portage Lake, last
week, and sometime in the night was at
tracted by noise which awakened him
Rising up he saw fine buck through the
window of the cabin. Leaning over the
side of the bed. the doctor picked up his
rife and shot the deer while still lying
in bed.
An Amity farmer Is on the war path to
find the local men, who recently killed
2
ing, taking the animal for a young deer.
Evidently the parties who pulled off,
the stunt" were in a hurry, as the ami
NAL was dressed Immediately after 1t was
/ killed. The last local man to make a
mistake of this kind happened a few
years ago but this man left a note to the
| farmer with sufficient funds to pay for
! the slaughter Of a COW
! Only miracle saved James F Peabody
and his young daughter Of Houston from
possible injuries when on Tuesday while
on the Carys Mill road, along the Medux-
nekeag river bank, the auto in which he
was riding, in some unacountable man
ner, suddenly darted over on the road, go
! Ing through the fence along the river
bank. When stopped the front wheels of
the automobile were hanging completely
over the steep embankment. Mr.. Pea
body when he realized his predicament
managed to get his daughter out by lit
orally throwing her. back Of the car 1t
/ was an experience which Mr.. Peabody
does not care to repeat.
The lighthouse tenders left Portland
Monday for long trip delivering coal
and other things to the light stations.
| The boats are way behind on their de-
| liveries and II would not surprise any
body very much II some Of the light
| stations were reduced to burning drift
wood and whatever else they can find
to exc out the government coal. The
| coal has not come along as 1t should
and the people on the tenders have
been rushed with what they could get
and with other troubles that have
caused them lot of delay.
! George Sprague, formerly stage
driver between Bath and Popham
Beach. has recently harvested 80
bushels of potatoes planted from two
bushels Of seed. 1t was one OF the
| best crops harvested at Small Point
and Mr.. sprague is naturally proud
OF his success.
| Two old time Maine built square
rugged vessels are reported as Just
tied up at Portland. Oregon. for the
winter. after an active season In the
| Alaska salmon fishery. One is the
bark Berlin, 1643 tons, built at Phipps-
burg IN 1882. the other being the bark