Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-07-18
Name Gossip
The Harvest.


with blazing tongues that made this
The feeble human ants that crawl the
earth,
Weighed down by grain Of sand upon
With insect vision sought The Infinite.
And questioned: Why
Receiving no reply.
They cried aghast: God sleeps.
For Teuton Might
Has cut the throat Of Right
They little thought that every Belgian
babe
Which vandal bayonet impaled.
And each deported sire enslaved in con-
quered land,
And each defenseless maid befouled BY
Would free ten thousand Moujik souls
And so the chains of bondage
Would fall from Russia race.
God knew His crop.
The cratered battlehelds,
Which, fortified with blood,
Were sown in death,
Have grown a harvest Of Democracy.
Henrietta Kendrick Reeves. in New
York Times.
Ferguson Haines has presented
framed collection Of the war script OF
1861 IS and a statue of Daniel Webster
to the Macarthur Library, Biddeford
The statue Is Of bronze.
The following paragraph is from
Bangor paper, but the statement
therein will apply to many other
places, especially in streets not over
1000 miles from the Capitol:
One of the joys of being a pedes.
trian in Bangor just now is to be spat-
tered with mud from head to foot
when an automobile speeds through g
mud hole. Some autoists never seem
to think of people walking. It is a
peculiar thing that the smaller the
auto. the greater the spatter generally
When an auto is going fast enough t
cover a lady's summer suit with mud
which has been done here more thar
once lately. 1t is generally going faster
, than the law permits.
Just 104 years ago this month, Col
Lane Of Buxton was recruiting volun'
teers in York county towns to join thu
Thirty-third United States Regiment
He was a native of Buxton. The lead
ing citizens of that town were stiff
Federalists and opposed to the war
He found few recruits and finally gave
up in disgust. He called the place
TORY HILL" and it is still known b,
that name.
An out -of-the- State fisherman be
gins his letter from Ok Bow to thu
Maine Woods with the following PRO
log:
My days are swiftly gliding by
While I, a patient angler,
Must pay two bucks before fly
For trout; but rs no wrangler.
And it is to be presumed that thu
aforesaid fisherman has his license ant
is getting up before breakfast to fly
One of the most interesting resi-
dents in the vicinity of the New
Meadows river is the pilot, Mrs. Lii
liam Brown, who fears nothing, bu
surely not because she knows nothing
1t will be recalled that several winter.
ago she made the trip with her hus
band to Miami, Fla, in their moto
/
to some new stunt with her launch
Have you heard her latest? The othel
day she proceeded to tow on a coupl,
scows a portable mill down stream
from Sabine over through the gut a
Gurnet. into the Merriconeag river t.
High Head locality, Harpswel TIL,
mill belongs to Morse Bros, and will
operate extensively in that vicinity
Mrs. Brown made two trips, carryins
down the camps the first time and tn.
mill and remainder of the equipmen
on the second trip.
The men who wont work and oc
cupy bed and board in cor1munitie
where shipyards and industries ar,
being operated on supplies for tn,
government are to receive attention
says the Bath Times, and it is reported
that records of such useless citizen
will be made up and means taken t,
give them employment which will
make them producers intsead of wha
has been termed slackers of the wors
| type.
Stories of the food keep comm,
in. says the Oquossoc correspondent O
the Franklin Journal, among them be
ing one of Mrs. Eugene Atwood, VIII,
stood on the porch of her cottage
Forestholm, at Kennebago, and caugh
trout which had come over the wal
with the lake when it inundated thei
lawn.
Work is being rushed on the re
Mobilization of the Lamoine coal sta
ton. which had been in a state o
neglect for some years. A steel roo
is being constructed and all the build
ings are being placed in the best o
condition for use. The houses are re
ceiving equal attention and in a shor
-, time much will have been accomplished
there, as large force of workme,
is employed. The payroll to the peopl,
of the surrounding section is a larg,
one. 1t is said that some 10000 ton
OF nitrate of soda have been delivered
there. giving indications of plans no
fentirely connected with the storage O
coal.-Bangor News.
However much 1t may have threat
ened. no rain fell on Sunday, which
was St. Swithins day; hence tn
glorious prospect Of at least forty DIR!
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