Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-07-20
Maine Gossip
"Move Over"

uoSO WV
(Kenneth MacDougal)
Move over! You hard-hittin' sons Of King
Move over. You heroes of France.
Make room for the legions Of old Uncle
We've been waitin' two years for the
chance.
In spirit we've been by your side right
along.
Cause we never were keen for the Hun:
Now we've joined, we'll keep scrappin'
with you to the end,
And back up your play with gun.
Hey! Little old Belgium. we'll take the
Wen get back your homeland for you,
For the Star Spangled Banner in glory
shall wave.
Backed by a million or two.
Put it there. brother Serb you're. hard
fghtin' kid.
VIII we n1uss up the Bulgars bit'
Come on. brother Russian; let's jam the
line hard,
And show Kaiser Bill he amt IT.
All right now! Together. let's end the
Xix bayonets. The Boche don't like
Wen help you to finish the thing now
we're here.
And snow them our army Is real.
From the Reading Herald,
If the dog days to come-due to be-
manac--are to be anything worse than
what we are now going through, then
we are going fishing. Think we said
the same thing last year, too. but didn't
go.
The Portland Housewives League
has taken hold of the ice question in
that city and will endeavor to see if a
reduction in the price cannot be Sc
cured That proposition will be watch
ed with considerable interest through
out the State.
! It will be well to remember (and
also to put it into practice) that mag
azines bearing one-cent stamps may
unwrapped to American sailors and
soldiers in Europe.
An attempt to induce men employed
in the Bath shipyards to leave that
city for other places where vessels are
| to be built resulted in one employer
notifying his men that if anyone wished
| to leave in that way he would advance
them the necessary money to- reach
their destination, as he wished no one
in his employ who did not feel satisfied
with his work and pay. Anonymous
letters was the method used, with a
| Do civ with pvhinn
to communicate. 1t is said the under
handed scheme has failed in our Maine
Shipping City.
Seven big Oregon pines for masts
and sparss arrived by rail Tuesday for
Bath shipyard. Away back in the
eos a former Kennebec shipbuilder
said that one Of those big sticks cost
him $1,000 delivered at his yard. 1t
would be interesting to know what the
"toothpicks" cost at this time.
'Spose you can remember THE 66th
United States Infantry" as easily as
you can the I'd Maine Infantry?
| The rs gallons Of whiskey and other
"likker" seized at the steamboat wharf,
and the 10 gallons seized at the express
Office last week. says the Eastport Sen
tinel. will be taken into the local court
on Wednesday next, July rs. AS part
of it was directed to Campobelle
dealer, a test scase will be made as to
whether the new federal law, forbid
ding such shipments into dry territory,
applies to shipments ostensibly des-
tined for foreign country like Canada.
Edwin Libby Post. g. A. R., has In
s,ructed its trustees to remove the 20
bodies of soldiers from their place OF
interment in Sea View cemetery,
Rockland, to the new lot in Achorn
cemetery presented by William s..
White, in behalf Of the Tillson estate.
| The tallest man in the United States
NAVY is Ensign Joseph W. Paige, It.
in. who was honor man Of the 1917
class at MISUNDERSTANDING.
Aroostook has a man who beats that
record all to smash. An Aroostook ap-
plicant for naturalization papers from
Fl. Fairfield measured It. inches,
another man appearing for first papers
measured S feet, 6A inches in stocking
feet. Some people think that tall men
do not make good soldiers, but, Abe
Lincoln once said. when asked how
long a mans legs should be to make
good soldier. They should reach
from his body to the ground."-Houlton
Times.
That hail storm that passed over the
Mt. Zircon section In Rumford last satur-
day night was Of the Wtld-Western va
rtety, ploughinx and ripping up the crops
damaging the trees and % psitinS ana