Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-10-03
Maine Gossip
The Biasphemer

When he has deluged half the world IN
blood,
Broken the bond Of human brotherhood.
Patched up his infamies with pious lies,
Laughed at his murdered victims groans
! and signs.
| The Redeemed earth with outraged
corpses strewed,
| Done deeds that would shame he'll ana
| called them good,
And hoped for victory as his foul crimes
! prize.
And yet this crowned destroyer Of his
| Pretends that God is his ally. and calls
On those who follow him with madness
/ blind
To fight for God; But when God wills he
falls,
Leaving name accused of men behind,
| record that ravaged world appals.
| The Bangor men who tried the ex-
pertinent of raising potatoes in bins
report that it did not pan out as well
as expected, says the Commercial
While the spuds in the top of the bin
grew all right, those in the lower lay
| ers showed tendency to run to tops
and many of them did not grow at all,
so the yield has been small. Some of
them intend to try it again next year,
varying the conditions a little. 9th
old fashioned method of putting them
underground is the best.
The life of Albert I. Mcfarland a
brother of Miss Jennie Mcfarland of
Bangor was saved by a pocket tesla
ment on the firing line in France, ac-
cording to letter just received by
! Miss Mcfarland. He is a soldier of
the Royal Canadian HighIanders and
was in the battle of Vimy Ridge. At
ter the battle he unbuttoned his coat
and a bullet dropped out which was
found upon investigation to have been
stopped by small Bible over his
heart.
! Local Customs officers have been
instructed to strictly enforce the pro-
visions of section Is of the act ap-
proved August 10, 1917, which pro-
hibits the importation into the United
\ State of all spirituous liquors on and
after Sept. 10, 1917. says the Pioneer
Houlton. The penalty for importing
the prohibited article Is very heavy,
being $4,000 fine or two years impris-
onment, or both.
| The Fort Fairfield Review is au-
thority for the statement that two
well-known young Fort Fairfield
farmers. Geo. w. and Walter NJ. Reed,
are digging $50 barrels of Cobblers
to the acre. The progressive young
farmers have planted 100 acres and
have contracted 1000 barrels at
price of from $3.50 to 1920 a barrel
We should judge that George ana
Henry will make barrel" of money
II the price keeps up next winter.
| Edgar Jewell Of Caribou started Sat-
urday morning for Mexico as a United
States inspector Of cotton. 1t is report
ed that the cotton crop in Mexico has
| been practically ruined by boil weavil
and the agricultural department has
taken steps to prevent the introduction
OF this great enemy of the cotton crop
| in the United States
| Rev. A. A. Smith Of the Universal
list church at Bangor on Monday es-
tablished a record by performing FIVE
weddings. At P. M. Charles 3.
! Cleaves and Helen c. Worster were
married at the Worster farm At
O'Clock at the parsonage Joseph J.
Garden and Miss Mary l.. Smith were
! united. At 7.30 Mr.. Smith went to
West Park street, where Leroy V.
Clark and Mary A. Blaisdell were mar
ried before large party of friends
Returning to the parsonage he married
Louis A. Morse and Miss Bertha E.
Whittier. both Of Brewer. Then an au-
tomobile took him to Sd street where
Fred Henson and Mrs. Edith f. Rey-
nolds were married before a large
gathering.
The last issue of the Bocthbay Reg
lister seemed almost like a stranger.
the Mouse Island for sale ad having
disappeared from its accustomed place
| of 10, the many weeks. We wish the
! Register would tell us if the island is
still In the harbor or has also dis
appeared or what has happened to
1t.
! You have all seen the name Of the
great singer, CALI Curci, who has been
delightfng< the patrons of the Music
Festivals, but did you know that it
-
| kooerchee?
We have hundreds Of times in the
past few weeks seen the name of the
National Army camp at Aver, Mass,
and we have always seen it spelled
Camp Devens-but the government
publications spell 1t Devans, and we
suppose they know.
| War Is a terrible thing. says the Aroos-
took Republican, but continues: Yet if it
had not been for war our young girls
would never have learned to knit while
they could do fancy work very nicely
But knitting for the soldiers is very in
teresting and will do much good.
The Pine Street Free Baptist church
at Lewiston, after an existence Of
about half century, recently voted
to close It's doors and go out Of exist
ence as a separate church organiza-
| ton, Joining with the Bates Street Bap-
fist and Main Street Free Baptist
churches in the new United Baptist