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

No work her fingers shun,
Her heart and help are always near,
| And many a fight is won
| Through her high courage and her cheer
F, The girl behind the gun.
Charlotte Becker In New York sun.
! The Daily Visitor quietly entered the
sanctum and sank into hia accustom-
| ed seat, chatted about the World $
Series, tie weather, the Red Cross
and the Liberty Lean, not forgetting
| the latest war developments. but he
utterly failed to mention the thrill
ing story OF the lost coat. Rumor.
via the wireless service from An At
! lantic Port, somewhere around Ocean
| Point, hints at it as. follows:
| A party Of eleven of EN- had motored
to the Poi-there, we almost told
| where-to their summer cottage by
| the seashore. and had enjoyed the day
so long that it was decided that they
must hustle in getting away, in order
TO reach home before dark.
| Hold on, wait minute, my coat
! is missing. | left it on the auto.
| Someone must have seen and taken it.
Iee of course I'm sure l wore it. Don t
! you spose l know when I've got on a
! coat?
! And the party of Ii persons hunted
| far and near, high and low for the
coat which failed to appear and with
many lamentations over the loss of
that perfectly good coat. the depart
ure was made and home safely reach
| ed, even though it was dark on ar
rival, owing to the delay about the
coat. And, 10. and behold-the secret
was mystcriously but authoritatiVeiy
| d;sclosed-the aforementioned coat
was found at home. calmly reposing
! in its accustomed place. still longing
! for the sea shore, which it had nQ
! Ni-tted for these many a day. He mad
worn so many extra warm wraps, that
| he surely thought he had worn the
coat
And that's why he didn't tell US
! the story.
| Bangor Is experiencing another sugar
shortage, reports the News, due. It Is
! claimed, to the government regulation
of the price of that commodity. which the
sugar rehners state is not high enough
! to permit Of the proper margin Of pro-
fit. This has resulted, it is said, in a
shutting down of the refineries. People
who expected lower prices Of sugar will
be given an opportunity to indulge in one
/ or more g71esses, 1t would appear.
/ Miss Cora A. DeCorrnier of Westbrook,
who in 1912 graduated from Sainte
Marie's hospital in Lewiston, is home on
vacation, after three years in the hos
pital service in France and much of the
time at the front She has the distinction
Of having been decorated by both the
French and British governments, King
George himself pinning the decoration on
her nurses uniform and the Queen talk
ing to her.
You will have TO be shipped as freight.
if you wish to go to Kennebago by train.
according to the following from the
Oquossoc correspondent of the Farming
ton Journal:
| The train men broke UP housekeeping
at Kennebago Sunday and Monday morn
ing saw the last passenger train from
there until another spring Unless some
new arrangements are made the only
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there will be the tri-weekly freight trains.
A distinctly unusual accident was ex-
perienced by A. J. F'ranzel of Warren
avenue, Westbrook, recently which re-
suited in seriously burning his right
hand and the ruin Of his coat. 1t
seems that Franzel found a lump Of
lta6
where he is employed, and evidently
he did not understand that this sub
stance must be kept submerged to pre-
vent its burning. for he dropped 1t in
to his pocket and was reminded of it
while on his way home, for it started
a brisk little confiagration in his coat
pocket, and when he attempted to re-
move it with his hand. that member
was so badly burned that he will not
he able to resume his duties for some
time. Mr. Franzel now says that he
is going to take a course in chemistry.
Admiral Robert F. Peary arrived in
Portland Monday and went to Eagle
Island for a short stay before closing
I'D his summer house permanently for
the season.
York is a town of roads, lanes and
streets, states the Old York Tran
script. At the Village it is mostly
roads, the Harbor has it's lanes. while
the Beach is the only section to have
really and truly named streets. To
be sure York street starts somewhere
at York Corner and keeps on going
until it loses it's identity somewhere
beyond York Harbor. But this is
the only street in the Village. There
is ORGANIC road, which goes from