Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-08-07

The bird let loose in eastern skies,
When Fastening fondly home,
Ne'er stoops to earth her wing nor MES
Where idle warblers roam,
But high she shoots through air ana
/ light,
Where nothing earthly bounds her night,
Nor shadow dirns her way.
So grant me. God, from every care
And stain Of passion free,
Aloft, through virtues purer air,
To hold my course to thee.
No sin to cloud. nor lure to stay
Ny soul as home she springs;
Thy sunshine on her joyful way,
Thy freedom in her wings
Thomas Moore.
A very harmonious annual meeting
was recently held at the Capital Is
land casino for the election Of officers
and other business. The old officers
were all reelected to serve another
year as follows: President. S. H.
Thompson. Somerville, Mass: Vice
President Harry S. Wood, Hyde Park;
Secretary and Treasurer, Chas. B. Day,
Richmond; overseers: S. H. Thomp-
sen. H. S. Wood, A. w. Stuart, Angus
ia: c. B. Day. Richmond; Theodore c.
Timer, Philadelphia.
The citizens Of Maine and especially the
friends Of Bates College will be inter
ested to learn that a Department of For
estry is to be established at Bates and
that the initial courses will be given
during the college year that begins with
the opening of the institution on Oct. II.
Ample resources for the requirements Of
this new department are assured through
the provisions of the will of the late
Benjamin c. Jordan, who was for many
years a most helpful member of the
Bates Board of Fellows. The generosity
of the heirs of Mr.. Jordan and their de-
sire to have his plans and wishes real
lied at the earliest practicable date have
permitted this important addition to the
work Of Bates to be made much sooner
i than had been anticipated.
The chesterville school reunion will be
held on Saturday. Aug. IL, at the Town
hall in that place and everyone is plan
ming to be present. The committee SIM
ply cautions all Don't forget your din
ner pail
! Lewis Hewes who passed away last
Thursday night at his home in Boston,
at the age of as years. was not only one
OF the oldest lawyers in that State but
was formerly for several years the
county attorney for Lincoln county,
Maine.
! Bowdoin college will have living off,
clal totem, when Donald B. Macmillan.
the explorer returns from the Arctic re-
gtons, the college having officially adopt
ed the polar bear as its totem and Mac
having captured and is bringing home a
cub polar bear. The adoption Of this totem
was in recognition of the achievements
Of Rear Admiral Peary, Gen. Thomas H.
Hubbard and Prof. Macmillan.
! Twenty-three trains Of coal are said to
be on the way from the Pennsylvania
coal fields for New England towns and
cities, which will somewhat relieve the
situation caused during the past few
weeks by the shipment of practically all
the mines output to Canada. The New
England coal committee and the National
committee stopped and ended that prac-
tice for a while at least.
Mr. and Mrs. Hazen McCausland Of
Lewiston are showing their friends solid
gold watches. which, along with many
other gifts, came to them on their recent
golden wedding day. These were given
them by their three sons, w II. McCaus-
land Of Freeport, Charles and Lester,
both Of Lewiston. Mr.. and Mrs. McCaus-
land have for 40 years made Lewiston
their home and since the first decade
when he was employed by one Of the big
corporations. he has been a farmer and
specialized on a big scale in small fruits
He Is the largest producer of raspberries
In Androscoggin county or vicinity.
! In the civil war one fifth Of the
male population of Bangor between the
ages Of is and 40 enlisted in the first
year of the war, or o5s Volunteers. In
1s64-65. long after it seemed that the
last available man had gone to the
front the city and county furnished
524. In all 27oo men marched from
| Bangor curing the war. Nearly $40,
900 was paid in bounties for enlist
rnents.
Hundreds Of summer visitors on the
York county coast ask regarding the
history of the monument on Stage Is
land, at the mouth of the Saco river.
II can be seen from a number of
! coast resorts, and the island is visited
by many motor parties in a season.
| The monument was built in the sum-
mer Of 1925 by three Portland brick
| layers, Messrs. Bailey, Leavitt and
Lowell for the United States govern
ment, under the direction of the local
superintendent Of lighthouses 1t is
60 feet high. When the monument
had been built to the hight of 81 feet
it collapsed, killing John Lowell, one
Of the contractors, outright, and in
juring several other men. The mon1-
! mcnt was rebuilt and II has stood for
almost a century. 1t was intended as
A beacon or range mark for vessels en-
7 tering the mouth Of the Saco river. In
recent years it has not been much used
for that purpose.
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