Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-02-19
Maine Gossip
allow Do You Do"

"How Do You Do"
Say, How do you do my brother
friend.
'Twon't cost you much to thus extend
hand of friendship strong and true
For il helps heap when one is blue.
Saw. How do you do" though rags you
Some mothers boy he's sure to be.
Your words may still tempest sea,
And guide a soul throughout eternity.
Saw Glow do YOU do" do it today.
Don't wait, till you are old and gray;
Old Crouch old crouch, that's what
And then viii turn the other way.
II you'd keep young and sweet and true,
inst learn to say, How do you do.
The children all will follow YOU
They love the man with, How do you
do"
Saw GLOW do YOU do and swing your
Don't try to meet fashions vain de-
Pump handle shake. there take your
It s thrills the soul. there's none so
grand.
Then. some sweet day, In that beyond.
Each one Will lace dHu thcic iSSP~~'
I wonder how I'll stand, do you!
How many I've helped VIII say III"
William Judson Kibby.
The indignation Of many OF the
people Of Gorham village was aroused
recently by the utterances OF kew.
Henry Hit Crane, which were termed
an insult to tteir loyalty and patriot
ism. Rev. Crane, who is pastor OF the
School street Methodist church ana
who is probably the youngest ordained
minister in the State. in speaking be-
fore q gathering of Civil War veterans
on the eve Of IincOln's birthday, de-
clared for total non-resistance' on the
grounds that there is nothing IN tne
Bible to Justify war. And he sald thal
for President Wilson to declare war
was to defy his Maker You cant De
a soldier and a Christian. he deciareo'
"anG anyone who fights defles ms MAX
or" The meeting at when these state
ments were made was being neld under
the auspices of the Civil War veterans
and patriotic program was being rem
dcred.
Lester R. Whitaker, a graduate OF
the Sullivan High school, Berwick, mas
been elected a member of the eXecu-
tive committee of the Junior class of
the College of Liberal Arts of Boston
University. Before entering Boston
University Mr.. Whitaker took course
at the New Hampshire State College.
in, ~
some little time, according to the Bath
Times, is that which was made last
fall by a painter in that city. He pur-
chased a house on Water street for
$30o, painted and papered it and is now
receiving III rents $50 a month.
one of the Americans who has de-
cided to remain in Germany is Arthur
Dunning of Bath. He has lived in Ber-
lin for Is years, where he has been en-
ployed at the American embassy in the
office of the military attache and is
prominent in musical circles and IN
American society in Berlin. He is a
son of the late \. Is. Dunning, former
merchant in Bath.
Not many people can beat the record
Of a Rockiand business man who is
wearing a pair of rubber boots which
he bought in that city in the early
seventies Although they have been IN
more or less service for about 40 years
they are still as good as on the day
they were bouGht-Something which
would probably not be expected from
the rubber goods sold nowadays. The
boots were manufactured from pure
, Para rubber ana are lined to the tops
with some kind of soft red material.
1t is very infrequent that the Sa-
samoa river from Sawyers island to
Boothbay Hartcr freezes over but the
other day there was ice an inch and a
half thick, making it difficult for the
steamer Winter Harbor to make the
! trip from Wiscasset. 1t was thought
that the freezing over was partly due
to the amount OF snow which fell into
the water