Daily Kennebec journal., 1917-09-21
Maine Gossip
The Stacker

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! The Stacker
! (Hesper lie Gallienne OF The Vigilantes.)
Hark to the roaring of an angry beast!
| From over all the fields of martyred
The lion of war still shakes his tawny
And calls his young to join him in the
! feast,
From North and South and West and
! A famine walks-the children cry for
bread
| (The direst chapter of this world is read>
| The corn is missing and they lack the
| yeast
| Vultures of crime are now upon the
wing,
Foul lust and creeping horrors without
name.
| How can you stand asde-an idle thing
When all our very souls are filed with
shame?
! Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis H. Curtis and Syl-
vanus Pennell are three more Bath peo-
pie who have seen the mysterious airship
which is cutting circles in air over the
county, nights. says the Times. They
saw it Tuesday night at New Meadows,
about seven o'clock. The light circled in
a large arc over the colony above New
Meadows Inn and was plainly sen by the
three people.
A white crow has been making its head
quarters on the Call road in Milford for
some time and has been the envy Of many
huntsmen Monday William Labree, a
millwright for the Milford Bundle Wood
Co., meandered out that way with his
gun and returned with Mr., Whitewings.
1t is now in the hands of Mr.. Legasse of
Old Town, the taxidermist. The wings Of
this crow are pure white the remainder
of the feathers being dark.
I Two deputy sheriffs who had charge
of the jury in the Howland murder
case at Bangor seemed to be unable to
count twelve noses with accuracy on
Wednesday when they were escorting
tie jurors from the Court house to the
Penobscot Exchange for dinner, says
the News. They had reached War
rens drug store when their attention
was called to the fact that one juror
was missing. Then the hungry, hot
and tired eleven were halted in the
broiling SUN while one deputy returned
to the Court House in search of the
| wanderer from the fold. The stray
one was found at last and rounded up.
while the eleven waited. Then, with
Deputy Sheriff Snow as bell wether
the flock proceeded in hungry haste.
Harold Levensalor of Sebec, aged o,
left Dover Wednesday for Camp Devens,
Aver, Mass, to become a member of the
new National Army. Until Tuesday night
Levensalor had never ridden in the steam
cars. His first experience in travelling
by train was from Sebec, eight miles dis
tant to Dover. where he reported at the
Office CT the County Draft Board On
his first trip to Dover for examination,
several weeks ago, he rode in an automo-
bile for the first time. Tuesday nigh,
was also the first time he had ever seen
electric lights. Also he had never seen
moving pictures until that time.
"I know I'm green Lavensalor said
"but 1 owe my country a lot and l want
to go fght the Germans
Mrs. Flora f. Barry, noted Boston
oratorio singer of 80 years ago, celebrated
her S1st birthday Wednesday afternoon
at her home, 12s Chandler street, Boston.
Mrs. Barry was assisted in receiving by
Mrs. Elizabeth Merit Gosse. and by
other former pupils. Mrs. Barry. accom-
panied by George Mendall Taylor, who
r,ja
sang The Flags Come Back to Tennes-
see.' Mrs. Barry was born in Paris, Me.
She toured the United States as con-
cert singer with Gilmore's Band during
the Civil War.
The editor of the Camden Herald
recently made an auto trip through
New England and on his return home
chronicled an incident we'll worth
passing along to our readers, as fol-
lows:
BY mid-forenoon the rain was fall
ing and we rode into st, Johnsbury
in pouring rain Here we saw a
little act of courtesy that impressed
us as a mighty good thing for citizens
of our own town to adopt We were
somewhat IN CouDL as 10 Holei cohui
ticns and whether or not to stop and
drew up alongside the curbing to talk
it over Almost Immediately well
dressed man stepped up to our car
and asked if he could do anything for
us. We made inquiries about the
town, hotels. etc. and received ready
information. 1t was a simple thing
for the stranger to do. but it was
helpful to US and gave us an excellent
impression of the town. We have
many people touring through Camden
we wonder how many of our citizens
think to step out when they halt, and
offer services.
A picture made from a painting of
1870 in Benjamin Knights shipyard at