Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-30
Maine Gossip
The Old and the New

The Old and the New
elizabeth Goodrich Jordan)
They are with us today. the Boys in
Blue,
Though their heads are gray yet their
hearts are true.
Their heads are erect and their eyes grow
bright
AS they proudly gaze on the banner
bright.
At their country's call their lives they
For freedoms cause and their nation to
save.
Today their steps are feeble and slow,
To their country's call they cannot go.
Their battles are fought, their victories
won;
They are waiting now the call to go
/ Home.
All honor today to the Boys in Blue"
| Though their heads are gray yet their
hearts are true.
They are with us today our soldier lads.
NO longer in blue they are ''khaki-clad:
Their heads are erect and their eyes
At the sound of the drum, as their flag
comes in sight.
Their steps are firm, and their hearts are
They are ready to 60 to help fight the
wrong.
Today they answer a call world wide;
With other nations to fight beside.
For freedoms cause has wider grown.
Their country's call is not all their own.
Their battles as yet are all unfought,
But they are ready to go, and they falter
not.
Then prayer today for our soldier lads
AS they pass US by all "khalli-clad."
Captain Aaron Littlefield. who died
Monday in Edgartown, Mass. was a
native of Prospect. Me. He was an act
ing commander during the Civil War
and later a retired senior captain in
the revenue cutter service, now the
| Coast Guard. His age was "a years.
Alfred Brinkler of Portland, the we'll
known organist, has been invited by
the National Association of Organists
to give an organ recital during the 10th
! annual convention of that organization
on July 81 to Aug. 3 at Springfield,
| Mass, and has written his acceptance.
The auditorium organ which he will
use is said to be one of the finest con-
cert organs in the country and Mr..
Brinklcr and friends are much graft
fed at the invitation, which is consid-
cred a high honor.
The Bar Harbor committee having in
charge the entertainment Of the Maine
State Federation Of Labor on June 5
to on the occasion of the 14th annual
convention is planning a program that
is intended to surpass any similar oc-
| sion in tho history nf ba
ton
/ The hosts of friends throughout the
State of Fred D. Wish, Jr., of Portland,
who for the past three years has been
teacher of history in the Portland high
school as well as the originator and in
structor of the Civics course in the
! same school, will be interested and
pleased to know that he will at the
close of the school year go to a better
position with the faculty of the high
| school of Hartford, Ct, in the same
| capacity, with especial attention to the
science course. Mr.. Wish is a Portland
high graduate and Bowdoin college,
49, after which he was principal of the
Scarboro high school for a year. then
| going to his present position in Port
| land high.
A woman guest at Bangor hotel
rather startled the other guests a few
days ago by applying at the news
stand for a pro-German newspaper
| says the News. She was politely in
formed that all the papers received
here are anti-German. This did not
appear to satisfy her, as she remarked
with some acidity that they had some
| pro-German papers in Boston and she
could get one there when she return
ed. 1t may be added that the woman
did not make hit while in Bangor.
Anderson Camp, S. Of ", and it's
auxiliary of Rockland Monday night
voted unanimously not to transfer the
| division encampments Of the two or
CARNATIONS to some other city. While
the hotel accommodations are not suf-
| ficient at this time to entertain all of
the delegates and visitors, residents
| have agreed to entertain the surplus
in their homes. The encampment will
| be held June and T.
A large touring car owned by Har-
old B. Russ Of Porter street, Bangor,
sounded its own alarm early Monday
morning. when>the garage in which it
was kept caught fire. The burning
| wires of an electric horn on the car
started it blowing, which aroused the
neighbors. The garage and car we5e
| destroyed and the Russ home threat
ened The loss will be about $500, in
sured. The cause of the blaze is a
mystery.
Joy riders and carriers Of contraband
in high-powered cars have made the
life Of careful drivers Of motorcars so
miserable on the Portland Dunstan and
Portland Brunswick roads, the first a
concrete and the latter q macadam sur
face, that they are complaining to the
county officials and asking protection
! in some shape, motorcycle patrolmen
being the recommended form. The
Cumberland county commissioners
| about month ago turned down a
similar request. Similar complaints are
q ~