Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-11-24
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Viva Italia

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1t seems TO shout unto the stars
Viva Italia!
Down shining streets OF water. glide
The gondolas, with noiseless feet
They wind around great palaces
Pass quietly from street to street.
Here love has lived-here men have died
The great and proud worn crown ana
star:
Today those lips. long dust, exclaim-
Viva Italia!
Here poets wrought and men OF art
The wise and great dwelt side by SIDE;
This was the city of mems Dreams
This city built on Gods vast tide.
Shakespeare. its streets immortal maHe-
His matchless words time cannot mar
Men read-and cry as her son cry
Viva Italia.
To-day that city and that race
stand as brave hearts have ever stood
To guard their cities-save their land
Protect their homes from lust and blood,
True patriots of the watching world
Stand with them! Lips shout from afar.
To those souls battling for their race:
Viva Italia!
The crop of forecasts, signs and pre-
dictions for the winter weather has not
been as large as usual and what we
have found in the Maine papers has
been rather discouraging. all agreeing
! that a long, cold. blustery and severe
winter was coming-so that the fol-
I lowing from the Dickvale correspon-
dent of the Norway Advertiser will be
a decidedly large grain of comfort for
| those whose coal bins are not over
| flowing and whose supplies of -four,
sugar and canned goods are not in
danger Of being called to the attention
of Brer Hoover.
| A woodchuck was seen the 9Th at
Bird Hill. Charlie Jordan's boy shot it,
| That must be a sign of an open win
| ter.
! Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph II. Stetson of
! White street, Lewiston. on Sunday
celebrated their 60th wedding ami
versary. There was no formal cele-
bration. but they were at home TO
| their friends and many called.
| Mr.. Stetson was born in Freeport
Jan. %, 1881. At the age of - he went
to sea. continuing this vocation until
1S4s. He then learned the tinsmith's
/ trade at Freeport and in 1857 began
business for himself in Lewiston.
! He continued alone until 1868, when
with A. T. Bean of Auburn he formed
firm, which continued until Mr.
Beams death in 1886. Mr.. Stetson
continued alone until about 90 years
ago. when the business was incorpor-
ated and Mr.. Stetson retired from the
active management few years later
| Mr.. Stetson is a member of Ashlar
Lodge of Masons, King Hiram, Royal
Arch Chapter; Dunlap Council, Lewis
ton Commandery; Lewiston Lodge OF
Perfection, H. Fl. Dickey Chapter OF
Rose Crox, Auburn Council, Princes OF
Jerusalem, and the Maine Consistory
at Portland. From it's institution in
/ 1876 until advancing age compelled hi
retirement in 1909, he was treasurer OF
the Lodge Of Perfection.
! Mrs. Stetson was Miss Hattie Smith
a daughter of Capt. John n. Smith OF
Bath. Both Mr.. and Mrs. Stetson are
members of the Pine Street Congrega
! tional church. They have three sons
George B. and John n. s. Stetson OF
Boston and Edward S. Stetson, with
whom they live in Lewiston.
! 1t is expected that the Unitarian
church. being erected at the corner OF
Main and Lebanon streets, Sanford
will be completed about Thanksgiving
| Bangor will not be called upon tc
economize on electricity to any extent
to save coal, as all the electricity gen.
Grated Whereabouts, except in a few
private plants, is from water power, OF
which there is an abundance.
The 4ood old ladies at the Bangor
Home for Aged Women, nearly all OF
whom are we'll past 10, are taking
much delight in working for the Red
Cross. One has knit 33 pairs of serv-
i ice socks, eight pairs of wristers anG
eight pairs of bed socks. Another has
| made 25 pairs of wristers and many
other articles. Another has made 2e
shirts and five suits of pajamas. Sew
| eral who are not able to knit have cut
clippings for SO ambulance and com
fort pillows.
One of the humors of last week al
Bangor was the salt stampede which
lasted two or three days. This
seemed TO be largely confined to the
foreign population. Nothing in the
way of argument could convince the
people that there was no. danger Of g
shortage in salt. The run" was wei
met and there's salt left.
|
Mrs. W. F. Crommett of South
Dover, who is totally blind. is among
those entitled to credit for war relief
work. having made 25 hospital pillows
for the Red Cross organization.
Frank w. Woodman's sudden deatt
removes a Portland banker who had
served one institution continuously
more than 40 years. He went from
school to the Casco National Bank
when there were only five employe:
and he was on duty the day before he
died. At the age Of 81 he was a.
punctual and as devoted to his duties
&C in any stage of his long career He