Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-05-21

| swimmer, besides taxing dI aeAi>S ~
| est in many branches Of athietics.
The Bangor harbor masters nsures LUZ
the port OF Bangor show that up to May
Is this year the sailing tonnage dnciuolns
| bafges)~ arriving here amounts to 5000
| tons. an increase of 4S.S tons over the
corresponding period last year. Cargoes
this year have included $3.50 tons Of
coal. compared with 1880 tons last year.
Only three cargoes Of hard coal have ar
rived, all in barges, the great bulk being
steam COAL chiefly for railroads. Arri-
walls to date this year number 81, COM
pared with IS last year. The sailings bal
ance at u. A very considerable part Of
the soft coal arriving was in transit to
interior points.
| Since there are no laws and few execu-
tive orders or department regulations re-
garding the use of the flag, and still less
to apply to its use by civilians. the So
! ciety Of Patriotic Decorations and Civic
Improvement at Washington, D. c., has
issued the following information, which
being based on custom or good taste has
certain force of authority. The flag
should not be hoisted before sunrise nor
be allowed to remain up after sunset.
At morning and evening colors" civilian
spectators should stand at attention and
uncover during the playing of THE Star
| Spangled Banner" Military spectators
are required by regulations to stand at
attention and give the military salute.
The flag should never be allowed to touch
the ground and it should never be raised
or lowered by any mechanical appliance.
| With the object of better protecting
any property in the city and to make
| the force more competent in all re-
spects, Mayor Robinson and City Mar
| shall Miller will organize the regular
| and special officers of Westbrook into
a municipal squad and they will be
expected to drill and be as efficient as
any military organization.
| heard a minister say something the
other day which perhaps explains a
lot that has hitherto been uneXplain-
! Press. He was addressing a body OF
stood all alone; that he was the only
one of his kind in any part of this
section and that the responsibility of
doing all of his work alone and with
out the counsel of associates was APP
palling and that at times he almost
felt it too heavy to bear. l f.el sure
that this sense of loneliness and heavy
responsibility gets on a mans nerves
after awhile and makes him think and
say things that he would not give ut
terance to if he We're in the midst of
his fellows who could meet with and
counsel and perhaps admonish him.
/ If a man mas any sort of egotism
about him it will surely serve to make
him very much more self important
and probably will lead him into utter
ances that would never be let out
where the public could see them.
when my regiment, the 18th Maine,
under the command Of Colonel Neal
! Dow, soon to be made brigadier gen.
eral." said Henry S. Thrasher. of Port
land, marched through Portland, Feb
ruary g. 1867" we were 1908 strong.
| During it's three years service our reg
i iment was joined by recruits at differ
ent times, 1872 in ALL making the maxi
mum of those who We're conneced with
the regiment, 1862. OF this number
have up to date the records of 1881,
| leaving 1871 not accounted for Besides
myself the only other living members
of the regiment in Portland are Char
les b. Thurston, Eben S. Burns and
John H. Davis. In South Portland are
1 living Charles Pearson, John f. Brag-
don and Simon S. Andrews. know of
no other members Of the regiment llv-
| ing in this county"
AS usual at this season, A. X. Reed
| of Wadoboro has a crew of men set
ting out pine trees on one OF ms
lots in the eastern part of the town.
/ Owing to the danger of the pine tree
blister rust imported from Germany
! in nursery stock which is destroy
I ing white pines, he is now planting
red and Norway pines instead. He
has in the past five years put out S0,-
! 600 trees.
In the olden days of the glory OF
| the construction in this city of square
/ Triggers, when SO many men came mere
| from the Provinces to work in the
wooden shipyards and as the old tim
ers allege the population of Bath was
greater even than it is today, says the
Bath Times, the problem of housing
the men was by locating them in big
boarding houses, which easily solved
the problem as far as the bachelors
were interested. The many humble
cottages and some more pretentlous
of the homes of ship carpenters which
still remain many of them at the north
and south ends. although most of the
big boarding houses of those times
have disappeared, were built for homes
by the workingmen themselves.
The Calais and Midtown firemen,
who recently threatened to resign I'M
less their demands for increased pay
were granted, have won their fight
with the City Fathers, who have at
last voted them yearly salaries of $500
and SIS, respectively, in full for all
services. The city council at first re-
fused the demands and voted 500 and
s57, but the men declared they
wouldn't turn out for that and threat
ened to leave the two places without
an organized body of firemen.