Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-10-30
Maine GOSSIP
The Optimist

Who had served his country faithfully
And a noble victory won!
Maybe man who had burned Jour
home
And murdered your wife and child.
Would be welcomed by you with Gour-
And with pleasant words beguiled:
Maybe you'd ask him to stay with you
Till your grief was reconcileG.
So maybe YOU want the Prussian crew
That has broken all laws Of God
And ravished and pillaged Belgium and
France
With an iron heel. hate-shod,
To be freed from war ere a single tight
Has Redeemed its selfish sod!
10, by all the heroes sainted now,
And all the battered men.
And all the ruined towns and homes,
Let our force be pledged again.
That peace shall come when the Rhine
is crossed,
With no thought of peace till then!
BY all the women who weep alona
And every orphaned child
BY every altar desecrate
And every girl detiled
Let US pledge our strength to the uttsr-
Till the Huns in He'll are piled!
Leigh Mitchell Hodges in North Amer
lean. Philadelphia.
The Bangor Chamber of Com
merce Monday afternoon voted to
take over the conduct of the Maine
Music Festival for Bangor and the
necessary action on the part of the
Eastern Maine Festival Association
was voted. The probable dates for
the Festival in Bangor are Nov. 1S,
10 and 20, one week later than the
Portland dates.
The best report from woman
hunter so far this season seems to be
vile in Greenbush, who has just re-
turned from a hunting trip with two
fine buck deer. One weighed when
dressed 100 pounds, the other,
spike horn, being smaller.
One Biddeford paper says that Mr..
ant Mrs. Edmund E. futile of
Franklin street, Saco, celebrated
their Golden wedding on Oct. %,
while the other says it was their
Silver wedding. But anyway, they
had a celebration and grand good
time. with a large number of callers
and remembrances, including sub
stantial purse Of money. Mr.. futile
was for long time an employee of
the Saco-Lowell Co. but was obliged
some time ago by shock to give up
work.
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which for 10 these many. many years
have adorned the business section f
Bangor ami been the cause of more p,o-
family than any of the other attract IS
I of that wonderfully attractive Durs.
have been replaced by wider, granoitnic
walks, most Of the wires have been
placed underground or on back stree.s.
ornamental electric light poles installed
and the whole thing spruced up amaz-
ingly.
The Unitarian church at Sanford has
been completed ard will be dedicated
on Nov. 3.-The location is at Main
and Lebanon streets. Work was begun
during the summer of 1917. The arcfi-
lecture is Of the 18th century colonial,
with few notifications. The auii;o-
rum will seat 240 persons.
The opening of huge new gym
nasium at the navy yard prison at
Kittery is announced and the making
up of a program for sports for the
winter on an equally as large scale.
Some 1850 sailors have registered
this month for athletics, they max
ing their own choice of the branch.
with reference to previous expert
ence. dividing the sports as follows:
Football 700; soccer $50: basketball
ESQ; volley ball $50; calesthenics 500;
playground ball 300; miscellaneous
5000 Two football leagues have been
formed. The gym will be opened for
the winter sports on Nov /. The
building will accommodate seven VOL
ley ball courts and four basketball
courts.
The beginning of shipbuildng op-
erations at Calais, where several
Government barges will be built,
marks the spread Of the industry to
the Eastern border Of the United
States. as the Calais yard overlooks
Canadian territory. For some years,
and until the revival Of shipbuilding
there was but one shipyard on the
Maine coast east of the Penobscot in
operation. the Sawyers at Milbridge
building a few vessels in a leisurely
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