Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-10-28
Maine Gossip
The Day Of Peace

Name Gossip
The Day Of Peace
Done are the tolls and the wearisome
marches,
Done is the summons, Of bugle aud
Softly and sweetly the sky overarches.
sheltering land where rebellion is
dumb.
Dark we're the days Of the country's de-
Sad were the hours when the conflict
But through the gloom of fraternal es-
arrangement
God sent his light. and we welcome the
dawn.
Ger the expanse Of our mighty domin-
Sweeping away to the uttermost parts.
Peace. the wide-fiying. on untiring pin
Bringing her message, of Joy to our
hearts.
Out of the blood of a conflict fraternal.
Out. of the dust and the dimness Of
Burst into blossoms Of glory eternal
Flowers that sweeten the world with
their breath,
Bloom in the hearts that are empty Of
strife,
Love that is boundless and broad as the
ocean
Leaps into beauty and fuliness of life.
So with the singing OF peans and tho-
And with the flag flashing high IN the
sun,
Place on the graves of our heroes the
Which their unfaltering valor has won,
Paul Lawrence Dunbar.
Thanks to the quick thought and
fearlessness of his mother, Dwight,
the 2-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Alvin Flood of West Bath, is living.
The youngster was playing with an
oar, splashing water in the New
Meadows river when he lost his bal
ance and fell into the river. A neigh
Dor who aw the child fall called
Dwight's mother who rushed to the
river bank and jumped into the wa
ter. Although the water was nearly
to her neck she succeeded in getting
hold of the child and brought it safe
ly to the shore. Warm clothing and
plenty of heat soon made the chilled
mother and child as comfortable as
ever. and beyond the shock and
fright neither was injured by the
chilly bath.
The emergency hospital at the Elks
Home, Bath was closed Friday, leav
ing but one in operation, that at the
Grace Church Parish house. The
Bath emergency hospitals treated
2S6 cases during the influenza run, in
addition to the hundreds of cases in
private families.
More than 100 young women from
New England are wanted to serve in
overseas canteens, according to a re-
quest sent out by the War Depart
ment through the Y. M. c. A. The
work Is purely voluntary, as the as
ISOLATION is not in a position to pay
any salaries. But for those well
fitted to fill the requirements OF the
work, the association assumes the
responsibility of their transportation,
living expenses and uniform, the
worker only having to provide small!
sum for emergencies, initial equip
ment and incidentals. The chairman
of the Committee for Maine of the
Women's Overseas Section of the Y.
NJ. c. A. is Miss Marguerite Ogden,
So Clifton ST., Portland.
Winfield E. Wallace was off Seguin
last Sunday fishing from a power
boat for cod and other ground fish,
He was somewhat astonished when
ho fr-oy
ster. The claws had many barnacles
and the body was as large as "a good
sized dog" The monster has been
exhibited in Portland and Bath.
We have before stated that the
ferryboat Hockomock, that ancient
and horri-no, honorable steam craft
that plies most of the navigation sea-
son between Bath and Woolwich, has
gone TO Boothbay Harbor for her an
null overhauling and repairs. She
arrived there Monday morning. The
Bath Times in chronicling that
marine movement, which Uncle Sam
did not deem of sufficient Importance
to the enemy to censor, gravely in
forms us that Capt. Coss, while cross
ing Sheepscot bay sighted a whale
1t confines (and please don't laugh:
Having no harpoons on board the
captain did not make chase" Pretty
good, eh?
A member of the medical examin-
ing board at Portland tells the Elk
press Stroller the following good
story. although we don't believe it
applies to any Maine soldier boy:
"A man presented himself for ex
animation the other day and I put
the usual query, well what's the mat
ter with you?" The man replied
''Timorbill." I said completely mys-
titled. "What?" He repeated it,
"Timorbill." Put don't know what
it is" said the examiner. So the man
produced a paper from his doctor,
and on it was written, This man is
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