Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-11-15

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I've never had much envy for the man
Who rolled in money and a limousine;
l hoped that I'd complete my little span.
Not rich or poor. but comfortably pc
tween.
I've felt spasm, now and then, Of
When some great writer phrased
poem well,
! Yet have l warmed myself before his
flame
And SO forgotten had less to tell.
Achievement, if it passed me by. must
knew no reason for vain regret
Far from the tideways boiling ebb ami
flow,
I'd be forgotten and I would forget.
But there are things. met man 20
A man, ! tell you:-with an empty
sleeve!
That much of him the Huns had shot
away,
And he was fresh from France at
home on leave.
The sights that man had seen.-tae
| A medal told its tale of work well
done,
And ne SO young-a lad just newly
grown
more won!
envied him the glory Of his cross.
Won in the hight for worldwide lib
ertyt
I envied him the hurt: The splen5id
Had left him SO much more than all
of me.
An American flag that saw service
in the Civil War was carried in the
Victory Day parade at West Fall
mouth and Mrs. Mary Houston. aged
rs years. marched the entire distance
beside her Eeven grandchildren.
| An interesting feature of the Vic
| tory celebration at Paris Hill, Mon
day, was the firing of the historic
musket that was brought over from
London in 1853 by Thomas Paris.
the founder Of the family in this
country, and has been fired every
Fourth Of July by some Of his descen-
dants since 1875. This gun was car
ried in war for American independ-
ence through six campaigns and sew
eral battles by Capt. Josiah Paris
and has now been fired by his grand
son, Hon. Edward J.. Paris, in cele-
bration OF the great world victory for
democracy over autocracy.
One Of the features Of the Monday
afternoon parade Of unusual interest
for older Bangor citizens was the ap-
pearance of the bell which once hung
! in the belfry of the old City Hall in
Columbia street, Bangor. The bell was
rung for the soldiers in '61 and on re-
turning home in 'G5, and on Monday
1t again celebrated for American SOL
diers in a still more memorable con-
fict. Most people had lost track OF
the historic bell, but Fire Chief Mason
removed 1t from its storage place and
loaded 1t into three horse hitch on
| Monday, thereby making a hit.
John Sanford, oldest son of Rev.
Frank w. SANFORD, the leader of
Shiloh. and Miss Theodore Holland
were married in the Temple on the
hilltop. Sunday, by the father of the
bridegroom. The couple were the
first two children born at Shiloh.
John Sanford is in training at Camp
Devens, and returned Tuesday night
following a short furlough spent at
home. He was accompanied by Mrs.
Sanford. who is the daughter of
Rev. and the late Mrs. c. z. Holland.
Al Sawyer of Bangor. lineman
with the B. II. G. E. Co., while travel
ing the line near West Old Town the
other day heard a threshing in the
bushes. He investigated and found
| big deer, which had just been killed
by bear. Bruin had scooted when
1t heard Sawyer approaching, so the
latter salvaged those parts of the
carcass which had not been mangled
but left the rest of the deer for the
slayer. The deer had previously been
shot and its leg broken which ac-
counted for the bear being able to
overtake and kill it.
The foreign steamship business Is
evidently going to start up with a
rush and it is all the better because
it is so totally unexpected, said
there haverbeen steamers coming and
going all along. although under the
| censorship. now a thing Of the past,
the papers have not said anything
about 1t. But from now on all will be
free and above board and just at that
time the regular liners are beginning
to come in punches. The Northland
| came in Tuesday almost wholly with
out warning. The officials had just
time to jump a train from Montreal
and land here in time to meet the
ship when she locked. The North
land has been in the hospital service
for some time past, but evidently has
been released from that duty. She
brought some inward cargo. but to
date her outward cargo has not ar
rived and she will have to lie at the
dock awhile until 1t comes. The big