Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-10-08

continue in Maine as long as it does
anywhere for Maine built ships al
ways have a high reputation.
Some idea of the cosmopolitan way
of running railroads now that they
are all under one head may be gath
cred from the make up of the Ameri-
can Express train which rolled into
the Union station at Portland Sunday
right on the dot of schedule time.
This train consisted Of Boston &
Maine engine 3671, a Maine Central
express car. a Boston & Maine car,
another Maine Central, a Boston &
Albany, a New York Central and on
the rear end Boston & Maine COM
bination car which was used as a
buggy"
The University Of Maine doesn't
seem like the same old place to the,
returning upper class men, what few
there are. The dozen fraternity
houses have been transformed into
barracks and are packed full Of
freshmen. All the superfiuous
furnishings, decorations and relics
have been packed away and the
identity as fraternity houses lost for
the present, except by name.
The dormitories are packed full of
men and the big gymnasiums is
mess hall. It is all army life now
with more than 700 boys in the Stu
dents Training Corps, of whom so
will be wearing navy uniforms. In
addition there will be about 200 en-
listed men in a training detachment,
not university students, besides civ
ilian students and about 800 girls.
The girls have two houses to them
selves as usual and the non military
students have separate quarters. AL
together there are nearly 1900 people
in the university colony, and prac-
tically all under a two weeks quaran-
tine just now. Every effort will be
made to keep out influenza and not
case of the genuine disease has yet
been reported.
With a large freight steamship
half completed, two four-masted
schooners well in hand, and the keel
laid for government barge, work at
the Cobb shipyard at Rockland has
reached the busiest point in that
yards history. A fifth set of ways is
also being constructed, and another
government barge will be commenced
as soon as the materials arrive.
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woods for two nights and until the
afternoon of another day while
searching parties were looking for
him, Isaac Kelley, 15-year- old son of
B. A. Kelley of Caribou, has been
found in q farmhouse nearly eight
miles from home. The lad went
hunting with a party and became
lost. He finally found his way out to
a farmhouse, where he dropped I'M
conscious from hunger and exhaus-
ton. 1t was some time before he
revived sufficiently to tell who he
was.
The record price for labor appears
to have been reached at Caribou
when a 14-year-old boy is paid Sc
day and board for picking potatoes
on one of the large farms there, with
more than 100 hands at work. The
total payroll on that farm is about
$500 a day, some of the professional
pickcrs who work by the barrel and
put in long hours making SIS a day.
One woman has been making from S.
to Sc a day since the season began.
Capt. Carroll Swan in describing
the daring exploits of the 26th Divi-
sion in a letter to the Boston Sunday
Advertiser, has high praise for the
Maine boys. He says:
Colonel Hume, in command of the
103d Infantry under General Cole,
comes from Houlton, Me-, and has
Maine boys mostly under his COM
mand. He has built a wonderful
regiment-all real fighting men.
Major Southland of Bangor, Me,
under Colonel Hume, is an old soldier
and one of the picturesque figures of
the regiment.
ION another occasion the order
was to take certain towns. No
provision had been made for
emergency rations, and after the men
had taken the towns, there was no
likelihood of their being able to get
any food. 'Hh, H said he; we'll
take the towns and worry about food
afterwards" He is great old scout.
In another action. the 103d were
storm troops, ordered to take certain
towns. 1t was tough piece of work,
but they were ordered to take them
and take them they did. The Major
was hit in the arm sometime during
the conflict but camouf1aged it and
went on and took the next town with
his battalion-then he was hit again
so that he had to be sent back to a
hospital. But he had taken that
town!