Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-08-06

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The secret now I've told. That's why
nought can deter US,
When God is with US.
God and right and you.
A. NJ. FOLSOM.
Mrs. James r. Dill OF Bath is wearing
a four-star service pin in honor Of her
four grandsons who volunteered for
service. They are J. Roscoe Chase, and
Roland Haining, now in France; Sergt.
Ray Marshall at San Antonio. Texas.
and Guy D. Dill at Fort Totten, y. 7.
The annual meeting of the Squirrel
Island Association recently held, re-
elected the old officers, a follows Over
seers. Robert T Whtehouse. Josiah
s Maxcy, Albert +. Snowman, Charles
r White, Albert j. Brainard and Alex
ander Doyle; treasurer, Alexander
Doyle The reports of the officers all
showed progress and good financial
standing.
Grass growing in the city streets"
is a common expression, especially Of
the pessimst. Rockland can beat it
a mile, for there are two healthy let
tuce plants protruding through the
Pavement opposite the y. NJ. G. A.
building on LIMERICK street, says the
Courier Gazette. 1t should be ex-
planned, however, that the opposite
side of the street is a part Of the
burned district. One new block is al
ready being built there and another
is in prospect.
Joseph NJ. Hamlin shook hands
with Col. Roosevelt when the ex-
President came to Rockland the 9TH
Ell day. Il have two sons in the
service" said Joe. Put her there
again." said Col. Roosevelt. Prob
ably if Teddy had known that Joe
hamlin was once the champion
strong man in this section of Maine.
he would have insisted upon shaking
again.
4. l.. Kirk, at the age of so years.
has the banner home garden in this
vicinity, and it is justly receiving
many words of commentator, says
the Warren correspondent of the
Eockland Courier Gazette. He plant
&C it himself and has personally
managed it; has all the standard
vegetables growing at a flourishing
rate. His beans have climbed to the
/ ole-tops and Will require an airman
to pick them-one who has attended
the aviation school.
! When the late Moses owen, author of
/ The Returned Maine Battle Flags"
was a clerk in the Bath postoffice under
! Postmaster Greenleaf, George W. John
son was assistant postmaster, though
! only Is years old, recalls the Times
Between mails Moses Owen used to re-
peat from memory long extracts from
Milton's Paradise Lost" or Pope s
Essay on Man. apparently having the
contents of these works word for word
! in his head.
| On complaint of Mr.. and Mrs Ellis
Hall of Atkinson six young men and
women of that town were arrested on
the charge of disturbing the peace and
taken to Milo for hearing They tes-
hhed that Mr.. and Mrs. Hall were of
known pro-Germa1 sympathy and they
admitted that they had serenaded them
! by singing patriotic and popular war
songs, even after the Halls had tried to
drive them away. The county attorney
dismissed the charges and will report
the alleged sedtious utterances of the
Halls to the Federal authorities.
Westport, the little island town on
the Sheepscot. was allotted 100 pounds
of sugar and it was being placed on
launch at Wiscasset, when mischance
sent 1t overheard 1t was a total loss
and the Westport people, some of
whom have been out of sweetening for
days, are mourning.
Bath Is to have another theatre. The
lot bordering on Broad, Commercial and
Front streets, measuring about 1a5 bv
100 feet. was Friday sold to syndicate
composed of James P. Butler of Port
land, James P. Rumble of Biddeford and
John w. Duffee of Lawrence, Mass.
who will erect modern. fre-proof
structure, with an entrance through a
lobby IS feet long. through the present
Conforth store.
Inc Norway Board Of Trade recently
voted to raise 500 for prizes for a sec
tional county contest Of boys and girls
clubs to be held next October in Nor
way.
one Bath woman, in order to accom-
modate all the men wto wish to take
their meals at her house. uses her
ironing board for a table for five of
them-and not a grumpIe is heard from
them.
People coming up river on the Island
er Sunday afternoon, when just below
the breakwater below south Gardiner,
was treated to the once familiar. but
now unusual sight Of a good-sized stur-
geon leaping out Of water.
Considerable damage is reported In
some sections by the frost of last satur-
day night.
T. E. Gushee Of Camden was Satur-