Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-01-26
Name Gossip
God. First

II am the Lord Thy Cod
elizabeth Powers Merrill)
America lift up thy soul
| Turn thou to God, the Lord OF Hosts!
! Doomed is the land that trusts Its All
! To blades Of steel-to wicked boasts
Victor the land that first accords
To God-the glory and the might.
| Upon thy door posts brand the words
! The Lord is King. He reigns by right
Nations pour out loftier strain
Whose souls above earth's Kingdoms rise,
| Goliath by a David slain
Deed lauded to the star-set skies.
| Seven times about the mighty walls
OF Jericho. an army trod
! The trun1pets blew-the ramparts fell
| And Israel Acknowledged God.
Blazing battalions rise afar
Clad in the panoply OF var.
| Arm now thyself. America.
| There is One God-there is One Law!
Sins Castle rising in the air
Shattered by Parsfars One spear:
| So falls the evil everywhere
| The Hour of reckoning draws near.
Let some days from thy passing days
To higher life be set aside.
Let men walk interrupted ways
| Prayers rise like a returning tide.
To Him who did all life endow,
At whose behest fall wind and wave.
To Him-let every mortal bow!
| In God alone the Power to Save.
! Joseph Sawyer Of Maple avenue, Scar
boro, 81 years of age, did his bit toward
the ''cut a cord" plan One day last week
he went into the woods and while the
young man accompanying him was de-
livering a load of wood to nearby fam
| lily, he cut and prepared a large load for
his home use Mr.. Sawyer not only is an
expert with the saw and axe. but he es-
tablihsed record for himself in digging
potatoes not long ago. Mr.. Sawyer is
Scarboro's oldest citizen.
| Henry L. Moor OF Ellsworth says that
the famous Gold Friday" was 81 years
ago on January g. 1857. The thermome
ter registered 40 below zero in Ellsworth.
| Bangor Theological Semlnary's Convo-
cation week, announced for Jan. 2s-Feb.
!, has been Cancelled because Of the coal
shortage at iangor. All arrangements
had been MADE. Bishop Edwin II. Hughes
DR.. S. Parkes Cadman. Professor George
H. Palmer and DR.. Floyd w. Tompkins
to have been the 18th annual gathering OF
the sort, but has now to be deferred for
one year.
The following from the last issue of the
Sheepscot Echo. Wiscasset, where Mr..
and Mrs. II. Price Weber are passing the
winter, seems to indicate zone on Price;
Tuesday last was one of the worst
storms We have had here for many years
In the morning the snow came down Sc
thick and fast that it almost blinded one
to be out Of doors. At noon the rain came
down quite lively making it very Difficult;
for pedestrians to keep their balance. One
gentleman trod on the treacherous ice IN
front of Halves store and was precipitat-
ed in rather undignifed manner to the
ground. Our friend, Price Weber, the
was on his way to the post office whe:
the man fell and called out:
THE wicked tread in slippery places.'
Just then a heavy snow slide from the
roof fell on Price, and - nurrie lily
down. Looking at the fallen snow Price
said:
This is an unwarrantabe intrusion!'
Charles Knight shouted from the other
side of the street:
Never mind, Price, the snow is soft!'
VERY true, Charles" SAID the comedian
'but unfortunately l did not fall on the
snow, l fell on the ice and it is anything
but soft!''
A roar OF laughte, from the bystanders
greeted the ir cden.
A special communication of the Grand
Lodge of Maine, Free and Accepted Ma
sons. will be held at 73o p. NJ. Wednes-
day. Feb. 6. at Limestone for the pur-
pose Of dedcating the new hall of Lime
stone Lodge, No. pa The ceremony will
be performed by Grand Master Waldo
Pettengill of Rumford. who will be
pleased to have the aid of the grand Off.
GERS.
Two silver foxes have recently been sho;
near Pembroke. One was secured by Car.
trol Fisher OF Perry and the other by John
Gleason of West Pembroke. They were
lin fine condition and said to have been
the first silver foxes seen in that vicinity
for over 80 years.
Windsor man in the city Wednes
day said that his section has abou,
three feet of snow on the level.
William H. Marston, who was seri-
ously injured about three weeks ago by
being Caught and crushed by the ele-
vator in the Fitz last factory in Lewis
ton, has recovered sufficiently to be
removed to his home from the hospital
and has a wonderful tale of his ex-
periences to tell, declaring tina. ne ex-
perienced all the sensations credited to
the dying. When the elevator first
caught him and the bones of his jaw
began to crush he exerted all his
strength to free himself and in this
succeeded. He then fell to the floor
and for a time that to him seemed