Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-06-18
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The Service Ftau.

AVAI>ssIC oOOS1p
The Service Flag.
Dear old flag in the window there.
Hung with tear and a woman's
Child of Old Glory. born with a star
Oh, what a wonderful flag you are.
Blue is your star in its field of white.
Dipped in the red that was born of fight
Born OF the blood that our forbears
To raise your mother-The Flag-oer-
head
And now you've come in this frenzied
dav,
To speak from window-to speak and
II am the voice of a soldier son,
Gone, to be gone till the victory's won.
Il am the flag of The Service. sir
The flag of his mother-I speak Tor her
Who stands by my WINDOW anu waits
But hides from the others her unwept
tears.
II am the flag of the wives who wait
For the safe return OF martial mate
4 mate gone forth where the war god
thrives,
To save from sacrifice other men S
lives.
Il am the flag of the sweethearts true
The often unthought of-the sisters, too
| am the flag of a mothers son,
And won't come home till the victory s
won
Dear little flag in the window there
Hung with a tear and woman
CbiId Of Old Glory. born with star
Oh what a wonderful flag you are!
William Herschell in the Indianapolis
News.
A number of prominent weir fish
ermen of Washington and Waldo
counties met Thursday at NIachias
and took steps for organizing the
herring fishermen of Maine. Another
meeting will be held Thursday. June
20 in Bangor and a permanent or
ganization will be formed.
Bangor police are looking for a
man who deliberately drove his auto
mobile through funeral procession
at Mt Hope cemetery, narrowly
avoiding collision. Most people are
possessed of enough decency to re-
spect a funeral.
Jesse Johnson of Bailey Island,
Casco bay. aged but IA years. is an
experienced fisherman, already work.
ing on wages with his father He
went out in his power boat the other
day on his own trip and came back
with a 116-pound halibut which
brought him $3.50.
Three recent graduates Of the
School for Navigation in Portland
have been assigned to the same ship.
They are all seafaring men and all
of Portland or vicinity. The three
officers are: First mate, Frank W.
Skinner of Portland. second mate,
Frank johnson of Long Island. third
Island.
Up to within year or so the iron
cross" has been one Of the most cher
ished possessions of the past camp
commanders of the Sons Of Veterans.
Today it stands as a thing abhorr2d,
in name at any rate, and Wednesday.
June II, at the opening session of the
36th annual encampment of the di-
vision at Portland, steps were taken
to have the next session Of the Com
mander-in Chief not only wipe out
the term iron cross" as the title of
the past commanders badge but also
to change the design of the emblem
which. although it bears no re-
semblance to the hated iron cross Of
Germany is held to be, from its name,
a most undesirable thing. The move
ment was recently started by Shiloh
Camp Of the Division of Illinois, and
at the session of Wednesday, w. F.
Mckinnon of Bangor proposed that
the same action should be taken by
the Maine Division putting it up to
the Commander in Chief to order the
change. The new badge proposed is
much the same as that of the Grand
Army of the Republic, a FIVE pointed
star Of bronze with the exception that
it bears on it's face the Sons of Vet
Grams emblem, and also that it Is
suspended by one point instead Of
from two points as the Grand Army
stars are suspended. There was no
debate on the subject but a unani-
nous vote by rising endorsed the
proposition Of Mr. Mckinnon.
The Argyle correspondent of the
Old Town Enterprise thus writes Of
q slippery matter:
The writer was out calling one day
recently. when the man Of the house
took her to the wood shed to see what
20 years ago was an every day oc-
currence, but what today we never
hear of or sec. 1t was a barrel of
soft soap made in the old-fashioned
way with hard wood ashes, water and
grease. 1t was made by man 20
years of age. He says his hand has
not lost its cunning as he can make
soap as well as he could so years ago.