Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-01-24
Maine Gossip
They Also Serve

They Also Serve
(F'rom the New York Times)
He wears no medals or ms breast
Nor in crisp khaki is he dressed
He rises 10 no revellle
Nor sails across the su!len sea
He merely Works-Works long and iate'
I Then starts afresh each day a eight!
lie has no governmental rank
He merely runs a little bank.
His family has gone to France.
His daughter drives an ambulance,
His sons are lighting to be Tree
On Flanders tleld-in Italy:
His wife has had the training, So
AS special nurse she, too, must go;
He speeds their going. pays their piliS.
For war or peace, for crepe or iriiis.
With steady effort he keeps trim
BY working sundays AT the gym,
For well he knows he must stay ny
To do his loyal, lonesome bit
4 prosy part, mere dull finance.
While all the others get to France!
But when this war is fought and won,
When stiled at last is every gun,
When battered, crippled sons come home,
Weary and spent, no more to roam,
or, quiet. lie beneath the grass
That trcmbles as young lovers pass,
Methinks some wise historian,
Telling the tale as best he can,
May write:
such armies could not fail!
And in that hour we tipped the scale.
Since wars, at last. are always Won,
Not only by grenade and gun.
But by each steadfast, plodding dad
Who has the grit to give his lad,
And who, at home, shames every shirk
b. vital ririle. tireleSS work.
Elizabeth Newport Hepburn.
An Augusta grocer remarked Wednes-
day morning that since the sugar marke,
had become easier and people were get.
ting little, the sale OF apples had bs-
gun to increase, as we'll as other articles
in the cooking OF which sugar is used.
Forty minutes more of daylight is
scheduled for today than during the
shortest days of winter
Benjamin Thompson was elected presi-
dent of the Cumberland Bar Association
at the annual meeting at Portland Tues
day and the other officers chosen were:
Vive president, Scott Wilson: secretary
treasurer, Benjamin G.. Ward; executive
committee Eugene J.. Dodge, A. 6. Wood
man, George c. Wheeler, +. J. Laugl.tin
and Phillip 6. Clifford; entertainment
committee, Carroll b. Skilin. Leon V.
Walker and j. II. Mccain. Reports of
the various committees were made and
the committee with relation to the Henry
Cleaves law library stated that it ha.
been in touch with the federal authorf-
ties in an attempt to discover whether
there was room for tho placement Of this
library in the federal court house.
! Some OF tine largest and most beauti-
full ice formations ever seen on the
Maine coast have appeared during the
/ prolonged cold spell, wherever a beach
is to be found and they are many.
Some OF them tower mountains high
and caves ana fantastic shapes afford
! a constantly changing View from
whatever angle seen.
/ The men of the Protestant churches
of Auburn and Lewiston next Friday
/ evening will hold a Good Fellowship
meeting and supper in City hall This
meeting is a result of supper given
by the mems Bible class Of the Pine
Street Congregational church. which
was attended by the pastors of all the
local churches. At this meeting the
idea was suggested of an organization
of the men OF the churches for socia :
bility and general improvement.
Thirty one new scholars add to the
problems of Supt James \. Hamlin
and the school board of Dexter. Many
of the rooms are 50 crowded that extra
seats arc placed in the aisles and
floors. The question OF housing DeX-
ters rapidly increasing pupils will he
considered at the annual town meeting.
The annual census taken by the par
ishes of st. Peter and ST. Marie in
Lewiston indicates a population of
French and Canadians in Lewiston and
Auburn of about 10000. or nearly one
half the population Of Lewiston and
Auburn st. Peters parish has a total
of 1850. St. Maries parish is esti-
mated to have about $500 and st.
Louis parish in Auburn about 5000.
| There are 1876 families in st. Peters
/ parish. and during the last year there
We're ia marriages, Is deaths and 334
births.
! BY the Will of Woodman {. Pitman
the Unitarian church society of Bangor
receives half of the income OF a trust
/ fund of about $4,000 and will later re
ceive all the income. Efforts will he
made to bring the endowment fund OF
the church up 10 100000, being over
/ $4,000 at present.
4 well known city empioye. who Is
somewhat of a wag. visited Bangor last
! fall and had lots of fun with an alleged
patent medicine, which was introduced
under the name of "Bsbee's Mixture
states the Rockland Courier Gazette
: Just by way of getting even with him
/ the Bangor victims enlisted the serv-
! ices of a travelling man. who came here
! last week under the suise OF being q
! food inspector. and sought out the pro-
nrietor of "Bisbees Mixture" He an
pounced his errand with such stern
I ,mpressiyeness that Ben could almost