Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-10-02
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The Great Review

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What soldiers come across the field
With soft and loving tread. -s:'
And swiftly go and gently pass
Among the wounded. dead?
No task too great-no deed too small
For their untiring hands:
They aid alike both friend and foe.
or many climes and lands.
Look! on their sleeves they wear a
cross
A brilliant Cross of Red!
1t bears a message from That Cross
On which Patriot bled!
From all the world these soldiers come,
From lands of palm and pine,
From loved Italias sunny shore
From far beyond the Rhine.
From great America they come
And Canada the Fair:
A host of loyal-hearted souls .
Coming from everywhere.
Make way for them. make way for
them
The wearers of the Cross!
They come to bless and comfort those
Who suffer pain and loss!
And many a dying soldier-far
From Home and Mother-love
Blesses the wearers of the Cross
Ere pass their souls above.
Az! when the Great Review is given
Within the Courts of Heaven
Where all the saints and angels stand
Amid the lights Of event
Before the throne. the First to pass
In glorious array,
Will be the souls who wore the Cross
Upon an earthly way.
Look. on the sleeves they wear
Cross
A brilliant Cross of Red!
It bears a message from That Cross
On which Patriot bled!
Now comes a report from Freeport
that one Of the older residents, man.
is expert at patchwork and has made an
all-silk quilt, in the sunrise pattern, for
which he has been offered $780, He
must be a shrewd business man as we'll
as needle worker, for he is holding for
rise.
Caribou is talking of postponing open
ing of the public schools until October
18th, in order that the boys and girls
may help gather the potato crop. labor
being very scarce in Aroos:ook county
this fall.
A Portland lawyer tells this one on
himself-or rather it is really on his
wife. The other day he wanted to do
some repair work on his automobile in
the garage hard by his cottage in the
suburbs, so he put on some shabby old
clothes. After he had finished the job
he was about to enter his front gate
when a tramp stopped him. Beat it,"
the hobo said earnestly in a confidential
whisper, Il have just been there. And
she's a regular bear cat.'
The little bungalow. formerly occupied
by Capt. W. G. Small as towboat Office
on the Muliigan wharf, Bath, has been
converted into a one room tenement and
is the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred L.
Gardner and their three children. A
shed has been built on the south side.
Mr.. Gardner says. that although pretty
snug quarters for his family, it Coesn't
require much fuel to keep it warm.
eight inches long was brought TO the
y
Times Office Friday afternoon by Robert
Sutherland of 2s9 Center street, and .s
now on exhibition in the window of the
Times business Office. That is the
longest hollyhock I ever saw said Mr..
Sutherland. and it grew from chance
seeding that blew into my yard from
that OF Lester Pratt, neighbor I've
grown all kinds of flowers and vegeta-
Yes in my garden for 40 years. hut
never had anything like this" There
have been an even 100 blossoms on this
stalk ard five were in full bloom when
the plant blew over in the storm.-Bath
Daily Times.
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