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

wives.
IT am the flag Of the sweethearts true.
| The often unthought of-the sisters
am the flag of a mothers son
And won't come down till the victorys
won
Dear little flag in the window there.
Hung with tear and a woman 8
CHA Of oid Glory, born with a star
Oh what a wonderful rag you are
/ William HerscheN.
! 4 special communication of the Grand
Lodge of Maine, Free and Accepted Ma
sons, will be held on Friday. Aug. 3. at
Houlton for the purpose of laying the
cornerstone Of the new Masonic temple.
The ceremony Will be performed by r.
+ w Deputy Grand Master Edward W.
Wheeler of Brunswick, who will be
pleased to have the assistance of the
grand officers.
The funeral of Francis E. Stanley was
held from the home in Newton. Mass.
Sunday afternoon, Rev, Adelbert Hud-
son Of Quincy officiating, and the burial
was in Newton cemetery. Further de-
tails of the sad affair show that when
Mr.. Stanley left Squirrel Island Wednes-
day, he intended TO go 10 Vermont. At
the garage at BoothDay Harbor, he
mentioned that his steering gear was
not working right When he reached
Brunswick, ne went to a garage be-
cause of the trouble with the steering
gear and tried to flxit. 1t did not WORK
TO suit him and he changed his plans
and started for Newton. 1t is believe /
that the fatal accident was due to the
failure of the steering gear to respond
when required His brother, F. O.
Stanley, reached Denver, Col, late
Wednesday afternoon, and received the
sad message just as he arrived at Estes
/ Park. He Immediately left for Boston,
and reached Newton Sunday morning
The Bangor News. in passing, re-
marks.
The Associated Press report of the
Roosevelt meeting at Dark Harbor,
, Sunday as printed in many Maine Bos-
ton and New York papers. appears to
have been written by someone who
didn't bother to so over there The
t Colonel is pictured as speaking benea IN
= Pine trees while eight husky fishermen
= formed body guard. Considering that
there ism pine tree big enough to
stand under, within a mile OF the Inn
where the meeting was held, and that
. the eight husky fishermen didn't form
81 bhH ND
I eight husky fishermen on the islam
= just now, and no body-guard of any
. kind was formed or needed. someons
must have drawn upon a vivid ina gina
ton.
. Someone started the report that John
Y D. Rockefeller was on the platform
evidently mistaking a prominent sum-
8 mer resident who somewhat resembles
h the oil king in general appearance, for
o John D. himself Mr. Rockefeller never
stepped foot on the island, as far as car
be ascertained,-not in recent years. il
ever.
n mat 1T isn't safe to make remarks
/, about friends who are about to enter
r the army was demonstrated in the case
of a Russian who thought that he had
it over his friend about to enter tho
e service, reports the Bangor CONNER
" clal A,ney were talking on the street
= corr ,nne1y and one said to the
9th WE, were you fool enough to
. get Taught in 'th t., draft. l got out of j,
all, all rssh' They di9sn't call me- His
frlend| about % leave for camp. ddn',
t ',ke 'his Jocose remark. and reported i
II % ae'o'i' an Foley, who asked 'he first
: Not heinz - NEW wow his registl ra''0n caro-
: ing apparently of draf. .se. the office,
LOOK s, nun to ia: where ne is now held
pending investig Mo-. lie claims he is
? above draft age al :. lat he was merely
d Joking, At first. III took the Who'll,
= thing as a Joke. but when he was out m
a cell, he cried.
, Immediately upon his arrival at Ba,
n HarboF, Mr., Carnegie expressed e de-
sire to 30 sailing. says the Bar Harbcr
correspondent of the Commercial. As
o no boat is permitted 10 leave the Har-
q oor without special permit, Mr.. Car
heg'e secretary, John A Paynton, was
commissioned to see to this Mr.. Pawn
ION, who IS staying at the Eewport.
was seen to De engaged in earnest con-
" Versa'ion with Stephen Kingsley. As
everyone knows when one talks with
MT Kingsley it is necessary to retire
u 20 a secluded alley because of the nee
ess'tT Of using an ear trumpet, this Sc
c?et conclave looked mysterious to A
PasSerhy who rang up the police and
reported the circumstance as evidence
y OF an enemy alien in our midst. Fol-
( lowing upon the courtesy of allowing
: MI carnegie to use his private car on
the route to Bar Harbor. the incident
was amusing to say the least.
Daniel Wilder brought from his
brother Miltard,s farm in Temple. Mon
day, sample of some grated potatoes
which are something of curiosity re-
ports the Pennington Journal, Mr.
o Wilder used red and white variety for
: The process. planting the pieces side by
side in the hills. The result is potatoes
nalf white and half red, very smooth
and Of good size.
: Charge it to Mrs. Polk" is all that
Il anyone wea ring the uniform OF III.