Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-04-21

at your service.-Adv.
| Maine Gossip
Recipe for a Day
Take a little ash of cold water.
| And little leaven of prayer.
| And little bit of morning gold
| Dissolved in the morning air.
Add to your meal some merriment.
| And thought of kith and kin:
And then as your prime ingredient
| A plenty Of work thrown in.
But spice it all with the essence of love,
! And little Whit of play;
! Let wise old Book and glance above
| Complete the we'll made day.
Automobiles have been running
from Pennington to West village and
from North village to North Arson
for the greater part of the winter up
to a week ago, when the rains and
frost coming out of the ground
stopped them.
A big drop in lobster prices has been
noted during the past week. The fish
:
! stances but IS cents pound where a
! week ago they were getting 81 cents.
Somewhat hard on the fisherman bat
puts the price little nearer the reach
! Of the average purchaser.-knox Mes
senger.
Says the Lewiston Sun: Some Of
the parents whose children are pupils
in the Lewiston High school, as we'll
as those who have taken their chill
dren out of this school and sent them
to some out of town school Of similar
rating. feel that conditions at Lewis
ton High, are not what they should be
and that the school authorities should
Immediately take steps to correct
them. Lack Of discipline and improp-
/ er language in the class rooms. es-
pecially on the part Of one of the
teachers, are among the subjects for
complaint.
Seth J. Moore. for several years
circulation manager of the Lewiston
! Journal, has resigned his position to
become branch manager for the Crow
ell Publishing Co, of New York
publishers of the American Magazine
and Woman's Home Companion. Mr..
Moore's territory will include Hart
ford, New Haven, Bridgeport. New
Britain and Waterbury. all in Con-
necticut, and he will have charge of
the company's new Office which is be-
ing opened at Room "a, Poll Build
| ing, % Church street. New Haven.
He will go from Lewiston to SPRING
field. Mass. for two weeks and ex-
poets to be in New Haven about the
2lst Mrs. Moore will remain in Au-
burn for a short time.
Earle D. Merrill, principal Of
the Washington County Normal
school at Machias. who left a year
ago last November for war work and
who has recently returned from An
gers. France. has brought his war rel
les to the school. They include his
helmet. a gas mask. soldiers can
teen and cook kit. real hand grenade
or ''whiz bang" a copy of a piece
of German propaganda dropped from
a German flying machine upon the
battlefield Of Verdun and picked up
by Holt Whitney. a Jonesboro boy
and a gradr-te Of Washington Nor
NAL school. 1916. Mr.. Merrill also
brought home money of 10 different
| foreign countries which came to him
while serving for a short time IS
| chaplain's assistant at Anglers where
he was situated for six months.
| While there he served in the 10th
Engineers. His studies were directed
| along the lines of camoutiage and
demolition.
| Miss Puma Deane, an army nurse
who recently gave a most interesting
account Of her life overseas, at the
home Of her sister, Mrs. B. l.. Small,
| OF Guilford. has returned from France
with two decorations. the Lorraine
| Cross for special advanced service
| given by the French and a special
gold star as a symbol Of citation by
General Pershing for special bravery
while an evacuation hospital was be-
ing bombed by a German plane. Miss
Deane was in service IA months. dur
ing which time she lived under the
same conditions as the men in tent
and dugout without roof overhead
most Of the time. She was one Of a
group Of nurses who were but five
miles behind the lines at the casualty
clearing stations and treated the boys
when first taken wounded from the
field. She was with the boys Of the
goth and 42d Divisions during the
worst fighting at Chateau Thierry.
Seicheprey. St. Mihiel. st. Bebasto-
pool and Verdun. 1t was while in
| evacuation No. that Miss Deane
showed unusual bravery when those
around her were lSfled or wounded.
for which she was awarded the spe-
cial decoration by General Pershing.
Miss Deane is graduate of the
Rockwell General hospital. class of
1913. She arrived home a few weeks
ago and is recuperating from q nerv-
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