Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-04-24

Your little wise head high:
You tell the world the happy truth
Blow. breezes. blow across the hills.
Blow from spicy zone
Swift. laughing, nuttering. fragrant
winds,
You come bac!: to your own.
Sing, water. with a merry sound
As you go leaping by
You must awake with sprinStime's
kiss
Life cannot die.
Pray. loving hearts of all the world.
kneel at the shrine of spring.
To all the beauty OF the earth
The souls own beauty bring.
Bloom, soul. within this radiant hour
The June Of life draws nigh:
Let your soul blossom with the spring
Life cannot die.
Mrs Margaret L. Mcfarland quiet
ly observed her 9th birthday Tues
day at her home on Drummer street.
Bath. Mrs. Mcfarland lives alone in
a little house almost in the midst of
the new houses built by the Emerg
ency Fleet Corporation, and much of
the teaming for that project has gone
past her door. She has passed many
hours watching the activities as her
sight is failing SO that she can
neither read nor write. Mrs. McFar-
land does all her own housework,
even to her laundry. and during the
cold weather took care OF two fires.
Mrs. Mcfarland is we'll preserved and
although little deaf moves about her
tiny home as quickly and easily as
when a much younger woman. For
more than 60 years Mrs. Mcfarland
has lived in Bath. She was born on
Grand Manan April %. 1922. daughter
of. Mr.. and Mrs. James kendrick. At
the age of % she was married to
John Mcfarland, who died many
years ago. Mrs. Mcfarland was a
member OF the old North Street Free
Baptist church. She has no children
but has several sisters and brother.
The road from Phippshurg Center
to Popham Beach will become one of
the best in this part Of the county as
a result of the special town meeting
in Phippsburg Monday when the vot-
ers decided to raise $1,000 for the pur-
pose Of reconstructing that road and
by SO doing made available the $4,000
which was appropriated by the State
providing the town would appropriate
the $1,000 voted on Monday.
The post office at Naples. Me. has
been relegated to the fourth class.
This change from the third is in ac-
cordance with post Office department
rules that when an office fails to
reach a stipulated amount Of BUSH
ness for the year. i: must be reclassi-
fed to the next lower division. The
ONCE has been one Of third class
grade for a considerable time but for
the past year has not reached the re-
quired amount of business to hold its
classification. Edward c. Watson is
the postmaster OF the Office.
Mayor Drake Of Bath has issued a
call from the chairmen of the
boards Of selectmen in all the towns
of Sagadahoc county and the county
commissioners to meet on April "a in
Bath TO make arrangements for the
towns and county to provide suitable
recognition of the services of the
men who went into the service dur
ing the great war.
Miss Evangeline c. Booth. third
daughter Of William Booth. who was
the founder and first general of the
Salvation Army. will address a pub
lie meeting in City hall, Portland,
Sunday, April -. at 3 p. NJ. Miss
Booth is commander in chief OF the
Salvation Army throughout the
United States. s--
A bogus 50-cent piece. SO near 4
duplicate of good piece of money
that it temporarily fooled cashiers of
two Portland banks. is in circulation
in Portland. Whether or not there
be others OF it's Tx in town is un-
at local restaurant, the cashier
having taken it from a customer bu:
not knowing now who passed 1t in.
1t looks at first glance exactly like a
good coin but there is a false note
when the money is hidden to Jingle.
The milling is not as clearly defined
as on the good coin and the piece in
question today weighs a grain and a
half heavier. Cashiers Of two Port
land banks were asked to decide as
between the bad coin and a good coin
today and both at first declared both
good. only to change their opinions
on close examination.
A marked character and a familiar
figure in Lewiston is Harry Orburn
Of Main street. says the Lewiston
Journal. Mr.. Orburn is a half breed
in blood as his mother was an
Apache squaw, while his father was
full-blood Scotchman. and the COM
bination produced a son Of marked
ability. He has all the chief charac-
teristics Of the Indian with all the
eloquence and intellectual force of
the Scot. He is a natural woodsman
and in the deepest forest can easily
trace his way, and trail the bear to
his lair. II you turn your back to
him a single moment in the woods
he can disappear az, Indian-like. he
can hide behind tree so that he
cannot be seen. Tenacity Of purpose
and strength Of will are his from the
Indian blood that courses thru his
veins. From the Scotch side he has
inherited a religious turn that is very
marked. He knows the Bible from
cover to cover. and is very intense in