Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-11-11
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The most beautiful colors in all the
world
On heaven-born breezes wherever I'M
furled
The bloodred red and the snowy white
And the truest of blue in the thickest
In homeland and farmland wherever
unfurled.
The grandest, most beautiful flag in
the world.
Our tri-colored banner. the grandest
on earth
For in death throes and carnage you
had your proud birth.
Your folds breathe the spirit of Puri-
tan will.
And undaunted vaior at old Bunker
Hill.
And of thousands and thousands of
men strong and brave
Who served the ShackleS OF DOWN
trodden slave,
When cur meadows grew brown and
our rivers run red
With the flood of the life-blood our
martyred zones shed.
Twas a message of home and of love
you did Lear.
To our brave Yankee boys in the trench
over There"
Allied with defenders. hard striving as
. one
Avenging the wrong of the furious
They gave to glad world our Armis-
tice Day
Then crowned as victors came back
from the fray
Meath the red; blood-red and the
And the .truest of blue in the thickest
fight
Red-veined by the blood of the hero
most brave.
White-starred by the tears of the
mother who gave
The blue for true valor and honor and
pride.
Baptized and made holy in wars aw-
The blood-red. red and the snowy white
And the truest of blue in the thickest
fight
In homeland and far-land wherever
The grandest. most beautiful flag in
-LoUISE BRADFORD wERB.
Winthrop. Ne, Nov. c. 1920.
Black ducks, coots. geese and the
other wild birds are making their an
nual visit to Casco bay. They are
said to be very plenty. Stroller. of
the Express. also says that their an
nual appearance is pretty sure
sign that cold weather is not far off. I"
E. Y. Eldridge and Harry A. Chap
man of Bangor and c. c. Blocking
er of Portland have returned home
from a hunting trip around Nictatous
lake. with three of the largest bucks
brought into Bangor this season, be-
side three does. One buck weighed
205 pounds, having 10 points 1t was
shot by Mr.. Eldridge. The others,
eight pointers, weighed about $50
pounds each. George Bowdon of
Bangor recently shot a 540-pound
bear in the Molunkus region.
The Country Club for Auburn and
Lewiston is now an assured fact, the
papers for the transfer of the Mar
tindale farm on Sturgis hill, Auburn,
having been made Tuesday. The
Martindale Holding Corporation is
being incorporated and engineers are
laying out a golf course. Golfers
from all over Maine are already
planning to assist in opening the
course.
Here are two from the Oxford Demo-
crat Of South Paris. showing how the
aged voters of Oxford county turned
out for Harding:
West Paris was well represented at
the polls Tuesday by the women as
well as men. but the greateet zeal was
shown by Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel c.
Churchill. VINO walked about one-half
mile from their home to the village to
obtain conveyance to South Paris. Mr..
Churchill is ninety-three years of age
and the Oldest man in Paris. Mrs.
Churchill IL nearly ninety. In review
ing his long years Of life Mr.. Church.
i'll said. II have never drank but one
glass Of liquor or other beverage. new
er used tobacco in any form. never
used profane language. and have al.
ways voted the Republican ticket with
the exception Of voting last term for
Wilson," which he expressed himself
as regretting.
On Tuesday. Nov. I'd. the writer cast
his sixteenth ballot for n candidate for
president Of the United States. writes
the East Sumner correspondent. His
first was for Abraham Lincoln In lSso,
and the last ballot was for Warren q.
Harding. We have lived to see the sue
cessful termination OF i've wars In
which our country has been engaged.
though the 30 called Aroostook war was
q bloodless contest. We want to see =
league Of nations that will secure
peace and Justice to ourselves and
other nations. One to prevent war.
not one to engender war. 1t looks now
an though we might