Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-11-16
Maine Gossip
Old Jim

Old Jim
Norman Shannon Hall in Stars and
Stripes Nov. 81
Out in that vague, vast somewhere"
of The Line
They killed Old Jim, proven friend Of
mine.
Killed him at night, while he was on
patrol,
All the company found was just a hole
A damned Boche shell had dug out
where he's gone
The outfit passed the place just after
dawn
couldn't tell
Which one was which. They were ali
They put Jim on the list Reported
Dead;
Missing in Action" the home papers
said.
wasn't in The Line when Jim went
A piece of .shrapnel had hit me clout
Which kept me pretty quiet for a
Gray days when it was mighty hard to
smile.
And when I learned Old Jim had topped
the ridge
T fell to thinking what A privilege
1t was TO know him. Jim was Just the
That stops to-pct dog or help the
blind.
The sort YOU turn to when things
don't go right,
And then forget when all the world is
bright.
Jim had kindly eye that seemed to
The best in men. What could he see
never knew: but Jim was always
glad
To give me half of everything he had
That's why, you see, it cut me mighty
To know old Jim was Out Therein a
heap.
And now I'm wondering if the one
Who is to be buried in Arlington
Is Jim. for he. was unidentified.
All the outfit ever knew was-he died.
The Congress Medal and the u. $. c.
VIII be given this Lost Identity.
Those medals, both of them, belong to
him.
That's why I wonder if it is-O.d jim
Rev. Charles s. Cummings, q
former sheriff of Androscoggin coun-
ty, has consented to be the Charter
candidate for the city OF Auburn's
mayoralty, running against John s.,
T. II. Wilson, on the Democratic
ticket. The battle-cries will sound
something like 1.-The Little Minister"
against Honest John" The issue
will be the retention or rejection Of
the present form of governing the
city.
The Portland High school library is
credited with being the best in New
England, according to Mrs. Belle j..
Fish of New York. who is making a
survey of the libraries of the state for
Charles Scribner's Sons.
The Aroostook Daily News says
there are thousands, of dollars worth
Of automobiles stuck in tie snow
drifts on the Aroostook road and at
Oxbow Plantation alone, II machines
are hung up.
Cal McDougall of Fort Fairfield is
harvesting the earliest crop of ice
ever harvested there. 1t is about five
inches thick and is being used for i'm
mediate consumption.
-Four pupils OF the Lewiston and Au-
burn schools were on Saturday award
ed gold prizes by Mary Dillingham;
Chapter, d. A. r., for best essays ON
characterization" The s. god piece
in Lewiston was won by Miss Bertha
A.. Warren of Grade VI. The essays of
Miss Lucinda Lord and George White
house, both of Grade VIII of the WEB
ster grammar school. were 50 nearly
equal in merit that the S. god piece
was divided between them. The essay
of Ida Baker of Grade VIII, Lincoln
school, was so good also that the COM
mittec gave her. a gold dollar.
series of evangelical meetings are
being planned for Bangor and it is ex-
pected that a tabernacle similar to
those built for Billy Sunday will be
erected. Present plans give March as
the time for beginning the series.
The keel of the va will be laid to-
day at the Kittery navy yard. The
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