Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-07-02
Maine Gossip
Camping

Sanp4hS
Written During the Wary
Queer--three old pals like you ana
Bill and ME,
moons together,
Should get our camping half the earth
apart
This August weather.
Odd--when our tastes are very much
We've picked such widely different
situations,
Tho Bill and l have hit the same old
trail
Among the hills which seem like
close relations.
You know the lake, the long low
house of logs
To every querying leaf you know
the answer
In light and shadow on these forest
walls;
| You-off in France, sir!
You know the Alice Verte, the Golden
Pool,
! The sunny sand bar where Your
moose was standing;
You know the way the boats lie up the
bank
Under the birch and alders round
. the landing.
But Bill and l don't even know the
town
Where "A. L. F." means you across
the billow:
Yet know it's home--because
old, Glory wave over ypur pillow.
a gray. old port that julius Cesar
Transports all brown with singing
warriors. hailing
From shores that Cesar never heard
OF: thus
! It's All / know--ima gnations fail
ing
l picture lines of barracks on hill
Or is it in a valley? Horses tramp
ing
Mighty. guns rumbling, regiments at
drill.
Hoarse orders shouted--is that like
your camping?
Ours is another sort: the peaceful
The smiling mountains: yet at any
minute
We'd I ,a Is this heaven for that hell
With you and in it,
We two can't fight, Tho Bill at fifty
odd
Hankers to be an ace. three clouds
a-kiting;
But war departments scorn the likes
of us:
YouI DO our fghtlng.
We think it safe with you; we think
you'll win
The war. and personally nab the
Kaiser;
Yet---only come back home. well
never ask
Medals and honors--just your lifted
visor.
But if the great adventure calls you,
! Cutting you free of LIES uncertain
tether,
You'll wait awhile, beyond. for Bill
ana me
And, then. sometime again. wen
camp together.
MARY r. S. ANDREWS.
A joint board from the Lewiston
School Board and City Council has
recommended a $4,000 rural school
| building, five rooms and thoroughly
modern, to replace the Ross Hill
! school building. destroyed few
months ago by fire The proposed To-
cation is about a mile south of the old
school. much more central for the
pupils.
| Miss Jane L. Burbank has been
elected librarian Of Dyer Library of
Saco, to succeed the late John Haley.
who served many years. She grad
uated from Thornton Academy in 1900
and wellesley in 1904. She has since
| had wide experience in teaching and
| library work in large cities.
|
| A group of girls who are interested
in having bird bath installed on the
| common at Pennington held a sale
recently of candies. pop corn and cool
drinks to raise funds for the same
over $40 was realized and the girls
are so encouraged that they plan to
hold other sales during the summer.
The Foss Street Methodist Episco-
pal Church of Biddeford has a book
which it prizes much, this being an
album containing the names of people
| 10 years old and older who attended
the Old Home service conducted Sun
day morning. There were twenty
present over 20 years of age, and the
Oldest person present was Aaron Da-
Wis, who is 90 years of age. He was
i presented a memento of the occasion,
and at the suggestion of the pastor
| addressed the gathering briefly. Many
aged and shut-ins were present at
the service, being conveyed by auto
mobiles which called for them.
| Mapleton is enforcing the auto
speed law within the village limits
mot simply talking about what ought
to be done for the safety of the pub