Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-01-14
Maine Gossip
An Unsung Hero

An unsung Hero
He served and died.
No, not in France-right at your side.
He was cop
And sworn to offer his brave life to
The breach of law.
Each day upon the street he saw
Death hanging stealthily around his
beat,
Awaiting him. Yet ever he advanced
With his lion heart. the wraiths that
rise,
From drugs and lust in human guise,
To sack and slay.
And though he rocked full we'll the
day
His crying babies. fatherless.
Would call his name in their distress,
He would not soothe one brokor heart,
But silently he would depart
Ne'er to return.
Yet did he Spurn
The call to shirk a bit.
For thought of self would i'll befit
A man who. calm, courageous, knew his
OF life placed duty over those held
dear.
He gave his life:
With choice like this today is rife.
We are so used to it We hardly stop
To honor him.
No minstrel sings with fulsome vim
This hero. No sculptured bronzes rise.
7 But on his new detail behind the skies
Promotions nonors. must await
This man who knew, yet met, his tate
| For you and me.
There must be happiness beyond our
For him who, Christlike, gave his life
EDWARD McNAMEE, in New York
| Times.
King Cole, an Aire dale dog owned
| by Mrs. Clara w. Walbrun. 1Oz
Franklin street. Portland, helped
; save the lives of the seven occu-
| pants of the rooming house at ) A.
| NJ. Thursday, by barking the an
nouncement that the house vas
afre. Leo Durant, a lodger. also
/ did valiant work spreading the
! alarm. The people barely. escaped
being trapped, the flames sweeping
| with great speed through the build
| ing, which had is furnished rooms.
The building was Quilted, ,.ih about
/ $4,000 loss.
man, who frequently visits Augusta
on business, is fond of picking up
relics and curios. He recently
brought to his friend, Charles s.
Brown, superintendent of public
buildings, a collection of clippings
from the Kennehec Journal, the only
dated one being Feb. ., 1875 Seven
of the eight items are poetical and
the one of most local interest is the
story in verse of youths first visit
to the Capital City, with comments
between each verse by the person
who alleged that he found the verses
on the street.
The clippings are pasted on two
leaves, pasted together, IS to q, of
day book from some unknown
store in Augusta, bearing date of
Dec. 81, 1S49. The accounts on Page
p are in the names Of Andrew Gale,
Roland Balfour, Levi Collins, Robert
Fisher, T. B. Perkins, Gage L.
Colder. George Trescott. A. D.
Churchill and NJ. P. Faught-doubt-
less well-known at that time. 70 years
ago. 1t was a general store. accord
ing to the articles mentioned. ranging
from apples and lard to sheeting,
print and cordwood the latter of
which gave S-12 feet for $3.50
One gallon of molasses was % cents
and one peck of potatoes was 10
cents-but why linger on that. The
X. Us. file vault is full of such
never to come again prices
Walter c. Emerson, the well-known
author and newspaper man. is pass
! ing the winter on McFarland's Point,
Boothbay Harbor. with a full view of
beautiful Squirrel -slanu. his summer
abode.
Hundreds of people can remember
when the rat colony on Squirrel
Island was much larger than desir-
abe. observer" in the Boothbay
Register says that recent careful
search among their accustomed
haunts failed to show any trace of
the rats. The reason is N"ratin," a
bacterial culture, made in Copen-
hagen. harmless to human beings and
domestic animals but fatal to rodents.
1t is placed in places frequented by
the vermin. they eat of 1t and in a
short time an infectious disease 10
produced and most of the rats die.
but a small percentage being i'm
munc,
Len Achern, Of Fort Fairfield. the
"Aroostook globe-trotter, started last