Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-06-14
Maine Gossip
The Flag Goes BY

mats OH.
Along the street there comes
blare of bugles. ruff1e of drums,
a flash of color beneath the sky:
Hats off.
The flag is passing by!
Blue and crimson ard white it shines,
over the steel-tipped, ordered liner.
The colors before'us fly:
But more than the flag is passing by.
Sea-fghts and land.fghts grim and
great.
Fought to make and to save the State:
Weary marches and sinking ships;
Cheers Of victory on dying lips;
Days Of plenty and years Of peace:
Equal Justice. right and law.
Stately honor and reverend awe;
Sign of nation. great and strong
To ward her people from foreign
Pride and glory and honor.--all
Live in colors to stand or fall
Along the street there comes
a blare of bugles, ruffle of drums:
And loyal hearts are beating high:
Hats off!
The flag is passing by!
Henry Holcomb Bennett in The
Eagle Magazine.
New Meadows Inn will be opened by
the Colonial club next Monday night as
usual and the Inn will be opened to the
public on the following day.
Portland is not having a stock COM
pany playing there this season and
there are but two cities in Maine which
will enjoy stock through the summer
months. They are Lewiston and
Bangor.
The employees Of the Biddeford &;
saco r. r. Co. nDeived an agreeable
surprise this week when they found
upon opening their weekly pay envel-
opes that their wages had been volun-
tariiy increased. The increase brought
the wages to the highest rate in the
history Of the road.
Some Bath brick masons have been
offered $50 week to go to Portland
and steady work with a a hour week
promised them. Portland has an i'm
mense amount Of new construction un-
derway and there is a big demand for
men in the building trades.-Bath
Daily Times.
The 18th annual convention Of the
Maine Retail jewelers. Association
will be held at the Old Orchard House,
Old Orchard, June Is and 10. The
president is NIatson Tinker of Port
land; the vice presidents, c. 8. Ben
, nett Of Guilford and Harry P. Lowell
of Augusta, and the secretary-treas
! urer, George T. Springer Of Portland.
Hale and hearty, Joseph Crabtree.
Hancock's oldest citizen, has just cele-
brated his 93d birthday anniversary.
He has completed the task Of looking
after his farm fences this spring. and
soon will be looking after the crops.
In early life Mr.. Crabtree followed the
sea when $12 a month was considered
a good wage. After serving as captain
of several vessels he retired to his
farm which is one Of the numerous
good ones in that vicinity.
Bangor and vicinity have expert
enced almost incessant rains for the
AdSS Az 0oS SlIO WSdlhSAS CASCPS
at midday, is so cold as to make
steam heat necessary for comfort
Women are still wearing their winter
furs. snowdrifts are yet to be found
in the neighboring woods and today
well in a Broad street building found
frost in the ground a foot deep
Srecial dispatch to The Boston Her
ald.
The following are the measurements
of lobster recently captured in q trap
by Horace Apt at Eastport: Spread Of
claws and across body, ~ in.; circum-
ference Of body, is in; length Of larg-
est claw, 10 in; from tip of largest
claw to tip Of tail, 80 in; length Of
thumb" on largest claw, 6 in.; length
of tail, ~ in; width Of tail at end.
in; width Of largest claw. 81 In; cir
conference Of largest claw. 10 in: age
of lobster. 90 years. 1t will be mount
ed and sent to the Berlin, N. H., high
school museum.
It is not often that the Belfast mar
kets have anything as out of season
as moose steaks, for al rule the law
is very strict on such things. Unfor-
tunately-for the moose-some mis-.
creant and poor shot, wounded a big
bull moose a week ago in Stockton or
whereabouts, and the animal was
found, wounded but alive. near the
highway. Game Commissioner Bailey
ordered the moose shot and it was
brought to FOgg's market in Belfast,
where it was dressed and has been