Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-11-24
Heroic Womanhood

Like demons 1ncenSed Tor the Tray
These angry SerpentS tested out
Heroic Womanhood that day.
Frenzied by the vicious brutes.
With club in hand she stood her
Dealing her well-directed blows,
She slew and scattered them
around.
No timid, shrinking soul was hers.
Rnt brave as womanhood can be,
She faced and slew the vicious things
And won wondrous victory.
Wherever motherhood exists
And helpless babyhood is found.
Tell of this womans matchless deed,
And spread her fame the carth
around.
The world is full of deadly ills
Which all about us hiss alarms;
Stirred by this womans deathless
deed,
May others WELD courag e9us arms ms
Rev. William Wood, Kennebunk, Me-,
in Biddeford Journal.
Pansies, sweet alyssum and dande-
lions were among the flowers picked
by Mrs. Joseph P. Billings of Bidde-
ford in her garden last Saturday.
Phippsburg is one of the few Maine
towns which can boast two public IL
braries within it's boundaries one at
Popham erected a number of years
ago and new one soon to be opened
at the Center.
Engineers working in the interests
of capitalists have been making ex-
tensive surveys in the Eastport section
looking into the possibilities of har-
Messing the tides of the Bay of Fundy
as proposed in the Quoddy power pro-
ject.
On account of the extensive damage
done by heavy trucks at this season of
the year and also in the spring, when
the roads are softened by heavy rains
and melting SHOWS, Charles A. Murray
of Bangor, a member Of the State
Highway Commission, believes that
such vehicles should be prohibited at
these periods. He believes in limiting
the period restricting the use of high
ways for such vehicles beyond that
now provided.
News has been received in Milbridge
that Harold Chapman. formerly Of that
town, now of Melrose, Mass, has pur-
chased the window-shade business of
one of the largest concerns in that line
In the country, and one of the heaviest
business deals made in Melross for
some years. The concern supplies
shades to contractors all over the
country as we'll as the wholesale trade.
Mr.. Chapman intended to open
branch factory in Bangor in the spring
Nand make 1t his headquarters for the
Maine trade. He is young man but
a hustler, going to Melrose as an A. &
P. store manager some years ago, then
taking a position with the concern
which he now bought out.
The Bangor News charges that the
putting off until December 7 of the
special referenda election on the anti
daylight saving and the milk grading
acts was Portland trick. conceived,
born and elaborated in Portland" The
paper asks why these questions were
not voted on when the other referen-
dunn questions came before the people
in September" when weather conditions
were fine and farmers could easily get
about" The News alleges that In the
desire for the defeat of the Standard
Time bill, "a bunch of Portland boos-
tiers. aided and abetted by small poll
ticians, engineered the delay of the
referendum, their theory being. plain
ly, that while the city vote would
come out, whatever the weather. the
country vote would be largely kept at
home"
A catalogue and circular of the
Misses Symonds' school for young la
dies. IL Pine street, Portland, July,
1870, has been shown to the Saunterer
of the Portland Telegram. The Misses
Symonds were sisters of Judge Joseph
w. Symonds and were accomplished
young women. Miss Rachel j. Sy-
monds gave instruction in Latin, Ger
man, crayoning and painting. Miss
Elizabeth c. Symonds taught mathe-
mates, natural sciences and Italian,
and Miss Isabel C. Symonds, English
literature, history and French. The
teachers of music were Herman Kotz-
SEMINAR and Miss Elizabeth w. Dyer.
This school. which was established in
1862 and continued for good many
years, had uniformly liberal patron
age from Portland. The school year
was divided into two sessions. each
continuing about 20 weeks. Tuition in
the higher department, including the
languages was SIS a session.
Miss Kittredge's interesting story of
band music in Belfast-we reproduce
it on another page-will also arouse
pleasant memories of old band days in
Rockland where good music always
has been supported by bands of real
musicians, some of them numbered
among the noted leaders Of their time
We recall in particular James Wight,
who was recognized as one Of the fore
most bandsmen of his day. He led
the famous Rockland Band that ac-
companied the Fourth Maine Regiment
when in 1861 it left for the South.
When at the head of the regiment
marching through Boston streets the
band struck up the rousing strains of
THE Charlestown Guards" the news
papers took occasion to write Of the
performance in glowing language.
We too hope to see the end Of jazz and
a sane return to music that reaches
down into the soul and sticks there.
James Whitcomb Riley understood the
feeling.-Rockland Courier Gazette.
Rev. Henry S. .Burrage, d. D.. State
historian, is preparing a paper on
John Alfred Poor, distinguished as
promoter Of railroads, who died in
Portland September 5. 1871. Mr.. Poor
was born in Andover, oxford county,