Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-04-14
MAINE GOSSIP
The 2ids of William pawes

On April eighteen. seventeen seventy
five
There were two brave men who did
earnestly strive
Tas sR. al hr hs Rs0p: 'nr we IN: way
there that day.
The movements OF these after dark
had been seen
BY the Sons Of Liberty, watchfui and
Word was given to . doctor named
Warren,
To guard eli the towns from troops
that were foreign.
So he summoned William Dawes and
Paul Revere;
You've not heard of the FIRST, we'll
o,.c., speak AK Of i Nm here s $40, .,,rn.n
away
From the guards who were watching
the town that day.
He spI a,s r, on his horse ana away he
Down through the deep valleys and up
] the hillside;
On through Roxbury. Brighton and
The horse a and his brav. rider fairly
To all Of the people he gave the alarm.
| Some dwelt in the city, and some on
Over Charles river he passed without
fear
And found there at Lexington. Paul
| Revere.
Together they Travelled. these men so
For anxious were they their fair land
Soon a young man named Prescott
came that way
And of his company, right glad were
| they.
At every household that they came to
They told what the British hoped to
As Dawes and Prescott stopped at a
house tits said
While Revere was riding . few rods
ahead.
Two British officers appeared to these
They surely thought they were cap
tured then.
Dawes knew how quickly his horse
So he turned round and came to Lex
ington.
At Lincoln he suddenly fell to the
ground,
But loudly he shouted while looking
around:
Hello. my boys. two of them have
Thoug5 ,t the house house, was empty the
A force of minute men might be here
So turning they FASTENED away with
That was hero who rode home that
He'd done his duty and stood for the
right.
Our men responded. and soon Eng
Were welcomed most warmly by min
ute mems guns.
The Redcoats were frightened and
quickly they fled
For many comrades were fallen ana
dead.
No praise has been given this hero
Who periled his life his country to
A descendant Of his is now given
| fame
And Charles G. Dawes is that great
mans name.
-Eugenia r. Titus.
East Winthrop, Maine.
Clothesline thieves are reported to
be busy in saco. plying their trade at
those houses where clothes are left on
the line over night.
Not much chance of the Kennebec
river ice coming down so long as Their
mometers drop as low as they did last
night. Ice formed in docks along the
river to a thickness of three-quarters
of an inch. However, according to the
files of the Times of 40 years ago the
| ha6 down
this time in the month.-Bath Times.
/ Courses given by Biddeford High
school, Thornton Academy and the
Old Orchard High school and the aims
of the departments were described by
students of those institutions at the
meeting of the Biddeford-Saco XII
wants Club last Monday. The princi-
pads of the three schools. Harry H.
Burnham of Biddeford High school,
Ernest r. Woodbury. of Thornton, and
Frank H. Jewett of Old Orchard were
guests at the auncheonsa
Ice in the Androscoggin river just
above the Union Water Power Co.
thick. There has been only a normal
increase in the flow of the river at
Lewiston. The run-off has been re-
tarded by cold weather. A reading
taken at Pontook, N. H., between Ber-
lin and Enroll on the Androscoggin
Monday morning, showed a tempera-
. ture of exactly zero Ice at Lake Au-
burn remains solid. The average date
it has left the lake for the past 10
years is April 10.
The following, taken from 1.-THE
Maine Farmer OF January 8, 1857,
furnished by Mrs. P. E. Stewart of
Augusta, might encourage the Evo-
lutionists of Tennessee, to believe
with the ancient philosopher, who
was condemned for teaching that the
earth was round, and who exclaimed
"She moves just the same-though
1. cannot teach it."
Universaiists in North Carolina
1.-THE Supreme Court of North
Carolina has confirmed the decision
Of Judge Manly, that members Of the
Universalist church are incompetent
to testify in courts Of justice, accord
ing to the laws Of that state. By this
decision the Universalists Of North
Carolina are virtually outlaws, as no
member of that religious denomina-
ton can collect his debts, swear to
an assault, or testify before the
courts in any case, even II his wife
or child should be insulted."
cial proceedings at a court held in
Saco in the years 1910, 1851 and
| 1865 are found in a copy Of the