Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-06-02
MAINE GOSSIP
The Flag


and beauty!
I've seen it on mountain peaks lonely
and hoary,
And on the tall mast at the blue
harbor bar:
The stars and the stripes all unrolled
in their glory,
When naught the bright scene for
moment could mar.
I thought as l gazed from each beau
In each seam of that Flag is fast
woven our love-
The blood of our heroes gave life to
the Nation.
And true to that life shall humanity
prove.
o Flag of our Country. sublime is the
Preserving thy stars in their number
and beauty.
George s. Griffith, in Lewiston Sun.
Tie annual meeting of the North
Aroostook United Baptist Associa-
ton will be held at the Baptist
Church at Mapleton on Friday of
this week.
Theodore F. Grant of Portland,
will graduate from New York Mill
tary Academy this week. Mr.. Grant
is the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Freeman
NJ Grant of Portland and Is a grad
uate of Portland High School.
Anglers had plenty of luck at the
Bangor Salmon Pool over the holt
day. On Sunday a new high record
was hung up when nine of the tro-
plies were taken out of the water
by some Of the ardent fishermen
who daily try their skill and luck
with the finny inhabitants of the
pool All of the salmon put up
good fights and weighed from to
II pounds.
The Portland Press Herald has
recalled the interesting fact that 100
years ago the Maine legislature
changed the name of jefferson In
gals of Denmark to George ingalls,.
and that Thomas Ramsdell Sd to
George Ramsdell. Thus was Thomas
jefferson eliminated from two fam
lies, and the passage of time has not
dulled, but rather has sharpened
curiosity as to the reason for his
extrusion.-New York Sun.
The Bangor branch of the Maine
L was OPNil1u 80
terday at the Bangor House main
Office, with r. E. Blair in charge.
Mr.. Blair has comprehensive
knowledge of the best fishing and
sporting grounds from personal ex-
perience of many years and is
equally familiar with the numerous
summer resorts of Maine. He has
a supply of maps, folders, etc, and
,,1N ind i'm
a fountain of information.
An Auburn man says he thinks
way department. Late in the after
noon recently he was driving toward
Brunswick from Lisbon Falls. The
big truck that spreads the tarvia
went by him as he expressed it,
like streak, throwing rocks and
stones in all directions" A stone
thrown by the wheel of this big
truck struck his windshield and
says 1t was the excessive rate Of
speed at which the truck was being
driven that did the damage.
The Abbott school for boys at
Pennington has closed it's years
work with the following schedule Of
exercises: Sunday, May 30-Baccal-
aureate sermon by Rev. George F.
Finnie of Lewiston; Monday, May
81, Memorial day. visiting day,
Senior Dance, music by Murrays
orchestra.
Tuesday. June 1. p. m. Com
mencement exercises-address of
welcome, Paul Barnes Of Hudson,
Ohio; Grafton, Alger Powell of South
John Hodgson >of Worcester. Mass,
class history, Thomas j. Sullivan of
Rockland, Mass: farewell address.
Norman Leighton of South Port
land; p. m, Commencement dance,
music by Murrays orchestra.
The annual meeting Of the Maine
Osteopath Association will be held
in the. Colum a Hotel, Portland,
Saturday at 100 o'clock. The
annual meeting and election Of Off
GERS will be held at the close of
which the following speakers will
be heard: DR.. D. B. S. Bennock of
Philadelphia, on Vital Issues, and
DR.. A. E. Chittemden of Auburn,
SApcllSL Oh OSleOpdLnlC state
Boards from Florida to Maine. At
4.S0 o'clock general discussion will
be held. DR.. Sophronia Rosebrook
will speak at five o'clock on Chemi-
cal Injuries as Cause of DiseaseA
This will be followed by the annual
dinner. with DR.. Granville Shibles
the POSTMASTER. In the evening
DR.. Jane B. Hall will tell What
an Osteopathic Finger Surgeon Can
Do in Maine, and DR.. Florence A.
Covey will give an Osteopathic
Complexus Analysis.
Will c. Macfarlane, former mu-
nicipal organist of Portland, is to
present a special organ concert in
Portland City Hall on Sunday even
ing, June 6. The program will be a
part of a mammoth reception which
Portland will hold in honor of 700
New England delegates to the 10th
International Convention of kiwan-
is, which Is to be held in Montreal
on June Z, 8. and 10th. A special
train bearing those delegates will
arrive at Portland on Saturday
night, June 5. and will not leave
there until 1890 on the following
Sunday evening. In the meantime
the New England Kiwanians will
enjoy day crowded with spiritual
recreational, and musical pleasure.
The International Convention will
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