Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-31
MAINE GOSSIP
The Veteran

Every year they're marching slower,
every year they're STOPPING
Every year the lifting music stirs
the hearts of older men,
Every year the flags above them seem
to bend and bless and love them,
AS If craving for the future when
they'll never march again.
Every year that dwindling number.
loyal still to those that s}umber.
o. Forth they march to where already
many have found peace at last;
And they place the fairest blossoms
Ger the silent Wondering bios
SONS,
Of the valiant friends and comrades
of the battles of the past.
Every year grow DINNER. duller, tat
tered flag and faded color,
Every year the hands that bear them
find a harder task to do;
And the eyes that only brighten when
the blaze of battles tighten.
Like the tattered flags they follow
are grown dim and faded too.
Every year We see them massing,
every year we watch them pass
ing,
Scarcely pausing In our hurry after
they are off again.
But the tattered flags above them
seem to bend and bless and love
them,
And through all the lifting music
sounds an undertone of pain.
BY Denis A. Mccarthy.
The 10Th annual meeting and ban
quet of the Quarter Century Travel
Ing Mems Association of Maine will
be held at the Moulton House. Scar
boro, On Friday, June IS. The men
are planning to make day of it,
reminiscing, playing games, and tell
ing each other what used to be done
25 or more years ago. J. Putnam
Stevens Of Portland is president Of
the organization.
George S. McCarty, Lewiston fire
commissioner, has accepted an IN
vitation to respond to the address Of
welcome which will be delivered 10
the annual convention Of the New
England fire chiefs. The invitation
was extended by the officers of the
association. The event is scheduled
for Manchester, n. H., June %, 23
and "a. Chiefs from all over New
England will attend for the discus
sion OF department administration,
fire prevention. etc.
Richard B. Stanley of Boston will
be the marshal at the Bates College
for the procession
consisting of President Gray and the
visiting dignitaries, the faculty and
the alumni, which will form in front
of the chapel, June q, to march to
the commencement dinner. Mr..
Stanley Is a graduate of Bates in the
class of 1897 A prominent Boston
lawyer, he has been very active in
the alumni association located in
that vicinity. He is Phi Beta
Kappa man, a member of the board
OF Trustees of Bates since 1906, and
he is secretary and treasurer of the
College Club. His father, the late
Prof. Richard c. Stanley, was one
of the prominent members of the first
faculty OF Bates.
All Bath people are not moving
away. declares Fred B. Reed, promi-
nent realtor Of that city, with con-
siderable emphasis as he points to
the fact that within a month there
has been lively inquiry for prop
erty both for rental and purchase,
1t isn't proper for SO many people
to point TO the families moving away
from Bath" says Mr.. Reed, who con-
tinues for there are others moving
into town and little attention is paid
to them. To get better idea of the
situation one should keep tabs on the
families moving into Bath as well as
hose moving out of the city, Mr..
Reed points with pride that with
In two weeks he has let five dwell
lngs to newcomers. He is optimistic
over the future and bases his judg-
nent on the inquiries that have re-
Gently been made of him.
Many new Summer camps are
'prlnging UP in this state this YEAR
md tl,aa