The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1907-09-12
South MOntyiIIe Club of SO.

COutIl MOlllvlIIt UIuD VI o.
To THE EDITOR OF THE JoURNAL:-
August 18th, in the evening, the Dial,
meeting was held OH the hill-Soutl
Ridge-at the woodhouse of Crane
Duke Conner. The good Duke has no
taken to the woods, but to the mex
thing to it, as is noted. His popularit!
is growing at such rate these day.
that, modesty considered, he may ye
betake himself to the woods, and ava,
back into the tall timber, and hide from
the populace. He had been ailing I
little in the springtime and had beer
visiting his relatives in the old mothe
OF commonwealth, Mass, under goine
little surgery there, and on re
turning home, even in April, he found
the bees buzZing round him greatly
and when August came, oh, my, he
simply had to hive them in his great
long woodhouse, connecting his nice
house and barn. That woodhouse was
made that connecting link when we
were boys, Martin Ulmer doing the
work; and how he would sing as he
showed the plane, There are roots and
herbs enough in my fathers garden to
cure every ILL" but 1 am wandering
thus soon. Well, Charles nailed the
Dale meeting notice to the woodhouse
door, stating that it was to be held
there at the time aforesaid, and SO it
was held, and tremendous good meet
ing 1t was, too, and lots of good people,
old, middle-aged and young, came to it,
filling all the seats, then taking to the
stairs and pile of hoop shavings fol
further lifting accommodations. Then,
too, we had the greatest arrangement
on music ever dreamed ola phono-
graph operated by Duke Edmund
Adams, all the way from Delaware, and
a sonograph operated by no less dis.
tinguished person than James Warren
Skinner, our glorious Sage of the Guam
tabacook. The President set those two
men with those two woodworking
machines into vigorous, goodnatured
rivalry and the music came accordingly
in mighty waves of inspiration. Once
the waves met and mingled, and the
spray was a drencher of delight when
both machines played their best at the
same time.
The President came two days before
the meeting from his summer home at
Murray Hill, Me-, attending the Pres
colt reunion at the home of Mrs.
Nancy Colby OH South Ridge, near
where Stephen Prescott felled the first
tree, made the first clearing and built
the first house in that region in 1901
Sunday the President attended two
services, two Sunday schools. and re-
marked four times, under protest, as it
was too much for one voice, even in
clear weather. | say clear weather, be
cause the theory is we'll settled in the
Dale that rain always comes with him.
The nearest approach to it that our
almanac makers could make out was
the little sickle of a new moon that
hung so they called it wet. Great are
our Dale almanac makers We had a
prophet, too, once, but now no more
Mars was set like a great ruby in the
heavens, being in perigee, petroleum, OF
something like-anyway, it was nearer
the earth than it will be for many
moons, and when Mars flames, the
Banneret is at his best. Incidentally,
the next week came and went the com.
ct, but it's even that not man of those
Dale fellows saw it, for it wasn't above
the horizon until about a. NJ, and |
have no recollection of ever having
heard one of them say that he ever saw
the day break.
At p. N. the meeting was called to
order and the record of the last meet.
ing was asked to be read, but the new
secretary, Charles S. Adams, the Duke
OF Woodman's Mills, hadn't that i'm
portant document with him. A little
flash of white wrath came over tn,
Presidents face, and he promptly an
TI,1y -
impose sentence. He named the Presi
dent to furnish the meeting with some
thing in substitution, and the following
Is what he read;