Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-18
GREAT SALE OF SEALS.
Two Weeks Work in Maine is Very
Encouraging.

seals Will be on sale until New ear S
| il is not expected many will be sold
after Christmas. From early returns
| some estimate can be made Of the
| work done thus far and what may
| yet be accomplished. The Maine
Association has this year furnished
| for he workers eolored lantern slides
for moving picture theatres and Il
very pretty red cross button, which
| is given to children selling 50 or 100
seals. The great obstacle in the past
| in children selling the seals has
| been that SO many were destroyed
and so much money lost. This has
| been overcome this Year by means of
subscription book published by the
Maine association. Wherever the
| books and buttons have been used
| they have met with uniformly good
results. A moving picture film The
| Awakening of John Bond" was releas-
ed by the Edison company on Dec
| s. and has been used extensively III
| Maine.
| On Tuesday, Dee 10. commencing at
| A. NJ, a house to house canvass will
| be made in the State. The towns COW
| cred by the Central Maine association
will have the largest sale in their his
| tory Two booths are being used in
| selling the seals in Wateryille. Ban
| gor will probably sell one hundred
| thousand seals and is hustling to beat
| her record of other years. Booths are
being arranged at the postoffice and
one of the large department stores,
| while bankers and business men gen.
orally are buying in large quantities.
i popftanl In maid worker and
meeting with good success, using ey=
cry means at their disposal to push
! the sale of the seals.
Last year Lewiston and Auburn only
| sold $1,000 seals. and this year in spite
| of -the epidemic in the towns they are
c6nfidend of selling the Whole numb
ordered for them, 100000 They
report great interest as fire. result of
the moving picture film. Saeo and
/ Biddeford will soon organize. a. local
| Anti-Tuberculosis work and are work
| ing for money to finance it. Thea will
| probably sell 100000 seals Flags have
| been donated in both cities to be given
| as prize to the school selling the
most seals and a very lively contest
| is being Waged Watervifle also has a
flag that has been donated and the
schools gre working very hard to Sc
1 cure this prize. Augusta, Gardiner
and HailoWell have already organized
Il local association and they too are
working To finance it by the sale OF
the seals. The results thus far in
these cities have been very gratifying.
/ Aroostook county Is doing remark
| ably we'll Nearly all of the larger
| towns ordering from five to ten thou
] sand seals most of which will be sold.
| From many towns where large orders
were sent recent orders have come.
| The treasury department this year
| allowed seals to be sold in all govern
| ment buildings, and III, 900 seals have
| been sent into smaller towns, mostly
| to post masters. These were sent in
| lots of 800. and already many towns
are sending for a second supply. Ten
| buttons are being sent as fast as pos
| sibe to the different places TO be
| given as prizes to children. 1t would
| seem probable that a large part of
| these seals would be sold, and the ed
vocational value alone has been very
great The secretary has thus far re-
ceiVed many letters from the small
| er towns describing many cases of
| tuberculosis that are in need OF hos
pital treatment and asking for advice.
| Washington county is much exercised
| over the tuberculosis condition and
asks the Maine Association to do ac-
| tive work in that county. Later an
association will be formed and they
are working hard to secure means.
Letters have been sent to the school
superintendent in the State asking
for their cooperation in the sale of
seals and the future work of the asso
ciation The Federated Women's Clubs
of Maine have been very active in this
work. The press in the State has been
very favorable to the work.
The funds resulting from the sale
Of seals will be used in the State for
educational, preventive ard legislative
work alone Much work will have to
be done before the great white plague
is under control here. In towns or cit
les having local Anti-Tuberculosis AS
sociations III per cent. will go to
that town. f2is per cent to the ma
tienaI work and 10 per cent. to the
State work,
In towns having no local association
all the money will go 10 the State
with the understanding that as far
as possible the money from that town
will be used for work for the bene-
fl of that town, This special appeal
is being sent out asking that every
one in the next 10 days shall do all
in their power to promote this work.
There is no work of any kind needed
in the state of Maine as is an or
ganized scientific effort to control and
stamp out this great white plague.
and it can be done if money is forth
coming to finance the State ASsocia
ton. There is no more practical Chris
tianity in the world, today, than this
1t is a purely unseifsh work with l.
900 workers in the United States
one million one hundred seventy
seven thousand seals have been sent
into Maine, this Year Can we not
reach the million mark in our sales?
John Q. Boss of Muskegon. Mich,
the attorney, who organized the Ma
tional Boat & Engine Co., arrived in
the city, Sunday, for the purpose of
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