Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-03
EaSternmOst Town ofState
Starts Celebration.
"Sardine" Village. Turns Loose
For 3-day Observance.
$500 People Have Been Year In
Preparaiion--EarIy History.

easternmost town in thesUnited states,
wherein lies the original Jumping off
place." viii celebrate her Tooth ami
versary with three days OF. festivities
beginning July and lasting through
July 4. Her actual birthday was June
u, as size was Incorporated ON that
date in 1911, cutting loose from the
town of PASSPORT,
Right here it may be set forth that
although there Is Il popular impression
that Eastrort is the easternmost mu-
nicipality in the United states, the l..
s. seodetlc survey is authority that
West Quoddy head. the tip of one OF
Lubec's many peniHsulas, juts out just
a tribe farther east
The little town of $500 people has
talked centennial Tor more than a
year. Plans were well worked out SIX
months ago. Every citizen OF import
ance is on some committee or other
and the whole town is organized and
bent on the one climax, as if II Was Il
single society. II was planned to nave
the celebration on June Il, but there
was so much to be done that 1t Vas
thought best to roll the whole joyous
event into great Fourth of July,
lasting three days.
Tie townspeople have awakened to
civic pride. So much SO that there has
been general Sticking up everywhere.
Buildings have been painted that
haven't known a brush for half a
century The streets have been swept
and busted. Eyesores of years stand
ing have been removed or concealed
4 town landing new front door,
has been arranged. The primplnS-up
idea has become a mania and results
already are astonishing and worthy
of study as to what a town can do 10
improve personal appearances when
ii sets eut.
The entire village will be illuminated by
hundreds of incandescent lights along the
streets at night and by day will be a
smother of bunting. The Stars and
Stripes will float over nearly every house
and business place, and beside all THIS a
professional decorator has come way
from Boston to supervise the general
scheme.
A huge "Welcome" arch brilliantly il
Illuminated will be feature. The histor-
zeal buildings and locations will be care
fully marked and frightened up and the
town will look her best, better than she
ever did before.
Efforts have been made to make the
celebration grand reunion OF former
residents Several sons and daughters
are coming across the continent, While
big party will come down from Boston
and Massachusetts, points. The entertain
ment program is long and elaborate and
n
ton to Gov Plaisted and his staff and
the historical Grafton and exercises down
IN the creased pole climb. There viii be
land sports and water sports. The latter
will include several races for fishing
craft, gasoline and sail, which will draw
all of the cracks for 50 miles up and
down the coast
There will be grand parade with his
torical floats, the fire department, frater-
mai bodies and the pretty girls. Baseball
games between regular teams OF the
Maine and New Brunswick League will
attract the fans. The biggest display OF
ever seen in eastern Maine, in
GLIDING some immense set pieces of spe-
cial historical design, will be set off on
one night, and on another great parade
of Illuminated motor boats is expected to
be one of the great features. From 500
to 1000 craft of all kinds are expected to
be massed in one great fiotilla.
The carly history OF Lubec is much
the same as of many other promontory
lands along the eastern coast OF Maine
Indians, Norsemen, French. Dutch and
every adventurer or explorer thai ever
skirted the coast appears TO have land
ed on what is now Lubec. The first per-
manent settler was Capt John Allen, who
led back a band of fugitiyes who had fed
to Nova Scotia to escape the British.
With them came number of German
families VINO named the place Lubbock,
froh the old German cty-statc. The fish
ing soon attracted other settlers and the
town grew slowly but to endure.
The principal business of the town is
catching, curing and packing the "sar
dine" the American herring. There are
Eat different concerns, operating II fac
tories or canneres. One concern alone
packs one-sixth Of the entire sardine catch
of the Maine coast The demand for the
Lubec sardne exceeds the supply. Puius
Wolfe descendant of one of the early Ger
man settlers, was the father of the sar-
dine industry.
Lubec Is a church, going community,
having eight churches within its borders.
One of these, the Congregational was
established in 1920 and the Rev. Elijah
kellogg, afterward famous as an author
and poet. was for some time its settled
pastor. The Methodists have the honor OF
the extreme eastern outpost in the United
States as their church, built many years
age is slightly to the eastward of any cl
the other houses of worship.
An unexpected but much appreciated
feature of the centennial Is the interest
taken by the people of old Lubbock, free
town" of the Hansaatic league Of German
town-states. Some time ago an inquiry
was received by cable from Germany as
| to the time Lubec was TO celebrate her
centennial few days ago large box
arrived containing a wood cut of old Lu-
| bee in the 18th century anu two photo
graphs of the town at the present time
Two women prominent i'll st. Louis
| have started a movement to induce
| 300 QUO of their sex in the south to pray
| every day for the rich. TleV eXplair