Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-09
AT U. OF MAINE.
Extension of Agricultural Dept.-Se-
Nor and Sophomore Elections.

orono, Me, Oct S.-(SpeciaD Wallace
Buttrick. secretary of the general educa-
ton board. has made three visits to the
University of Maine. On his last visit.
Monday. Oct. z arrangements were com
pleted by which the general education
board furnishes money to carry on farm
ing demonstrations The money FURNISH
ed is ample to pay for four directors.
Four men nominated by the University
of Maine, and approved by the secretary
of the general education board. will be
put in the field. Each man will be put
in charge of the farm demonstration
work in single county. 1t is hoped to
start the next farming season with at
least 80 farmers engaged in demonstra-
tons under expert direction.
AT present the work will start upon
four lines-truck garden farming, fruit
growing, farming for dairying purposes
and growing potatoes and grain crops
The work has been carried on in many
of the states of the South for number
of years under the cooperative direction
of the general education board and the
United States department of agriculture.
The results obtained there have been or
very great value 1t is, indeed, fortunate
for Maine that the board has turned its
attention toward our State 1t will ena-
BILE the university to reach out and help
the farming interests of the State in
more complete way than it has been able
TO do heretofore.
a little later complete and detained
program will be announced.
The Senior class yesterday, elected the
following officers and committees for the
year: President. Oscar Fl. Davis of
North Berwick; vice president. Richard
Power of Portland; secretary, Antoinette
Webb of Bangor; treasurer, James f..
Church of Gardiner; members of student
council, Leon f. Seekins, Skowhegan,
Glenwood G. Tilley, Ashland class exec
utive committee, Clifford w. Wescott,
Patten, Arthur +. Amadon, Boston, Will
liam j. Mccarthy, Lewiston, Winfield p.
Dillingham; Lewiston: manager or class
basketball, +. c. Cobb, Livermore Falls;
manager of class track, Walter 9.
Groves, Camden cheer leader, r. c. Hig-
gins, Bar Harbor; class prophet. An
toinette Webb. Bangor; class presenta-
tor, Thomas Shepard, Wellesley Hills,
| Mass; Commencement ball committee,
Elson II. Bigelow, Bridgton, Richard T.
Huntington, Augusta, Leon e. Seekins,
| Skowhegan, James f. Church, Gardiner,
| John II. Carleton, South Berwick; Com
mencement week committee, II. F. Aver
| Haverhill, Mass, John l.. ODER, Beverly
Mass, Allan +. McAlary, Waterville Os-
car II. Davis. North Berwick. Richard
| A. Power, Portland
| The Sophomore Owl Society held, Tues
| day evening, its annual initiation and
| smoker in the clubroom of the library
| Those who were admitted to member
/ ship from the class of 1915 were: LEV
| ellyn NJ. Dorsey. Augusta Harold p. Bal
| ley, Dexter Madison l.. Gilman, Arson
| John A. McDonough, Lewiston. Paul A
| Warren, Dover; Robert NJ. Moore, Bidde
| ford; George Fl. Bernheisel New Bloom
field, Pa; Philip B. Sheridan, Salem
| Mass; Edward C. Richardson, Portland
Robert F. Shurell, Portland; Joseph Z
Brewster. Utica, n. Y: Edwin b. New
comb, Cumberland Mills; Raymond III
Folger, Newport: Norman S. Donahue
Luthersburg, Pa; and David S Baker
Caratunk.