Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-08-23
| SQUIRREL ISLAND.
Celebration, Aug, q TO 80,
OF Fete Week.
Sports Of all Sorts Planned to
Provide Entertainment.
Other Gatherings Of the Day by Our
Special Correspondent.

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annual F'ete week will be celebrated at
Squirrel Island this year, August % to 80.
inclusive. The sports will include ten
mis- tournament. baseball games and field
sports The Squirrel Island Athletic AS
ISOLATION is now a member of the Il. s.
National Lawn Tennis Association, and
the tennis tournament is for the south
ern Maine championship. The tennis
tournament for 1913 will begin, Saturday,
Aug. %, at A. NJ. and continue through
Fete week until Saturday. Aug 50. The
events will be mems singles. mems
doubles. ladies' singles. ladies doubles,
men consolation singles, and mixed
doubles. The tournament will be con-
Quoted according to the laws and regula-
tons of the Y. 5. n. l.. T. A. The referee
will be Prof Edward B. Mathews of Bar
timore, Md. The playing schedule will
be posted daily and all contestants must
conform with it promptly or subject
themselves to loss by default. The Doyle
challenge cup will be awarded to the
winner of the mems singles. The holder
of this cup must play through the tour
nament and win it three times to retain
it permanently. Suitable cups will be
awarded to the runner-up in mems sin
giles and to the winners of other events.
The fee for each event is 80 cents for each
player who is a member of the Squirrel
Island Athletic Association for 1919, and
$500 for each player who is not such a
member. Any person may become a
member of the association by paying the
annual dues of $500. The drawings for
the tournament were made at F. NJ,
Friday evening.
Fete week will witness two base ball
games Games have been arranged for
Tuesday afternoon with Christmas Cove,
and Friday with Boothbay Harbor.
Field sports have been arranged for
Fete day. Saturday, Aug. go at 800 A.
NJ, as follows:
Events for Girls-60- yard dash (under
49,. 60 yard dash lover 49,; prize. box of
candy; throwing baseball; egg-in-s spoon
race leach entrant must furnish own
spoon; three-legged race.
Events for Boys-yo-yard DASH sack
| race. potato race. kindergarten race tun-
der years of age), three-legged race
watermelon race free for alb.
| Prizes will be, for first place in each
| event, medals suitably engraved
The annual sailing races will be held a
200 T. NJ, Saturday, Aug. 30 Class A i,
| for the Squirrel Island Perpetual Chal
| lenge cup and Glass B. for the Squire
Island Annual cup For rules and
courses. address Alex Doyle. chairman
yachting committee. There will be a
Lawn Fete on the courts of the associa-
ton. Saturday, Aug, %, from until 5.
The annual show for the benefit of the
association will be given at the Casino,
Thursday, Aug. 2sth, at P. NJ
Pop concert was given at the Casino,
Friday evening, for the benefit of the
Improvement Association. The whole af-
fair, dramatic and musical, was given by
island talent and scored a big success as
a delightful entertainment and with
financial returns.
Squirrelites are taking daily trips and
pcnics to historic Pemaquid. They find
| 1t a most satisfactory trip for they can
| leave twice daily on the Southport and
| Westport, the large new steamers of the
Eastern Steamship Co. They leave at
about s A. NJ. and 1880 A. NJ, returning
at 1.30 and go p. M.
There was a large attendance at the
Monday evening whist Mrs. Thomas w
Baeehus, Wilmington, Del, was the hos
tess. The prize winners were: Mr.
| Davis, Boston, book. 1.-The Vicar OF
Wakefield; Mrs Palmer, New Yark
plate; G. G.. Moore, New York. plate;
| Mr. Mexican. East Orange, n. j.. book;
| F. c. Little. Augusta, candle stick
Contributions may be made for the
employees of the Mouse Island hotel
which was recently destroyed by fire, by
| leaving them with Miss Reed, at the
| library.
| The Rev. DIR. Lawrence Phelps, Allan.
| ia, Ga. will preach at the chapel, Sun.
| day morning.
The collections taken last Sunday TO,
the benefit of the Maine Coast Mission
airy work, conducted by Rev. Mr.. Mae
| Donald amounted to s50.54
Mrs. Common, Newark. n. J., Is a guess
of Mrs. Z. Z. Ward and family at cottag,
| Happedaise.
| j. Everett Sparrow and family, who
have occupied the Alpine cottage thi.
summer, have returned to Brooklyn
| n. Y.
! Rev. r. w. Kenyon conducts a praise
service at the island chapel. each Sunda,
| evening
| DIR. and Mrs. Edward Pratt, New York
| have arrived at the Pratt cottage
| Mr.. and Mrs. Ripley. New York, are
| guests of the De Blois family.
Miss Margaret Gruener, New Haven
| Conn. is guest at the Stanley cottage.
| Nathan Fitch, New Haven, Conn, has
| arrived for a two weeks stay at the
| Schmidt cottage.
| The annual meeting of the Ladies' I'm
provement Association will be held at the
| Casino, next Monday afternoon, at three
| o'clock.
Walter Mungoie, New York, is a CUES,
| at the Sparrow cottage.
Waring Darlington. Newark, n. j., l.
at the Squirrel cottage.
THE Princess owned by r. E. Stan
| ley. Newton. Mass, won first place In
| the motor boat race. and the Ethed
owned by Rev. r. w. Kenyon, won first
place in the sailing races of the regatta
| recently given by the Boothbay Harbor
| Yacht Club.
The proceeds from the silver tea given
| at the Stanley cottage. last Saturday,