Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-08-10
SPIRITUALIST
CAMPMEETING
AUG. % AT ETNA
Well-knOwn Speakers Secured
Largest Attendance Known
Expected-Better Grounds

Etna. Me-, Aug. 9.-(SpeciaD.- 3sth
annual session of the First Maine State
Spiritualist Campmeeting Association
will begin Aug IS. at the Etna camp
ground and continue 10 days. Trains will
stop at the grounds Aug "a to Sept. 6 in
elusive.
The coming campmeeting promises to
be the greatest in the history of the ia
nous campground. Many improvements
have been made during the past year,
that add much to the appearance of the
grounds and the convenience of visitors.
The Ladies Aid has remodeled and
thoroughly repaired the Bazaar building
and will rent rooms. in addition to car
rying on their usual work of daily sales
of useful and fancy articles The store
has been painted and has a new piazza
floor. Frank Otis will have charge of
the store again this year. which is all
that need be said on the subject.
Several fine cottages have been built
during the past year and much repairing
done. The boarding house is being reno
der The hotel is under new manage
ment and will have fine patronage.
Such enormous crowds have attended
the Etna campmeetings during the past
several years that the water supply has
become of much importance Several diff
ferent propositions have been investigat-
ed without success, until this year Last
fall the water committee contracted with
the Graves Bros of Etna to drill an ar
tesian we'll to furnish not less than Is
gals. per minute continuous pumping
This seemed hard proposition and it
required courage to attempt it. At a
depth of 10 feet, however an apparently
inexhaustable supply has been obtained
%, 900 gallon tank has been constructed,
a pump and gasoline engine installed.
and the water piped so as to convene the
campground and eventually all the cot
tages. The grounds will now have water
from four artesian wells and also from
the Tarr Farm springs.
This year the array of talent. the larg-
est ever assembled in New England, has
been secured for the rostrum DR.
George B. Warne, president of the Ma
tional Spiritualist Assn, who has lee
tured all over the United States, will
speak Sept. 4-5-6. President Mary S.
Vanderbilt, the world-famous psychic,
will speak and will be present the whole
10 days. Other popular speakers will be
Frederick Nicholson of Boston, Geo. B.
Cutter of Boston and Mrs. Nettie Holt
Harding of Somerville, Mass, an old
time favorite at Etna.
W. cut mil
the campmeeting, will give an entertain
ment on Tuesday evening and also take
part in the concerts. Overlock's orches-
ira will furnish music for dancing par
ties in Society hall
Reduced rates on all railroads and by
the Eastern Steamship Co. have been
granted as usual. Excursion trains will
be run from Dover and Foxcroft on both
Sundays. Baggage will be left at the
campground by delivering checks to the
baggage master on the trains. Cottages
and rooms can be rented Camp Etna
hotel. under new management, will be
open, as also will the boarding house.
The official program:
Friday, Aug. 300 P. NJ, opening SER
vice. President, Mar S. Vanderbilt; TOO
Mary Drake Jenne presiding
Saturday, Aug. 29-l0 A M. Geo. B.
Cutter; 200 P. NJ, Frederick Nicholson;
100 P. M, social meeting, subject, How
Can the Cause of Spiritualism be Ad-
vanced.'
Sunday. Aug. $4,000 A. NJ. Frederick
Nicholson; 200 P. M. Mrs. Mary S. Van
derbilt; 100 P. NJ, public seance. admis-
sion 10c.
Monday, Aug. $1,000 A. M, Frederick
Nicholson; 200 P. NJ, Geo. B. Cutter; 700
P M, conference, subject, THE Out of
Spiritualism.'
Tuesday, Sept. 1000 A. M, Mrs. Net
tie Holt Harding; 200 P. NJ, Frederick
Nicholson; 200 P. M, entertainment,
Geo. B. Cutter, admission, 10c.
Wednesday. Sept. 1000 A M, Mrs.
Nettie Holt Harding; 200 p M, Mrs.
Mary S. Vanderbilt; 100 P. NJ, N. s. A.
meeting.
Thursday. Sept $1,000 A. M. Memo
rial service, Mrs. Mary S. Vanderbilt;
400 p. M, Mrs. Nettie Holt Harding; 700
p. NJ, children's concert, admission 1Oc.
Friday. Sept. $50 A. NJ, annual bust
ness meeting; 200 P. M, DR.. George B.
Warne president of N. s. A.; 700 P. M,
annual grand concert. admission 1Oc.
Saturday. Sept. $1,000 A. NJ, Geo. B.
Cutter: 200 p. M. DR.. eGdrRe B.