The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-09-02
26th Annual Meeting
n,le Clan, School Club of SO at
w South Montville.

unr EDITOR OF The JOURNAL. The
% ! NJ neetilg of the Dale Clan has
Gp'l 5 id to wit, Saturday evening,
i pvi' at Grange Hall. Doesn't it
liz an9 Rain six weeks, almost a
Hovnpour, two days for haying,
s1y , ~ the Dale meeting day, and
p naSr tackled right onto the cal
week before the eventful night,
he rain or shine, hay weather or
:, Dpather clause included. Who
o. gGartend under such conditions? Who
f attend in spite of them? The
l pos crowded, the attendance being
West ever known of these meet
'anffoors, only one outdoor meeting
T If for numbers. Various theories
FORMATIONS had been aired as to the
# tins season of earth-drenching
u = the skies. Some said the Hyades
N prolonged mourning, in bitter
n aver mad conditions among the ma
r. u aarth. No wonder. By heavens,
f s,msb Of the heavens over such con-
' r,' would be very mild affair. Thun-
''I Gchtning, earthquake and whlrl-
EE, b falling stars, the powers of the
..,s shaken, would all be a fitting
assurance if prolonged from summer
ss l9nter. Nature loves peace and JUS
'1 md the live and let live principle.
y, If the nations of earth seem to
W w tbe cause before high heaven 9TH
v .,s ordered, and so fill their mouths
Y r. specious and lying arguments and
A. \, arms II with hot shot and poison gas.
|. link the Hyads are pouring down
! asrer to put out such internal fires.
f'.cs We ought to tolerate the heavenly
3.sis without a murmur. Murmuring
p ~ anyway. So the Dale Meeting
!, assigned when 1T was assigned by
~ # Temonstrance against murmur-
y n,t there was much guessing and
sosag and wondering as to whether
Il n Chefs orders on the weather
....8 would be honored this time. He,
.TsT4r wavered not. Baal wasn't
grloc his weather account. He spoke
+. MI a week ahead, and said 1.-THE
4. meeting will have fair weather., ="
.5r had fair weather, fair and lovely,
--i4 warm for so late a Saturday
,5r m August, but what of that? No
rnurag, Sir
Bs President came into the Dale by
4 4reat from Boston to Newcastle.
,so he swung down to his summer
AZ at Murray Hill, East Boothbay for
isr then he made break for the
Ity Of the Georges, the to him Gar
,d Ed.n, that is a Paradise never for
T5neat in his day dreams or his night
hon. lost to view, in which when he is
sr present the days, rain or shine,
5r n solemn and majestic, no, sweet
! PLAYFUL pomp-a psalm of life. 1t
{ The and where his eyes first saw
ig1t where his childhood smiled in
:isc- Of sorrow and bereavement and
asllp. smiled them down and out Of
nteaa1ce, smiled till the skies came
VI ana kissed the earth, and heaven
3rar-t mingling have made for his adj
-erg Years the mystic dream world
t9riss the world tragedies of human
urF Well, he attended the Prescott
MOI. Sabbath meetings, fished round
ro1- round with his old schoolmate,
gq.-ls Il. Bagley-two old fellows
( 90 buys again-did such things for
BE week, then struck for that Dale
qs. netting fresh as June pink.
nc5 as the Chief raped for order he
lm=aCei to tell the nature of the
suug. as if some might not yet know.
saIa was the Dale meeting, the Dale
ia aeeting of the Dale Clan, that
Re was but one Dale Clan and one
. netting in the world, none like it,
{ gould be like it, none ought to be
tiU all the world. Then he named
long roll of the gentlemen of title in
DALE and beyond the Dale. living and
Grand Duke Charles Conner, his
SID eIoved, late deceased, the Grand
Hess present; the Duke of Edge He'll,
0e-a Willis Ripley, acting as secre-
Of the meeting. the Duchess pres
ts5 Duke of Richardsdale. Sir Sewall
scott colby, he and the Duchess and
il present; the Duke of Shadagee,
Jua Prescott, present; the Duke of
nan .uurg, Sir William E. Prescott
aimed by ill he alth; the Duke of Lake;
Sir Edmund S. Adams, present
Duke of the Mills, Sir Charles S.
ms he and the Duchess and family
sem he Duke of Bachelorsdale, Sir
garl B. Malley, deceased; the Duke
Sir Edward H. Bates of
l5rcge, Mass, detained; the Prince
he SouJhland, Sir David E. Conner,
3n-i. the Prince of the Orient, Sir
Shee Kuei, Picking, China, detained;
Earl Of Truetown, Sir Charles 7.
ldaIl deceased; the Earl of Carriers
Z, SIR George F. Randall, deceased;
Baron of East Ridge, Sir C. A. Nc
re- present; the Marquis of East
q, the ancient and honored Secre-
Of the Clan, Sir Benjamin F..
IVES detained; the Earl of Knox,
Eugene M. Stubs, detained; an
~ Of gallant Knights and ladies,
ded by Sir John Sukeforth and
J, present; the Bannerette absent ;
glorious array of purple ana
gold. badges, banners, armor-
aud frills, to stuff a museum
e day, that will make the Tower of
Qon and the Castle of Edinburgh look
oiate; but mark you. the simplicities
rue democracy mark all this lordly
" otharwise the Chief who has stood
election twenty-six years in success
. each time elected, would not stand
minute. He has added to this
I, list two this very year, the Earl
Mount Vernon, Me-, Sir Herbert F.
w. NJ, D., present; the Earl of the
iges, Sir George H. Page Of Apple
PRESENT.
he chief heard the Secretary pro tenn
lie from memory the doings of the
annual meeting, and declared it &C.
tie enough and let it 60 at that.
ne hove sigh, and said there had
10 be an annual election. He fairly
Squarely asked the Dukes of Edge
Lakeland and the Mills if they
ted the Office of chief; they pro-
I'd not. He doubted if they under
the parliamentary usages well
Ugh. They thought they understood
but they didn't. He can change
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