Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-12-15
BOYS And GIRLS
Canning and Agricul-
tural Clubs Gathering
L arse Number Of Young People at
WaserviIIe Armory-Many Fine Ex-
hibits-Are Welcomed by Mayor
Meader

night the young people were late III
arriving and automatically everything
was delayed.
Those present al the copvention
were: Doris A Rainey, Mildred
: Smith. Annie l.. Hooper, Margaret
! Cushman, Winslow; Mrs. Everett Hun
! ter. Frances Goodwin. Gladys Good
win, Alice Michigan, Alice Wyman.
! Sylvia Monk, Ruth Monk, Christine
Hunter. Everett Hunter. Benton; Ed
win Doe China: Esther Wadswortn.
Campbell Helen Hamlin, Elizabeth
Waneta Blake. Ruth Weeks, Sadie
Katherine Hayes. Dorothy Merrill.
Dill May Gillespie, Mildred Sparrow.
Jesse Bradley. Harold Marshall, Earl
Norton. Maurice Norton. AlZo Traf-
! ton, Warren Wakefield Clyde Lougee,
! Raymond Monaghan. Gardiner: Har-
old F. Kinds ". F. Norcross, Ralph
Neal, Phyllis Burr, Sophie Hill. Ell
mer NJ Taylor. F. Clement Taylor,
! Eileen Clement Guy W. Stetson,
Maurice Leavi,t. Gilbert Maxwell.
Frank Mcdonald. Winthrop.
A. l.. Deering. kennebec county
agent Of the University Of Maine agrf-
cultural department. told the Journal
reporter that the girls Of kennebec
county had canned over 5000 cans Of
! fruit and vegetables and about 400 of
| these We're on exhibition at the Ar
mory Friday morning and made in
deed splendid showing. There were
all sorts Of small fruits and many
! kinds Of vegetabl- s that were most
appetizing in appearance. There Were
Gx-Ni . dc al
lows: Alice ". Nelligan. Benton
Sylvia f. Wyman. Alice j. Wyrnan, NJ.
Frances Goodwin, Gladys Goodwin and
Mary S. Howard. Waterville. p. F.
D.: Phyllis Y Burr. Anna May Neal,
Helen Prescott Marion Thaanum.
Christine Thaanum Winthrop; Annie
D. Hopper, Doris Rainey. Addienetta
Jewett, Madeline f. Reynolds. Wins
| low: Hester Whitley, Alma o. Taylor,
| North Eassalboro; Helena NJ Bouch-
| way. West Gardiner; Christine c.
White. Ruth NJ. Monk Benton; Ruth
a. Weeks. Mildred Q. Sparrow
Elizabeth Dill, Helen 3. Hamlin, Dor
| othy Morrill,, Sadie Campbell, Gard
| liner; Adria Fuller, Florence E. True,
Lois NJ. Fitch, Litchfeld; Virginia w
| Richardson. Pena Wheeler. Florence L.
| Berry, Dorothy Reynolds. Monmouth:
Sylvia Dudley, Readfeld and Thelma
| Coolidge, Wayne.
| Among the boys who exhibited corn
| were: Chester Bean Ansel F. Wight.
Donald b. Wight Carroll E. Foss Mt
! Vernon; Clarence A. Bean. Elwood l..
Bean, Clyde Y. Patterson, Vienna; Ev-
erett Hunter. Benton Station: Hope
| l.. Barnard, Walter D. Barnard, DON
! aid c. Smith, Rodman L. Palmer,
Readfeld; S. Pearson Files, Benton:
| Elwood Neal, c.. Willard Neal, Gilbert
Maxwell, F. Clement Taylor, Elmer F.
Taylor, Guy w. Stetson, Ralph B. I'll
tus, Winthrop: c. Wesley Wilson, Ed
win A. Wilson, Charles Prentiss Wins
low; Edwin A. Doe, China; George P.
Fowler, Stanley Smith. Fritz O. Peter
son, Monmouth; Westin c. Thomas,
Luther L. Crosby, Waterville: Joseph
f. Ware, Alzo G. Trafton, Lorrimer
]. Trafton, Maurice f. Norton. Earl
Norton, Gardiner; Clifton L. Norris,
| Wayne; Kenneth E. Newenham, AL
| bion
| AS fast as they arrived the boys and
| girls registered their names and were
| assigned to their rooms. to which they
We're conducted by patrol of Bow
| Scouts.
At, about 2.15 O'Clock in the after
noon the meeting at the Armory, with
A. L,EDeering,1 county agent for Ken
nebec county. presiding.
! Mayor O. A. Meader extended the
welcome OF the city to the young peo-
/ pie. saying that he was proud to well
| come them and to know of the werl-
they are doing.
| AS the hour was late the nro,,,r,
was not carried out exactly as nyannad
as some Of the speakers could NOT re-
main.
MI. DserIng then introduced Har-
VeF u. Eaton. president of the Cen
trail Maine Power Co Mr. Eaton told
the boys and girls that the MAYOR had
apologiZed Tor the weather although
ne was not to blame Tor it and told
them II the electric lights were out
and cars not,Funning please nor 70
blame him.
Mr.. Eaton said that he was glad.
lheE We're mere and it was = MIGHTY
me thln% % see their exhibit and he
had never Eeen finer one. That he
mad greater interest in production than
ever before.
MI fatoh talk emphasized the i'm
portance Of production and ureed bic
hearers to help make the SUNNY &c
great as possible.
Harry Brown. president of rho
/ Chamber Of Commerce, in his address
! OF welcome told the girls and bows 1wo
reasons why the Chamber was WILLING
70 put up money for prizes and m an
terrain 'hem in the city. One is the
great reed of food at the present time
and the other is the Improvement TO
agriculture which this movement will
make. .''
Ers4ey foldsmth. president. of the
a1qlhef Agricultural clubs respond
ed TO the address Of welcome. exnress-
ing the pleasure Of the members of the
various clubs for their invitations n nd
entertainment. A piano solo by Miss
Dorothy Reynolds Of the Monmouth
Canning Club, was finely rendered .nd
Arthur A. Heald Of the State Y NJ
c. A., spoke to the boys and girls OF
the importance of their work.
Raymond Monaghan of the Gard;-
Eel oultry Club entertained the as
scmbly with violin solo and Miss Ex-
creme Flood delighted all with read
fR1rs IL lad g.