Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-07-13
Dexter
Sugar Cards to be Distributed
-Selectmen Call Attention
to Provision for Dependency
of Soldiers Wives and Cl,il-
dren

The card system for the distrihu
ton of sugar Will be in force here
within few days, Dexter grocers
having joined the others Of Penobscot
county cities and towns in the adop-
ton Of this method. Under the new
order Of things every purchaser of
sugar will be required to have card
which will be arranged in much the
same style as a meal ticket. Three
pounds to a person per month is the
limit. In other words if a family
consists of four persons the family
vii be entitled TO II pounds Of sugar
a month and no more.
1 It Will be the first time that the
card method has been used here al
though it has been in use in Dover
Foxcroft for nearly a year and the
results have proven satisfactory.
During the past year Dexter mer-
chants have been fortunate in ob-
tanning a fair amount of sugar to
supply their customers and in this
matter the town has been much more
fortunate than some of the others IN
this section of the state.
! Lafayette E. Waldron Esq. chair
man of the Board of Selectman. IS
calling the attention of the depend
ents of soldiers, sailors and marines.
to the fact that by application to the
municipal officers and proof of actual
dependency they are entitled to $500
per week for the wife, $50 per week
for each other actual dependent in
the family, not to.eXceed $1,000 in the
whole per week, as provided in
Chapter 276. of the State Laws of
1917.
A canning demonstration will be
held in Dexter. Monday, July %, at
2 o'clock in the afternoon by Miss
Grace Garden. state demonstration.
Tho place of meeting Will be an
nounced later.
The benefit supper given under the
auspices of the ladies of the Free
Baptist church at the home of Mrs.
Fred A. Blodgett Thursday evening
was largely attended and a most APP
petizing menu was served in an at
tractive manner.
A special meeting of the Sunshine
club will be held Friday evening al
the offices of DR.. G. H. Haines in
the Dexter Trust and Banking build
ing to discuss the advisa bility of hav-
ing an entertainment course during
the coming winter. A large attend
ance of the club members is desired
as the matter must be decided at
once.
vacation bible school is being
conducted in the Vestry Of the First
Baptist church Tuesday and Wednes-
day mornings of each week from 9
to II O'Clock. All children in the
town are cordially invited to attend.
The purpose is not to proselyte, out
to render service to children in ev-
cry practical way during the vaca-
ton season. A splendid group Of
young people under the direction Of
Rev. and Mrs. George c. Sauer and
Mrs Avis Kimball are in attendance
each morning to make the hours pass
proftably for the children. The first !
hour is given to singing. recitation Of |
psalms and poetry, salute to the flag |
and a brief bible story. The second /
hour is spent in groups under several |
teachers. when various interesting |
things are done. The older boys are
taken in charge by Rev. Mr.. Sauer |
AMI initiated into the fascinating
mysteries of electrical appliances
within the range Of the average boy,