The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1919-03-27
Maine the Best State to Live In
Award of Prizes in the Maine State Board
of Trade Prize Contest.

Award of Prizes in the Maine State Board
of Trade Prize Contest
The Maine State Board of Trade prize
contest for the best forty reasons why
Maine is the best State to live in closed
the first week of December, but so numer-
GUS and exceedingly meritorious were the
responses that three months have been
required to reach a decision and award
the prizes.
The Committee of Award comprised
Hon. Carl E. Milliken, Governor of Maine;
Rev. Henry E. Dunnack, Librarian Maine
State Library, Augusta; DR.. Robert j.
Alley, President University of Maine,
Orono; Hon. Silas B. Adams, President
Maine Agricultural & Industrial League,
Portland; and Arthur G. Staples, editor
Lewiston Daily Journal, Lewiston. The
members of this committee, notwith-
standing they are among the busiest men
In all Maine, have given wealth of time
and painstaking labor to their ard. GUS
task.
In all many thousand reasons were sub
mitted by some hundred contestants. The
contest was not confined to residents of
Maine but responses came from all over
New England and from States further
away. The participants came from all
walks of life, every profession and calling
being represented, industrial and business
leaders, prominent men and women edu-
Gators, and also school boys and girls
The contest has resulted in bringing to-
gether wonderful symposium of Names
attractions and advantages, and with
such an array of contributions of extra
ordinary excellence, many notably meri-
torious are not among the prize winners;
and yet the committee have solved the
problem as best they could, there being
of course wide divergence of views and
the final decision being reached by ma
ioTity vote.
The first prize of fifty dollars to the IN
dividual submitting the greatest number
of reasons accepted by the committee has
been awarded to L. H. Clarke of Augusta.
The second prize of twenty-five dollars
to the one who submitted the best single
reason has been awarded to Flora c.
Clarke of Augusta.
The twenty-five prizes Of one dollar
each for the twenty-five other contest
ants submitting the next best reasons
have been awarded to the following indl-
viduals, the names being arranged alpha
betlcally and not in order of merit: Edith
Pratt Brown, Clinton; C. G. Brown, Bow
doinham; Mrs. Ada Loveioy Chase, Cam
bridge, Mass. James H. Collins, Newton,
Mass. ; Charles B. Davis, Portland; Har-
riet A. Eaton, Fort Fairfield; Mrs. Carrie
J. Farnham, No. Whitefield; Miss Florence
E. Farrar, Lewiston; Charles F. Flagg,
Portland; Clara Newhall Fogg, Bowdoln-
ham; H. D. Gordon, Gardiner; Miss Ber-
tina E. Hart Warren; Miss Jessica j.
Haskell, Hallowell; Miss Katherine E.
Hilliker, East Lynn, Mass; M. M. Irish,
Portland; W. B, Kendall, Bowdoinham;
Mss Fanny E. Lord, Bangor; E. H. Nc
Donald, Portland; Miss Rose D. Nealley,
Lewiston; Carl F. Morrison, Bangor; Geo.
A. Phillips, M. D., Bar Harbor; Miss l.
Marie Randall, Brockton, Mass; Miss
Jane Smith, Bangor; Mrs. Wilma F.
Stuart, Pittstleld; and Winthrop L. Webb,
Portland.
EDWARD M. BLANDING,
Secretary Maine State Board of Trade
Bangor, Maine, March 10, 1919.