Daily Kennebec journal., 1919-12-02
BELFAST
DR.. Thomas Guest Of Belfast
Teachers Club, Gives Inter-
esting Address--Lady Astor
Visited Dark HarbOr

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DR.. A. o. Thomas. State superin-
tendent Of schools was the guest of
honor at a meeting of the Belfast
Teachers club held in the Universal
list vestry on Friday night. After an
informal reception DR.. Thomas made
a most interesting address on what
had been accomplished in Maine along
educational lines and what is
planned for the future. He outlined
his plan for studying history from
the resources at hand. The child to
do more than read the printed page.
He should learn from the landmarks
about him. from the old inhabitants,
etc Education should be concrete
not dealth within the abstract as in
the past. He cited such unstable
governments as Mexico, Russia, and
Turkey as countries as not having
popular education and this was the
cause Of their dawnfall while on the
other hand the United States. Eng
land and France remain stable be-
cause the people have been educated
for citizenship. Here DR.. Thomas
made the encouraging statement that
Maine leads the United States in the
smallest percentage Of juvenile illit-
eracy.
Lady Astor recently elected after
a hot contest to the British House
Of Commons is we'll remembered at
Dark Harbor where she was a fire.
quent visitor before her marriage to
William Waldorf Astor. now Wis
count Astor Of the British peerage.
She was then Miss Mamie Lang
horne. one of the famous Langhorne
beauties of Virginia and came to
Seven Hundred Acre Island to visit
her sister, Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson
at her summer home there. Miss
Mamie is we'll remembered on the
island for her beauty and charm and
tors came to the Gibson cottage for a
part Of their honeymoon.
The next meeting Of the Belfast
Teachers Club will take place on
Jan. 9Th.
Thomas Rice the veteran shoe
maker of Belfast. having been in the
business for 20 years and is now in
his S6th year. is confined to his
room with rheumatism in his right
hand. Mr.. Rice is a veteran of the
Civil War, was a prisoner at Libby
and received a sabre cut on his left
hand which has bothered him more
or less but he has nevertheless
worked hard all his life and is one
Of the youngest men Of his age in the
city. He recently returned from a
year in Detroit where he went to
make his home with his son a manu-
facturer and in whose enameling
plant Mr.. Rice worked during his
stay. Coming back to Belfast for a
visit Mr.. Rice felt the call of the
leather and went back to his old Job
in Leonard & Barrows in which shop
he has worked for % years. He has
a great many friends in Belfast who
hope his indisposition will be Of short
duration.
Eugene NJ. Cook has been suffering
with blood poison in one Of his fin
gers for the past week caused by in
jury from a tack while at work in
the Leonard & Barrows factory. He
is much better.
Miss Katherine Chase Quimby en-
tertained the members Of the Satur-
day Auction club and their husbands
at supper on Saturday night fol-
lowed by music and cards. Supper
was served at Z o'clock at small
tables after which auction and pitch
were played.
The annual meeting Of the Asso-
ciated Charities was held on Friday
afternoon in municipal court room
and Rev. Arthur e. Wilson was re-
elected president. The other officers
were vice presidents. Rev. George G
Boorn and Mrs. Essie p. Carle: sec-
retary. Mrs. Charles M. Craig: treas
urer. Charles r. Coombs. For the
past two years. undoubtedly owing to