Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-10-02

members were glad the season nda
opened. and he stated that che meeting
marked the unwilling of the ga gel
which was won from the Bath club
in the get-together of the two "iul.s
recently held in the Shipping City.
Next in order was the regular old
fashioned Rotary roll CALL each MEM
Der rising, giving his name and occu-
patton, and introducing his guest for
the evening.
After a delicious Rotarian dinner
served in the usual fine style of the
hotel, Rotarian Paul D. Sargent was
called upon to tell of his visit to the
fall Rotarian conclave at Lynn.
Mass. In an interesting manner, ne
told of the features of the Rotarian
program carried out there. At the
conclave there were about 700 dele
gates and guests, and they were
given a royal reception by the Lynn
members. In the morning of the
first day there was registration, and
in the afternoon a business session.
In the evening the opening dinner
was held in the hotel. the speaker be-
ing Secretary General Chesley r.
Perry of Chicago. There were Ro-
tary sessions all the next day, with
an auto ride for the ladies. At noon
all attended the regular meeting Of
the Lynn club, featured by Charles
A. Littleield Of the Lynn club, a
former Maine man. That afternoon
the Rotarians had a parade at Lynn.
The speaker at the evening meeting
was Rotarian Henry Cabot Lodge.
who spoke upon The Spirit of New
England" Following this meeting.
1.-THE conclave was brought to an end
with a New England barn dance and
ball which was a most delightful
affair. From Augusta the follow
ing attended the conclave: Nathaniel
White, Mr.. and Mrs. John McIlroy.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. Z. Purinton, and Mr..
and Mrs. Sargent
Mr.. White also spoke briefly about
tthe conclave
A four-sided speaking contest
contest upon the subject, MY Most
Embarrassing Moment" was ar
ranged by the entertainment COM
mittee as the stunt for the evening
and it surely was a winner. The
contestants We're Charles E. Down
ing, Elmer E. Newbert, Jack Hanson
and John r. Gould. On account Of
serving on the entertainment COM
mittee, Mr. Gould asked to be eX-
cused from participating. and he
was excused.
From the point of brevity, Mr..
Downing's talk took first place. He
stated that his most embara ssing
moment was at that particular mo-
ment when he had but three cents
with which to pay 10 cents. Ap-
plause.
Jack Hanson declared that for him
the most embarrassing moment was
on the day Of June IA. 1891, when at
the Union Street Grammar school,
Bangor, he was to speak a piece,
Fredericksburg in 49," He had
carefully rehearsed the piece and
felt that he knew it, and he rejected
the offer of prompter. But he found
1T quite different matter to speak
from the platform and the one SEN
tence of the poem he remembered
proved that it was indeed his most
embarrassing moment More APP
plause
Elmer E. Newbert showed that he
was a man not easily embarrassed
and said that he had lived an un-
eventful life. He said that he had
owned Ford car, had the expert
ence of having the car stalled in a
funeral procession, but that had no,
embarrassed him. He had owned a
"one lung car and in those days
knowing nothing of autos, had put
the water in the gasoline hole, and
gasoline in the radiator, and had
other experiences, all without being
embarrassed. 1t appeared that he
had never had an embarrassing mo-
ment, and he likened his situation
to that Of a one-handed man who
knows he can't hit his thumb with
hammer. Most applause.
Telephone calls for different Ro-
tarlans and messages delivered add.
ed to the fun of the meeting, Presi.
dent Lang receiving these messages
from the phone installed at the
speakers table.
Previous to reading the novelette,
Rotarian Lewis A. Burleigh speaker
OF the evening, gave the following
foreword:
while summering at Christmas
Cove in 1917, our family made the
acquaintance of a Montreal woman
or intelligence and refinement, who
was necessarily at work for the
Canadian soldiers. Perhaps her busy
fingers. like discharge wires, re-
iIeved the pent up current of corrow
and anxiety which her brave hear,
and cheerful smile screened from
the outer world.
one afternoon the conversation
CHANGED to turn upon literary mat
ters. and accepted her laughing
suggestion that We should write in
collaboration three. chapter novel
cite, of which our families should he
the sole audience and critics.
Il was to write the first chapter
without assistance or collaboration
She was to take my manuscript and
write the second chapter, developins
the plot independently and in her
own way, while it was my task, in
the third and final chapter, to extri-
cate the characters from any di-
lemma in which she hight have left
them. These things came to pass
and one evening we read the sketchv
Urine to the. assembled families
That ended the matter. as T s,,
posed except for a pleasant and
abiding recollection that those few
hours brought a little diversion into