Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-01-15


And she cannot clearly see;
But her Soul grows bright and
She Is Gods light to me! |
Mrs. r. NJ. Jones of China has won
| the first prize for the Delicious apple
for the year 1919 in Maine, offered by
the Mississippi Valley Fruit Growers
Association, which for a term Of
| three years has offered these prizes
| in each state in the Union.
| Reports received at the Maine Col
lege of Agriculture from the U. S.
Dept. of Agriculture show that Maine
| stands seventh in the 46 states in the
number of it's dairy herds that have
passed the government tests for tu-
berculosis and are entitled to off,
| cial recognition as accredited herds.
Maine has 127 such herds. The
SIX states that outrank Maine are:
Minnesota. with 4s4; Virginia, 1854;
Wisconsin. 2S7; Pennsylvania, 261;
District Of Columbia, 1870; North Da-
| kota, ~172. , .44
An accredited herd is one that has
been tested under the supervision of
| the Bureau of Animal Industry, or
| by regularly employed veterinary
! inspector of state In which tuber-
culosis eradication work is being
conducted jointly with the United
States Department of Agriculture.
Further, it shall be a herd in which
nQ animal affected with tuberculosis
has been found in two annual, or
| three -semi-annual. tuberculin tests,
| or by physical examination.
h OF the 46 states Maine stands fifth
! in the number of herds that have
been once tested and found free from
| this disease. It's number Of such
herds is 941. Vermont leads, with
1S4S; Florida is second, 1896; North
Carolina. third. 1o45; Minnesota,
4 fourth, 994
Plans are being made for the
| restoration of the ancient Catholic
chapel at Castine this year. The
chapel was established more than $50
years ago, and although in the last
80 years this has become an important
summer resort, not q summer resi-
| dent has secured the site of the old
chapel, and upon it will arise the
| one which to commemorate it's ex-
| istence.
The official description of the old
| mission isl
There is a chapel of about six
PAGES long and four broad, covered
with shingles, built upon a terrace,
| upon which there is q small turret,
wherein there is little bell weighing
IS pounds
This chapel was named either St
Peter or Our Lady Of the Holy Hope,
wherein officiated one missionary
after another at least from 1913. ac-
cording to copper plate unearthed
several years ago near the site of the
chapel. Upon this plate was the fol-
| lowing inscription in Latin: I'm the
year 164S, June 8, I, Brother Leo Of
Paris, Capuchin Missionary Father
placed and blessed this foundation in
honor Of Our Lady of Holy Hope"
According to the Rt. Rev. Louis g.
Walsh, bishop of Portland, the cere-
monies of the dedicatory exercises
| VIII be OF an impressive character.
Priests and missionaries from many
places will attend and the same mass
and prayers which were used at the
dedication Of the original church will
be used.
Dr. Warren e. Kersher Of Bath,
has for pocket coin copper penny
that was dug up with a spadeful Of
earth from a garden, on his place on
Green street. 1t is Of date 1917 and is
one of the kind that was minted be-
fore the milled edge came In.
| Presidents Day was celebrated by
the Maine Wonen's Club OF New
York. Mrs. Ada Shorey. president, on
Saturday. Jan. sth. at the Waldorf
Astoria, with the following program:
Greetings from the Maine Society
OF New York, Mr.. James Merriman:
group of songs. Miss Phebe Crosby;
| Maine Musical Festival" Mrs. VIII.
liam /R. Chapman, president Of the
Rubenstein Society; Free War Work
and the Navy" Mrs, William H.
Hamilton; 1.-THE Daily Food ALI
ance," Mrs C. d. Hirst.
The East Room was beautifully
decorated with American fiags, the
Seal Of the State of Maine and boughs
Of pine and cedar which Mrs. William
Rs Chapman has Just brought back
from her estate in Bethel.
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