Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-11-18
ISk0WnEeAm LOCAL NEWS
iSemsrssi County Headquarters Phones, farmer. 49, ~
Rotary Club Receives
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Charter
An important event in the life Of
the Skowhegan Rotary Club occur
red Friday evening in the Grand
Army hall. At 6.15 reception was
held in honor of the visit of Hon.
Robert w. Hill. of Salem. Mass,
governor of the Thirty-first District
OF Rotary International.
The hall where the affair was held
was appropriately decorated the
use of the American flags being in
pre-eminence in the decorations
which were directed by Walter H.
Hight. The committee on the en-
tertainment was composed Of Les
lie H. Goldsmith, chairman; VIM. B.
Woodbury.. Walter H. Hight and Col.
Roy l.. Marston. The occasion on
! Friday evening being the visit OF
Gov. Bob for the purpose Of pre-
senting to the Skowhegan club the
official charter from Rotary Inter-
national.
The Skowhegan club was organ
lied on May 10th. 1922 by Clair /.
Marston of Waterville, who had
been appointed as special represen-
tative Of the then District Governor.
Herbert Wilson, of Worcester. Mass.
.. The club has 80 members. At $50
! banquet was served by caterer Mrs.
Kate Simpson: but.the "Pot-hellion'
was made by Allie Pomlow woods
cook and past master in "Pot-hel-
lion" and was prepared from a l5O
pound buck, in whose chase ana
| final capture every member of the
! club claimed to have had hand.
! The vice-president, Walter P. Ord
way, moved a vote of thanks from
! the club to r. f. Atwood for the
| hard work and chase over hill and
| dale which exhibited his splendid
! craftsmanship and wonderful sue
! cess in his final capture of the buck,
| to which Mr.. Atwood in his usual
! modest and quiet manner respond
| ed; but this Charles A. Day. ques-
toned just who had really been ret
| sponsible for the buck and stated
that he had heard several stories as
to the shooting Of the same, which
made the "Pot-hellion" possible as
a part Of the feast on Friday eve
ming. Then it behooved, the presl-
dent, "Gramp" Merrill, to find out
for the club If possible, just who did
get the buck, as he and all knew
that every Rotarian was out after
buck, and he called upon Col. Roy
Il. Marston to make known the
truth in the matter. This Col. Mar
ston did in an unusual manner. but
to the great satisfaction of the men,
hers and guests also, who were pres
ent in large numbers. Col. Marston's
explanation was given in the form
of a paraphrase of SCOTS poem,
| 1.-THE Lady of the Lake." and opened
with the following lines, being Canto
IL. 1.-THE stag at eve had drunk his
fill. At a spring beside a North
street still and deep his midnight
lair had made, where they dumped
the mash in John Mooer's raid; but
when the sun his beacon red, had
set, the mash had gone to the poor
! stays head. The Rotary commit
tees heavy feet, resounded up the
dim lit street, and faint beyond yon
settled ridge, was heard old Atwood
playing bridge. in the second canto
the story of "R Els" response to
the call ITO Arms" and the flight or
1.-The antlered monarch of the waste
to the wild spots of Water street.
In the third 'canto. water" DIR.
Rich" and Jack" joined "R. p. IN
the chase and a hundred voices
Joined the shout and no rest the
lSkowhegan Rotations knew and the
buck fed on and chased the girls
through "Walter's'' store and carom-
ed off to the Bank of Trust and
down by "Bucky's" store, and as ms
perilous course did try to steer. the
silent Policeman held him up with
GO to the Right and by Clyde 90
Slow" and wandered to arthur
store. Cantos fourth and fifth re
late in the same vein the continued
chase and brought into the tale the
names Of many a good Skowhegah
Rotarians who had part in gettlng
the bpck In the sixth and closing
cantor in the secretary's real story
of getting the buck, he said, Into
Arthur's eyes. the stag he gaZed,
rave on long look, then unamazed
barred his throat to the sharp blades
thurst, bayed Rotary's slogan ser
vice First and another good DUCK
got into the Rotary.
The Lady of the Lake was never
! given in a more elegant and grand
style and manner than by Col. Mar
ston in his explanation of where the
buck really came from.
| One of the fundamental require
ments of the Rotary club is attend
| ance at the meetings and the presl-
dent called upon the secretary to as
certain If there was 100 per cent
in attendance The secretary count
cd the noses and reported that there
! was a 9S per cent present and that
DIR. Rich and Bill Woodbury. were
not present, and even as he was CIV
;ne. his report in came the DR.. lie
was howled down for being late. ana
call to fine him, fine him. re-
sounded throughout the hall, ana ne
was fined two dollars. collected much
to the Dr.'s disgust and he at once
exnlained the reason for his tardl-
ness. saving that he was called 10
the office of the superintendent OF
schools, Bill Woodbury.. and where
found him in serious condition with
a foreign substance in his throat ana
that he had taken him to the nos
pita. where X-ray pictures had peeh
taken and would be developed.
The presence of Bill was urged
,,d tho Dr. ACCOMPANIED by the SER