Daily Kennebec journal., 1922-08-24

day with blue skies, warm sun and
Just enough breezes to complete the
hree-cornered ombination. The
annual outing of the Waterville
Retail Merchants Breau. when the
employer becomes the employa and
wee versa took place in full glory
all dav Wednesday. The key TO the
Park was turned over to the Elm
City folks. The grove, the hotel. the
feeds, the lake were all theirs and
al! free. The merchants had an
lrGngec all that IN their role O: EN-
ploNe." Strenuous sports and ones
which called for skill. loads o. good
things 10 eat. excursions around the
lake formed the program of the day
70 say nothing of dancing in the pa
vilion.
Committee on the Job
From the time il takes an automo-
bile TO reach Island Park after leav-
ing Waterville at 8 o'clock in the
morning. until the sun was hight at
noon. the Watervllle party was ar
riving The Waterville stores were
closed. Everybody made the trip
by automobile. That was another
task OF the employees OF the day. to
see everybody was automobile con-
veNcd. Arriving at the cool, rest
ful groves of the Park. the guests
found that an efficient committee
had arranged everything for their
enjoyment The hustlers who had
laid the plans and saw to it that ev-
erybody had a jolly time were Sam
Freeman. Ben Steele. William Shaw,
sam Hilson, Carl Dubord and Ar
thur a.ibbv They had their hands
full in looking out for everybody,
but they did first class job of it.
Morning Sports
The morning was taken up with a
list OF sports which had been ar
ranged by &. y. Root Of the Com
munity Service. a man who has late
lly come to Waterville and who,
'among other things. shows how TO
have good time in large crowds.
The water and the land were used in
the sports. The first event was a
handicap rowing race. 1t is handi-
cap any hot day to push boat over
the water, but that didn't hinder
Harry Jenson and y. Smith from
winning Other contestants were
Harry Belleveau c. Letourneau, c.
Cardin. G.. Robinson, X. Maxwell and
A. Reny.
Swinging races were next in order
and the winner was Harry Jenson.
The second winner was G.. Robinson;
third. W. J. Cyr and fourth. Brewer.
lugced along considerable bacon IN
!. the line OF the days prizes. was the
winner. Others in the race were u.
Robinson and Clifford Hart.
Tho canoe race. which revealed
much skill and knowledge of the
craft on the part of the contestants,
was won by Arthur Libby and II. L.
Merrill. The seconds in that event
we're Bill Cyr and Carl Dubord;
!, third. G.. Robinson and Mlchaud
fourth. II. Jenson and Hugh Smith
: Jr. other entrants. l.. Loubier. Fred
JACQUES and Gene Lachance.
All, The Tug o. War, That's
whore the pulling was. The Emery
Brown ladies team was the better,
, showing they could pull longer ano
harder than the Soper team, COM
po.ed OF Mrs. Jordon and Stella Bal
die The members OF the winning
I, ,eam were Mrs. Bowdoin and Mona
Terrll.
The ladies got all mixed up IN
their race. or at least they called II
, tho ladies' mixed race. the next
touching the tare first. Her secoi'"
was Miss card!n, with MISS Regina
cameron third and Mabel Pooler'
fourth.
7, ,he second rowing race for men,
non steele was the best man, gettlhg
g., srs, Second was Harvey Pooler'
,r,rd Felix York: fourth Louis LOU
her
TIE Dinner at Noon
After all that exercise, poth OH 'nc
mar, OF the participants ana those
} ubo stood on the side lines ana
cbeored eating was in order. On
hoy and oh. girl Didn't everything
taste good and didn't 1000 olsappeai
! H. Noyer, proprietor OF 'he IS
land Park Inn. was in charge oi 'ie
o,,s Two long tables had been SET
,,aer tho trees and the benches
wero soon flcd with hungry foiks.
picnic lunches were produced ana
those we're combined with MI NoH
ers yiyands Deft mattresses iloa'
oa I'm and down the aisles, bearing
h,ca +rays of steamed CLAIMS, whlch
foup5 most hearty welcome. lhere
,ar. barrels and barrels OF steamed
,l,ms hot and juicy, right OH 'he
o.o n, course with those. were
bsbas Of drawn butter ana nec'ai
Then there were pickles, NOT ro'lS'
, ,oto,o chips. brick ice cream anu
roffee. all from the Island Park Inn
,,rdo, That would have been de-
ucb.ful suffciency. hat the dainty
,.,,ic lunches which many or 'ne
ro,ks brought with them more tiaii
rounded over the horn OF ple'''H'
Mr.. voyer in Charge
II, yoyer presided at the clam
hako serving and his good rish'
am VAS right in trim for the DIP
,,rr out Of the steaming dippertuls
~ sea food. Il don't care What you
cav these clans are the best ever
,os,ed" said one Waterville mer-
chant. shutting his eyes in deiish.-
mi anticipation, got on the ou'slue
of a tempting clam in quick order.
There was plenty for everybody ana
o,or .be picnic lunches were en-