Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-12-22
Climax of the Year
Boys and Girls Clubs

contest. climax Of the year in boys
and girls club work in Maine. will be
held on the University OF Maine
campus, Dec. IS, 90 and 80. From
replies thus far received, indications
are that the attendance will exceed
that at any state contest ever held.
The Maine Central Railroad has
granted special rates to those who
are to attend the sessions. Tickets
at the rate Of one and one-haf fares
for the round trip will be sold at all
Maine Central stations. Club men,
bers and leaders living on lines of
the Boston & Maine or Grand Trunk
should buy tickets to the nearest
Maine Central point and there pur-
chase round-trip tickets at the eX-
cursion rate.
All winners of county champion
ships are entitled to attend and an
county club project leader and to
every local leader and assistant leader
in whose club there is a. county
champion. Free entertainment on
the campus will be furnished. begin
ming with supper, Thursday, the 2Sth.
and including breakfast Saturday.
Club girls and women leaders will be
assigned to rooms in Balentine hall.
The men and boys will be housed in
Oak hall.
The program will provide a demon
stration, subject matter talks, adj
dresses. entertainment. tour Of the
campus, q banquet, award OF cash
| prizes and state championships. DR..
Leon S. Merrill, dean of the College
! OF Agriculture and director Of the ex-
| tension service, under whose auspices
| club work is conducted, will welcome
| the visitors at the opening session.
| The principal addresses will be by
! Julian Emery of Bar 1arbor, presi-
dent Of the Maine Federation of
Farm Bureaus, and Miss Florence NJ.
I Hale of Augusta. state agent Tor
| rural education. They will be the
! only speakers outside the circle. of
| club folks. Mary Z. Hunter II Tops
| ham, a Sagadahoc county champion
| in both the garden and poultry pro-
iects, will be POSTMASTER at the BAN
| auet in Balentine hall, Friday eve
ming.
| Cash prizes, donated by the Maine
Central, will be awarded to all club
champions vino attend. State cham
pionshin in the nine projects of can
ming, cooking and housekeeping gar
den, flint corn, sweet corn. pig. pota-
to, poultry and sewing, will also be
awarded, irrespective Of attendance
The contest will be in general charge
of Lester II. Shibles and Mrs. ARA
S. Mixter, State leaders of clul
work. Following is a list of county
champions eligible to attend.
Aroostook: Canning. Mildred
Stevens, Portage: cooking ant
housekeeping, Mildred Dunn. Port
age; potato, Dawson l.. Noble
Westfield; sewing, Mabel Kirkpat
rick. Portage.
Androscoggin: Canning. Rub!
Edgecomb, North Livermore; cook
ing and housekeeping, Ida Putnam
North Livermore; garden, Omal
Gibbs, North Livermore: pig. Fred
II. Kicker, Jr., Lisbon: potato. Henri!
w. Briggs, Jr.. North Livermore
poultry. Omar Gibbs, North Liver
more; sewing. Anna Boothby. Liv
ermore: sweet corn, Sadie Bryant
North LivermOre.
Cumberland: Canning, Esther NJ
Bracket, Cumberland Center: cook
ing and housekeeping. Francin;
Larrabee. Bridgton; garden. Ernes
w. Merchant. Walnut Hill; pig, Err.
nest W. Merchant, Walnut Hill
! poultry. Nelson Winslow. Cumber,
land Center: sewing, Louise c. Gil.
man, Bridgton.
! Franklin: Canning. Florence
Kyes, North Jay: cooking and
housekeeping. Phyllis McGrath
| North Wilton; flint corn, Cedric
| Ranger, East Wilton; garden, Cedric
Ranger, East Wilton: pig. Cedric
Ranger. East Wilton; potato. Bril-
ceno Fcssett, Jay: poultry. Cedric
Ranger, East Wilton: sewing. Grace
Knowles, North Wilton; sweet corn.
Rutillus Allen. North Jay.
! Hancock: Canning, Leonice Hill,
keeping, Elizabeth Thurston, South
East Sullivan: cooking and house.
west Harbor; garden, J. Donald
Lord. East Surry; pig, Gilbert
! Stubs, Bucksport: potato, Leo NJ.
Staples. South Penobscot; poultry.
J Sylvia Mcdonald. Lamoine; sewing.
Louise Small. Ashyille.
Kennebec: Canning. Rebekah G..
! Reed, Winslow: cooking and house
| keeping. Mary Reed, Winslow; gar
den, Erlon G. English, Chelsea:
flint corn. Edwin A. Wilson, Win
slow: sewing. Eleanor Peacock,
Readfield: poultry, Mary Z. Reed,
Winslow.
Knox: Poultry, Raymond Ken
| niston. Warren; sewing, Lucille
| Jones. Union.
Lincoln: Sewing. fern Crabtree,
Jefferson, sweet corn, Eden Light,
Waldoboro.
Oxford: Canning. Lora NJ. Por-
ter. South Paris; cooking and house.
keeping. Glenna Starbird. South
Paris: sweet corn. Henry PIummer.
South Paris: sewing, Glenna Star
bird. South Paris.
Penobscot: Canning. Rena Man.
ming. Hampden; cooking and house
keeping. Marguerite Sylvester, Etna;