Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-12-14
Cuff stream is changing its COURSE
Bath Times.

Gulf Stream IL changing lts ceuFses--
Bath Times.
The fourth annual Bowdoin night IL
to be held by the Bowdoin Club Of
Portland at the Faimouth Hotel sat.
urday evening. Dec. az. Sixty Sec
ondary school boys are to be the
guests Of the club at this dinner,
which 10 the big event Of the Bow-
doin Club season. Dean Paul Nixon
IL to act az toastmaster. and there
will be several speakers and other
features. Austin H. (Spike) Mac
Cormick, alumni secretary. upon
whom Bowdoin men look Is the life
Of the party" will be one Of the after
dinner speakers. Don. J. Edwards ID
chairman Of the committee in charge
Of Bowdoh night.
On December 2S six students Of
the University Of Maine will leave
Bostoa on the Indianapolis Special. to
take part In the 1898 International
Convention Of the Student volun-
tesrs. This convention is held every
four years. and is composed Of about
eO0o students and teachers Of the
United States and Canada. All Of
luCSS NClCSdtOS AsO AhtSACStS0 Az
sionary work, either actively, or as
teachers. The Maine students who
will take part in this convention are
T. w. Munroe. "a, of Milo; George
Gruhn, 2s, Wisconsin,; Harry Van
dase. IS. WaterviNe: Frank McDon-
aid, 90, Winthrop; Miss Leona Reed.
rs, Rockland; Miss JOY Nevens. ~,
Lewiston.
Ninety-two golden years Tuesday
crowned the head Of Mary Jane Part
ridge Of Portland. born in that city
Dec. II. 1881, and to celebrate the
event representatives Of four genera-
tons gathered at the Partridge homo.
Headed by the venerable Mrs. Part
ridge, this four generation group in
cluded Mrs. Ada Frank of Poland. .
daughter; Claude Frank Of Poland. a
grandson, and Edith Blanche Frank.
a great granddaughter. Besides the
four many other members of the fam
lily did homage to Mrs. Partridge. who
is not only the oldest representative
of her family. but the Oldest member
of st. Luke's Cathedral. 4 remark
able type of woman is Portland's
mona genarian-able to read we'll
without the aid Of 'spectacles; able to
sing with remarkable fidelity to time
and tune; and able to repeat doscns
and dozens Of verses which she knew
in her childhood without missing a
single syllable, and without once be-
ing guilty of q wrong injection.
An unusual bit of family history.
work and tradition is that instanced
in the fact that Frank L. Brewer Is
now foreman in charge of Cadillac
Mountain road work, the Lafayette
National Park road. which. completed
to the summit. will some day be one
of the country's great features of
scenic interest. an objective for motor
lists from many a mile away. Mr..
Brewer is descended from one OF the
oldest families on the Island, and one
of the most prominent in Maine. and
he is working there on that mountain
section. within, one may say. a negli-
gible number of feet from where, car
rying out a plan of, his> grandfather.
Edward Brewer. Daniel Brewer. father
of Frank Brewer, working with his
brother-in-law. Orient Carpenter. built
and built WE'LL for the time. on a
rough. steep road for buckboards up
the mountain 10 the Brewer hotel
which though itself so placed as not
to mar the skyline, commanded a
beautiful view and which until its
discontinuance and demolition by Its
owners. was a great objective OF many
a pleasure trip for summer visitors
and permanent residents alike. This
read. with it's roushness. it's prlmi-
tive construction. it's varying grades
from six to Is, built way back in the
days before the Civil War. still shows
traces of it's building. and is known
still as The Old Green Mountain road,
generally used as a sort of walking
trail. particularly for those who climb
Cadillac and wait for sunrise.
And yet that old road. passing
through. ever ascending. a perfect
mountain solitude, back in those early
years. This was not the first read;
for nearby. MIR. Brewer says at the
time of that construction and not
even entirely obliterated now. if one
looks keenly, perhaps, were signs OF
smother road; and he, says there was
a little lookout house there remem-
bered by many. with iron bolts and
other indications that the road has
its purpose. 1t is probable that this
road construction of that far-off time
has relation or even identity with the
roads in the vicinity of Waltham,
Mariaville and that section, built by
the geoedtic survey under this Fed
eral government.-Isar Harbor news
in Bangor Commercial.