Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-08-14
men have consented to be nominated
if the party needs them.

if the party needs them.
An unlocked for feature of one of
the municipal organ recitals at Port
land City hall last week was the
presence of Cyrus II. X. Curtis, the
donor of the KotZschmar memorial
organ, and his family with guests,
who, unknown to Edwin H. Lemarc,
the City organist, occupied seats In
the front of the balcony. A visitor
recognized Mr. Curtis and he was
prevailed upon to speak, telling the
story of how he presented the organ
to Portland. This greatly interest
ed the visitors. Mr.. Curtis and
party were in the harbor, aboard his
yacht and Lyndonia and the visitors
had Just come here from the Curtis
summer home at Camden. Mr..
Curtis recently arrived home from
an European trip.
Arthur H. Norton, curator of the
Portland Society o6 Natural History,
brought home from his recent trip to
the summit OF Mt. .katahdin many
specimens of Alpine plants and about
so pictures of scenery taken from
the foot. the sides and the top of the
mountain. Some of these views are
decidedly beautiful. Walter II. Rich
who was one of the party not only
climbed the north peak but the
south peak also and then wished for
more heights to conquer. The Port
land party carried the news OF the
Findings of the lost students to the
chief camp on coming down from the
mountain top. The party assembled
the mountain ny new trall leading
up to the north peak. They saw
several deer and one moose. The
blueberries they passed were small
and STRAIGHTFORWARD Telegram.
The club cheers and songs of
nearly a thousand boys and girls
from Penobscot, Piscataquis, Han
cock. Waldo and Somerset counties
resounded on the University OF
Maine campus at Orono. Saturday.
1t was the annual field day of the
boys and girls agricultural and
home making clubs of the five coun-
ties. A year ago this experiment OF
q group field day was tried out with
success. Saturdays rcpetltlon was
even greater than that of last year.
The tact mat the university StolS
handed out to these club visitors
- dozen bottles of soda, and that
they consumed 80 gallons of ice
cream, the bulk of it served in 400
cones, gives some idea of the APP
pctites the youngsters brought
along with them on their motor
Journeys from their various homes.
The. ice cream and the soda were
additional to the picnic lunches with
which every group was amply sup
piled. Addresses by Dean Merrill of
the College of Agriculture and A.
L. T. Cummings, agricultural editor
Of the extension service, and
program of sporting events featured
the day.
Every sort of motor conveyance
was brought into use. Big trucks
with barge bodies or improvised
seats. predominated. Some of the
trucks came distances ranging from
40 to 90 miles, the farthest points
represented being in Somerset. For
months the clubs in the five counties
had been planning on this Orono trip,
and had earned the whcrewith by
giving entertainments, suppers, sales
and other forms of raising funds. A
similar tour is being planned for the
clubs OF Cumberland. Oxford, Ken
nebec. Franklin. AndroScoggin and
Sagadahoc. who will journey to
Lewiston Thursday of this week and
spend several hours on the Bates
College campus.