Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-23

Chinese, Hindoos, Afghans, Persians
| and perhaps even Turks and Japan
csc.
AT all events, it is more than
/ probable that the white race will be
| obliged to reckon with the influence
of the NOW only legendary King or
the World"
"Mr Do Something," by Blanche
Elizabeth Wade; illustrated by Emma
| Troth.
The question, "How shall we keep
| the children amused on this rainy
| day." is answered in this latest VOL
ume by this author. The book is
| filled with rainy-day suggestions,
also suggestions for making the days
of sunshine buster and still brighter
| for the little folks.
The author tells Of the ship, 1.-THE
Busy Bee," which while carrying a
large number of children and sailing
/ on Happy Ocean," ran aground on a
great reef called Don't know What
To Do" The children are saved by a
man named Mr.. Disseminating"
| ing Cap Castle" Each child is sup
piled with a thinking cap and each
then begins to think of things that
| can be done for mutual pleasure and
| work.
MIR. Do-Something" gives the first
suggestion, which is that the children
keep busy folding paper and cutting
it into arious lace-like designs, and
that as practical result of this work
| these can be used for making sugar
stencil designs on the top of freshly
baked cakes. Then comes the sug-
gestion for playing a 3treet-cleaning
~ thaf tho rinooC NAV
: be cleaned up.
Written in story form, the book
provides a most interesting story for
the little readers and supplies FOR
them thinking caps" that they will
find of practical value when they
are struck on the well-known reef,
called Don't Know What To Do"
Publishers, l.. c. Page & Company,
SO Beacon street, Boston, Mass.
1.-THE Strassbufger Family and AL
lied Families of Pennsylvania" being
the ancestry of Jacob Andrew Strass-
burger, Esq, of Montgomery county,
Penn.-by his son. Ralph Beaver
Strassburger of Gwynned Valley,
Penn. Printed for private circula-
ton.
sive volume of over 500 pages, the
author has put in a large amount of
time and energy: has, visited farms,
churches and burial grounds; has
carefully examined church books,
tombstones, original wills and deeds.
manuscripts and printed data of all
kinds. And as result he had pro-
duced a book that will be gladly well
coined by genealogists.
ut is the purpose of the book"
says the author in the preface, ito lift
the veil of the past and to bring to
the present descendants and appre-
citation and realization of the splen-
did character and enduring faith of
these worthy pioneers"
The family name was taken from
the city of Strassburg in Germany.
The earliest known ancestor of the
family by that name was Johann Ul-
rich StrasSburger. a native of Ger
many, who was born about 1880 in
the province of Alsace-Lorraine. His
eldest son, Johann Andreas Strass-
burger, came from Germany to
Philadelphia in 1742.
The author of the volume, Ralph
Beaver Strassburger, is the present
owner and publisher of the Norris
town Herald, one of the oldest dailies
in Pennsylvania founded IN 1888. he
has served in the United States dip
lomatic service, and in the World
War served in the T. S: Naval In
telligence Division. He is an ardent
Republican and has been active and
Influential in Republican politics. His
father, Jacob Andrew Strassburger.
was formerly district attorney of
Montgomery county. Penn.
The volume also contains the
genealogy of the following allied
families of Pennsylvania: Yeager,
Schneider Stout, Hartzell. Kern.
Schwenk, Bauer, Lands. Marley.
Dotterer, Shoemaker. Kolb. Ziegler.
Clemens and Lederach. 1t contains
a large number of illustrations in
halftones and photographers of MEM
bers of the family. castles, home
steads. copies of passports. family
records, wills and deeds. Ste.