Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-08-16
WOMEN'S CLUB
ELABORATE PROGRAM
Gen. Mark L. Hersey
To Speak on y. S.
Peace Dept.
Two Candidates, Mrs. DAN
forth of Sk0whegan and
Mrs. Rich of Rockland, for
President - Lafayette Ma
tional Park to be Visited
Box a Feature.

Especial to the kennebec JournaD
Bar Harbor, Nc. Aug. ia qucs-
ton box will be one of the new
features of the annual fall meeting
of the Maine Federation of Wom-
ems Clubs at Bar Harbor Sept.
1921. 1t is expected to bring out
interesting discussions on many
topics III which the club women are
interested.
The Bar Harbor club women are
making elaborate plans for the visit
ing delegates and friends.
One of the sessions will be held in
the beautiful Arts building at Bar
Harbor where the ultra fashionable
society gathers during the summer
season. for music and lectures.
Another delightful feature will be
a 40 mile auto drive through the
Lafayette National park. with tea
at the famous Jordan Pond House
Mrs. Mcintyre who runs this most
popular and fashionable tea room.
is prominent club woman, a MEM
Der of one of the hostess clubs.
Gen. Hersey To Speak
One of the distinguished speakers
will he General Mark l.. Hersey, one
of the best known army officers in
the country.
General Hersey was born in Stet-
son. Maine, in December. 1868. He
is a graduate of Bates college. class
of 'S4. of the United States Military
Academy, class of 81. His first as
signment was to the 9th Infantry
where he served as lieutenant and
captain for II years. He went thru
the regular channels of promotion
to colonel and was the first colonel
49, hA I,,r, Ia
organization but q month. he was
promoted t. Brigadier General and
assigned TO command of the 155th
Infantry Brigade in the 18th Division
at Camp Dix.
He went overseas with that organ
liza ton and while in the Mouse Ar
gonne was promoted to the grade of
Major General and assigned to COM
mand the Fourth Division; his COM
mission as Major General dated Oc-
| tober Is, 1918. He went to Ger
many with the Army of Occupation
and returning to New York on the
first of August, 1919. He did not.
however, land with his own division.
His son. Lieut.. Commander Mark
L. Herscy, Jr., commanding the Tor
pedo Destroyer Sampson, by author
ity of the Secretary of the Navy,
stopped the Mount Vernon off the
Grand Banks, and put him ashore so
that he was at his dying fathers
bedside at East Corinth, Maine, he
fore his ship landed in New York
Harbor.
Married Waterville Girl
In 1887 he married Elizabeth Moves
of Waterville and three children
We're born to them--one son and two
1anOhtnrS Tho n16cr nhilHran
are married and the Youngest is at
Randolph Macons Women's College
in Lynchburg, Vt. His son is the
proof officer of the Navy at present
on shore duty at Dahlgren. Va.
General Hersey has been honored
by Bates College with the degrees
of A. NJ. and Ii. D. The University
of Maine has conferred the LII. d.
degree on him also. During the war
he was decorated with the D. S. NJ
at Wittlich. Germany.
On the eve of his return to the
L. S. he was honored with a decora-
ton of the French Croix de Guerre
with palm and notified that he had
been nominated for an officer Of the
French Legion of Honor.--that the
certificate was awaiting the action
of the President of France He has
since received both thru the War
Department from the President of
France.
Was at u. of M.
His more important detached SER
vice consisted of four years as Mil
itary Professor at the University of
Maine. He later was detailed to Har-
ward but this detail was INTERRUPTED
by the Spanish War. While still
captain he was loaned to the Gov
eminent of the Philippine Islands
and held rank of colonel and AS
sistant Chief of the Constabulary for
close to ten years. He at that time
was closely identified with that most
/ interesting work of the greatest
colonial development that the world
has ever seen. In May, 1917, he sail
ed for Europe as member of a
Pc ial Commission to study
organization Equipment and Train
ing of the Allied Troops in Europe.
There were IA of them on this
mission from all arms of the
service and the report seemingly had