Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-31

nual meeting Tor 1919 Will De AZ
Wiscasset on July %.
The famous Dorcas Fair, which
now has become an annual event in
Maine, will be held the second week
! in August at Quillcote in Hollis, the
| home of Kate Douglas Wiggin, and
while Mrs. Wiggin is in England her
sister, Miss Nora Archibald Smith.
will act as hostess. The Dorcas Fair
at Quillcote offers the most attrac-
tive and interesting scenes summer
visitor could find in Maine. The fame
of the Dorcas Society has gone all
over the country through Kate
Douglas Virgins clever characteri-
| cations and the story of their work.
On her annual cruise in Maine
waters, the government power boat
Siwash. Capt. John Blizzard, arrived
at Portland from the westward, Sat
urday. This craft, which is ninety
| footer and very speedy, is employed
| the year around in cruising along the
Atlantic coast all the way from East
port to Galveston, looking after part
| les which fail TO observe the naviga-
| ton laws in regard to motor boat
equipment, etc, reporting the names
of the delinquents to the collectors
| of customs in the district in which
! they are found. The Siwash has been
coming this way for the past six
| years.
/ Harper's Magazine has the follow
| ing story concerning Bangor: A
! motorist and his wife travelling over
! a familiar road came to a sign point
| ing to Bangor. The reversed arrow
pointed to Monroe. THAT sign is
exactly reversed" said the driver to
| his wife. Bangor is the other way"
Il guess the sign is more apt TO be
right than you, Fred" answered his
wife, with a conjugal emphasis. 60
right in and inquire at that farm
| house" Fred obeyed and the farm
| err answered: Yes, that sign ought
to be over on this side of the road,
| but when we tried to set it, we struck
a ledge. so we stuck her over there"
But" demonstrated Fred, lit makes
| the directions the wrong way
| around" 81 know it does said the
farmer. "but anybody knows enough
to git to Bangor"
The cottage jewellers OF Lakeside
and Sebago Mineral Spring Parks on
the east shore of Jordan Bay. are pre-
pairing something more than the US
nal summer fair with its customary
Features. They are using the Won
| derful scenic advantages to stage a
| typical Indian village, with wigwams,
| tents and shelters in which to display
their collections of attractive wares.
The great Midway" also will form
a part of the village and will offer
many novel kinds of entertainment
to the visitors There will be indian
warriors, maidens,' boys and girls in
| bright costumes impersonated by the
summer colony people. also cowboys
and other costumed characters. The
date Of this event has been set for
Saturday, August 4. The grounds will
| be opened at o'clock. There will be
no charge for admission.
| Thomaston's first church, now
known as the Church on the Hill,
was furnished by the munificence of
General Knox with a "heavy and fine
| toned bell, whose mellifluOus calls to
worship were first heard in all this
region. This bell was one of the 1913
bells cast by Paul Revere. That was
| 1877 years ago. OF the total number
turned out. IS bells have been idepti-
fed as still being in use besides AZ
damaged by cracking. In the latter
category is listed the Thomaston bell,
says the Rockland Courier Gazette.
A century ago it was first cracked
1 and Revere recast 1t. Many years
afterwards on the occasion of indie
pendence Day, boys invaded the bell
loft with a hammer and finding the
| tongue removed, beat upon the bell
| volt h 1,.,
cracked. Once each year in August,
when the Daughters of the American
Revolution hold services in the old
| church, the sound of the the bell,
again beaten with hammer, but this
time with care, floats out from the
ancient steeple.
! Victor Kahill, Portland's young
sculptor, who was recently honored
| with a Cresson travelling scholarship
| from the Pennsylvania Academy of
Fine Arts, sailed on the Leviat than
from New York City, Saturday morn
ing. Mr.. Kahill, who spent the past
| month in Portland, was accompanied
| to New York by his wife and infant
| daughter, Theodore Louise. The
scholarship entities Mr.. Kahill to four
months of travel abroad for the study
| of art visiting the different art CEN
| tiers and museums of Europe. 1t was
won under the instruction Of Charles
| Crafty, whose half-million dollar
| monument. the gift Of the state Of
Pennsylvania to Washington, D. c..
is almost completed. 1t is of interest
| to recall in this connection that the
famous sculptor is represented in
Portland by the bronze bust Of Kotz-
SEMINAR in City Hall auditorium. Mr..
Kahill will go directly to Southamp-
| ton upon his arrival in England and
will spend a week IN London, making
the trip from London to Paris by air.
plane. He will spend six weeks in
Paris. later visiting Rome, Florence,
Venice, Naples, the Riviera, and will