Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-05-10

running around but some fellers who
wanted to get our carpet bags every
time we wasn't lookin', but we was
too smart for>em. Them fellers is
pretty bold to the big cities, grabbing
stuff right out of your hand.
I'VE looked the place over and
found one of them coffee terror eat
ing places-good deal like home
goin' into the pantry and grabbing
your feed right off the shelf. Well.
we went up and set down in one of
them easy chairs in the settin' room
until We could register and get
dinky ribbon badge like we had to
home one summer at the Firemen's
Muster, and a bunch of programs,
and tickets and catalogues of baby
carriages. knittin' needles, and grind
stones, etc, what them Worcester
fellers makes and liked TO brag about.
by and by Bert Libby. Dan Sulli-
van. Bob Hill and some more of the
boys blew in and we knew that the
big show was soon TO begin in the
big tent, get your seats gentlemen,
etc. SO we went over TO Mechanics
hall, most as big as my corn field,
and the mayor said as how he was
glad 10 see us and give a key to the
front door to the city TO LIST Vice
President Everett W. Hill, who had
come with his wife all the way from
Oklyhoma TO represent the lnterna-
tional Rotary. Quite smart fell
low; SO was his wife. She talked
right pert. Said the higher she got
to the heart of New England the
warmer the peoples hearts. By the
way this Oklyhoma chap wants TO be
the next president of Rotary Inter
national and l hope he gets ii.
.'NpIl the pl1NOr rave the
key to the back door of the city 10
Governor Dan. He took it, unlocked
the works and the oratory began TO
flow like cider i'll haydn time. There
was a lot of inspirational talk about
Rotary that was pretty good. but
nobody but the stenogra pher could
tell you all about it now, and maybe
we ought to but we don't.
The eX-EovernorS were introduced
and Bob Hill got lot more applause
than the rest of them. We went back
to the hoardin' house and seven or
eight hundred ct, sung songs and
listened to talks. The big talker aft
or the feed was a Chinaman that
was full OF pepper and knew his line
good. He told how China was cut
ting out ques and chop sticks and
bobbing their hair and trying TO
learn Nah John and otherwise get
ting United States civilization. He
wound up by saying If ever it came
to Il knockdown and draGout. Uncle
Sam could be sure of China s stick
ing with him at the showdown, to
the last man and bobbed haired ban
dit. He pulled out of his pocket a
silk Chinese flag and a silk United
States Stars and Stripes sewed to-
Eether and waved them amid thun-
drous applause. Crest dope. Chop
Suey and laundries are thus made
sure of forever.
"Fellers talked about boys work
the rest of the time. Pretty good
too. They got a boys club of over
5000 in Worcester. one Teller said
you've gotta give the boys something
to do when they amt in school-the
time the boys don't have to do some
thing is dangerous hours and Is the
weak spot today.
This is dragging along some and
l must get TO close pretty quick as |
got TO whitewash the hen house and
sweep the sidewalk, but they was q
lot happened on that trip.
That evening there was morn a
thousand fellers fed sure cnuff
| banquet in fine shape. There was
| 231 entertainers took part in the
! concert. OrchcstraS, bands, glue
! clubs, speakers, actors and actorines.
| ct cetcra. and 50 forth. There was
two items as stood out big. one was
| the FTaminham Rotary Boys Band.
Three months ago there wasn't one
| Of the "a boys that dispensed me-
| lodious tones on blow horns, slip
! hornsdrums, etc, as had footed any
| thing more complicated than a har-
| monica or jews harp. The Rotary
Club had some shows and raised the
| money to buy all the instruments,
hired a handmaster to show 'em and
they footed as fine job of concert
ing a often busts up the atmosphere.
| call that one OF the best pieces of
boys work ! ever see or heard Of.
The other thing was Capt OHays
after dinner speech. He is ono of
them fighting lrishmen who has took
rart in every war as has been fought
in the world In the last 80 years. He
is the Teller that Richard Harding
Davis wrote about in Soldiers of
Fortune" Bldmc me if It wasn't
better than reading the Saturda '
I Evening Post that comes out on
| Thursday.
Isl and me finally got into a real
bed down TO the boardin' house and
had fortN- eight winks of sleep and a
good breakfast That forenoon VIC
rad some good talks on business re-
lattons. one Teller said you got to
know Your own gang and have mu-
tual loyalty and understanding.
which IS o. X. Another said, "a
mule can't kick while working, nor
work while kicking Powerful good
argument for keeping busy.
Had no trouble electing Herb Lib
by for district governor as there was
no opposition. Had another rood
feed over to tho boardin' house and
then taak the train for no matter
where YOU tour or roam the best old
road is the road to home.
$50 long.
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