Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-08-03

them,
For thyseif keep the good thou hast
brought them!
Most beautiful State Of the Union. !.
Dear Maine, with thy mountains ana
With thy Skies that are blue as thy
with thy swift flowing rivers and
rills,
Be true to the truth thou hast taught
For thyself keep the good thou hast
brought US!
Alice May Douglass.
Mr., and Mrs. George Reed of
Calais, celebrated their golden we'd
ding anniversary at the home of
their daughter, Mrs. Clifford Camp-
bell, this week.
The site Of the old muster field In
the vicinity of .Boothbay Harbor
where Paul Revere drilled troops
during the Revolutionary War is to
be provided with a marker by the
Boothbay Harbor Historical Society,
action to that effect having been
taken at meeting of teh society at
the Board Of Trade rooms.
A gentleman Of Ireland has lis
tened to the lure of Maine. John
Nelson, just arrived from Belfast,
more specifically from 43 Erin
Street, of that city. dropped in at
the State of Maine Publicity Bureau
Portland, this week, seeking such
information as it had for a pros
pective settler in this state.
The largest deed ever recorded
at the Office Of the Androscoggin
Register Of Deeds was received Fri
day. The deed transfers the mills,
property and rights of the Pejepscot
Paper Company of Topsham to the
Androscoggin Water Power Com
pany, and entails a transfer of about
three million dollars. The deed
bears three $1,000 revenue stamps.
Lemuel X. Lord, Is year old school
teacher, the son of w. H. Lord of
Winterport. has earned his desire.
He will enter Colby College this fall
with money to defray expenses
which he earned in two months of
hard and intensive work. Lord is
the winner of the contest for the
most subscriptions to a Maine news
paper, which that paper conducted
from May rs to July 25 of this year
Sweeping to victory with some three
million more credits than his nearest
competitor he won a sedan which
he means to sell to set the money
for his college education.
Announcement is made by the Maine
State Sunday school Association that
Rev. Fred w. French of Brockton,
Mass, has accepted the position of Cen
eral Secretary with the Association,
and will take up the duties of his of
flee about the first of August. Mr..
French is known to many of the Sum
day School workers in Maine. having
been one Of the speakers at the last
State Convention held In Portland in
October. Mr.. French was born in
Springfield, Mass. and is graduate
of the Mount Hermon school and of
Newton Theological Seminary. He
has held pastorates at Turner's Falls,
Adams and East Longmeadow, Mass,
and for the past five years has been
pastor at the North Baptist church
of Brockton. During the past three
years he has also been field secretary
of the New England Daily Vacation
Bible School Association. He has
served as secretary of the Massachu-
setts Bible and Missionary Conference
and has had much experience in pro-
noting and supervising daily vacation
Bible schools in the city of Brockton
and elsewhere. Mr.. French succeeds
the Rev. John M. Arters as general
secretary of the State association. Mr..
Arters having served as part-time
secretary last fall following the res
ignation of Rev. Edward H. Brewster
in May, 1924. The program of the
State association is one which unifies
all denominations in program of re-
ligious education, including tn epromo-
tion of summer schools. training insti-
tutes for Sunday school teachers and
leaders, daily vacation Bible schools,
and annual conventions in all parts of
the State where the beth methods of
Sunday school work are presented.
Through it's young peoples division.
young peoples conferences are held
for the inspiration and training of
young people between the ages of 16
and "a. The State Sunday schoop pa
per, The Star. serves as a bearer of
State association news, and gives In
formation of value to Sunday school
workers. The annual State convention
of the Maine State Sunday School AS
sociation has for more than so years
been a force for moral and spiritual
uplifht in the State, bringing TO the
people of Maine the finest leaders in
Sunday school work in the country
when for three days new and worth
while ideas are studied by local Sun
day school workers. The convention
this year as Bangor, October 13, IA
and Is, will be privileged to welcome
Mr.. French as the leader in xhese ac-
tivitfes in which the Protestant con-
stituency Of Maine is unite dior the
building of a righteous State.