Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-12-22

Forrest storms.
Skowhegan, Maine.
A real snowstorm for the official
opening of winter yesterday!
The boys department of the Ban
gor Y. M. C. A. is putting on a five
days membership campaign this
week.
The annual Ski Club carnival at
Rumford Falls will be held Monday
and Tuesday, Feb. Is and 16. The
committee has, begun to formulate
plans which will result in feature
attractions for the carnival. The
Major sports for the two days will
be announced in the near future.
Now that the actual site Of the
Kennebec bridge has been selected
will come the locating of the APP
proaches to the bridge, says the Bath
Times. This will be an important
matter to the city and it Is hoped that
due consideration will be given to the
appearance of this approach that
Bath may be made as attractive as
pOSSlUI0 near Tic UIIuS6 Sllcs
Rev. P. F. Flanagan will conclude
his duties as pastor of st. Athanasius
church at Rumford shortly after the
! first of the year and he will become
pastor of the Church Of The Holy
Redeemer at Bar Harbor. While it
is not official, it is believed that Rev.
Timothy Mahoney of Belfast will sue
coed Rev. Flanagan and Rev. Rooney
of Bangor will succeed the present
curate Father Thibault, who has been
at Rumford short time and who will
go to Biddeford.
At the Chamber Of Commerce at
Bangor, last Friday noon. members
of the Rotary, City, Lions and XII
wants clubs held the annual golden
rule" luncheon, the proceeds of which
j were contributed to the Near East
Relief fund. There were short ad-
dresses and moving pictures of scenes
in the devastated sections where re.
lief work Is still going on. William
Jessup. manager of the Near East
Relief fund in Maine, came over from
! Portland to attend and he was &C.
companied by an Armenian boy, now
/ a resident of Portland, who came to
this country three years ago after
having passed through experiences
which the Near East Relief organiza-
lions seek to alleviate.
| A new society has been formed at
Bates College for the purpose of get
ting acquainted with methods of
oh r1r~ MI
about the customs and history of the
Romans. 1t has been named the
! Sodalitas Latina, and all seniors
who take Latin, and juniors who have
been taught it for at least one year
are eligible. Prof. and Mrs. Fred A.
-! Knapp are honorary members. The
society plans to meet every second
and fourth Tuesday Of the month,
+, the next meeting being scheduled for
Jan. ~. The following were appoint
ed officers: President, Carolyn NJ
Stackpcle, '26, Bath; vice president;
Beatrice A. ingalls,, '27. Lubec; Sec
rotary treasurer. Ada Mandelstam,
'26: Lewiston. The membership COM
mittee consists of Beatrice c. Nc
Grath, 20; Lewiston, chairman; Lois
Cox, 81, Woodland; Rose Thompson,
&c, Addison.
| Portland, Lewiston and Bangor will
have plenty of time to air their
qualifications for entertaining the
National Grange next Fall as the
| decision upon the place of meeting
will not be made until February.
Sometime that month Leslie K.
| Smith of Hadley, Mass, member of
| the executive committee of the Ma
t1onal Grange. will come to Maine
and will visit each of. the three cities
and acquaint himself with conditions
and availability of each place as a
meeting place for the National body.
J He will be accompanied on this in
| spection trip by John E. Abbott Of
! North Berwick, master of the Maine
State Grange. Mr.. Smith will report
his findings to the other members Of
/ the executive committee, who will
| come to Northern New England in
| February In connection with the
meeting of an insurance organization
| of the grange in New Hampshire.
The decision of the National ex-
ecutive committee will be final in
| the matter, 1t is understood. The
| National Grange session will begin
November 10 and will close Noyem-
| Der IL, 1875.
Well, the Saunterer has seen at
last what is known as The Desert in
Freeport. This freak of nature is
about three miles from the village
postoffice on the road to Pownal, It
is strip of land perhaps a mile
long and one-quarter of mile wide
entirely covered with fine sand at
times rising into ridges several feet
nigh. Standing quite near the road
Is big old barn, and near the barn
Is a cellar which was the site of a
house burned many years ago. Not
far beyond this barn the sand has
rolled UP a coneshaped heap fully -
! feet high. On three sides of this
desert are forests. the trees includ-
ing beech, pine, oak and cherry. How
long this tract of land has been a
desert, and how it happened to be-
come so, are questions that none Of
the residents of the village could
answer. Professor William C. Ken
dali. who was born in Freeport In
1861. says the desert was there Just
about as it is today as long ago as
he can remember. The Saunterer
could not learn the year when the
house was burned. though he was
told that woman who once lived in
the house is still living in Freeport,
but he had no time to hunt this
woman up. Telling about this deser,
to Mr.. Norton of the Natural History
Society, the latter said he had seen
it. but could not explain its origin.
He said he had seen similar. though