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Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-06-17
Bowdoin Class of
1875 Strong to Win
Snow Trophy

Especial to kennebec JournaD
Brunswick, June 16-The class of
1875, which is holding its fiftieth re-
appears to have a very good chance
of winning the Snow reunion trophy
which is given each commencement
to the class having the largest per-
centage of its living members back at
commencement. OF the nineteen liv-
ing members of the class fifteen have
already returned, and three more
are expected at any time. The nine
teenth will be unable to attend be-
cause of an accident suffered last
winter. 1t was at the graduation of
the class of 1875 that Longfellow read
his famous "Moriture Salutamus" as
q part of the exercises commemorate
ing the fiftieth anniversary of his
class, whose hundredth anniversary
is being celebrated this commence
ment. Those members of 1875 who
have registered are as follows: w. G..
Hunton, Portland, Myles Standish,
Boston. Mass; w. ]. Curtis, New
York City, Charles L. Clark, Schen-
ectady, New York; F. p. Virgin,
Weymouth. Mass: N. M. Pettingill,
Memphis, Mo; d. NJ. Mcpherson.
Portland. Me; Edwin H. Hall, Cam
bridge, Mass; Lincoln A. Rogers,
Topsham; Charles w. Hill, San Die
go. Calf; Christopher H. Wells,
Somersworth, N. H; George c.. Cres-
sy. Tyngsboro.' Mass: A. G. Bowie,
Jacksonville. Fla: Samuel w. Whit
more, Superior. Wis: Woodbury. Pull
sifer. Washington. d. c.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-06-17

ers, IS decorating the interior of the
Casino. These decorations will be
composed of fire proof crepe paper
ana will be modelled after the tynes
ions.
The Association has employed the
services OF Joseph e. Hickey Of Gar
diner to act as caretaker and general
utility man for the season. Mr.. Hick-
ey is a young man of pleasing per-
sonality, plenty of energy, a lover of
outdoor sports and has been two
years in Bates College. Working in
conjunction with the Directors and a
large Entertainment Committee. It is
believed that Mr.. Hickey will make
an enviable record for work done and
money earned. He will begin work
June oath and will continue until af-
ter Labor Day.
The Orchestra popularity known as
Pierce's Melody has been engaged
to furnish dance music for the season
beginning Saturday. night, July 4th,
on which date the newly conditioned
Casino will be opened.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-06-17
Augusta Tax Rate
For This Year Will
Be Same as 1924

gusta for 1925 will remain the same
as last year, Al mills, according to
the action of the city government at
the regular June meeting. Monday
evening. In reporting the appro-
priation bill for the year which pro-
vides for the expenditure of $547,
1867, Alderman Conant explained
that any cut in the tax rate had been
MADE inn ossible because of the in
crease in the State and county
taxes, which call for a total OF $l2,-
1O2.3S more than in 1924. and be-
cause included in the general ex-
penses of the city for this year will
be the cost of the street oiling which
in past years has been paid for by
the abutting owners.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-06-17

parting address. but before he had
finished the sun had broken through
the clouds and those attending the ex-
ercises knew that the remainder of
the program could be carried out in the
open air.
Led by the marshal, Robert j. Fos-
ter of Manchester, Mass, the class
marched from the church to the vi
cinity of the Thorndike Oak, where
the remainder of the program was car
ried out.
The committee in charge of the
Glass Day program consisted of Rob-
ert S. Webster of Melrose. Mass,
chairman; Frederick i. Perkins of
Portland, Samuel A. Howes of Port
land. Ray f. Collctt of Brewer and
Stanley Blackmer oc Sputh Sudbury,
Mass.
This evening at the e. mnasidm the
commencement dance was attended by
about zoo couples. The gymnasium
was very elaborately decorated for the
event, blue and white being the color
scheme used.
The patronesses were Mrs. Kenneth
lC. M. Sills, Mrs. William A. Moody,
Mrs. Gerald G. Wilder Mrs. Roscoe j.
Ham, Mrs. Frederick y. Brown. Mrs.
Orren C. HormeH, Mrs. George Roy
Elliott, Mrs. Austin H. MacCormick,
Mrs. Henry B. Dewing, Mrs. Edward
S. Hammond and Mrs. Wilfrid H.
Crook.
Music for the order of 16 dances
was furnished by the college orches-
ira.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-06-17
Survivors Tell
OF Experiences
During Rail Wreck

New York, June 16 - (AF) -
Eager to see their homeland again,
but shaken and saddened by the
train wreck which claimed 81 Of
their companions in dead and in
jured, 125 Germans from the west
sailed today on the U. S. Liner Re-
public from Hoboken.
Rescued from the horror which en-
sued when their special train from
Chicago was wrecked before dawn
near Rockport, N, j. survivors OF
the party were rushed to : Hoboken
in another special.
They had graphic tales to. tell of
their experiences, while the liner
waited for late additions to the for
tunate saved. Running through each
story was tn eheroism of the farm
ers resident near the wreck and OF
the sacrificing efforts of some of the
passengers to alleviate the suffer
ings of the injured. -
Women, just out of the smoking
debris, scratched and dug with bare
hands and torn fingernails to. save a
moaning child from under the over
turned cars; others tourniquettel
lacerated arms and guided farmers
with water supplies to the scalded,
survivors said
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-06-17

through the weeds next to the tracks
and it was raining. The cold rain
felt good and l rolled over"
Schmidt is expected to recover.
Among those who assisted in first
aid treatment at the scene of the
wreck was Mrs. L. 3. Haaker, a
trained nurse, who with her hus-
band, was riding in the rear coach.
Organizing uninjured passengers
into relief unit which stumbled
through the driving rain, she direct
ed the carrying of 80 injured to
the rear car, where first aid was
given. q
DIR. w. G. Cummins, Warren
county physician, said he had di-
rected Justice of the Peace z. j.
Wildrick to condCc: an inquest to-
morrow or Thursday.
James Maybury, Jr., chief. of the
bureau of railroads of the state
board of public utility commission
ers. announced that he had taken
charge of a state inquiry into, the
disaster.
The wreck was one of the worst
in the history of the railroad.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-06-17
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Missionary Bishops Prepare
For Episcopal Convention

In the heart Of the African Jungle
and amid the icefields of Alaska, in
China and Japan, the Pacific Islands
and the West Indies, missionary
bishops of the Episcopal Church are
preparing for the journey to New
Orleans where, on October Z, the
Forty-eighth Triennial General Con-
vention of the Church will assemble.
These missionary bishops will meet
in conference with the National
Council Of the Church in New Or
leans, prior to the opening Of the
Convention to discuss plans for the
ensuing three years. For the first
time in the history Of the Church
two native Japanese Bishops, DR..
Motoda of Tokyo and DR.. Naide of
Osaka, will be present; as will also
Suffragan Bishop Momolu Gardiner
Of Liberia, son Of a native African
chief.
Some Of these bishops will travel
10000 miles to reach the Convention
city; but there is none more remote
to the average man and woman
than Rt. Rev. Harry Roberts Carson,
Bishop Of Haiti, 100 miles sailing
from New York. Haiti is so little
known that Bishop Carson frequent
ly receives letters addressed to him
at Tahiti in the far distant South
Seas =. ~,
Haiti being without railroads or
practically roads of any kind, Bishop
Carson travels thousands Of miles
yearly on, horseback to visit his
Jungle mission stations. He fre.
quently sleeps in a hammock, and
carries his own food and drinking
water. Occasionally an aeroplane
drops him into places ordinarily abb
isolutely inaccessible. Yet wherever
Bishop Carson goes he is greeted by
crowds of natives in churches"
which are typical Of the country.
There in !. Haiti they build their
"cathedrals" overnight. Half a
dozen bamboo poles are driven into
the ground. Over these few cross
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-06-17
Supnlies for Expedition

Wiscasset, June 16-(AP)-Addi-
tional supplies and equipment for the
MacMillan-N Navy Arctic expedition
were brought here today by the U. S.
S. Mohave. a naval tug. from
Charlestown navy yard.
The tug encountered fog and rain
during the overnight trip, anchoring
at the mouth of the Sheepscot river
until pilot from here could go down
and bring her UP river. She will re-
turn to Boston in the morning.
The tug brought supplies and
equipment for the three amphibian
planes which are being taken on the
steamer Peary, gasoline supplies and
oil for the schooner Bowdoin, now
here, and some duplicate radio
equipment. She also is leaving here
a spare Liberty motor for replace
ment of any of the planes, and two
small steel boats and wooden boat
for the Bowdoin.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-06-17
JEFFERSON
Mrs. AUGUSTA r. Linscott

Mrs. Augusta r. Linscott of JEFF
ferson, passed away June 18th at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Lawrence
Richmond of Winthrop. Rallying
quickly from an illness last fall, she
was again stricken and at the last
failed rapidly
Mrs. Linscott was the daughter of
Sewell and Arletta Hall Weeks, and
was born in Jefferson in August,
1885, In August, 1871. she was mar
ried to her old schoolmate, Albert J.
Linscott. They resided successfully
in Massachusetts, Ohio and Cali
fornia, later returning to Massa-
chusetts. In the fall of 1912, while
preparing to return permanently to
their, summer home in jefferson, Mr.
Linscott died. Though since often
away, Mrs .Linscott had always kept
her home here.
She was a very estimable woman
of an amiable and vivacioUs DISPOSE
ton, and possessing an attractive
personality, she had been surrounded
by large circle of friends, and she
was always socially active. One OF
those with whom time dealt kindly
of her it may be said that she never
lost the spirit. of youth, and walked
always on the sunny side. Meeting
her troubles courageously, when she
realized that the time of her passing
was at hand, she faced it with
chara acteristic :calmness. and made
final arrangements with steady mind
She is survived in her immediate
family by her daughter. Mrs. Rich
mond, her granddaughter, Frances
Augusta, and by Mr.. Richmond. fol
whom she entertained the feeling ol
an own mother, and who, in turr
gave her the homage of a devoted
son. She also leaves sister. Mrs
Herbert Bond, two nieces and three
nephews.
Funeral services were held at hel
home Sunday afternoon, attended b,
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-06-17
Peary on the MacMillan-Navy Arctic

Peary on the Macmillan Navy Arctic
expeditions. -
The schooner made the run up
the ASheepscot river late yesterday
from Southport in an hour and 20
minutes and Engineer John Jaynes
of Somerville, Mass, said the new so
horsepower. engine, which gives one
third more horsepower, worked sat-
isfactorily.
The schooner is in command of
Ralph Robinson of Merrimac. Mass,
chief assistant to Lieut.. Commander
Donald Baxter Macmillan. He has
had charge of the work which has
been done on the vessel at Bath and
Southport. Others on board are John
Reinartz- of South Manchester, Conn,
the radio operator, and Benjamin H.
Rigg, topographer of the U. S. Coast
and Geodetic Survey.
The Bowdoins radio equipment,
the. most extensive ever to be taken
into the Far North, is all on board,
but not entirely installed yet. The
radio room is now in the hold, rather
than in the more crowded forecastle.
where it was placed on her second
trip north two years ago. The lead in
from the three wire antenna now
comes down the stays.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-06-17
CORNvILLE

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Davis opened
their Roadside house the 18th. G.
Ralph and family were the first Gus
toners. The place is very dainty and
trim with pretty shade trees and in
just the right distance from village
to be very convenient for the public.
Coney Foster and Frank Radaker
were home from Jackman for sun
day.
party the evening of the 18th with a
full house. /.
Children's day was observed by the
Grange. June A. Owing to fhe
measles scare several scholars did
not attend.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-06-17
New Boys Work Secretary
TO.Assume Duties June 20

Raymond S. Grant, recently appoint
ed boys work secretary at the Augusta
Y. M. c. A, was visitor Tuesday at
the "Y" building. He will take UP his
duties of that position on June 20,
when he will go to the leaders confer
encc which is to be held at the State
Y. M. c. A. camp at Cobbosseecontee.
When the camp opens for the summer
he will be stationed there as leader of
the Augusta group and for that rea-
son will not be about the local build
ing until early fall.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-06-17
Cony Seniors Picnic
Tuesday Despite
IncIement Weather

Cold winds and cold rain could not
stop the fun for the senior class of
Cony High school at the picnic which
was held Tuesday at Great Bear Pond
Park in Turner. Arriving at the park
at 10 o'clock in the morning they
found that the day was far from ideal
but, nothing daunted, made arrange
ments for d good time.
The big dance pavilion was turned
over to them and as they had taken
Eastman's Melody Mixers with them,
dancing was enjoyed. In spite of the
drop in the temperature, number
went in bathing while others enjoyed
trips about the lake. Dinner was
served at noon and healthy appetites
were in the majority by that time.
The group of about 10 seniors returned
to this city at Z o'clock, satisfied that
they had put one over on the weather
man and had had a good time.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-06-17

Rev. E. L. Sampson, pastor of the
First Baptist Church, with which
Mrs. .Linscott united in early girl
hood. The Order of the Eastern
Star, of which she was a member,
also took part in the services. Inter
ment was at the Village Cemetery,
where Mr. Linscott and a daughter,
dying in childhood, are buried.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-06-17
Sch. Bowdoin is Fit

wiscasset, June 16-(AP)-The lis
ton two masted auxiliary schooner
Bowdoin, with her newly bent sails
furled and a new coat of white paint
glistening in the sunlight. was an
chored in the harbor here today for
final preparations for departure Sat-
urday afternoon with the steamer
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-06-17

The hook and ladder truck from the
Hartford first station responded Mon
day forenoon at II o'clock to still
alarm for a chimney fire at the store
of. Harold Casey, 52A Gage street. 1t
was not found necessary to use any
extinguishers on the blaze and no dam
age was done.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-06-17

Miss Alice Vickery of the Cony High
faculty will leave newt Tuesday for a
visit of two or three months in Cali
fornia. Miss Vickery will be accom-
panied by friend with whom she
made the trip to Bermuda during the
Spring vacation, and expects to enjoy
this trip very much.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-06-17

Mrs. Thomas Cooper returned to
Augusta on the. morning train,
Tuesday from Boston. where she has
been for the past several days and
where on Monday she attended the
graduation exercises at Boston
University of her son, Llewellyn l..
Cooper.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-06-17

The w. c. T. U. will observe Flower
Mission Day on Thursday, June Is,
meeting with Mrs. Alice Sheldon at her
home, 116 Winthrop street. Friends
OF the cause are asked to bring or
send flowers which will be taken to
shut-inS.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-06-17
AUGUSTA LOCALS

Miss Alice Currier returned Monday
night to her home in this city after
completing her first years course of
studies at Boston University.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-06-17

seven children, the Oldest boy Of
l., awaited him.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-06-17

ice cream. cake and punch were
served.
All join in wishing the Thompsons
success in their new home.
The North Windsor school closed
Friday, with a picnic at Three Mile
pond. The last day exercises were
held on the shore of the pond. Re-
freshments Of ice cream and cake
were served.
Harry Merrill recently purchased
new Ford truck.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon Boynton, Mrs.
Theda Boynton and John Boynton
motored to Pennington, Sunday to
spend the day with Mrs. V. B. Mer-
rill and to attend the baccalaureate te
sermon.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1925-11-26

The dance given by the faculty
of the district school last Friday
evening proved grand success
The old time dances we're enjoyed
by young and old. The teachers
are very thankful to the many
people for their splendid patron
age. ~
A big Masquerade Ball is to be
given at the school dining hall in
White Earth this evening, THURS
day, Nov. Goth. This is a bencfi,
dance for st. Benedict's Catholic
church. Dance tickets 50 cents,
Supper will he served. Good
music. Come and spend Thanks
giving evening where you are
assured of a good time and plenty
to eat.
Postmaster Hull last week moved
the postofice from the building il
formerly occupied to the Selkirk
store building. The new quarters
are much more convenient both
for Mr.. Hull and the public. Mr.
Hull also moved his motion picture
paraphernalia from the same
building into the Frank Warren
building across the street from the
postofice. ~ H..
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1925-11-26
Cranberry Industry
In Early Minnesota.
Crop OF Wild Berries Picked BY the To-
dams 10 l849 Valued at Twice the
!. "a States Present Output. D.,

That Minnesota made its contri-
button to the Thanksgiving din.
ners of the. East and South as
early as 1849 is shown in an &C
count of the cranberry trade OF
the region in a letter dated Octo,
Der 4, 1849, published in the
Minnesota Pioneer for December
IL of the same year.
The writer OF the letter was on
board the river steamer ''Dr.
Franklin, No. g." about to leave
the St. Paul levee for St. Louis,
and as the boat was being loaded
with barrels of cranberries he de
cided to tell his correspondent
something about the local trade.
There have already been three
thousand barrels shipped from St.
Paul and Mendoza this season." he
wrote, and probably more than
half as many from Saltwater. y
The berries sold in St. Paul for
four dollars a barrel, thus the
trade for the season must have
brought to the pioneer common
wealth something like twenty
thousand dollars. 1t is interesting
to compare this figure with the
value of recent Minnesota Gran
berry crop, which was worth only
about eight thousand dollars.
The Minnesota cranberry trade
found a true booster" in the
writer of the 1S49 letter, for be
declared that the local berries
we're NEARLY twice as large, and
much more delicious than any
cranberries l ever ate East. u
Those shipped from St. Paul were
gathered in marshes twelve and
sixteen miles north and northwest
from that place by the Indians,
who brought them into the frontier
town and exchanged them for
goods. <.@ e.. : -.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1925-11-26
LOCAL COUNCIL
HOLDS MEETING.
Important Resolutions Passed at Meeting on
Saturday.

Pursuant to call of the Chair
man. Mr.. Henry Selkirk. the
White Earth Local Council me,
last Saturday and transacted bust
ness of vital Importance to the
Chippewa people. Chairman
Henry SeIkirk presided at the
meeting. In the absence of Niles
Beaupre, regular secretary of the
local council, Mr.. Charles Leith,
of Mahnomen, acted as secretary
of the meeting.
Several important resolutions
were passed by the council, among
the most important of which were
a resolution seeking the enactment
into law of a measure providing
for the immediate payment to the
Chippewa Indians of Minnesota,
of the interest money OF the funds
belonging to them and embraced
in the bills designated as Fl. R 26
and H. K. u, as passed by the
second session of the Sixty-eighth
Congress of the United States.
A resolution asking for the ell
actment into law of a measure
poviding for the immediate pay
ment to the Chippewa Indians of
Minnesota of per capita payment
of One Hundred Dollars to be
made from their Tribal Funds on
deposit with the Treasury of the
United States.
A resolution protesting againts
the enrolment of any more per
sons on the rolls of the Minnesota
Chippewas. (This resolution was
prompted by the actions of James
|. Coffey, who. it is alleged is
busily engaged soliciting new en-
Eollees among the persons of Chip
pewa blood in Minnesota.)
A resolution indorsing the Chip
pewa Jurisdictional Bill which
failed Of passage at the last session
of Congress.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1925-11-26

Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Selkirk
left the fore part of the week for
LIE Sueur, Mimi, where they will
spend the winter WITH their son,
Jerry and family, who are now
living at LIE Sueur.
White Earth was without water
several days the latter part OF last
week and part of this week owing
to changes being made at the
pumping stations. The gasoline
engine which has done duty at the
pump house on the hill west of
town was transferred to the pump.
ing station at the school, where it
will be used in place of the steam
equipment.
This is Thanksgiving Day and,
while like ourselves, our readers
may feel that they have little to
be thankful for. we ask all to join
with US in offering thanks for
the good We have received curing
the past year. We wish you al q
joyful THANKSGIVING and, while
We editor must content himself
with snowshoe rabbit on this oc.
casion, we sincerely hope you will
all be able to talk turkey" today.
The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1925-11-26
Local Managers For
Christmas Seals Sale.

Concluded from 1st page)
director, who announces that or
ganization is virtually completed
for the county wide campaign
The following have been selected
as local managers in the variou.
communities:
Detroit-Mr. L. N. Towle; Fra
zee-Dr. H. g. Otto; Lake Park
Dr.. L. H. Flancher; Audubon
Rev, Knudsvig; Callaway-Mr. J
A. Sebesta. -~...
The campaign director for Beck
er countp is DR.. L. H. Flancher
Sand Beach .Sanatorium, Lake
Park. 90. ~,
The rural schools will conduct
the sale through the districts out
side the city limits. A prize of 8
Special School Thermometer. in
iicating the proper temperature
for health and good work, will be
given every rural school that sells
five dollars worth of seals or more.
The Christmas Seal this year is
unusually attractive. the county
director states, being printed in
CHEEKY Yuletide colors of red and
green. The design shows two
lighted candles on a background
of holly illuminating the double
barred cross. the international
insignia of the fight against :uber-
culosis. .,.... -.
That every piece of Yuletide
mail in the county will bear one or
mere of these health stamps is the
hope of the County Public Health
Association, which is sponsoring
the sale and which directs the ex-
penditure of the funds for local
health work. The officers are:
Pres, DR.. L. H. Rutledge, De-
troit; Sec, DR.. L. H. Flancher,
Lake Park.
There is no connection between
the Red Cross drive and the Christ
mas Seal sale, the county director
announces, the two. organizations
being entirely separate. Christ
mas Seal funds are used entirely
to carry on the local, slate and
national campaign against tuber-
culosis and for the prevention of
all diseases.