Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-10-29

team in the field this season.
The Bath Times makes the sugges-
ton that Maine people can do their
part to help boost Maine apples by
sending a carton of them to friends
in other states, asserting that there
is no question but that the recipients
will be highly pleased with the gift"
Approximately $4,000 must be rails
ed for the entertainment Of the Ma
tional Grange at Portland il the in
vitation for the 1925 convention to
be held in that city Is extended and
accepted. OF this amount $4,000 Will
be furnished by the State Grange
while the entertaining city must
contribute the remainder. The Ma
tional Grange has not met in Maine
since 1901 when Lewiston was the
entertaining city.
Upon the attitude Of the members
themselves rests the fate Of the
Western Maine Music Festival
Definite figures must be given at an
early date or w. r. Chapman, d.
rector. will no longer attempt to run
the festival project. The report of
the recent Festival shows q deficit Of
several thousand dollars, indicative
Of lukewarmness on the part of the
public. Portland Festival chorus
members are now at work devising
ways and means for putting the
project on a paying basis for they
are enthusiastic regarding the Maine
Musical Festival and appreciative of
the concerts.
Phoebe Crosby, wife Of Carl K.
Crosby and daughter in law of ex-
Mayor and Mrs. Elwell s. Crosby of
Bath, has Joined Roxy and His
Gang" and will be heard over the
radio Friday night Of this week.
Roxy" 1t will be remembered. was
formerly the director Of the Capitol
theatre in New York and their week.
ly entertainments every Sunday
night were among the treats antici-
pated by the radio enthusiast SITS.
After a vacation of several months
roxy and His Gang" will return
via WEAF, New York. Friday night
at nine for an hours program before
the microphone in WEAF"s studios
and thereafter once a week at a
regular period which will soon be an
nounced.
Mrs. Michel Martin of Frenchville,
is one Of those Maine residents who
have made the Maine Three Quarter
Century Club the envy Of other
states. This venerable Maine woman
who was born in Madawaska in
1889 has twelve children. eighty
grand children and seventy three
great-grand- children, total Of
1855 covering four generations. And
she still lives to attend family re-
unions and to marvel at the changes
which the present generation has
brought forth. Probably, back in
her mind, she sometimes wonders if
the high tension of life as it is lived
in SO many places today. the late
hours, the hastily eaten meals, the
mad race to acquire worldly wealth
will lead the present generation to
lives as long and as fruitful as those
which have been lved-and still are
being lived-by her fellow members
in the Three Quarter Century Club.
Word has been received in Bangor
from reliable sources. that, in several
instances. moose have been found In
northern Maine. dead and apparently
the victims Of a gigantic form Of tick
which have been found on them In
large numbers. In other cases live
moose have been seen in a weakened
and extremely emaciated condition,
barely able to walk and suffering
from these same parasites. No Of
fetal notices have been given out in
regard to this pest, but In several in
stances, the animals have been seen
suffering from this cause, and sew
eral of the animals already dead
from them would substantiate the
claim that they are dangerous to the
life Of the wild animals of consider.
able size, and 1t would seem that the
matter Is deserving Of serious con-
sideration. There has been no re-
port Of any deer being afflicted in
this way to date, but it is feared that
the parasite may attack Names
greatest game with disastrous re-
suits.
The names Of ten Maine hospitals,
were officially announced, at the
great international congress of sur
geons and hospital people, at Phila
delphia, Monday afternoon, as being
among those institutions on the ZAP
proved list" of the American College
OF Surgeons. Maine hospitals ap-
proved are: Eastern Maine General
at Bangor; Central Maine General