Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-06-26

supply on Wednesday and Thursday
due to the heavy fog. With the ex-
ceptioA Of three cargoes of ground
fish brought in by fishermen on
Thursday, the market had to be sup
piled from Boston.
A spark from a workman's shovel
ignited a scattering OF gasoline on the
ground near the entrance Of the gar
age Of the Coca Cola & Ingalls, Bros.
bottling plant at So Plum street,
Portland. on Thursday noon. The
fire was quickly extinguished, how
ever, before any real damage was
caused.
Edwin c. Miller, a wei known Ban
gor business man, now holds the
record for largest salmon caught at
the Bangor pool for Wednesday, he
succeeded in landing a handsome %
FOUNDER after struggle of about 20
minutes. The fish broke water five
times and presented a pretty strug-
gle to watchers in other boats and
spectators who lined the shores A
total of Is salmon were taken from
the water on Wednesday and five
more were landed on Thursday.
The State Chamber of Commerce
has inaugurated a letter campaign
TO attempt to stimulate recruiting for
the Citizens Military Training Camp
which will be held at Fort McKinle
in August. A letter has gone out to
Boards of Trade and Chambers of
Commerce in all the counties which
are behind in their quota, the list in
Guiding Lincoln. Oxford, Sagadahoc,
Waldo. Washington, York. Andres
coggin, Hancock kennebec and
Knox. The advantages of the train
ing camp are pointed out in this let
ter and Maine people are urged to-
support it both because of ITS merits,
and because of the loss which its
withdrawal would mean to Maine.
The Eighth Maine Regimental AS
sociation held its 54th annual meet
ing in the Eigth Maine Memorial
! Building. Whitehead. Peaks Island,
, Wednesday. at which o. Z. Richard
son of Waterville was elected pres
ident; Horace 0. Little of Portland,
vice president; Joseph Moves of
South Paris. chaplain; Mrs. Ella
Haskell Green of Broollline. Mass,
secretary and treasurer. and Mrs.
Joseph Allen. necrologist. The eX-
ecutive committee is Charles Adams
of Dryden. Mass. l.. Il. Haskell of
Skowhegan, and Forrest l.. Russell
of Saugus. Mass. On the board of
trustees are Comrade Asa Child of
Melrose, Mass, PRESIDENT; George
Cappers. vice president: j. II.
Haskell. treasurer, and IA. Fl. Allen,
secretary. while the new members
of the board are Comrade Leather
he and Leon Moves. AL the veter-
ans and their friends assembled
around a campfire in the evening
for community singing and a social
time, informal talks being given by
the veterans and various members
of the association Custodian Jo-
seph r. Haskell. who was prominent
in the World Eiddlers' Contest at
Lewiston. rendered some selections
which were enthusiastically receiv-
ed. and two island girls. Mary
Faulkenham and Olivia Trott. en-
tertained with songs and dances.
Many OF the veterans and members
remained on the island to spend the
remainder of the week.
Lakeside Farm Mt. Vernon. is
undergoing extensive alterations and
improvements and its owner, Miss
Elizsbet Marbury of New York City,
plans to take up her summer resi-
dence there soon after the first or
July. Miss Marbury is among recent
prominent converts to Maine and its
possibilities. In a recent article IN
the New York Sun on the late Frank
NJ e., tr1
ing some of the impressions Maine
has made upon Miss Marbury. Here
are the opening paragraphs:
States produce men, and men
make the history Of States.
Having gravitated during the last
few years to that great northeastern
stretch of New England the State of
Maine, l have grown to realize that
Frank Munsey could never have
been born elsewhere.
The very air which he hreathed
as boy alone explains the mex
haustible supply of moral ozone
which permeated his being. His
power of resistance, his courage to
face obsta cles, his eagerness even to
welcome them because they promis-
ed conflict, all these were character
istics of the man, and all were IN
digenous to the soil from which he
sprang.
The sons of Maine are Tltans.
They are unf1inching in struggle.
They are reared among the virgin
forests. They have neither time nor
inclination to waste themselves upon
the small things and the minor In
terests of life. Nothing was more
astonishing than Frank Munseys
capacity for work. He could play
during the play time he allowed
himself. but there was always in his
brain that undercurrent of ambition
and prospective achievement. He
gathered his mental supply from
every hour Of every day. The school
from which he never graduated was
the school of humanity. His was
silent nature. not prone to ar
ticulate; but Maine Is a State where
the hills and the lakes and the great
line of sky do most OF the talking.
Munsey had not been reared in sur
roundings of aimless chatter or Of
underlined purpose. When disap-
pointed hopes fell across his path he
swept them aside like broken
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