Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-05

express their opinions at the town
meetings.
The Salvation Army camp meet
ing will open on Friday, Aug. 10,
and will close on Monday, Aug. 20,
at Old Orchard. Arrangements
which will make this camp meeting
the greatest in the history of the
Salvation Army in the East are be-
ing completed by Colonel w. A. Nc
Intyre, commanding the Army forces
in New England. Col. Mcintyre will
have charge of the meetings. One
of the principal speakers this year
will be Lieut.. Com. Isaac Unsworth
of London, England. Commissioner
Unsworth is one of the outstanding
figures in the Salvation Army. He
is a member of the Order of the
British Empire and was associated
for many years with the Founder
and Army Mother when the Saliva
ton Army was in its infancy.
Commissioner Samuel L. Brengle,
spiritual special from New York, a
minister and author of note, will al
so be one of the camp meeting
speakers. The camp meeting will be
attended by other prominent army
leaders and by all the New England
staff and field officers and their fam
lilies. There will be a daily band
concert by two brass bands-a train
ed chorus will sing and many special
entertainment features have been ar
ranged in connection with the camp.
An immense display of fireworks on
the beach will be one of the closing
attractions of the camp.
Many changes in the service of the
Patten Free Library of Bath have
been noted by Miss Margaret r.
F'oote, who has just completed 35
years of service there as assistant
librarian and librarian. She has
had the pleasure of organizing the
Libraries at Squirrel Island, Booth
bay Harbor and Popham Beach.
She will soon add a fourth to the
list as she is TO assist in organizing
the new Totman memorial library at
Phippsburg Center during the Sum-
mer or early Fall Miss Foote has
helped equip herself for the line of
work she has followed so success
fully by six weeks course at the
Forbes library at Northampton,
Mass. She is a member of the Maine
Library Association and the Amer
lean Library Association. She has
attended two Maine Library Schools
of Instruction, one of these being
directed by Miss Theresa Stuart
and at another Miss Marion Brain
erd. assistant librarian at the State
library, was an instructor. In 1910
Miss Foote enjoyed a tour abroad
for three months and while away
made considerable study of the
methods of conducting libraries in
different cities which she visited.
The Patten Free Library is one of
the largest and best conducted pub
lie libraries in the state and the in
crease in volumes added since Miss
Foote commenced her work IS years
ago numbers hundreds.
Work of constructing the straight
road between Bideford and Kenne-
bunk has been started, the State
Highway Commission having shifted
the contract from the crooked to the
straight road in accordance with last
vote of the commission, which was
confirmed by the Governor and
Council. The work will begin on
the Kennebunk end and during the
remainder of the Summer and early
Fall 1t Is hoped to get the foundation
in on all of this stretch UP to the
point where the straight road and
crooked road part company The
concrete top will then be put on this
section early in the coming year so
that the road may be available for
use when the season of heavy traffic
starts. This Fall, and just as far
into the Winter as it is possible to
work, the contractors will have a
large crew at work putting in the
under drainage and foundation of the
straight road through the woods. Asl
this is the longest stretch of the
contract it will take a considerable
time, and as the contract for it's con-
struction was delayed approximately
two months, it will mean that the
State Highway Commission will have
to give the contractors two additional |
months next year. This will proba-
bly, mean that the straight road will I,
not be completed before October l. |
However, the crooked road would |
still be available, as it has been in
the past, and there will be no inter- |
ference with travel.
Bath Rotarians, visiting Rotarians |
and guests had a rare treat Tues
day noon when they listened to a |
wonderful talk about the capture of |
Jerusalem by DIR. Evan A. Watkins, |
after the regular weekly luncheon |
at King Tavern. DIR: Watkins lived |
in the Bible lands for 2Th years |
and in Jerusalem 121a years. He |
was assistant superintendent of the
OpthalMic hospital in Jerusalem for
many years, going there frst as med