Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-07-28

away black and tan dog, which he
had owned for three years, to
family living in Beckett. The dog
was taken to Beckett on Sunday and
on Tuesday reappearred at his form
err home, having covered a distance
of rs miles.
Eastbrook boasts a smart old man
In Charles Wilbur who is nearly so
years old. He assists his son in all
the work of the farm, cares for q
large flock of poultry, and as a side
line, has peeled three hundred and
fifty trees of pulpwood this spring
He also finds time for reading and
is an interesting talker of all the
topics of the day.
Nellie Dunham's barn at Norway
had a birthday party Friday night.
Dolled up with evergreens, ferns and
posies, the venerable Crockett's
Ridge structure, built just 100 years
ago by an ancestor of Mellie's,
might have passed as transplanted
ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria,
Ritz Carlton, or something of that
nature, but for the Old kerosene Ian
terms which swung from the beams
and shed their mellow light on a
throng of 800 summer folks from the
big cities.
Memories of Kate Douglas Wiggin
Riggs, many years a favorite Maine
author, are revived by the announce
ment that the annual fair of the Dor
cas- Society of Buxton and Hollis will
be held Saturday, Aug. IA, at Quill
cote on the Saco, Salmon Falls.
Quillcote now is the home of Miss
Nora Archibald Smith, sister of Kate
Douglas Wiggin Riggs. who was prom
inent in the affairs of the Dorcas So
ciety and who aided 1t by readings
from her writings and by the present
alton of the play, THE Old Peabody
Pew" dramatized from her story of
that name dealing with the old Bux-
ton meeting house.
Souvenirs of the noted writer will
have leading place in the exhibits at
the fair.
Miss Harriet w. Mari Of Spring
field, Mass, who is writing a history
of the Greenback party, its funda-
mentals and the principals of 1870.
was a recent visitor at Chase's Mills,
where she obtained some valuable
records and information concerning
her subject. She called at the old
homestead where Uncle Scion Chase
was born. At the home of Harry
Burdin, where Miss Mari called she
received valuable information, as Mr..
Burdin was able to give her in detail
the dates, names and places where
the leaders who worked with Uncle
I'll i. Il
ton, Gilbert d. Lamarter and others.
Miss Mari, who is a Radcliffe girl
and a teacher in Springfield, Mass.
hopes to complete her work on the
Greenback history within year.
1t would seem that Maine might
boast views of snow capped noun
tains the year rund. Mr.. and Mrs.
f. C. Ryder have been much in
terested during the passing weeks of
July watching the winter snowbank
near the top of Mt. Katahdin slowly
dwindling in the sun. The first days
of the week beginning the 18th were
too hazy for the mountain to be seen
but on the afternoon OF the 22nd it
cleared sufficiently to obtain a view
so that enough snow was visible to
make it a sporting chance that some
would remain until the first of Au-
gust. The usual time that snow
disappears on the mountain is June
20. And again we read that the
view of the mountain from Paris
Hill is of wide note, but this sum-
mer it has been particularly notable
for the long continuance of snow on
the White Mountains. 1t is con-
dition which doubtless has not had
precedent in recent years, when on
the 10th of July the air was so
clear that snow could be distinctly
seen from Paris Hill in three distinct
places on Mount Washington, ap-
proximately forty miles away as the
crow flies.
Opening on August 10 and continu-
ing for 10 days, the Salvation Army
campmeeting, which for many years
has been a feature at Old Orchard,
will be held. Colonel w. A. Mcintyre,
who commands the Army forces in
New England, is making arrangements
and will have charge of the meetings.
The campmeeting will be attended by
prominent Army leaders and by all the
New England staff and field officers
and their families. One of the princi-
pal speakers will be Lieutenant Com
missioner Isaac Unsworth of London,
who is a member of the Order of the
British Empire and was associated
for many years with the Founder and
Army Mother when the Salvation
Army was in infancy. Another speak |
err will be Commissioner Samuel L.
Brengle, spiritual special from New |
York, a minister and author of note.
Other features of the campmeeting |
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