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Issued TUESDAY Thursday Saturday he ourier azette T Entered u Second ClueC Mall Matte, -G T1IKEK CENTS A COPY Established January, 1846. By Tbe Courler-Uatetle, MI Main Mt. Rockland, Maine, Tuesday, August 29, 1 939 Volum e 94...................Number 103. [EDITORIAL] The Courier-Gazette Fish And Gamers An Auto Tragedy I TIIREL’-TIMESA-WEEK MAINE EXHIBIT A WINNER WORKING FORCE IS NAMED “The Black Cat” Editor Had A n Enjoyable Outing Wife Of Jefferson Pastor WM O F* FLEER It is Inconceivable that anybody from Maine should go to Associate Editor At Vinal’s Point— Water the New York World's Fair without visiting the State of Killed When Car Strikes PRANK A WINSLOW Mrs. H. C. Cowan Is To Be Woman’s Chairman Contests Maine building. Inconceivable, also, that anybody from Maine Truck Rutwcrlptlona 83 00 "er year payable should not be filled with pride a t our exhibit there. Maine In the Hospital-Chest Drive bi advance; single copies three ceivta. With the Weather Man co-oper Development officials are authority for the statement that Advertising rates based upon clreula A woman was killed and her hus Mon and very reasonable ating to the limit with sunny skies 135,000 persons viewed the exhibit last week and the total band painfully Injured when their NEWSPAPER HISTORY and a gentle breeze, the Pish and attendance thus tor has been 1,226,000, far exceeding the Th» Rocklaud Oarette waa eitab- General Chairman Doctor Wil-1 Ing on Friday evening, Sept 8 with automobile crashed into the rear expectations of those who did not believe th at more than a llah. d In 184# In 1814 tbe Courier was Gamers and guests had a most en liam Elllngwood announces the ac report meetings being held every of a truck carrying a wrecked air tsfabllshed and consolidated with the million persons would see the exhibit during the entire run Oarette ln 188? The Free Press was joyable outing at Vinal’s Point S u n -1 ceptance of Mrs. H. C. Cowan as ea'abllahed In 1815 and ln 1891 changed of the fair. In view of the fact that thousands are awaiting the noon during the following week of plane about two miles from Rich Its name to the Tr'bune These papers day. The bill of fare included chairman of the Women's Division j Sept. 11 to 16 Inclusive. This pres consolidated Marcn 17. 1897 arrival of cool weather, and will go to the fair next month and mond Corner Sunday night. clams, corn on the cob. and weinies ln the coming Hospital campaign.! ent appeal for $50 000 for "the Hos ccoked the approved way in rock-! in October, it is very safe to predict that the total attendance Mrs. Drusilla Besant, about 50. will go well above one and one-half million. pital will in Rockland Include the was the accident victim and her weed in one huge fire on the shore, j Mrs. Cowan will be assisted by Mrs Community Chest. Thus there will husband, Rev. John E. Besant of ♦ Conceit may puff a man up, ♦ These were supplemented with cof- ( The Maine exhibit has been from the start what the D. L. Bird as co-chairman of th is! By The Roving Keportf* *■ but never prop him up be but one appeal for funds in Jefferson, was in the Brunswick fee, sandwiches and sweets of every 1 slangsters call a “wow." and this has been so because the de division. Ruskin ♦ Rockland for the entire year. Hospital cut about the head and variety, according to individual signers preferred to show Maine as it actually Is. It Is a The Women’s Division will cover In vie"’ of the fact that there has face. (tastes. Approximately 125 associa nature study, with Its streams, its surf, its forest and rainbow the solicitation of all residences in The good, old fashioned custom of been no general public appeal for State Patrolman Mitchell of Gar tion members and guests were pres trout actually swimming before the delighted gaze of urban each of the seven wards or tne city. having Saturday afternoon ball funds for the Hospital in 11 years, diner said the Besant car struck Aged Women’s Home ent to enjoy the hospitality of Mr. vlslors. Everett F Greaton. Commission executive-secretary, There will be a captain in charge ! games was revived at Camden Sat it will be necessary for the friends ; the left rear fender of a car driven jand Mrs. Willis Vinal. said that he “knew of no other State" that has attracted more of each of these wards with a lleut- 1 urday and for one I hope the cus of the hospital to be as generous as by Roland Poulin, Wuterville and Following dinner a series of races visitors at the fair. He revealed that Maine had escaped much tenant and team of sufficient work tom will not again be allowed to Where Kindness and Cour possible on this occasion, If the full then swerved into the truck which and contests furnished entertaln- of the labor trouble that had beset many exhibitors by build ers tn cover every home during the lapse although the season is rapid $50,000 is to be raised. was parked off the road. tesy Are Mottos Of Those , ment. First among these was a ing most of its exhibit in Maine and then shipping it to New intensive campaign The captains { ly drawing to Its close. Half of the Rockland's quota for the Hospital Poulin was not injured but four of In Charge sailboat race which resulted in Capt York for assembly. "As a result, we have, I believe, got more ln charge of each of these seven friends I have come to know ln for this year Including $5500 for the the five occupants of the truck Arthur J. Elliot finishing first. Joel for our money than any exhibitor at the fair. We were doing ward teams are: Camden are baseball fans I haiZe Community Chest agencies Is were taken to a Portand Hospital The very name—Home for Aged Miller, second. John Cowan, third, business for over a month before many other S tate exhibits Word 1, Mrs. Lincoln E. McRae, met on the bleachers ln Saturday $12,500—only one-fourth of the full for treatment. Women—breathes a sweet perfume and Joe Vinal fourth. Next, In the were completed," he said. Captain. ball games. Men for whom I have amount to be raised. Officer Mitchell said the truck come to entertain the most friend Into our thoughts—a home of gentle course of events came a race be Ward 2, Mrs. Albert Jameson, This $12500 can be raised ln tween a Chris-Craft owned by Tony was parked because of trouble with ly regard. We compare notes on quiet and comfort for those whose captain. Rockland if everyone will contribute Antolini of New York City, and the wiring which put out the drlv- the games and the players and we circumstances have made It neces HURDLES FOR THE PRESS Ward 3. Mrs W. S. Cameron, as much as he can. paying their driven by Albert Elliot, and Mr, , ing lights. discuss matters foreign to baseball captain, and Miss Charlotte Buf- pledge either monthly or quarterly sary to seek this harbour ol rest— Elliot's own speed boat, the “Ed (Kennebec Journal) The plane, which the truck was or any other sport , A comparison fum. through the coming year. Those [carrying cracked up in Palmyra where every assistance ai d many ward." driven by his father Cap*. The reliable trade magazine, Editor and Publisher, has Ward 4, Mrs. Gilmore Soule, Cap of views always has a broadening been keeping a score-sheet on the prosperity and vicissitudes who have been subscribing small Friday night and was owned by comforts are being shared by those Arthur J. Elliot, the Chris-Craft tain. Influence. of newspapers. It finds that since June, 1837, no fewer tha.i amounts to the Community Chest 'James Flynn. Rowe was the pilot winning. wlio dwell therein, and who are 76 daily newspapers In the United States suspended publica Ward 5, Mrs. Sanford Delano, will this year need to give much j when the ship crashed and told A power boat race resulted in Al tion or merged with other newspapers in the same field up to Captain. “Boze," who Is supposed to know tenderly cared for with excellent larger sums if the appeal is to be a j authorities he became lost ln flying fred C. Hocking coming in first and Aug. 1; that ln the first six months of 1938, 32 of these dailies every rock and stick In his former food—warmth of body and hearts Ward 6, Mrs. C H. Morey, Cap success. 1 to the Aero Rendezvous ln Augusta Darold Hocking second. The fleet have given up the ghost; and that thus far in 1939 the number home town of St George, inquires warmed by the constant thought of of suspensions has been greater than in either of the full tain. The agencies comprising the of 25 or 30 craft scattered about He landed ln a field In Palmyra but as to the whereabouts of "Barter's those who have this Institution in years. 1938 or 1939; and that, although eight new dailies have Ward 7, Mrs. O W. Holden, Cap Community Chest this year are the the plane struck a pile of rocks the harbor lent a colorful atmo entered the field, the net decline of 24 newspapers is greater tain.