Issued, Tuesday Thursday Saturday T he Courier-Gazette F.nlrred as Sen.-a ri.i Mai] Matte, Established January, 1846. By The Cour-i .ixetlr. 465 Main St. Rockland, Maine, Saturday, July 1, 1939 THREE CENTS A COPT V olum e 9 4 ..................Num ber 78. SOl'T ball challenge The Courier-Gazette [EDITORIAL] THREF-TIMES-A-WEEK Games wanted with soft ball te:.n THE QUEENS ARE CHOSEN TWO MILLIONTH VISITOR UNDER A RIVER AND OVER IT eta ttr • • • • Editor In Rockland Please address M The total attendance at the New York World's Fair to date WM O FULLER Associate Editor ager Jack Smalley. 19 Willow Stic Virginia White and Blanche Crockett Chosen is something under 11,000.000. and 50,000.000 more visitors are With “The Sleepy City” On One Side and Wide PRANK A WIN8LOY/ telephone 1248-W. expected. In this connection it is interesting to note that the theme production in the Perisphere, originally planned as a Subecrlptlons |3W) Her year payable For Vinalhaven’s “Sesqui” Awake World’s Fair On the Other |u advance: single copies thief cents free show, has become one cf the best revenue producers at tlie Advertising rates baaed upon clrrula Hon and very reasonable. SUPPER,PLAY Exposition, the two-miilionth patron has visited it. The NEWSPAPER HISTORY Theme Center, most publicized structure on the Fair grounds, (By The Roving Reporter-Final Installment) The Rockland Gazette was estab­ i •• cost $1,200,000 and consists of the 710-foot-high Trylon and lished In I84fi In 1874 the Courier was and Old Fashioned Dane established and consolidated with the the Perisphere. 200 feet in diameter. With less than nine Roast Long Island Duckling Gazette In 1882 The Free Press was weeks of the exposition passed and the attendance of persons with Apple Sauce ................. 1.50 established In 1855 and In 1891 changed Thursday, July 6 Its name to the Tr'hune These papers living outside the metropolitan area increasing dally, the gate Tomato Stuffed with Crab­ consolidated March 17. 1897 . tew * AT 1101*1 -RANGE IIALI. receipts of the Perisphere have totalled nearly $500,000. The ad­ meat Salad .......................... 125 MAUT1MKU9G mission charge is 25 cents. Those who have already attended Soft Shell Crab on Toast, Tar­ ♦ *•« Hi liellt IL < «■>*«■ Church the nMT*®ntEM « ' tar Sauce ..................................1.26 *•« If God be your partner nuke ••• the World's Fair, and those who plan to do so, will have become ••• your plain large. ••• Supper 5- •• 1° 7.(Mb—25c ‘-TH t 1 the FOX BLANDS enriohed by the knowledge that the two greatest drawing cards Two Broiled Lamb Chops 1.25 - Dwight L Moody ••• $MU - H* ■ ■ * at the Fair are the theme center, here referred to, and the Individual Chieken Pie ......... 125 ••a ••• I’Uy and l hence 8.30—25c 78 . | General Electric building where they stand in line for an hour, Home cooked cold meats with Potato Salad .......................... 1.25 Read The Courier-Gazette sometimes in order to gain admission. The United States has > *v *• every reason to feel proud of "The World of Tomorrow,” but Chicken Croquettes with Fresh It leads everybdy gasping for breath to know how tire next one We passed over so many bridges Mushroom Sauce ................... 1 00 Fresh Asparagus Salad with can beat it. hi the course of our Journey to O---------O---------O Devilled Egg .......................... 100 Philadelphia and the World's Fair Boiled Tongue, Horseradish DAILY EXCURSIONS MONOPOLIZING THE STAGE that I aim almost dizzied by tlie Sauce ....................„.............. 1 00 attempt to recall them. The last Ham and Eggs, Country Style .. 1.00 TO THE Is the country becoming prize-fight conscious. It seemed ■-H /*/ one was the Tri-Borough Bridge, as though almost everybody listened to tlie broadcast of the Gardens Well Advanced work on which began in 1929, and ■ 6,’V Louis-Galento fight or read it In the daily newspapers next Bridgeport we found all dolled SESQUI CENTENNIAL -*4 Which cost the neat little sum of morning. The big man was easy for the negro champion, but up for some kind of a VF.W cele­ $24,600,000, exclusive of the land not quite as easy as the experts had predicted, and radio com­ bration, and we had a chance to rights. It parallels roughly tlie | witness a portion of the parade. The Queens Contest which h a s; tendants Mary Maker, Marion Tol- mentators continue to heap praise on the loser. been building much enthusiasm In ' man, Pauline Smith, Corinne Hell Gate railway span. The) Here lt wa£ lhat j foraed a chanoe Vinalhaven and North Haven dur-, Greenleaf, Lois Weibster, Olive -o------ Queens terminal Is at 25th avenue acquaintance with John M. Ray of Ing the past two weeks resulted In Amiro, Eleanor Sawyer, Louise and 31st street; the Bronx terminal 625 John street. He was appar­ EXPERIMENTAL PASSENGF.RING tli, election of Virginia White, who Burgess and Emily Winslow. Miss at 134th street and Cypress ave­ ently much pleased to meet any­ led the field in Vinalhaven with a Crockett as "Miss Columbia" will The Dixie Clipper was headed across the ocean Thursday nue. The span over Little Hell Gate body from the Penobscot Bay sec­ total of 198,3(X) Blanche Crockett be attended by her Court of Honor with its first 22 passengers. These early adventurers naturally consists of two steel arch spans, tion of Maine iuto which he had wbo was chosen a- Miss Columbia, including Mercedes Calderwood gave birth to much apprehension. Will they be shadowed by each 375 feet in length with a pier sailed on pleasure craft many times led in North Haven's contest with a Virginia Beevrage, Erma Grant, some catastrophe in the near future, or will passenger trans­ In the center of the waterway. The in former years. total of 161.854 votes cast in her Barbara Joy. Ida Wooster, Beatrice portation between the two continents become as prosaic and span over the Bronx Kills is de­ Bridgeport was evidently having favor. Mills. commonplace as travel on streamlined trains? signed as a fixed bridge that could a gasoline war, for they were selling Both queens "Miss Vinalhaven” The cast of 200 people taking part be made to serve as part of a mov­ eight gallons for 96 cents. and "Miss Columbia” will be In the b-pectaele has been rehears­ able bridge If the waterway is made At New Haven we swung onto • • ••••'* navigable. The total length of the cr>. ned at the premiere perform­ ing day and night and a most elab­ BAIL NOT ACCEPTABLE Route 15, College Highway for Wil­ II n i l ance of the historical pageant spec- orate program is anticipated. Xos- main bridge is 13,560 feet. There limantic. We found ourselves In the ta< "Fox Island, on Parade” Sun­ tumes including the elaborate Co­ Shrewd Democrats planned a very clever scheme to run are supporting piers on Randalls heart of a fertile garden country day evening at 8 30. The spectacle lonial, the charming 1800’s and the Senator Burton K Wheeler of Montana on the ticket with Island and Wards Island where men and women were busy will be presented at the baseball gay nineties combined with the President Roosevelt. The only trouble with the plan is that “Cars And Courtesy'' picking peas and applying Paris park Sunday evening and Tuesday many others promises a colorful Senator Wheeler refuses to climb on the band-wagon, and Traveling homeward, leaving the green onto rugged looking potato openly declares his belief that Roosevelt should not seek a noise and bustle of the great me­ STE*MER W. S. WHITE evening. picture and an inspiring review of plants. In North Brantford men This comfortable, well ofRcerrd and well man wd st- rmship will Miaa White as ' Miss Vinalhaven” the Island's history which one can- third term. tropolis astern, we had plenty of and women seemed to be on even leave Tillsons* Wharf will be attended by her Royal At­ . not afford to miss. O---------- O---------- 0 time to reflect upon what we had terms in the fields and gardens. I DAYLIGHT TIME QIO1ED IN THIS AD' ERTl'LMENT seen and what we were still seeing, saw one place called “Restland SATURDAY, JULY 1—9 00 A. M. ANU 3.15 P. '1. THE PRESIDENTS TANTRUM Medical Examiner H J. Weisman and the latter for the moment con­ Farm." It must have been a tour­ SUNDAY. JULY 2—9.00 A. M. (ONI TRIP, cerned that splendid four-lane MONDAY-TUESDAY. JULY 3 AND 4 A Suicide At 79 pronounced it a case of suicide. (Herald Tribune) ist home, for who ever heard of 6.00 A. M. and 3.15 P. M. The deceased had followed sev­ Rarely has the President made himself quite as ridiculous highway which extends out through Rest on the land of a farm? III Health and Grief Cause eral vocations. He had conducted a as he did on Tuesday, in his press conference, when he bitterly Westchester County. Merritt Evidences of Hurricane FOR VINALHAVEN AND THE attacked the Senate for its proposal to return to Congress the Parkway—two names to conjure Cherry cider made Its appearance Pearl Fiske To End His milk route, worked at the McMullen latter's time-honored control over the value of the dollar. Un­ SESQUI-CENTENNIAL stoneyard, and did farming in *a with. No wonder that the State of at various places along the route— Life able to advance any logical reason why he should continue to Ride in com plete com fort on bis small way.