Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-07-14

at their house over the Sabbath. This gener-
GUS offer was fully tested by the goodly dele
CATION that enjoyed the elegant Accommodations
of the American and sat down to the tables
spread with all the luxuries and comforts that
the culinary art in its best estate could sug-
gest. Had the recipients of this generous
hospitality paid the usual hotel fare, the ag-
$500 and 5000. Mr.. Rice refused even to &C.
cept formal vote of thanks, although an ex-
preston of that character was made at a meet
ing of the Association holden in the gentle
mems parlor early Monday morning.
special train of ten cars bearing the
excursionists started from the Boston depot
of the Boston, Lowell & Nashua Railroad,
bound for st. Adams, yesterday morning, at
$50 o'clock. The locomotive and cars were
beautifully and tastefully trimmed with flags
and notices. The party from Maine, nclud-
ing ladies, numbered about forty, and their
names, the papers they represent and local.
ties are as follows:
Joseph A. Holman, Maine Farmer, Augusta,
accompanied by Miss Lizzie Homan; F. E.
Shaw, wife and daughter, Oxford Democrat,
Paris; J. E. Butler, Union and Journal Bid
deford Brown Thurston, journal of Educa-
ton, Portland; Edwin Sprague and wife,
Rockland; Nelson Dingley, Jr., and wife,
journal, Lewiston; VIM. S. Noyes and wife,
Independent, Saco; A. Ii. s. Davis and wife,
Chronicle, Pennington; G. w. Drisko and
wife, Union, Machias; Joseph Wood and
mother, Seaside Oracle, Wiscasset; C.. A.
Lord, wife and daughter, Portland; Geo. B.
Goodwin, Union and Journal, Biddeford; NJ.
n. Rich Price Current, Portland; F. G. Rich
and wife, Good Seed, Portland; Samuel S.
Smith, job printer, Bangor; G. A. Jones, job
printer, Portland; +. n. Dow, Riverside Echo.
Portland; Jas. S. Staples and wife, job print
er, Portland; George A. Callahan, job print
er, Lewiston; Howard Owen and wife, Ken
nebec Journal, Augusta; Henry Chase and
wife, Saturday Gazette, Hallowell; \. j.
Small, Maine Democrat, Biddeford; B. A.
Burr, Monthly, Bangor; II. Fairfield and
Standard, Augusta; Edwin Stone, Register,
Paris.
Some of the principal Maine papers, as the
Portland Press and Argus, and the Bangor
Wing and Courier, are as yet unrepresented,
but we may possibly meet representatives
from those offices at Montreal. VIM. S.
Noyes of Saco, is the oldest printer in the
Maine party and indeed the oldest we have
seen in the crowd. JOS A. Holman of Angus
ia, the honored President of the Association,
is the Oldest in point Of years engaged with
out interruption in the printing and publish
ing business.
Massachusetts, sends about one hundred
and fifty, but without giving names, we will
say that S. n. Stockwell, President of the
Association, represents the journal; A. Ross
the Advertiser, Simon Brown the New Eng
land Farmer, Charles w. Slack the Common
wealth, r. Worthington the Traveller, Geo.
A. Marden the Lowell Courier, r. NJ Pulsi-
fer the Boston Herald, George S. Merrill the
| Lawrence American. Our Massachusetts,
brethren are ardent believers in matrimony
| as they are either all married or intend to be,
each gentleman being accompanied with his
wife or lady friend
| New Hampshire is not far behind Massa-
chusetts, as we find those wearing the badge
of that State number more than one hundred.
Among them are John M. Hill of the Concord
Patriot, President of the Association, Geo. E.
jerks of the Statesman, l.. Il. Burlngame of
the Morning Star, c. F. Livingstone of Man
chester, Recording Secretary, Geo. W. Mars
ton of the Portsmouth Chronicle, Thomas W.
Lane of the Manchester Mirror.
The delegation from Vermont numbers be-
tween sixty and seventy, and prominent
among these "Green Mountain boys" we find
Hon. Z. P. Walton of Montpelier, President
Burlington Free Press, c. II. Baker of the St
Adams Transcript, H. A. Huse of the Mont
pelier Waterman, A. A. Earl of the St
I Johnsbury Times and others that we cannon
e stop to mention.
> The delegations from each State were easily
is recognized by badges of different colors, OF
Or which were printed the name of the paper ant
= the place represented. Maine wears white
Massachusetts blue, New Hampshire red, Yer
:. mont green.
:" As the train started from the Lowell depC
the most of those on board were found to
y from Maine and Massachusetts, with a sprink
III ing of the red badges of New Hampshire, ii
u green of Vermont not being seen, the del,
III gates from the last named States joining tn
ar excursionists at various points along the rout
lS But what shall we say of the trip over til
1t Boston, Lowell & Nashua, the Concord, Ii
to Northern New Hampshire, and the Vernon
ty Central Railroads, stretching from Boston d
re rect to St. Adams, a distance of 2G5 miles
The managers of these roads, as did also thos
1t of our own Maine Central and all the lines i
d Maine and other States, granted passes to al
.. and gave the fullest freedom of their regula
f and special trains to members Of the Associs
. ton and those who accompanied them. TIL
F.. desire of the management and the conductor,
and in fact all concerned, to render the e>
" onrS;on pleasant and enioyahla was 10 RI; a