The Portland daily press., 1895-06-29
MAINE TOWNS.
Items of Interest Gathered bv Cores
pondents of the Press.
Bowdoinhan1.

-
the farmers will commenced haying next
week. The recent rains and cloudy
weather will thicken up the grass some.
The Bowdoin Base Ball club defeated
the Topsham club Wednesday on the
Riverside grounds at Bowdoinham. The
score was 30 to II. The Bowdoinhams
have played five games and won four
this season.
The graduating exercises of the first
class of the Grammar school into the
High was held last Saturday evening
The Town hall was profusely and taste
fully decorated by the graduating class,
and the exercises of the evening We're
very good. The class numbers 81, the
largest to enter the high school for years
Miss May S. Small has position in
| Portland as book keeper and left for there
Monday.
kW D. Hutchins was in Gardiner on
business Thursday.
! Miss Nellie Millay is in Portland and
will attend Shaw's Business College.
Miss Effie Kempton, the teacher of the
| Primary school, left town Monday for her
home to pass her vacation.
=. ". Hinkley, of the Goodwill
Farm" occupied the pulpit at ssthe M. E.
Church, last Sunday. He preached a
very excellent sermon. In the evening
he told the story of the Goodwill
] Farm. "
Gray, June 26.-Gray Grange, No. Al
adopted the following resolutions
Whereas, 1t has pleased our Heavenly
Father to call from his family, and this
grange our brother, HeZekiah Whitney,
one OF our active charter members, who
has always taken great interest in our
order, ever performing the duties allotted
him in a conscientious manner, whose
utmost endeayors were extended for its
welfare and prosperity; one ever open to
conviction, ready to hear and consider all
friendly suggestions, and show the better
way, one dear to us all; therefore, be it.
/ Resolved, That this Grange extend it's
truest sympathies to the members of his
family in this time of deep sadness and
affection and commend them to the ten
der mercy and loving kindness of our
Divine Master "who doeth all things
we'll -
Resolved, That we will always cherish
with pleasure our remembrance of him,
as being always pleasant, and seeking to
advance the interest, elevate the charac-
Grange.
Resolved, That our charter be draped
in mourning for thirty days
Resolved, That copy of these resolu-
tions be placed upon our records, also
copy be sent to the family of our deceased
brother, to the Lewiston journal and
Portland PRESS for publication.
E. A. M. McCOLLISTER,
VIM. McCONKEY,
MRS. GEO. f. KNIGHT,
Committee on Resolutions
Yarmouth.
YARN outh, June Son account of the
unpleasant weather the dedication of the
new Baptist chapel on Cousens Island
was postponed until Wednesday, when
about fifty of the townspeople went down
to the island on the steamer Louise.
The steamer Louise will whistle fifteen
| minutes before leaving Union wharf on
the morning trip.
Miss Grace Thompson left Tuesday, for
New Haven, Conn, where she will spend
the summer.
Mrs. Bessie Farwell and Miss Etta
Glare, of Cambridge, Mass, arrived at
their summer home here, Tuesday.
Miss Gertrude Richards and Miss Mabel
Marston left for Cambridge, Tuesday,
where they will attend the Perry -Bonney
wedding.
Miss Nellie Snow attended the com
| mencement exercises at Bates College this
| week
Roy Houghton Thomas passed the ex-
| animation for Bowdoin without condi-
| tions. James r. Parsons passed the
preliminary examination.
Last Saturday afternoon thirty five
were examined for the Yarmouth Central
Grammar school.
There will be a class of twenty four
enter the Yarmouth High school in the
fall term.
W. H. Marston, Charles Jordan, John
Carswell with their families are occupy
ing their cottages at Princes Point.
The class of '95 Y H S. held it's
graduation exercises at the First Parish
church, Friday evening, June 10 Not
withstanding the unpleasant weather, the
church was literally packed with friends
of the graduates and the school. The
organ was adorned with an arch of ever
green on which was the class motto,
"Carpe Diem, - in the class colors-rose
color and white. Along the organ gallery
and at the back of the platform were
little fir trees and on each side of the plat
form was a large mound of ferns all MAX
ing pretty background for the white
dresses of the young lady graduates The
class of nine have finished regular four
years course and their fine essays, grace
fully delivered, attested that they had
well improved their opportunities under
the careful supervision of their excellent
teachers. Following is the programme:
Music,
Webb's Orchestra
Prayer,
Rev. J. H. Barrows
Music.
Salutatory-'The True American Citi-
zen'',
Roy Houghton Thomas
Essay The Fickle Goddess, -
Elizabeth Briggs Mountfort
Glass History,
Alfred Bucknam Small
Music.
Essay Higher Levels, -
May True Leighton
Oration" The Progress of Invention,''
Arthur William Walker.
Essay-s'We Live to Learn
Margaret Jane Walsh
Music
Essay Mental Discipline, -
Lena Emma Skillings
Oration-"The New Aspect in the East
George Edward Raynes
Valedictory-The Educational Movement
among Women"
Georgia May Titcomb.
Music.
Presentation of Diplomas,
DR.. J. G. Gannett.
Rapad iotj0p