Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-06-25
SKOWHEGAN H. S.
Seniors Graduate from School
With Great Honor.
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Fire at RESCUE Isle, Wednesday
Races at Milo Interesting.
81, Johns Day Appropriately Observed by
Masons at Bath. -

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Skowhegan. June 24-(special -"Totbe
rather than to seem to be-" is the banner
under which the senior class of the Skdt~-
hogan high school will start out in the
world, The writer has been familiar
with the lives and character of the men,
beers of the class from their earliest in
fancy and is inclined to the belief that
they are all just what they seem to be.
The day has been beautiful and the
spirits of the class have been way up at
concert pitch. They have hustled and
BUSTED about in preparation for this
evenings event. the graduation gown got
a finishing touch. young hearts have
beaten in expectation bordering on eX-
element, parents have been on the anx-
ious seat and there has been no end of
worry which in itself was a pleasure as
i; always is But there it is all over, the
young ladies and gentlemen have ac-
quilted themselves very creditably. the
diplomas have been presented. they have
passed from boyhood and girlhood to the
state of young men and young women.
their future study will be away from
home and they have therefore practically
begun life in the world for themselves.
The stage of Coburn hall was very
handsomely arranged, the footlights be-
ing banked in flowers and ferns and class
colors We're everywhere displayed. The
exercises in the afternoon were very
The programme for this hour was the
following:
Music. Prayer. Music
(a) Latin Salutatory
OBJ Animalism in Civilization.
Fred Walter Turner
After School-What? Arrie Lena Pratt
The Bard of Ayrshire.
Charles Rufus Viles
E,sse Guam vider
Fannie Scott Stevens
Music.
The Qualities That Win,
Angie Ella Smith
A Plea for Armenia
John Howard Wyman
Anaesthetics, Nary Elvira Dascombe
Poem-l492, William Dana Lawrence
Women Of the War
Mary Elizabeth Wentworth
Gypsy Story. Vivian Rowell Graves
Edward Patrick Barry
AnnaleS, Sadie Maude Knight
Music.
Coburn hall was again packed in the
evening. and Il beautiful scene was pre-
sented. The programme was as follows;
Music Prayer. Music
Obedience to Public Opinion,
Woman's Work, Blanche Farlene Clark
Gymnasiums for Secondary Schools.
Maurice Earle Pratt
The Influence of Flowers.
Ellen Maria White
Music.
The Advantage of Difficulties.
Sarah May Swain
Ought the Electoral College to be Abol-
ished? Wilbur Davis Palmer
Self Reliance. Susie Ethel Deane
After Twenty Years-Prophecy,
Charles Wesley Grover
Music.
the Little God. Chester Horace Mills
A Defence of the 'Doode-bug Poet
Ill. M,
The Resources of Maine
John Albert Avore
(a) Not for School, but for Life.
Oh Vaiedictory. Eva Maude Nelson
Presentation of Diplomas.
Benediction.
Music.
The graduates in their respective
English course. John Albert Avon. Ed
ward Patrick Barry. Charles Wesley Gro
YER William Dana Lawrence; Mary f.liz-
abeth Wentworth Charles Horace Mills
Harold John Phillips. Arrie Lena Pratt
Charles Rufus Niles.
Latin scientific course Blanche Fair
lene Clarke. Susan Ethel Deane, Vivian
Rowell Graves, Sadie Maude Knight. VIII
bur Davis Palmer. Maurice Earle Pratt.
Fannie Scott Stevens. Sarah May Swain.
Fred Walter Turner Ellen Maria White.
vira Dascombe. Eva Maude Nelson. Stel
la Louise Jones. John Howard Wyman,
Eva Maude Nelson. Angie Ella Smith.
The master of the ceremonies was Prin-
cpal w. n Donovan of the school and
that he performed his part most admir-
ably all agree. While all the parts We're
very excellent and there really could be
but little choice among them, that of
John Albert Avore on the Resources of
Maine may especially interest the
Journal readers throughout the State and
it is given below.
How familiar to all students is that
sentence in the geography Maine is the
most northeastern of the New England
states" That seems to Danish one some
distance from the centre of populations;
but there is always the consolation that
even though the course of empire tends
westward. it is born of the east.
Now one great thing to say of Maine
truth she overfiOws with. it. The water
power of Maine is mighty and exhaust
less. More wonderful and useful still. is
that it is available, comfortable and con-
slant.
The great rivers in their descent to the
sea, yield an immense water-power.
This power concentrated and utilized, as
it is in our factories. would be equal to
the labor of more than eighty million
men, working ten hours q day. every
working day in the year This indicates l,ls
to extend. and it is Il prophecy OF what
she is yet to be-
For manufacturing. Maine is favored in
many respects. even the cold is an adj
vantage. The intense heat of summer
must always be a drawback to any ex-
tensive manufactures in the South. Cold
can be shut out but not so easily heat.
Manufacturing is Names chief industry.
Some of the principal articles manufac-
tured are cotton and wooden goods.
boots and shoes. paper and machinery.
But the winters bring even more direct
profits. Maine not only quarries stone.
but ice. Here is a kind of export of raw
material. which will not impoverish If
her rock and cold can be turned to
wealth, she has an eXhaustible resource.
During the .Akinter the towns on the Pc
nobscot and Kennebec rivers do Il great
deal of ice-cutting. and the annual ice
crop is very valuable. large number of
companies have their ice-house on these
rivers and are engaged in harves,ing and
storing the ice. which during the summer
months, is distributed and consumed
principally in the cities of the Atlanti'
states.
From the rich quarries at Norrid~e-
wock Hallowell and Vinalhaven. large
quantities OF granite are sent to other
states. At Monson are Quarries of slate.
while at Thomaston. Rockland and Cam
den are vast beds of lime, which are MOI
equalled in the world.
LAUNDERING also. is one of the great in
dustries of Maine. and her forests consist
chiefly of pine. spruce. hemlock and fir,
although some oak is found along the
coast and hard wood growth in the high
lands of Aroostook. White and red oak.
rock and white maple. white and yellow