Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-05-31
MANY MAINE JOURNALISTS.
A Suggestion That They Be Invited Back for
Old Home Week.

| II NdS Stdteu the OtncF DAY Indl dI
attempt was to be made to induce as
many Maine-born actors as possible
to return to the State for Old Home
| week
| Why does not someone make a list
OF newspaper men who have gone out
or Maine, and try to interest them in
the projected celebration. 1t would be
a list long and creditable, and many
of those whose names would be upon
1t are capable of doing much to help
along the movement.
In New York, for instance, there are
such Maine men as f.. +. Call, the
business manager of the Evening Post,
Il. L. Mitchell. for many years one of
the most prominent men of the New
! York Sun, Morrill, Goddard, of the New
York Journal, brother Of A. NJ. God
| dard, Esq, of this city, George Il.
Goodwin, Don c. Sets, w. ID. Call.
Fred III. owen, George III. Jewett, and
others.
In Boston. there are Edwin b. Has
kell. long the editor of the Boston
Herald, and Mcssrs. William X.
Moody, III. $. Kempston. Ed. A. Perry,
Henry Adams and others of that
|
field NJ. Thompson ana others of the
| Globe. There are also Walter Leon
Sawyer Daniel Rowe. Clarence Pullcn,
w. f. Handing, Benjamin +. Palmer,
Calvin a. Lewis, III. a. Kidder. Ralph
h. Smith, Francis A. Frost. Bowdoin
| "a. and many other active workers.
| In other Massachusetts cities ana
towns. Maine born newspaper men
| abound. Among them may he named
| the veteran George A. Hobbs Of the
Woburn Journal, Of York county origin
and formerly Of the Biddeford Journal,
{. l.. McCleery If the Lowell Mail, W
II. buchanan Of the Brockton Times.
Thoits Of the Springfield Union, Dud-
ley NJ. Holman of Attlcboro. W. s.
Nevens Of Salem.
In Rhode Island is A. r LaughIin Of
East Greenwich. r. l.. Tohie, Jr. Of
Pawtucket. son Of the historian Of the
First Maine Cavalry. and perhaps f.
l.. Freeman Of Central Falls. state
printer and prominent politician. who
Is native Of Camden, should be- in
GUIDED
Farther West there occurs to us the
names Of Col. u. a. Smith Of Indiana
polls. Hon. Liberty +. Holden OF the
Cleveland Plain Dealer. Edward y
Dlngley Of Kalamazoo Amos p. Wild
er Of Madison, Wis. an old Augusta
boy. Alden J. Blethen Of seattle.
Washington. and his son. who. II not a
native Of Maine. is the next best thing.
There are many grandsOns ~ Maine. ii
must be remembered. like w. T.. Has
kell of Minneapolis. son Of +. =. Haskell
Of Boston. and Noycs ~ the Washing
ton Star son OF Crosby :. Noyes. who
went from AndroscOgEin county ana
founded that successful paper. The
Journals special Washington CORES
pendent is Ernest q. Walker. native
of Embden.
Speaking Of Washington there are 10
be found Joseph w Bartlett, once
editor Of the Bangor Wing. and vet
eran Of the First Maine cavalry. ana
Horace Jordan. an old newspaper man
now connected with the congressional
library. as well as several other Maine
newspaper men.
And these are only few Of this
class Of workers who ought to be
asked home in August. Fred r.
Guernsey who has for years edited a
paper printed in English in the city of
Mexico. Mrs. Elizabeth Akers Allen.
now living near New York. Arthur
Russell Of Minneapolis. +. w. Haw-
thorne Of jacksonville Fla. ana Morse
of Jacksonville. H.. Clinton Il. Evans
Of Chicago. a. +. Meigs. Of Michigan
where for a long time A. G. Boynton
once of Bangor. and W. +. Quinby.
originally Of Brewer We're the leading
men on the Detroit Free Press. and
scores Of others will be recollectcd at
home as having done honor to the
State of their birth.
Why would ii not be wise to try to
secure as large a representation of
these men and women for Old Home
week as possible? They with few cN-
ceptions are in a position to help the
State of their nativity. If they come
back to their old friends and old
haunts and go to their new home re-
freshed in body and spirit they will
not only carry away agreeable recol-
lections. but will be able and willing to
defend the State when she needs de-
Tending. and help her when she needs
help. They are men Of influence every
one of them. Notify them that they
are not forgotten at home. That is
thing which pleases every man.
School System That Failed.