Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-08-07
closely identified with the city's history
particularly with it's educational work

Portland Advertiser.-The success
and enthusiasm which marked Old
Home week in the state of Massa-
chusetts, should furnish inspiration an(
encouragement for the celebration OF
our own Old Home week, which is now
near at hand. In spite of the luke
warmness and lack Of interest which
have prevailed in certain quarters this
annually recurring festival is increas
ing in Importance and influence witt
every year. and it has already attained
throughout New England a station
which mark it as destined to become
one of the most enjoyable and most
appreciated occasions OF the summer
, season. And it is attracting attention
and interest far beyond the confines OF
, the states which have thus far adopted
it as their own. So far is this true that
it has of late been freely predicted that
. it is destined to become a national in
stead of a New England festival. Las
winter the Maine Legislature wisely SET
apart a distinct week in the month of
| August for observance as Old Home
week, and provided that towns might
| legally raise and appropriate money for
it's observance. Several Maine towns
| have taken advantage of this statute
, and the occasion will at least be re-
| specially observed in this state the
present year. But towns with their
| committees and celebrations cannot dc
all the work that is needed to minister
| to the largest and fullest success of the
| festival. Individuals can do much ir
the way of personal invitations and ar
| engagements for family reunions, tC
make the week growing success from
year to year. 1t is worth while to beal
this truth in mind and to see to It that
Maine keeps up her place in the pro-
cessiOn of Old Home week states.
| The speakers at Portland's Old Home
| Week meeting. August 70, will be May
or Boothby, Hon ". w. Stetson, Luther
c. Greenleaf of Boston, Hon. M. e. In
gals of Cincinnati, Rev Minot J. Saw
age of New York, and Congressman
Littlefeld.
| There was a strange and rather ro-
! mantle meeting in Rockland the othel
| day which reads like a story book. A
theatrical man who has been staying
at Rockland hotel for a few days
was sitting in the hotel window watch
| ing the passing show when two young
| ladies passed. Instinctively it seems
one turned, stopped, and gaZed inteRtly
| into the mans face only a few fee
| from the window. The latter was per.
picked at first, then sprang from his
chair and rushing out grasped the
young lady's extended hand and Ions
and earnest conversation followed. Ac.
cording to the story related by the
visiting theatrical man several year:
ago in a Massachusetts city he wa:
engaged to marry the young lady HI
greeted, Saturday. His father OBJ
jected to their marriage and he wen
West intending to return. Later ther'
came East stories of his death in ;
railroad accident, and indeed we'll worn
clippings of this false rumor Were
shown the writer. He remained in TIL
West several years. -Four years afte
his departure the young lady, beieVint
him to be dead, gave her hand to an
other. Later, she heard that her frs
lover was not dead. He knew of he
marriage but until Saturday thei
paths had never crossed. She is Wis
iting friends in a near by town
Strangest of all is the telepathic in
fuence of their meeting. A short tim
before the meeting he was talking Wit
an acquaintance who lived in the tow
of his birth in Massachusetts over oil
times and inquired what had becom
of so-and- so-mentioning the name 0
his former love. In turn, she with
companion standing on a corne
waiting for a car was impelled by Al
influence she cannot explain to eros
the street and pass the hotel, althoug
she did it unconsciously and had moth
ing to take Ger to the opposite side o