Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-06-10
busy while all Of the wooien mills are
rushed with large future orders.

| rushed with large IutuF- o'ue
Sometimes a town has a Memorial
day orator a second time or even
third time, but few places have the
record of having the same speaker on
five Memorial days. This Is the record
of the town of Dedham, however. the
speaker being Rev. c. G. Mosher OF Au-
gusta who spoke there, this year. for
the fifth time. This is an eloquent trt-
butte to the eloauence and the PERSONAL
ity of the popular young Augusta
clergyman.
Fort Kent Lodge, No. 2O9. F. & A. NJ,
which will be constituted. Thursday,
June Is, will be the most northern Ma
sonic body in New England. Its first
| master is Senator Pierce of AroOstook.
Letters received from Minister
Thomas state that owning to the pre-
carious condition Of Mrs. Thomas
health, they will pass a large part Of
| the summer at BadNauheim in Ger
many. The exacting social duties OF
hostess of the American Legation at
Stockholm have taxed Mrs. Thomas
health and strength severely, and it is
by the urgent advice Of her physicians
that she seeks cure at the celebrated
springs of Nauheim. The physicians
also insist that Mrs. Thomas must pass
next winter in a mild climate, and 1t
is probale that Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
with their son Oscar, will spend the
whole Of the approaching winter sea-
son in Egypt, on the river Nile.
In the annual report of the registrar
of Bowdoin College made public, this
week, there are some interesting fig
ures showing the geographical distri-
| button of the graduates Of the college.
There are I'll Bowdoin alumni now
living in Maine. OF these. LAG reside in
Portland, 81 in Brunswick, Al in Ban
gor, 81 in Bath, 80 in Augusta, % in
Lewiston, 10 in Auburn, and II in
Rockland. Outside of Maine the
graduates of Bowdoin are found in
every state and territory Of the Union,
also in Hawaii, Porto Rico and the
Philippines, and in eight counties of the
Old World. Next to Maine comes Mas
sachusetts with 351 Bowdcin graduates
now living there. New York has 113;
New Hampshire, So; California, Al;
Illinois, 40: District of Columbia, 81;
Connecticut, 81; Minnesota. 20: Penn
sylvania, 81, etc. There are seven
Bowdoin graduates in the Philippines
at the present time.
There is clergyman up in northern
Aroostook by the name Of Gardiner
Hallowell. If he has a daughter he
should name her Augusta.
Here is the obituary of woman
down in Washington county as told by
a correspondent. There is nothing I'M
usual in it, after all, but there is some
thing very touching and pathetic in
the simple story: ."She lad been a
great sufferer for some time with a
severe trouble. brotgh. on, no doubt,
by her hard struggle for the MAIN
tanning of her little Ones, until such
time as they were able, to care for
themselvesf The writer had noticed
her frequently at her daily toll, when
it would have tested the strength of
quite muscular man, in performing
the same work. She had the privilege
of seeing her children grow up around
her, and were trained up in the way
they should go. and minister to her
during her sickness, until death put an
end to her sufferings''
Records for travel have been gen.
era1ly conceded to ba n mart Of mans
accomplishments, but it is doubtful if
even in the whole vast territory of the
United States the record of Miss Helen
M. Freeman, daughter of Nathan S.
Freeman Of Deering, has been beaten.
Miss Freeman is expected home from
the Philippines sometimes this coming
week, after a four years SOjOurn there
as teacher in the Normal school of
Manila. But the Philippines is not the
only place she has visited, for even to
darkest Africa and the frozen north
she has been at one time or another
At present she is row on her way
across the Atlantic from Glasgow. To
reach there she did no. take the direct
route, but came through the several
All of the larger cities such as Paris,
Florence, Hong Kong, Alexandria,
Port Said, Naples, London were in
cluded in her itinerary.
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