Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-07-16
AT GOOD WILL.
No Assembly and Boys
Encampment This Year.
Prominent Speakers Are Often
Addressing the Pupils.
Good Will Boys Will Camp In the
Pines Next Fall.

As there is to be no Good VIII As
sembly and Boys Encampment this
year some of the speakers who would
otherwise have appeared on the AS
scmbly platform are being heard at
Good Will Farm. These lectures are de-
livered in Moody hall. Recently Il very
interesting lecture was delivered by
Albert NJ. Gould on "A Summer in
Labrador With Dr. GrenfeL' Mr..
Goupd spent last summer with the fa-
n!o us missionary in Labrador and was
able IT, speak from personal experience.
Mr.. Gould's lecture was illustrated
with q series Of Stereopt!con views
which had previously been used by DR..
Grcnfcl in his own lecture in various
parts Of the country.
Still more reccntly,-laSt "Wednesday
evening, July 11th.-E. G. Mercer lee
turcd On Mission Work in New York
city. Mr.. Mercer is Il scholarly young
man, n graduate of college and law
school who has had all of the varied
experiences that crowd into the life of
q man who, in early manhood, finds
himself n frequent visitor ana Il wei
come guest in the White House and
then, with the aid of the Social Glass"
and the cigarette. travels downward
till he finds himself disowned, penni
less and in despair. Mr.. Mercer is u
brilliant lecturer. He came to Good
Will from the great Student Confer
ence at Northfield, Mass. and is now
at the Missionary Conference at Silver
Bay. New York. The coming year he
is to be associated with John X. Mott
i'm Student Work in our colleges.
Saturday evening. July Is. Rev. Dav-
i'll y. Beach, d. D., President of the
Bangor Theological Seminary. made
his first visit 10 Good Will Farm and
gave an interesting lecture on 'Tramp-
ing Through the Scottish Borders"
This lecture has been delivered in va
rious parts of the country and was
greatly enjoyed by the Good Will au-
diencc. DR.. Beach also preached in the
Moody Memorial Chapel Sunday after
noon.
IIayin:r operations are in full prog
ross at Good VIII and Il fair crop
seems to be assured.
Supervisor Hincklcy left his home
Monday morning of this week for
Grocnvllc. Me. He has not vet recov-
cred from his trying experience in the
hospital last winter and expects to- re-
main i'm the woods in the vicinity of
Moosclcad Lake until September. G.. F.
Barnard. the secretary of the Good
viii Home Association, is on 4 brief
trip to California. This is Mr.. Bar
nardS second vacation in the eight
years that he has been ut Good Will.
Although there is to be NJ Assembly
this year 60 Of the Good Will boys will
camp in the Pines for about five weeks.
July and remain until September For
the first part of the time the camp
will be in charge of Charles f. Nutter
and Principal H. p. Watson. The last
half of the camping period MIR. Nut
ter will he assisted by Frank Touscy
of Richmond. Virginia. who was very
successful in the Good Will boys
camp last summer.
A special committee of three. ap-
pointed by the directors of the Good
Will Home Association, to meet the
representative of the Shawmut Manu-
featuring Co. to adjust damages which
will result from the raising of the dam
across the Kennebec at Shawmut. held
n meeting at Good Will July 9Th. At
ter considerable discussion 1t was
agreed to refer the matter to COM
mission.