Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-04-01
A NOTABLE GATHERING
Will Be Old Home Week at Winthrop
Beginning Aug. 9.

1t will make no difference how many
or how few towns in Maine celebrate
Old Home week this year. for if the
present plans contemplated are carried
| out, Winthrop will make up for half q
dozen towns that ought to celebrate,
but probably will not
While the program has been mapped
out it will probably be changed as
things are suggested to the committees
having the various departments in
charge.
The idea of having an Old Home
Week celebration this year was inau-
gurated at the annual reunion of the
students of the Lucia +. Beale Stu
dent Association last August. The
suggestion met with hearty approval
at once and during the fall months
meetings were held and plans outlined
for the event of the year. While the
townspeople will do all possible to aid
the matter, it is under the direction
of the above association that the ar
engagements are made and carried out.
The town at it's annual meeting APP
propriated $500 to aid in the financial
part of the affair.
Some of the things which will occur
may be mentioned at this time, al
though nothing has as yet been def
nitely settled upon and as soon
as the required arrangements neces-
sary have been made matters will as
sumo shape. But to start with, the
celebration will begin Sunday, Aug. 9
and end the following Saturday maxi
ing seven days of one of the most
pleasant occasion ever enjoyed in Win
throp.
The week will start on Sunday with
the pulpits of all the churches in town
occupied by former pastors, as far as
possible. This will bring together
many of the former preachers who oc-
cupied the pulpits in former years, and
| who will, for the day at least, be made
to feel at home. The following Mon
day will be taken up with an interest
ing program which will be of interest
to the many visitors and former resi-
dents, who have come once more to
shake hands with old friends and re-
new the acquaintance of their youth.
1t is planned to have a grand car
nival and parade Tuesday, Aug. IL. in
which will be seen one of the most
gorgeous festivals of the kind ever
inaugurated here. 1t may not be say
ing too much when it is said it Will, II
possible, Guido the centennial parade
of this town in 1871. Wednesday will
be given over to the reunions of the
several classes Of the Student Asso-
citation, besides the gathering of other
associates of olden days. Boat racing
will come on Thursday with all the
fun and side issue thrown in. 1t is
intended to give dinner to all resi-
dents of Winthrop 70 years old or over.
This will be held at the Town hall.
Saturday, the closing day of the cele-
bration, has been left open for the peo-
pie to do as they see fit and no set
program has been laid out for that
day.
OF course there will be evening pro-
grams of different descriptions.
This brief outline is but a mere
trifle to what will be held for the
pleasure of the week, but it serves as
an incentive for those who will be in
Winthrop during a part or whole of
the coming session. With all the ma
tural attractions which this place af-
fords and with the work which will be
| put into the affair, as was said at the
beginning, Winthrops Old Home Week
celebration will fill the vacuum OF
| half dozen other towns who will not
| celebrate.
Besides former residents Of this
| town who were not members of the
Luella F. Beale Student Association,
there are members of the society scat
tered from the Atlantic to the Pacific
in all the professions and mechanics
and it is expected that Winthrop Will
re-echo with the voices long forgotten
by the older people and never heard
by the young.