Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-05
Marriage ni!; ,,, Of a s.! Popular
Ground Broken For Whitney
Home For Thirteen Boys.
Graduation Of Grammar and High
Schools...prizes Awarded.


moving forward happily. There have
been showers but nothing thus far to
interfere with any part of the pro-
gram. An event, unique in the history
of Good Will, took place Wednesday
evening when Carl r. Pierce of Hinck-
lev and Miss Elizabeth H. Hill of
SkOwhegan were united in marriage in
the Moody Memorial chapel. Mr..
Pierce was for several years GOOD
Will boy and Miss Hill was one of the
first Good Will girls. The event called
together the largest audience that ever
crowded into the chapel An elaborate
scheme of decoration in white flowers
and evergreen had been carried out
by the many friends of the bride and
groom. Promptly at o'clock the we'd
ding march began. The bride was
robed in white silk and carried bunch
of roses. Miss Golden Kehail of the
graduating class of the Good Will High
school was bridesmaid. f. c. Mac
Donald of Hinckley was groomsman.
The bride was given away by q. r.
Barnard, secretary of the Good viii
Home Association. +. b. Hinckley of
Yale University was head usher; the
other ushers were Norman Hincliley,
Luther Bracket and David Dorward OF
the Good Will High school. The cere-
mony was performed by Rev. q. w.
Hinckley and the ring service was
used Miss Faith Hinckley presided
at the organ. After the ceremony the
bridal party went directly to the home
n;
ton was held and something over 100
invited guests were present. Mr..
Pierce has been for three or four years
an employee of the Good Will Home
Association and will continue in his
present position for an indefinite time.
The formal exercises of the breaking
of ground for another home for Is boys
took place at 100 Thursday afternoon.
The following program was observed:
SINGING. Amerca.' Congregation
Reading of 3.tl Psalm. Gilbert Arey
Sinsins-"Hcw Firm a Foundation"
CunSre ga ton
Prayer. G. F. Sarnari
Address. G. w. Hinckley
Mr. Hinckley said in part: "A few
years ago when Thomas w. Hall of New
York City gave Mary Louisa Hall cot
tagc a home for 10 boys it was decided
that it should be placed just where it
stands. 1t was announced at that time
that eventually Hall Cottage would be
one of a group of three homes occupy
ing this part of Good Will Farm. I sus-
pect that the family which first occupied
that cottage felt somewhat isolated at
times: the new home did not seem to be
no otb nd
passed before any apparent progress was
made towards the completion of the
group.
when Edwin Bancroft Foote offered to
build and endow a home here in memory
of his father and mother it was quickly
decided that it should be the second in
the group of three homes: we would wait
patiently for the third. which would
make it possible for us to have in this
corner of Good Wills possessions a group
of three homes-a colony of 45 or 80 boys.
a little while ago. perhaps two
months, I was notified that Mrs. Tracy
W. McGregor of Detroit, Mich, contem-
plated building n boys home at Good
Will which should be at once 4 memo
rial to her honored father and at the
same time great benefit to humanity.
when this house is built on the spot
where we are now assembled it will COM
plete this particular group of homes. Ar
chitects are now busy with the plans and
specifications. About the first of July
funds will be turned over to the Good
Will Home Association, sufficient to build
and equip the home and also to provide
an income for the support of a family
of Is boys. 1t is TO be known as the
Whitney Home I hope that we will be
able to begin work about the first of July
but in the meantime. assured of the gift
we are gathered here in this Commence
ment week to break ground; to turn the
first turf
ut has been our custom upon similar
occasions to select some individual to
turn the first turf. regarding the privi-
lese as something of an honor This gift
comes to us from Michigan. So far as we
know there is but one person in our COM
munity at the present time who came
from that state-John Hall, a Good Win
Cottage boy, is with us. He came to us
from Michigan upon the application and
through the request of Mrs McGregcr 7
have, therefore, asked him as the repre-
sentative of Mr. and Mrs McGregor to
turn the first turf this afternoon. but be-
fore this is done you will please give
three rousing cheers for the donor of the
building"
Amid the cheers of the assembly John
Hall. sturdy lad of about 1G years
stepped forward and turned the first turf
Others tried their hand at it as the
cheers continued.
At O'Clock the graduating Exercises of
the Boys Grammar school were held in
Moody hall. The program was carried
out as published in the Journal
The platform was very Hastily decorat-
ed with the class colors, green and red.
Diplomas were given to Is boys
For several years past Ralph L. Cutter
of Brooklyn. N. Y. has provided for cash
prizes for the encourage of study in
the Grammar grades at Good Will. The
prizes to boys this yeaer were awarded
as follows:
Reading. first prize. Arthur Chapman;
second prize, Howard Arey.
Writing. first prize. Harold Lounsbury:
second. Fred Canavello.
Arithmetic, First prize. Jeffrey Jessup:
second. Frank Reading.
Bible study. first prize, Elwyn Rice: