Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-10-30
AIMEE Home for
Girls in Gardiner.

Tile AIMEE Home for Women and
Girls located in this city on Highland
avenue, has been opened and is TO be
operated on the general line of Young
Woman's Christian Association Homes
in Boston and elsewehere--or The
Franklin Square Home for Women
and Girls-which is located in Boston
and very popular with the women of
all the United States.
The AIMEE Home" includes the
house and furnishings on Highland
avenue, where Miss AIMEE spent her
life and an endowment of twenty
five hundred dollars. the interest of
the money to keep the property in re-
pair and any surplus to be used in
the work of the home. Women and
girls working in our city and needing
a home will find in THE AIMEE Home"
pleasant surroundings, a refined home
atmosphere and all that goes To make
a desirable boarding place at very
reasonable rates. Another feature OF
1.-THE Home" is that in vacation sea-
son il is to accommodate tired wom-
en- who cannot afford the great ex-
pense of the typical summer resort
or fashionable boarding house-but
who may come to this quiet, pretty
home in this city so bountifuliy blest
in the beauty of all nature sufrouHu-
ing it, and for a few weeks ENJOY
residence in one of the most beaut1fui
sections of Maine, and find board rea-
sonable and good. Then The Home IS
to be a social center for the women
and girls of Gardiner-where they can
have their club meetings and other
social gatherings.
While it is under the immediate
management of the Methodist church
no distinction will be made in receiv-
ing the boarders, who may be Protes-
tant or Roman Catholic Gentle or
Jew. but all will be received socially
or as members of the Home without
regard to creed. and the rules of the
Home will in no way interfere with
the religious ohservances of those who
reside there. The local church has
placed 1.-The Home in the hands of
the Maine Conference Deaeoness or
ganization for management
The Home was formally opened,
September %, 1911, with a public re-
ception under the direction of Miss y.
Maud King. superintendent of the
Maine Conference Deaconess work.
Miss Jennie Robinson. Deaconess OF
Portland. has been placed in charge.
as House Mother" On Sunday
morning September "a. Miss kins
presented the work to the congregation
in the Methodist church and secured
money enough for the immediate ex-
penses of THE Home" 1t is furtner
planned To secure a sufficient sum OF
money to put in a furnace, bathroom
and electric lights-at once. 1t is
hoped that some person or persons VIII
find it in their heart to give The Home
money enough to bring the endowment
up to $4,000.
Arrangements are being made with
Bishop Hamilton to formally dedicate
1.-The Home" at some date, in the near
future. The citizens of Gardiner HAY
well afford to take n personal pride
N. This Institution as no other place
in Central Maine has an institution
similar to this one Mothers in the
surrounding country whose daughters
come to this industrial center to work
can send them to this "Home-iilfe
Home" assured that they will have
comfortable and safe Surroundings UNI
der the care of Christian woman.
Rev. l. F. Lusk. nastor. of the Meth
ociist church. and Hon. O. r. Clason.
Mr. F. S. Smith, Mr.. c. A. Bean. and
Mr. A. r. Lewis. are the local COM
mittee, under whose supervision the
rnonappment of the Home comes.