Daily Kennebec journal., 1912-05-28
Maine Gossip
An Urban Lay.

m Ofodn Ldy'
a wiuseme maid with Mobile face
And curling Auburn hair
Roams far Bayonne her native place,
With most superior air.
Around Little Rock she strays,
Then toward Ann Arhor Sreen&
No Streatof alley meets her gaze
What Erie sight is seen?
\ charging Buffalo she spies,
For Battle Creek its Jaws
south Bend your steps. a farmer
Get Thayer before you pauses
Commandngly young Lawrence spoke,
He spokane she obeyed
The beast SO Great Falls at his stroke,
Andover il the maid.
I've Coneordr' gaily he exclaimed, -.
Eau Claire. your thanks e&presSi
Augusta, Me-" she said, they name,
So Macon other guess"
she sought to Barre from him her eyes,
Hot Springs a tear in view,
~ husband Fond du Lac" he cries,
I'm bent on Marion you"'
"A happy Homestead Pa viii give,
Where nothing Mahanoy.
How Joliet will be to live
In Union fun of joy
'fIn thanks to Providence | VOW
Well long Revere this day
And Wheeling up my cart, III now
Tacoma bride straightwayt'
Ivy kellerman Reed in Harper ;
Weekly.
state Dairy Inspector Russell Smith
says to the milk dealers. If YOU
would avoid trouble through absence
of license numbers. get busy!"
The class of 1872. of Colby (then)
University is to have its 40th reunion
at the coming Commencement at the
Waterville college. There were only
eight who graduated, as the classes
that entered soon after the war
were all small, but the interest
ing thing about this class is that
the eight are alive, and in actice oc-
and have all agreed to be
present at the reunion. There We're
four men who entered with the class,
but left before or by the end of the
second year. OF that number one
]. B. Atwood. of ST Aioans, has
passed away. The other three are in
active life. They are. Eugene X.
Dunbar, of Boston. Mass. Judge John
d. Smith. of Minneapolis. and stephen
a. Jones of Los Angeles, or possible
at Dartmouth. Some Of those origi-
nal members of the class may also be
present, as they have been invited.
The eight graduates. however are an
ticipating a pleasant time getting to-
gether as boys of 20 They purpose
to have a meeting in the afternoon of
and want very much to have
Prof j. u. Taylor meet with them,
perhaps to give them little talk, or
to review his early impressions of the
class; for it was the first that he ever
taught in Colby, and he is the only
of the faculty in col
lege then, living al the present time.
The class proposes TO have an ordina
~ supper by themselves at the regu-
lar hour. so they may attend the
Tuesday evening exercises. and the
society meetings at the close. or those
of the class who were society NEIL
five out of the eight II the oeeHpa-
tion has 10 do anything with the
longevity. 1t may be interesting TO
note that of the eight men who grad
uated, six entered the ministry-as,
pastors of Baptist churches, in vari-
Gus parts of the country, one how
ever, changing to Unitarian iii later
life. OF the other two, one is a
Methodist, and the other a Baptist
deacon, A brief of the class is being
by each man for the Com
mencement number of the Alumnus,
showing a little of what these men
have done toward the worlds work
in the 40 years of active life. In the
order of their ages the eight graduates
are: Rev. Thomas G. Lyons of Low
ell, Mass: Rev. Horace w. Tilden, D.
D., of Brooklings, S. D.: Rev. Elisha
Il. Haskell. Of Seuthbridge, Mass;
Hon Wilder w Perry, of Camden,
Me-; Rev. Alfred S. Stowell. of Bris-
toll r. l., Rev. Howard r. Mitchell,
of Waterville, Me-: Rev. John II. Bar
rows of Marblehead. Mass; and
Louis A. Wheeler. of Boston, Mass
DIR. Tilden of the class. is to deliver
the address, Sunday evening, at the
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