Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-06-17
GOOD WILL SCHOOL
YEARS REPORT SHOWS
PROGRESS and PROFIT

| Especial to the Kennebec Journan
Good Will. Me-, June 16-The an
nual meeting of the Good Will Home
Association was held in the staff
room in the Administration Build
ing. Saturday. June IA; President C
1. Bailey presided at the morning
session and Vice President, Forest
| il. Colby, at the afternoon session
| The reports of Supervisor, w =
Hinckley. and of Treasurer William
| G. Broadway. was read and accept
| ed, The supervisory report showed
that the helping hand had been ex-
| tended to the usual number a part
! or all of the year, viz: 1865 boys and
| 90, total. Thirteen in the girls gram
| mar school had received diplomas
Is in the boys grammar school and
| ten in the high school, a total of SO;
| there are now over 10000 volumes in
| the library. The leading crops were
800 tons of hay, 2,02O bushels OF
potatoes: the farm had also pro-
| duced 70,126 quarts of milk, l,O9S
quarts. of cream, 1900 pounds of beef
24S0 pounds of pork
A saw mill has been erected and
$4,000 feet of lumber had been sawed
from trees taken out of the Good VIII
woods, all to be used in building on
the premises, leaving slabs for fuel
and saw dust for ice houses; by an
addition of seventy acres of land, a
gift to the association, a suitable
location for an apple orchard had
been secured and with O special con-
tribufion from Mr.. William G. Broad
way, OF West Orange, n. J., for the
nllrnnSa ATS h0I
with funds contributed for the pur-
pose an arch. in memory of the 1914
Good VIII boys in the World War
had been built and when $500 more
were contributed, would be ded,cat
ed. The Sunday school, in one way
and another. had raised $215 toward
the cost of a stone bridge much
needed or one of the walks between
such requested buildings, and work
upon the Wilton L. Keyes cottage
for boys had begun: notable changes
had been made in the Quimby build :
ing at cost of $4,000, and an en-
dowment of $4,000 had been given
by Mr.. L. c. Bates Of West Paris,
and, in consideration of this repair
and endowment fund OF $4,000 it is
to be known as the Bates museum,
Mr.. +. L. Besse of Clinton, had
s~Ss ShliShcu tHe museum with q
remarkable collection Of minerals re :
Gently purchased by him in Denver
colorado. In memory of his mother
Mr.. william G. Broadway had
equipped a room In the Prescott
building with an up to date medica
outnt and the room is to be known
as the Harriet B. Broadway Me-
mortal Room" A path had been
marked out. on the west side of The
State road. Which would make n
possible to walk from the buildings
on the boys farm to the chapel and
to Marten stream bridge without the
peril OF autos which have become n
menace to pedestrians who must
Journey to the State road. and. n
satisfactory arrangements can he
made with the owners of the two
narrow farms between the boys and
the girls buildings. the path will be
continued to Ryerson hall, and q
contribution of $40 toward this pro-
1ect had been made by Mrs. Ethel
Paee, . former matron at Good viii,
it mad been year OF general good
health, and on the whole, q year of
progress with a hopeful look to the
future.
The treasurer's report showed
substantial increase in the perman-
ent endowment but; but Il also
showed that income from the en-
dowment, plus the contributions,