Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-31

high school. Many of the visitors
We're shown through the various mills.
winch made for them one of the pleas
ATTEST parts of the day.
At noon the climax of the day was
reached when delicious luncheon was
served the guests at the vestry of the
FIRST Baptist church by the Ladies'
social Union of the church. Music
was furnished by an orchestra compos-
ed or Colby College students.
Z. e. Glover, superintendent of Wa
terville schools. presided at the post
prandlal exercises in an admirable
manner. John L. Choate, chairman of
the general committee in charge of the
affair, called upon the delegations
from Madison and Brooks to give their
school cheers, and the response was
vociferous.
Mayor Herbert C. Libby, the first
speaker, said that he was immensely
glad TO welcome the students TO the
city as guests of the chamber of COM.
merce and that of all sorts of pub
1city he considered this the best. The
mayor declared WatervilIe to be a hap
Ply, prosperous city, but he would not
urge his hearers to come here to make
their homes, saying that their most
imperative duty was to stay in the
communities in which they had been
brought up and to make them the best
possible places in which to live. ae
pointed out the fact that the spirit of
dlscontent had been one of much power
IN the world, one because Of whic
much had been achieved. and in closing
he urged that the students cultivate
II to the utmost.
Judge Charles W. Atchley, president
or the chamber of commerce, welcomed
the guests on behalf of that organiza-
ton. He said that the people of Wa
terville We're justly proud of their city
and he declared he would not agree en-
tlrely with the mayor i'll advising
them TO stay with their own communi-
ties, assuring his hearers that Water
VILE would be glad TO welcome them
II they ever cared to cast in their lots
with her people.
DR.. Arthur j. Roberts president of
Colby College, was next introduced as
the principal speaker of the day. In
the opening of his address he spoke of
the superior educational facilities of
The city and it was his belief that no
one could in these days be too well
educated.
al hAAC ttA III ioOll tlidIiN Vi iIlt NlSl-
tors attended the motion pictures at
the City Opera House through the
courtesy of Harry Mulqucen, the
manager, while a number of the 9th
ers attended the ball game between
Hebron and the Colby Second team.
Those present and the schools from
which they came We're as follows:
Mildred Jones, Doris MacAuley, Eli
zabeth Perkins, Elizabeth Hamilton,
Dorothy Bell, Eleanor Edwards,
Louise Sawyer, Nellie, Green. Alberta
MaIter, Helen Weston. Alta Dan
forth Ernest Ratten, Paul Newell,
Elzear Ouilette, Robert Edgerley,
John Manter, Helen Merrill, Ada
Wright, Marguerite Williams, olef
Wichnicrantz, Ernest F'erland. Velma
Clark, Letha Edwards, Goldie Nc
SeXley, Verna Delawafe, Elizabeth
Glavin, Pauline Beaulier, Louise
Hapworth, Gladys II. Strang and
Flora Viles, all of Madison Ilign
school; Horace Croxford, Benjamin
Tibbetts, Flossie Shatroy, Annie Ed
Amsden. Vera Tibbetts. Glenice
Evans, Mary Brown, Evelyn Ryder.
Gertrude Lane, Frank Goodwin
Elzada L. Nickerson Albert II. Par
sons aud Winnie Parsons, all of
Brooks High; Harold Ford, Willard
Page. Edith Millett. Ola Brooks,
Weston Stanhope. Thomas Mills,
Lucille Bradley, Bernice Young and
Ruth Mounier. all of Hartland Acad-
envy; Nh. and Mrs. H. A. Taylor,
Marcia H. Crombie, Lillian A. With
am and Edith Z. Andrews, all of
Bingham; Nelma Jones. Marion
Brown, Mildred Odlin and Esther
Hallowell, all ofsSouth China: DoAo-
thy Taylor, Margaret Weed. Elna
Plummer, Hope Bryant, Margaret E.
Bessey, Floyd c. Bessey and Maurice
Elkins, Ella Weber, Margery Pierce
and J. c. Parlin, all of Freedom; II.
Leslie Brown, Ray Higgins, Walter
Johnson and William j. Damren. all
of Belgrade; Cora Bradstreet, Ruby
Bickmore, Evelyn Ketchum, Annie
Harding. Kathleen II. Drake. Lura E.
Gilley, Barbara G. Libby. Irma NJ.
Parkhurst, and Mrs. Ray w Libby,
all of Albion: Esther r. Walker,
Evelyn V. Barron, both of Arson.