Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-01-15
STATE NEWS.
KENNEBEC.
1JTCHFlELD PLAINS.


If the death of his wife. from
Ess0,monia. in Chicago. Ill. Friday.
pie'T oothaker left here Dec. 18th and
W. visiting her parents.
Mrs. A. E. Earle is ill.
,,,;u;sm Varney's friends to the
Wv Of ten gave him half days
nu chopping wood. recently
SIDNEY.
,r., Florence Barr has returned
,'n her visit to Norfolk, Va.
,..ncis WILDER has gone to New
,ir,Iaud on business.
,.nss I.athrop has returned from
'" ,n,rv where he has been at work
in the woods
,css Jessie Dunbar. who has been in
~ several years, has returned home
~ New Brunswick.
Fred Hughes from Pressure Isle.
TOD his uncle, L. f. Hughes, last
week.
ro,, and Mrs. Z. f. Longley visited
Madison and Norridgewock, last
week.
c,vda LYON has gone to Brunswick
A. york for his uncle. The latter is
ao,arntendent of two pulp mills and
!. r. understood that part of Mr.. Lyon s
,'.arr will be as a bOokkeeper for him.
Miss Sarah Cottle has gone to
1nwell. Mass. called there by a dis
,atcb announcing the serious illness of
har niece. Mrs. Nettie Cowle, nee Kim
hau formerly of this town.
1ucjus P. Howard of this town. and
Mrs Harriet X. Swan &C Augusta,
we're married, January ,.
There is a new arrival in James
Iathrop's family. a daughter.
Elias Taylor who recently had a
naralytic shock. has been very i'll bat
is reported better now.
". Gilman is in very poor health.
His daughter, Miss Eliza. has been
compelled to give UP the school that
she has been teaching at Bacon S
Corner and return home on account OF
her fathers illness. Miss Elsie Graves
from Nebraska, is teaching the school
there now.
George Ward has bought an S0-ac"e
farm in Mount Vernon. and has moved
to it.
Miss Hannah Woodward is having
timber sawed for a barn 20 replace the
one that was blown down by the
cyclone in 1895.
The people on the river road that
put up ice, got their supply out of the
river, last week. 1t was about l;
inches thick.
Quite a heavy Snowstorm came
Saturday. and the roads We're broken
out here, Sunday, for the first time this
winter
Mrs. Nettie Durrell and little daugh-
ter are sick with the measles.
FARMINGDALE.
Miss Aida Noble. principal of che
| Grant street school, received a call
from Massachusetts, last week, offer
Ing her an eight grade school at a
| large advance in salary. After confer
ring with the Farmingdale COM
mittee. she accepted, leaving Tues
! day. She received many pretty pres
| ents from her pupils who all went to
| the train and babe her a fearful good
| bye. Her place has been filled by
| Mrs. Jessie Barber of Randolph.
Mr. and Mrs. A. G.. Pinkham went tc
| Manchester. Saturday night. to spend
Sunday with Mr.. Pinkham's parents.
Lewis Hartman is i'll at his home
on Grant street.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence WhitcOmi
have closed their house and gone tC
work for H. W. Jewett.
Mrs. Arthur JeWett who has beei
spending the winter in Bath, was call
Ing on friends in town the past week
before leaving for Hartford. Conn
Miss Eliza Atkins will accompany her
Mr. Ramsdell. formerly of Farming
dale, died in Whitefield, Jan. II.
RIVERSIDE.
This community was terribly grieved
Sunday. to hear of the death of Miss
Gertrude Forrest, although it was
not altogether unexpected as she hae
ben very sick with typhoid fever II
augusta for the past three weeks. she
FaS at work in Augusta and taking
cod, before she realized it, she wa:
too sick to be removed to her nome
Her father. mother and sister went q
onee there and with trained nurses an'
The best medical skill. everything ina
loving hands and hearts could do. wa:
done, but of no avail. The disease nae
taken such n hold that the progress
could not he arrested. Miss Forrest wa:
highly esteemed by the whole commu
nifty the sympathy of which is extend
ed to her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. T. ;
Forrest and her sister. Mrs. G. |. Gil
Crease, in their sad bereavement.
+. S. Pitcher Of Belfast, was in th'
place, Friday. tuning Mrs. II. L
Hawes and Edgar Bailey's pianos.
Mrs. f. c. Leighton and Miss Juli'
Church Of Augusta. and Mrs. Wash
burn of Boston. was in the place las
Tuesday calling on their little neice
katharine Weeks
NORTH NASSALBORO.
III The following are the names Of tn
newly elected officers Of X. w. Muller
relief Corps of this village, who Wer
installed by Mrs. f. fitzpatrick Q
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