Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-01-07

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Mr.. and Mrs. Dean Estes.
| Mildred Parmenter of Pittsfield spent
New Years with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. S. Parmenter.
| Edna Osgood was at her sisters
Miss Alice Parmenter's, last week.
Annie Dodge has returned to Vassal-
borO.
Alton f. Sherman died at Branch Mills,
Dec. -. after an illness of some weeks,
at the age of q years. months he
came to this village from Week s Mills.
iOctober 1899. and has kept the hotel since
mar lime. He was a genial. kind hearted
man and had many friends. He will be
missed in the village. He was member
of Dirigo Lodge, r. and A. Nj. at Week :
Mills. also belonged to the Modern Wood
mnn of America. A wife. one son. Eleson
La mother, Mrs. Sarah Sherman, one
brother. win Sherman. and a sister Mrs
MAY Weeks. beside other relatives mourn
his loss The funeral was at Week
Mills. his former home. JAN l. He was
hurried under Masonic honors. The
Pranch Mills choir. Mrs. +. b. WOrthing,
| Mrs. H. NJ. Worthing, c. f. DOVE and &.
IN. clark. was invited to attend. The SER
Emon was by Rev Geo. Weeks. The inter
ment was ut Weeks Mills. Mr.. Sher-
mans death makes the sixth since May
t. 1862, in this village
READFlELD.
The Mess-s. e. A. and w. T. Mace of
| East Readtield are turning out a large
ouantity OF butter of superior quality
from their dairy of twenty cows and
heifers. They made 545 pounds of but
ter during the month of Dec. 1909
which finds a ready sale in the city of
Augusta. They have a large farm UNI
der good cultivation with many
modern improvements. A windmill
brings water to house and barn, n De
| Laval separator is used to separate the
cream from the milk. This skim-milk
is taken to the calves and pigs while
warm, which is a great improvement
over the old way of warming the milk
for calves, for unless one used a Their
mometer there was danger of getting
the milk too warm or too cold but
r feeding this milk directly from the
separator one can raise dozen calves
easier than half that number by the
old method.
Mrs. Eliza Townsend Kent who is il
+ mt the home of her sisters Mrs. A. q
Brainard's is worse.
= Linwool Luce broke his arm while a
$ play last Wednesday
The Christian Endeavor Society ant
Sunday school at North Manchester
. are still holding services at the school
, house Mrs. John Jackman will lea'
the meeting next Sunday at =. M
Topic: What are some tests of repen
. lance? Luke 3: STA ps. 81 LII.
Charles Murray of Manchester eX.
) poets to start for northern California
in February to visit his brother OzrC
Murray who has been there severa
f years.
f Mrs. II. II. Hewitt of Augusta i.
Y visiting Der daughter. Mrs. Sadie
Thomas.
/. MT. VERNON.
This week of prayer will be observed
by Union meetings of the Baptist ant
5 Methodist churches.
Mrs. II. w. Leighton returned from
Augusta, Friday.
Mrs. Jabez S. Tyler returned from
Augusta. last week. where she and hel
! little son have been spending Il week.
Mrs. L. +. Cram spent. last week il
, | Pennington. Mr.. Cram went to Farm.
ington, Saturday and returned Sunday
-hlSS Wei FItlitu IttuIilcu u
: her school in Pennington, Saturday.
= Austen Tyler returned from New
! York city, last week.
, 1t takes Il good lot of wood to keel
= comfortable. But little wood seems t.
. be coming to market as yet.
Mrs. Emma Wells is on the sick list
Sara \. Tyler is still in Pennington
. for an indefinite time.
6, Water is getting low again.
2 A meeting of the Longfellow Schoo
. | Improvement League was held, Friday
afternoon, Jan. l. The following pro.
gram of recitations and readings
WAS carried out: Secretary's report
t James a. Scates; treasurers report
Minella +. Damren; THE Burning
, Prairie, Horace NJ. Hall; '"Teeny
Tiny" Minella T.. Damren; Twins
Alice NJ. Bennett. Doris Damren: The
Grasshopper. James A. Scates
! Right and Wrong" Alice NJ. Bennett
, 'Recitation," Glenwood Damren
"Recitation,' Marjorie Damren;
Autumn Leaves" Alice Bennett
Uncle Jotham's Boarder." Annie r
Weber; Music, James A. Scates. The
League voted to hold a box sociable
Friday evening, Jan. Is. 1904.
The West Mt. Vernon Hockey team
played a game with the kents Hill
team recently. The latter team won.
Elmer Fl. Weber is attending the
Pennington State Normal School.
While playing hockey with the High
school boys, Clifton Allen met with Il
painful accident, the puck striking
him on the forehead.
DIR. III. F. Shaw has sold his road
=, cart to George Bean.
MANCHESTER.
Mrs Edwin Caldwell has Just
received news. of the death of her
brother Walter X. Gilman, who passed
away at Jacksonville, Cal. Dec. &c. at
, the age of AZ years. The news of his
, death was not wholly unexpected, as
he has been a great sufferer from a
disease of the spine. which was pro-
nounced incurable from the beginning.
He was born in Albion. Me. where
/, he lived until he became a young man,
when he went to Augusta, where he
was employed as clerk in the dry goods
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