Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-11-22
WEST GARDINER.

work Tor Horn BrOtneTS lahhSiJ' HS
skins will arrive this week ana work
will commence at once.
Eben Hori, is out of town on bust
ness.
Roscoe Parsons of Wilton, was in
town on business last week.
| Mr. and Mrs. A. w. DeFratus spent
Sunday evening at Alpheus Spears.
| Roy DeFratus. who recently gradu-
ated from Monmouth Academy, has ac-
cepted a position in the Cash Market in
| Gardiner.
| George Brown and family, who have
been spending two weeks, with Mrs
Browns mother, Mrs. Christina Horn,
have returned to their home In Boston.
| Mrs. Alice Higgins is passing a week
with Charles Higgins in Augusta.
| Will Smith is quite ill at his home
near Browns Corner.
| All the schools commence this week.
| SPEARS CORNER.-The James
| Hayes crew of hay pressers are at
work at Fred Babcocks.
The payments made by the Gardiner
Cannery, Wednesday. were satisfactory
in most cases, in this section. w. f.
Fuller received per acre. $40 and Wm
| Wharf, $50 per acre, which are the
highest amount in this immediate vi
entity.
The regular Saturday evening sing
was held last week, at the home or
Reuben Rice.
Mr.. Knowles is a guest of John
| Weeks.
| VIM. Wharf has purchased a COW
from Harry Hinckley and a yoke OF
oxen from Oscar Williams.
| Nettie NJ. Spear was visitor in
| Gardiner, Saturday.
Miss Grace Percy returned from
Parkers Head. Saturday, after passing
| weeks vacation at her home.
w H. Perry is cutting wood for
Charles E. Colby.
Idell Blaisdell has accepted posi-
ton with Willis Partridge of Augusta.
Mr.. and Mrs. Goldsmith of Gardiner,
passed Sunday with j. f. Goldsmith.
f. E. Spear and Lawrence Spear
| we've in town. last Sunday.
BRANCH MILLS.
| Mrs. $. G.. Parmenter entertained
the l.. r. II. Club. Nov. IL.
The Branch Mills, China, school, Miss
Bertha Weber, teacher, closed Nov.
18th, with an exhibition at the Grange
hall in the evening. The program con-
| sisted of dialogue. recitations, songs,
| etc, by the scholars, also reading and
song by Mrs. George CrOmmett, song
by Don Worthing. banjo solo by Mrs.
| Frank Doe. After the program for
tune teller furnished amusement for
some time. then cake and cocoa were
served after which the evenings en-
tertainment closed with short social.
All rronouncednt a very good time. T.
Mrs. Carrie Osgood is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. S. G. Parmenter, for a
few days.
Harry Worthing entertained the
Whist Club, Nov. IS. Mrs. S. G. Par
menter received first prize. o."
Carrie Dodge, who has recently re-
turned from the West visited her aunt,
Mrs. f. B. Worthing, Nov. 10. She
will pass the winter in Bowdoinham
with her sister,, Mrs. James Ames.
Mrs. Hattie Worthing and daughter
town a few days last week 81:
Miss Hattie Merrill of the hotel
passed Saturday and Sunday at
| Weeks Mills.
READFlELD.
Chickenpox Is prevalent in town now.
Many are suffering from tonsilitis
and other forms of sore throat in this
vicinity.
A party of young men started for
Pressure Isle in pursuit of deer and 9TH
er game last week.
DR.. Neal Mitchell is having a pOrtico
added to his house. The work is being
done by Joseph Cowan.
Several carloads of apples were
shipped from the station here last
| week.
Some are holding their apples for a
higher price.
Our grocery men say, "Not many
turkeys will be eaten in this section
this coming Thanksgiving because of
the nigh price of these birds"
ALBION.
Mrs. Williams of Islesboro, is visiting
her daughter, Miss Chestina Williams,
who teaches in the Davis school.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. c. Wilson will at
tend the Eastern Kennebec Pomona
Grange at Pittston, this week, in which
both have offices.
Death has twice entered our midst
within a week. Mrs. E. B. Rand died
Nov. Is. She is survived by a hus-
band. brother, father and mother.
Aaron French. an aged citizen, died
Sunday night Nov. 10. He is sur
| vived by wife. Both families have
the sympathy of all in their bereave-
ment.
Some from this town are hoping to
attend the Clinton and Benton Sunday
school institute at Clinton, Nov. 81.
EAST WINTHROP.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Carr Of Port
land. were at his fathers, A. 3. Cars,
one day the past week.
Miss Grace Cushman is at work for
Mrs. Frank Plummer.
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