Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-12-24

mere W III DE ii Iii tiCS anu
entertainment at the Lincoln school
house Dec. %. Everybody will be made
welcome.
EAST READFIELD.
Enoch Staples is working for w. T.
Mace.
Isaac Mace is reported quite i'll with
the grip.
David Berry. an aged Civil War vet
eran residing in Oakland, is reported
critically ill., His grandsons from this
place, Elmer and Eugene Berry, went
to Oakland Saturday. Mr.. Berry has
been feeble and nearly blind for some
time.
Ncighbors and friends of Charles
Heath gathered at his place Saturday
and cut good supply of wood for win
ter. Two sons have been very i'll with
typhoid fever, the youngest recovered.
but Harold had relapse and has been
critically i'll. The latest news gives
hope that he will recover.
Several young people in the Plains
neighborhood were out for walk one
day recently and having no gun with
them saw an abundance of game. Sew
en- cartridges were counted in the
woodland and a fox came within a few
rods of them, and q coon was found in
tree. The party managed to secure
the coon, however and it proved to be
of large size and very fat.
SOUTH VASSALBORO.
Miss Grace Stone. teacher at Cliff
tondale, Mass. and Miss Gladys
Twitchell. teacher at Hallowell, re
turned to their homes in this place
Saturday to pass the Christmas va
cation.
One Of A. C. Browns work horses
died last week.
Ralph Dickey, Clarence Cobb, Forest
Brown and the Misses Lottie Warren
and Mabel Brown of Oak Grove Semin-
airy are passing the holiday vacation
with their parents.
Masters Percy Robbins and Daniel
Mason went to Brunswick Tuesday to
pass Christmas with Mrs. Marietta
Robbins, mother of Percy Robbins.
Mrs. NJ. A. Getchell of Riverside is
passing week with her daughter, Mrs.
f. L. Whitehouse.
WEST CHELSEA.
Miss Sadie Hunt of Boston, Miss
Anna Hunt of Newtonville, Mass, and
Mrs. Marcia Atkins Of Readfield. are
to be the guests of their parents, J.
H. Hunt and family, during the hoi-
days
Warren Hall returned to this place
last week from the West, where he has
been for the past six years.
Waiter Hayes. who has been con-
fined to the house with blood poison
ing, is able to be around again. but
not able to work as yet
a. \. Douglass recently lost a COW
with an epidemic going around H. E
White lost three young stock with the
same disease and one more is sick.
The school in District is closed on
account of the measles and there is
to be no Christmas tree at the chapel
as before stated on the same ac.
count
MT. VERNON.
Work i'll the sawmills is not very brisk
Is Yet owing to the fact that only a few
OTIS of logs have as yet been hauled in.
everybody is waiting for more snow,
# which up to the present time we have
lad but little. Everyone is using
Hleels in preference to runners. Owing
Q the lack of snow very little harl
wood has been hauled in as yet. In
act many Of the people about the viii
age are now using coal as fuel owing
o the extreme difficulty of procuring
sufficient supply Of wood
ALBION.
Clarence Blake has gone to Gardiner
o work.
The Ladies Circle netted a nice suo
Il money and the literary entertainment
vas success.
Mr.. Millett Of Gorham SPOKE at tn.
christian church Sunday.
Helen Wentworth is at home for the
holidays.
The High school has a recess from
friday until Thursday of thi., week.