Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-24
COUNTY NEWS.
SOMERSET
JACkMAN,

JAckMAN.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alex Johnston of
Brownville are passing a few days with
Mrs. c. E. Bass.
Miss Lou Murch of Dennistown pass
ed Saturday and Sunday with Miss
ST. Onge.
| Hon. S. j. Walton of Skowhegan
passed a few days in town last week
Forest Colby of Bingham passed
through town Saturday.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Hilton and
daughter Della of Skowhegan will pass
the winter with Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Holden.
CAMBRIDGE.
Carl Wilder shot a big deer last
week.
Miss Maud Cole was home from Dex-
ter Sunday.
Mrs. Julia Guild is i'll with a bad
cold.
Frank TAFT of Dexter was in town
Sunday.
The ladies filled the chairs at the
Grange Saturday and had a very en-
joyable time.
Edwin Nutter has been to Lewiston,
visiting his mother.
Mrs. F. P, Ring has returned from a
visit in Newport.
Mrs. Belle Austin in Dover.
E. H. Hargill and Samuel Sawyer
were in Dexter Monday.
Mabel Page of Ripley is at Summer
Hams for few weeks.
RIPLEY.
w. j. Nelson and family have gone
to Presque Isle, their former home, for
an extended visit. s..-,
Mr.. and Mrs. L. r. Ramsdell attend
ed the funeral of a relative in Dexter,
Friday.
Mrs. Stella Brown is in Dexter to
work as a nurse.
Dance at Hanson & Bryant's hall
Thanksgiving night. Music by Hoyt
of Dexter.
Horace Mansell was recently in town.
Victor Hanson has returned from a
business trip to Aroostook.
Jennie Hersom is home from New
port.
Harry Gould has moved his family to
Dexter.
Harold Smith Of Pittsfield was in
town Sunday.
Eugene Harris shot deer Saturday
HARMONY.
Sixty car loads of potatoes have been
shipped from the station at Main
stream the present season.
-rhe next regular meeting of the East
Somerset Pomona Grange will be held
witt ~ hri Zoo
Dec. 1.
A farmers institute will be held at
L O. O. F. hall Friday afternoon and
evening, Dec. 8. All farmers are l4s,..-
ed to attend.
Several sportsmen returned home
last Sunday from the hunting grounds
in Kingsbury with one good sized deer
They saw a large bear but failed to
get shot at it.
Rev. Mr.. Mitchell of Waterville, pas
tor of the Baptist church here occupied
the pulpit Sunday forenoon and
preached Thanksgiving sermon to an
appreclative congregation. The church
was decorated with evergreens, fruits
| and products of the soil.
Every Saturday large numbers of
cows, calves, hogs and young stock are
sold at the station to Mr.. Hanson of
Ripley who ships them to Boston.
Stock of all kinds is fast decreasing in
our rural towns.
PALMYRA.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. w. Applebee visited
Mrs. Alvin Howes recently.
1t is expected that J. F. Libby has
sold his farm to Greenville parties.
Mrs. Mary E. Gerald has returned
after spending several months with her
daughter, Mrs. Bert Davis of Canaan.
The home of Mr.. and Mrs c.. r. Nc
Crillis was the scene of happy event
on last Thursday evening when a sur
prise party was arranged for their son,
Ivan. on his twenty-first birthday. The
evening was pleasantly passed with
games and photograph selections. A
large birthday cake, consisting of q
different cakes, placed one above the
other was made by his sister, Mrs. Geo.
Estes of Pittsfield. Numerous tokens
were left as pleasant reminders of the
happy occasion.
Vernal Gray has returned from Cam
bridge, where he has been working III
the woods for the Mainstream Lumber
Co.
Herbert L. Nichols is working in Ex-
eter on Libby's hay press.
Palmyra Grange held q regular
meeting Saturday evening with 20
members present. G. r. McCrillis. lee
turer pro TEN, presented the following
question: who is Responsible for the
Success or Failure of a Grange" 1t
was announced that the annual cleo
| ton of officers will be held Dec. 4.
Mr.. and Mrs. Merton Davis, Mr.. and
Mrs. c. F. Cookson, Mr.. and Mrs. Otis
Blaisdell, Raleigh Miller and Miss Isa-
bel Miller, and Alvin Southland were
among those from this town who at
tended the wedding reception of Mr.
ands Mrs. Frank Seekins in St. Adams
Wednesday evening, Nov. II.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. l.. Palmer of st. AL
bans were guests Sunday of ]. r.
feathers.
c. r. McCrillis lost a valuable COW
Saturday.
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