Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-13
WINTHROP.

| The Board of Trade at the meeting held
following committees:
Finance committee, L. T. Carleton, r.
Alden, ]. o. Gage; manufactures, ]. H.
McIlroy, C. o. Sturtevant. H. E. Wads-
worth; town improvement and public
benefits, r. Alden, r. c. .McIlroy, DR.. c.
w. Taggart; taxation, J. G. Yeaton. M.
F. Norcross, Willis Cobb; membership.
A. H. Bailey, ]. NJ. Towle, F. S. Jackson
good roads. E. W. NWentworth, c. A.
Cummings, Mr.. Sprague; public safety, J.
A. Foster, f. +. Webb, w. E. Hayward
summer resort, c. F. Kilbreth, F. f.
Bearce H. d. Wood; fire insurance, L..
E. Jones, f. T. Clifford. II. =. Miller;
honest government and pure elections. G.,
w. Bates, L. w. Macomber, Harry Ste
vens, Chas. S. Towle, A. p. Lewis.
A party of friends were entertained
Thursday evening at the home Of Mr..
and Mrs. f. II. Penniman in honor Of
their wedding anniversary. the affair be-
ing something of a surprise to Mr.. Pen
niman The evening was spent at
Bridge. banquet was served in the
dining room, which was very daintily dec
Grated, q beautiful centerpiece of car
nations being a feature. The guests
were: ]. NJ. Pulsifer. Mr., and Mrs. l.. T.
Carleton, Mr.. and Mrs w. A. Whiting,
Mr.. and Mrs ]. l.. Cobb, Mrs. Annette
Giles, Miss Ida Morrill,, Mrs. Winnie
Gale. L. b. Jones, f. r. Jones and Willis
Bailey.
All the schools closed Friday in OBJ
servance of Lincoln day. Special eXer-
cises were held in all the village schools
Thursday The Grammar and High
schools held joint exercises in the High
school room and gave splendid enter
tainment which included the singing OF
1.-THE Star Spangled Banner" Columbia
the Gem of the Ocean" and America
essays having to with the life of Lincoln
by Cora Besonnette, Charles Wiley. Ro-
land stackford, Marie Kinds and Josie
Penney, and recitations by Violet French
and Clifton Titus, who represented the
Grammar school: an essay by Harold
Clifford and recitations by Ralph Put
nam, Ruth Wood and Dorothy Webb OF
the High school. Interesting remarks
were made by Mr. Bean, principal Of the
High school, and c. w. Holman Of Halo
we'll. superintendent of schools.
The second of the series of illustrated
lectures was given Thursday evening at
the Methodist church. A large audience
was present and all professed themselves
as greatly pleased with the entertain
ment. The subject was THE Head Hunt
ers and Their Neighbors, or Touring
Through Malaysia with Bishop Warm,
and the pictures comprised rare collec-
ton of hand painted views. Next Thurs
day '.China's Teeming Millions In the
Cities of the Yangtse" will be the sub
iect and promises to be most interesting
and instructive.
Mrs. ]. l.. Cobb entertained the Ladies
Whist Club this week Miss Nora Towle
carried off the prize, japanese dish,
with u score of 49, Refreshments were
served.
Lincoln exercises were held in the East
Winthrop school Thursday. consisting OF
songs and recitations by the pupils and
an essay by Marion Stone. The school
room was prettily decorated with bunting
and flags and the entertainment was
much enjoyed.
1.-The Tears of Divinity" will be the
subject of the sermon at the Methodist
church Sunday morning. BY special re-
quest Mrs A. l.. Leech will repeat the
solo she sang few weeks ago.
Mrs. Robert Macomber is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Annie Currier, In Angus
ia.
At the evening service at the Consre-
gational church Sunday "Convocatlon
Week at Bangor is the subject. and the
pastor will give an interesting account
of the convocation which he recently at
tended. God with Us is the subject OF
the morning service.
Samuel B. Edwards has announced HIM
self as candidate for road commission
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