Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-09
SKOWHECAN.
Renewed |nterestinSkow-
gan-Athens Electric Line.
Committee Seeing What Pat
ronage a Road Would Receive.
Somerset Pomona Will Meet Tues.
day at Athens.-.Pers0naIs.

| that the gross earnings from operation
during the past year We're $50, 347.7l
againgst 20734.11 for the preceding
| year, an increase of $1,Gl0G0
Miss Hannah r.. Page went to Ban
gor Friday 10 attend the Music Festi-
val.
Perlcy " oOdard of Greenvile was
| calling on friends in town Thursday
Levi Thomas, who has been one OF
the fire wardcns in the vicinity Of Els-
It's, returned home l'riday.
The SlioW neGan High school football
| team will meet Cony High football
team here in Il game this afternoon. A
| good game is assured. There is nc
doubt that Cony has Il fine team ana
| the SioW hogan High school has one Of
| the best teams it has had in years The
team is being coached by w. III. HaWes,
| an old-timc Colby College player and
one Of the best coaches in this part of
| the state.
Carl Smith oldest SON Of Mr.. ana
Mrs. Al"nzo Smith, is visiting his par
| cntS ana rrl1itV"S in town. lie is en-
ploycd as an engineer on the govern
ment ship Carnegie. which is stationed
| on the coast of Newfoundland Mr.
smith is a graduate of the Sllowhcgan
high school and University Of Maine
| He will visit here about two weeks
Work Will begin on the Workhouse OF
| the Somerset county jail here next
week This Worklouse will be a place
where each prisoner will have n chance
| 10 do Il certain amount OF work each
day. y big yard will probably be built
around the court grounds ana q shelter
over it.
Somerset County Pomona Grange will
convene with Athens Grange at Athens
Tuesday at 10 a. NJ, with the follow
| ing program: Opening ceremonies,
comforting Fifth degree. address Of
welcome, Fred Collins; response, l.. T..
Smith; song. choir; noon, intcrmission
| song, choir; reading, Josephine Hight
| topic, rs there Need of Any Change
in Our Methods of Colnty Grange
Work: If So What Way" opened by
G. K. Oliver, l.. G. JrWett and w. G.
hobart; solo, Mrs. T.. II. Johnson;
reading, Mrs. +. IT. Holman; paper
'Scme of Names Famous Men
George C. Hight; piano duet. Sisters
Barker and Allen; reading, Nira Rid
ley; reading, b. T.. Barker: quartet
| Sisters Barker, Allen. Jones and John
son: reading. Fred =. Collins; song
| choir.
The subject of the sermon at the
Methodist church Sunday morning vii
be "Enrists can to service" Rally day
Will be observed at the Bethany Baptist
church sunday The children are tc
sing and special services have beer
|
Services will b" held in the foul
Protestant churches Sunday forenoon
The meetings in the evening will be
omitted and there will be Il union meet
ing il the Opera house. Evangelist
Harry Taylor viii conduct the meet
ing.
A new interest is being shown in tn,
projected electric line between SkoW.
hogan and Athens. The committee is
hard at work and negotiations arc be.
ing made to have the grounds surveyed
this fall and the committee is tryins
to ascertain the amount of patronage
| that the proposed road would receiV,
from the business men and mill own
ers. It is thought that the road will b.
built in 1910.
Mr.. and Mrs. Amherst Spofford o.
this town have been married G6 years
the longest of any couple in this coun
tN. They are both hale and heart,
though they are almost 90 years Old
AIR. Spofford is an old sea captain o
varied experiences. He served IN The
Civil War three years. He was borl
in 1921 near Boothhay Harbor on
small island. Mrs Spofford was borl
in 1898 in Bingham. She laugh
school during her Younger days. Ate
her marriage TO Mr.. Spofford they live,
for 4 number of years at Southport
Mr.. Spofford has celebrated his birth
; day every year sine" hc left the arm
and as regularly as it comes. at day
break, the American flag is hoisted n
a mark of the event.
At the annual meeting of stock
holders in the Somerset Loan am
Building Association held at il
rooms, Sept 27. 1909, the following
officers We're reelected: IT, W.. Yves
I ton, president: f. A. Nolin. secro
tary, and T.. r. Danforth. treasurer
-Four directors were chosen to serv
three years, viz: f, +. Lawrence, Au
gustus Fowler, G.. r. Fogg and Elmo
+. Thibcault
Judge Gorham Powers and wife o
Granite Falls, Mimi, arrived in Skow
: hogan this week for Il stay amon
relatives and friends in Skowhega'
and Pittsficld. after accompanying
: their son Arba !. Powers on his re
, turn to Boston where he has alread
+ entered upon his last years work 4
+ the Harvard Law School Judg
| Powers, one OF the eight sons Of tn
famous Powers family of Pittsffcld
! six of whom were lawyers, took ~
. his residence in Minnesota in III
6 early seventies. Judge Powers I
:, now filling his fourth term of 81:
:. years each. Mrs. Powers, formerl,
: Miss Nottie NJ Sanford of Skowhe
gan, a graduate of the class of 1SS:
SkoWhegan High school and Bloom
, field Academy former teacher o
wide experience. is 4 sister Of l.. /
and 4. +. Sanford, whose home
they are visiting.