Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-29
FAIRFIELD.
Good Will Alumni Annual
Banquet al The Gerald.
Program for The Exercises Of
Memorial Day, May 80.
Interesting Tax Figures--Funeral
OF Late Camilla N. Page.

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Johnson went TO
lIttsfield Saturday to- visit friends.
Some Is friends o, Miss Annie Viguei
gave her Surprise party Friday eve
ming al her home on lie Island. Ice
cream, cake and punch we're served and
Miss Vigue was presented with a beau
tiful gold bracelet.
Mr.. and Mrs John Howard stevens of
Portland are the guests of Mrs. Stevens
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Q. A. McFadden
Skowhegan High will play Lawrence
high here "Wednesday afternoon.
The Augusta banl VIII arrive here eq ly
~ the morning Of Mono. ial day and VIII
take breakfast at Benton Falls. Tile
members of E. c. Pratt Post. G. a. r..
will go to Benton by electric. returning
here in time for dinner. the band to dine
at The Gerald After dinner the line of
| march will be formed in font of O. a.
X. hall on Main street a, i o'clock. The
veterans accompanied by the Wome.fs
Relief Corps, will march 10 Maplewood
| cemetery by way Of Lawrence aveas.e.
Newhan street. Western avenue and Ma
pie street, where the graves of daal
| comrades will be decorated. on the re-
| turn march to the opera house the mon
| ed with flowers. The Grafton viii he
| given at the Opera honse about 3 o'elocS
| by Frank G. harrington Esq, of An
gusta. Supper Will be served at c. A.
r. hall by the Women's Relief Corps
The following tax figures have been
given out at the office of the board of
seleetmen: The State tax for 1911 viii be
| SO 43S 90. an increase Of S544S.9+ over the
/
$S301.99. which in 1910 was S2550.61. The
| tax rate this year will be "a mills on
s1,747.500 resident real estate, 1904. $50 per
sonal property, So, $50 nonresident real
estate $3.50 nonresident personal proper
ty These figures are an increase in real
estate over the year 1910 and a decrease
in personal property. There is a loss of
about $4,000 in personal property in
Shawmut this year. due to the shutting
down of the lumber mill. There are 117S
polls this year, an increase of IL polls
over last year.
The seventh annual banquet of the
Good Will Alumni Association was held
saturday evening at The Gerald hotel.
| Thirty-seven people came down from
Good Will early in the daY. made night
of it and went home Sunday morning
much pleased with the experiences of the
occasion. Landlord Allen furnished a
fine banquet at O'Clock The dining
room was handsomely decorated in red
and white. Harry Bates Watson was
| POSTMASTER at the post prandial exer-
eises and Charles Frederick Nutter was
choragus, leading off with the class ode
to the tune of Billiards. stein Song. Will
liam Matthew Harris. 04. replied to the
toast "Ou Poll, ALA Polu:' Donald
Witherle Ellis '0S. to the toast 'Insur-
gency,' Genevieve Laurence Clark. II. to
the toast A'outrance." A feature of
the exercises was presentation to Good
Will on the part of the class of 1911 of a
fine bust of Scott. David Dexter Davis.
as president of the class. doing the hon
ors. The acceptance speech was very
feelingly made by Rev. George w Hinck-
ley.
The remains of the late Miss Camille
NJ. Page We're brought here from Boston
Saturday and services were held at 8
o'clock in the afternoon at the home of
Mrs o. A. Learned, Lawrence avenue.
a large number of relatives and friends
attended the. services, which were very
impressively conducted by Rev. F. Z.
Barton, pastor of the Universalist
church. The floral tributes were many
and beautiful. The bearers We're Mer-
chant Philbrick of Boston. c. G. Hume,
II. C Newhall and o. A. Learned. me
interment was at Maplewood cemetery.
Secretary Holman of the local Board
of Trade is making plans to have the
board letter heads and envelopes dis
trbuted among the different members
Of the board, so that the town will be
in line with others which are striV-
ing 10 BECOME better known in the
country at large.
Il. NJ. Bradbury, sexton at Maple
wood cemetery, is very busy putting
The cemetery in order for the annual
Memorial day services. The lots have
all been trimmed and moved neatly,
and all the walks smoothed up. He
reports six new lots sold this spring
to private parties. while eleven tablets
and four monuments of fine design
have been set in place on private lots.
| aurence 2. Gardiner