Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-03-07
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inc tiidI5tl, ounuaA, conducted bE HseN.
/ r. p. Jones Of South Somervi!le. a
meeting Mar 10 at p. NJ, weather
i PERMITTING.
b. K. Ware, j, F. Davis and Jerusha
! +. Jones attended probate court al
Rockland, Feb. 20
! Wilburt Decoster went to Augusta,
! Saturday To visit his mother. Mrs.
I Angoline Decoster. who is seriously
i'll at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
, Chester Overlook, 90 SewaIl street.
Hilton p. Wright who he's been in
poor health for a long time is no
better. He is a great sufferer from
heart trouble
Jerusha L. Jones passed Thursday
with AIRS. Elizabeth Rollins.
Rev John =. Howard Of RazorviIe
celebrated his seventeenth 40 birth
Cay last Thursday, and for a man OF
that many birthdays he can say many
things that but few Of like number of
birthdays can say. He spent nearly
three years in The war o. the Rebel
lion and was at the front the most
OF the time Soon after coming out
81 the army he vas working IN mill
and sawed his right hand 50 badly
all of his fingers except his little
finger amputated close up to his
] hand. When q small boy he had a
severe attack of smallpox and lost the
sight OF one OF his eyes and never
regained the sight again. Notwith-
standing all ef these accidents he has
besides earning a livelihood for him
self and family procured by hard
! labor a nice comfortable home and is
today quite a thrifty farmer. He wds
married. February 10th. 1868. to Miss
Nancy D. Moody of Liberty Waldo
county. Maine who is still living.
They have two children, Mrs. Willard
T. Overlook of Razoryille. and w. G..
Howard of Union He has helped
elect eight of the Republican presi-
dents and voted in all for eleven Of
the presidents and hopes to live to
vote for Teddy" For a man sixty
eight years OF age (as he is one of the
| few people born on February 29th)
and ona who has seen the extreme
hardship he has seen he is wonder
fully we'll preserved. He always has
been and is now strong advocate of
temperance and a thorough believer
III the prohibition law" His many
friends, both In and out af the state,
/ remembered him by shawerihg him
with best wishes sending in all over
one hundred postal cards. and he
/ wishes to thank one and All for their
kind wishes.
Mrs Hcrry II. clark Who las been
visiting her son john Sabin Clark at
Readdeld returned home. Sundag.
Sheridan Hall of Bunker Hill. Maine,
was in this place selling silver ware
last week.
The next session Of the Trinity
Christian Endeavor Union will be held
with the society in the Friends church
at south China, Saturday ana sunday
March gth and 10TH The first meet
ing will be Saturday at : O'Clock II
the afternoon.
The windy weather after the storm
last week kept the roads i'll a very
bad condition all the week and many
days We're impossible.
Roy Cramer and Lois Kavanaug.I
made a business trip Ia Reekland
Saturday They also took "A trolley
ride to Crescent Beach.
'EAST-Mrs. Maggie Herberts and
friend of Camden were guests OF Mrs.
Herberts' mother, Mrs. Nelson Pier
pont. Saturday and sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Cunningham and
daughters, Mildred and Nerna, of JEFF
ferson were at Chas. f. Overlocks,
Saturday.
Leslie Cargill Of South Washington
who has been working for W. NJ. Pres
colt for the past two weeks. finished
his job and returned home, Friday.
II VIM. Johnston and Mr.. Rollins at
tended Knox Pomona Grange at East
Union, Saturday, March End.
Mr. and Mrs. c. f. Overlook went
10 North Washington. Friday, to at
tend the funeral of Mrs. overlook 5
cousin, Mrs. Violet Lenfest
Mrs Mary Turner and three chill
dren who have been stopping with Mr..
and Mrs Rhodolphus Sukeforth for
a few weeks returned home Saturday,
VIM. Johnston recently bought .
flock of thoroughbred Brahma hens OF
Ernest Wellman and intends doing
quite a business in that line this sum
mer.
Arnold Morton was the guest of his
grandfather j. c. Morton, at w. +.
Chadwiel's, North Washington.
Mrs. Margie Witham and Mrs.
| Amelia Rradstreet of East Palermo.
were Sunday visitors at Chas. E.
Overlocks.
Miss Cecil Pierpont is visiting
friends in Waldoboro for few days.
Mrs Ethel Cheney of Augusta is
visiting her mother. Mrs. Lottie Light
at South Liberty, for short time.
MORT H-This neghborhood is
again saddened by the death, after five
weeks illness, of Mrs. Violet Lenfest
wife of Harry Lenfest. Mrs. Lenfest
was 80 years old, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Albert Light of Sc Liberty As a
girl she was quiet, kind and gentle
liked by all; as a young lady she was
the same, with unhlemished eharac-
ter she had been married some eight
years and her married life was likt
her sirlhood. Four children were
given them ranging in age from
years to the last baby girl Of
weeks Despite the tender care of .
trained nurse. and medical aid, she
gradually failed and Tuesday after