Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-03
SKOWnECAN.

dealers in SkoWhegan went from sc to
re per quart for milk. 1t has been sold
! since Sept. 1st for eight cents. and
milk dealers claim that they have lost
many customers and some have lost
the sale of so quarts daily, from what
they sold before the price was raised
to cents. Milk dealers now claim
that they can afford to go down to Z
cents because of the price of grain
compared with what it was a year ago.
December l, 1911, oats sold for 81 cents
per bushel, now 80 cents per bushel;
meal a year age s1.70 a bag, now S1.50
a bag: corn $3.50 per bag, now $1.65;
spring bran, $3.50, now $3.50; mixed
feed. s1.60. now S1.55.
Ralph BigeloW, one of the staff at
the University of Maine Experiment
station, passed the holidays with his
brother, r. G. Bigelow.
Thirty-six carloads of potatoes We're
shipped from Skowhegan station dur
ing November, as compared with II
carloads the same month of last year.
r. G.sBigelow shipped four full
blooded Shorthorn cattle, Monday. to
L. B. Bearce OF Ashland.
During November there were eight
marriages, Il births and Is deaths re-
corded at the town clerks office,
though not all occurring in that month.
Rev. George Merriam occupied the
pulpit at Good Will Farm chapel, Sun
day afternoon, in the absence of Rev.
G. w Hinckley, who is attending the
Boys Conference in Syracuse, y. Y
w. E. Hackett made a trip TO Pitts
field. Monday, in his automobile
The largest tax for any individual or
corporation in Skowhegan for the pres
ent year was paid by the American
Wooden Co.. Monday. 1t amounted TO
$25e9.60. The valuation of the property
is real estate $4,000, personal about
1000.
The marriage of Emery W. Dyer and
Josephine S. Brown was filed, Satur-
day. at the town clerks Office Mr..
Auburn. Mrs. Dyer is the daughter
of Odell Berry, mail carrier of this
town.
Mrs. Isaac Wheeler has been engag.
ed to teach at the Park school until a
teacher is found to succeed Miss Nellie
Macarthur who has gone to Brockton,
Mass.
The annual meeting of st. John the
Baptist was held. Sunday, and the fol-
lowing officers elected: President, j. B.
Thibodeau; Vice Pres, Willie j. Bur-
ton; Sec, Joseph F. A. Billodeau; pre-
eeptor, Willie Lessor; treasurer Ed
ward Groder; first conductor, Samuel
Roderick; inside guard, Joseph Roder-
ick; outside guard, Archie Pumlow;
chaplain FIR. p. f. DesJardins; trus-
tees, president, Willie Burton, Annie
Chutier and s. Lessor.
The Third degree will be worked at
the meeting of l. o. o. F.. Wednesday
evening.
There is an agitation going on quite
strenuously in Skowhegan to have the
mail on Sundays distributed in lock
boxes. The business men find that the
present arrangement of not getting
their mail, until Monday morning,
causes considerable inconvenience. An
agitation was started in Pennington
for the same results, and mail is now
distributed on Sunday in the lock
boxes.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. P. Merrill went, Mon
day, TO Bangor, to attend the funeral
| services of a friend.
Ldmbermen in this vicinity are hav-
| ing some difficulty in getting men
| enough TO carry on numbering opera
! tons. Ed Rowell wah here, Saturday,
on his way down river to engage men.
r. e. Clukey was substituting at
the trains. Monday as conductor, for
Bert Hopkins.
Mrs. r. w. Lynn, Jr., of Golf Falls,
n. H.. has been here the last few days
on account of the death of Mrs. Jane
Simpson.
Mrs. Lizzie semple of Old orchard.
after visiting her nephew, e. L. Saw
age ard family, returned home, Mon
day.
/ Mrs. M. e. Bean left here, Monday.
| for Boston. ana after passing several
days there, will go to Florida for the
winter.
I A meeting of the Helen coburn Mis-
4 sion Circle will be held, Friday after
I noon. at the home of Mrs. e. II. Good
+ rich on Pleasant street.
One of the pleasantest Thanksgiv-
ing parties was held at the home Of
Mr. aid Mrs Peter Merry, when there
Yves four generation family present:
Mrs. Susie Merry. Mrs, Frank Waugh
and the 7-weeks- old baby. Roger Clar-
ence kilkenney, of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
kilkenney- Others present at the par
ty We're. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Waugh
Of 5tarks; Mr.. alla Mrs. George Waugh
Of Madison, and Mr.. and Mrs Oscar
Merry of Madison.