Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-10-24
SKOWHECAN.
Industries Of Town and The
Number Of Men Employed.
Appointment Of Deputy Sheriff
Barn Destroyed BY Fire.
Town improvement Society calsn.
dar..New Books Other Items.

Sheriff Frank Thompson announced.
Thursday, the appointment of H. ii.
Jacobs of Pittsfield as deputy sheriff to
succeed S. H. Frost, who has become
postmaster. Mr.. Jacobs is first select
man and is now serving his third term.
He is building inspector and for 20 years
has been a member, of the Pittsfeld fire
department and has been its chief sew
eral years.
The social circles of Skowhegan
learned with interest, Thursday, the
engagement of Miss Mabel Green to DR..
Charles r. Niles. Miss Green is the eld-
est daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Green, and DR.. Viles is a son of Joseph
Viles. and is one of the prominent dem
fists of the town.
The house and barn of George futile
of smthfield was totally destroyed by
fire, late Wednesday night. The fire
caught in the house and quickly spread
to the barn across the road Only a
part of the furniture was saved. The
loss is estimated at $1,000.
A committee of the Skowheban Board
of Trade have compiled this week a
list of the industries of Skowhegan
which include the following: Skowhegan
Pulp Co.. 40 employees. weekly pay roll
$780, Riverside pulp MILL Il employees,
$780, Central Maine Power Co.. IL en-
poyees $500; Hackett & Witham ma
chine shop and garage, IL employees,
$50; +. e. Fairbrother, sash and blind,
20 employees. $3.50; McQuillan & Pooler.
wood working, IL employees, $500; Show
hogan garage eight employees. SIPS;
Lord & Caswel, caskets, seven en-
ployees. SIS; E. c. Tracy & Son, Baskets,
three employees $36; Maine Spinning Co..
rs hands, weekly pay roll, sllOo; w. j.
Trask, milk shoppers, two employees. $25;
E. A. Thompson, can shoppers. and box
shocks, five employees, SIS: Savage
Manufacturing Co. paper mill. rs en-
ployees, $225; E. w. Marble, marble
works, six employees, s10o; Holt &
Hight. wholesale produce. Is EN-
ployees. $500; Independent Reporter Co..
publishers IA employees, $500: Oriental
Rug works, three employees, $45; Show
hegan Jersey Creamery, II employees,
weekly pay roll. $500; Skowhegan Novel
ty Works, IS employees, weekly pay roll.
$780, Skowhegan Lumber Co., 20 en-
pioyees, weekly pay roll, $3.50; American
Wooden Co., $50 hands. $500 The aggre-
gate number of hands employed in the
% industries is e45 and the sum OF their
weekly pay rolls about $1,000.
The High school was closed, Thursday,
occasioned by the teachers going to
Pennington to visit the various schools
there. They were accompanied by Garlic
ton r. Merrill trustee of the Normal
school of Pennington.
The Town Improvement Society issued,
Thursday its annual calendar. The first
meeting will be held. Friday afternoon,
and the program will consist of: Re-
port of summers work: 1.-The Pacific
Coast Under the Spanish; poems and
music. followed by directors tea The
society has lis members and 1--WE hon
orary members. The officers are: Mrs.
Jessie +. Fletcher. president; Miss Ger
trude S. Weston and Mrs Ella r.
Mooers, vice presidents; Mrs. Rena FUR
ner. secretary; and Mrs. Angie B. Ste
ward, treasurer: directors, Mrs Ella T,
Holt, Mrs Ellen c. Smith, Mrs. Nellie
L. Chase. Mrs. Annie F. Fish, Mrs Edith
Leighton. The regular meetings for the